The Broad Ax

Rev. Dr. J. E. W. Bowen and Many of the Other Leading Colored Citizens of Atlanta, Georgia, Send Out the Following Appeal to the President of the United States, the Members of His Cabinet, Members of Congress, to the Governors and Legislatures of the Several States of The United States of America Appealing to Them to Suppress Mob and Lynch Law and Other Forms of Lawlessness Against the Colored People in This Country: THE TEXAS CLUB WILL ENTERTAIN HON. EMMETE J. SCOTT AT THE IDELWILD HOTEL, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20TH. This coming Tuesday evening, April 30th, the Texas Club, Dr. M. A. Majors, President, will give a banquet at the Idelwild Hotel, in honor of Emmett J. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War and James Weldon Johnson, Field Secretary of the National Association, for the advancement of Colored People. Prior to the banquet Mr. Scott and Mr. Johnson will address a patriotic meeting at the South Park M. E. Church, 33rd street and South Park avenue. On Sunday, April 28th. He will also speak at the South Park Church, under the direction of Dr. Majors and Lawyer J. N. Simkins. The banquet promises to be a very enjoyable affair. Mrs. David Manson, 5816 S. Michigan avenue, has managed to pull through this winter without seeming in contact with a severe cold or other climates. the Arts and Letters Club at St. Mark's Church, 50th and Wabash Ave. Wednesday, May 1, at 12:30 o'clock he will speak to the City Club and Thursday, May 2, to the Woman's Club. SENATOR WILLIAM JOHL STONE'S BODY BORNE BY RACE PALL-BREAER St. Louis, Mo.—(Special).—United States Senator Stone's body was carried by six Negro palibearers while it was in Jefferson City. These men had been around the statehouse since the time Senator Stone was governor. Heading them, and perhaps the best known, was Alex Slater, whom Senator Stone, as governor, picked up at Aux Vause, Mo. It is said that whenever Senator Stone went to the capital Alex met him and attended to his waste and the senator unwaryly on departing left a $20 bill in Alex's hand. Alex has been an ardent Democrat for years. Attorney Augustus L. Williams, 184 W. Washington street, is still being beamed to aks the race for State Senator in the third senatorial district. THE LATE MRS. MARY ANN TAYLOR-DIXON Mother of Julius F. Taylor, who passed away at Harrisburg, Pa, April 25, 1917—At the time of her death she had lived on this earth 92 years, 7 months and 29 days. ```markdown ``` Mothers are just beginning to realize that the better care which babies must have if 100,000 of them are to be saved during Children's Year should commence before the baby is born. Every year three times that number of children under five die and are lost to the country before they have lived much beyond infancy. A large part of this vast multitude of young Americans perished needlessly, because many of the deaths could have been prevented by proper and sufficient care. At what age do most of these preventable deaths occur? What are the proven methods by which babies' lives may be saved? From the answers to these questions mothers will appreciate the special work for children which they can do during Children's Year. The first and largest number of deaths among little babies is due to what are called the prenatal causes. This group includes the babies which were born prematurely, or too weak to survive, perhaps with some defect of the body which forbids their living, and also those who are so injured by the birth process that they can not be saved. All of these causes of death are effective either in the period of pregnancy or at childbirth itself. The babies' lives can be saved only if their mothers have proper care at these most important periods. The essential features of good care for expectant mothers are proper and sufficient food, rest, freedom from overtaxing forms of work and from worry, medical supervision of her general condition and prompt attention to small siments as they arise. A prospective mother needs a light, nutritious diet of digestible food such as she likes and her appetite demands. Fried and greasy foods, heavy puddings, and all heavy or underdone pastries, or an excess of any one article should be eliminated from her diet, as well as anything which she does not readily digest. It is also important that the expectant mother should drink a sufficient quantity of water each day. During the last eight weeks before the baby comes the mother should as far as possible be spared all forms of heavy and taxing labor, in order that her strength may be built up in anticipation of the coming demand upon it. The baby's proper development also depends largely upon the mother's condition at this time, since the baby gains half his weight in the last eight weeks of pregnancy. The mother's ability to nurse her baby depends largely upon the care she has during these last weeks and immediately after conduction. The mother should be under the care of a good doctor as long before the birth as possible in order that he may watch for and correct any untoward symptoms that may arise. It is exceedingly important that the ailments of pregnancy be dealt with in the beginning before they develop into more serious matters. At the first appearance of swollen hands and feet, or persistent headache, or pain in any part, or hemorrhage, or of spots before the eyes, a good doctor should be called. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 27, 1918 NEGRO AUTHORS THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD'S LITERATURE COPYRIGHTED 1918, BY IRENE McCOY GAINES 5827 WENTWORTH AVENUE HEALTH OF THE YOUNG. A North Carolina health officer writing to his State Board of Health expresses his amazement at the large number of young men who have come under his observation in poor health, many of them suffering from ailments that easily might have been prevented had they been taken in time. "It is indeed pathetic," says the doctor; "to find cases of defective vision, atrophied tonsils, low mentality due to causes that were preventable." traveler, was so impressed with the writings and scholarship of the Sudanese Negroes, that he spoke of them in these words of praise: "The learning and scholarship of the Sudanese Blacks were genuine and so thorough that, during their sojourns in foreign universities they astounded the most learned men of Islam by their erudition. That these Negroes were on the level with the Arabian savants, their teachers, is proved by the fact that they were installed as professors in Morroco and Cairo." By the 16th century these black scholars became so learned that they were regarded as dangerous and it was this that brought upon them the Moorish exile in Morroco. While there our distinguished author, Ahman Baba, taught rhetoric, law, and theology. His decisions in the courts were regarded as final. After some years he was allowed to return to his beloved country where he died in 1627. Among his works we find an astronomical treatise written in verse. MIRAZ, a work written by Baba while in exile, is a wonderful description of the erudition of the Negrale peoples residing in the very heart of Africa. By this work the attention of Morroco and the whole of northern Africa was called to the culture and scholarship of the Sudan Negro. On account of EL IBITIHADJ, his large biographical dictionary of the Mussulman doctors of the Malekite sect (completed in 1596), it has been possible to reconstruct the intellectual past of Timbuctoo, showing the culture and civilization of our race in the Sudan, Africa; for this reason the name of Ahmen Baba should be held in pious memory by every lover of the race. His great, great, grandchildren are now living in Timbuctoo, near the mosque of Sankore. (To be continued.) [Name] HON. JOSEPH F. HAAS The popular County Recorder, who is firm in his Deneen for United States Senator f BITTER PATRIOTISM—APPLIED Director of Publicity, Third Liberty whole-hearted ermental n A Liberty The popular County Recorder, who is firm in his support of Hon. Charles S. Depemm for United States Senator from Illinois Loan, Seventh Federal Reserve The war is with us; it is at our doors. Being at war, we must be "bitterly patriotic," and we must apply that bitter patriotism constructively here as we would apply it destructively "over there." When we buy Liberty Bonds we pay out our hard earned money for them. The more intensely we realize what the war is and what it means and might mean to us, the more money we lend our government. In every day business we spend our money so far as possible with those who spend their money with us. It is just the same in this great business of backing up our government—which means nothing more nor less than backing up ourselves. The business house that has a Liberty Loan honor flag in the window is with us, and that is the store in which we should spend our money. If we do that, we help that dealer JAMES WELDON JOHNSON National Organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored people, who will be the honored guest of the citizens of Chicago for almost By Wilbur D. Nesbit. firm in his support of Hon. Charles S. tes Senator from Illinois whole-heartedly supporting every gov-ernmental movement. A Liberty Loan flag in the window of a store spells Americanism. It says "This dealer knows the resources and the security behind the promises of our government, and furthermore he is 'lending a hand' to our boys 'over there' and 'over here.'" It is our duty to stand shoulder to shoulder in business, as our boys in the ranks are standing shoulder to shoulder in war. WRITING FOR THE NEWSPAPER Many people do not get their articles for the following reasons: 1. The articles are so poorly written that the editors cannot read them. 2. They are too long. 3. They do not interest anybody but the writers themselves. People are not as a rule interested in long personal articles. The best way to get into a paper is to write about something that everybody is interested in, then to write on one side of the paper, in a good even hand or still better on a typewriter; see that the words are spelled correctly that capital letters and punctuation marks are in their proper place. But above all, Be Brief. Next to receiving a postal money order or a check the average newspaper editor likes to see more than anything else, a short, well written article. On Sunday, April 28th, the regular meeting of the University Society will be dispensed with in order to attend, en masse, the public meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. at Lincoln Center. 81 THE, BROAD, AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 27, 1918 Buy U. S. Government Bonds THIRD LIBERTY LOAN Lend to the Last Dollar—Make Your Subscription Today! LET US BACK HIM TO THE LIMIT WHAT are you doing to help Pershing push on to Potsdam? You know what he said: "The German army can be beaten; the German army will be beaten; the German army must be beaten." Pershing can't do it alone. He and our army with him can't do it alone. You and I have to be with them, heart and soul and pocketbook. We've got to back Pershing to the limit—to the last ditch and the last man and the last dollar. His responsibility is greater than that ever shouldered by any American general—really greater than that of any other general in this war. THE BROAD AX CHICAGO. APRIL 27, 1918 THE GREAT SOCIETY EVENT Women's Amateur MINSTRELS CHICAGO THEATER SOUTH WABASH AVENUE AND EIGHTH STREET Wednesday Evening, June 5th For the Benefit of Provident Hospital All seats reserved. Tickets for sale by all members and at PORTER'S DRUG STORE 3510 South State Street Phone Douglas 6525 REFUSED TO WATER HORSE; GETS TEN YEARS. Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. (Special).—As a step toward maintaining a perfect camp morale and as an example to others inclined to disobey orders, Dorsey Malcomn, a Colored private, was sentenced to day to ten years at Fort Jay, Governor's Island, for disobeying orders. The Colored man refused to water a horse, and, according to the findings of the court marital, used profane and insulting language to his superior officer. Tuesday evening a meeting was held at the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash avenue, in the interest of Dr. LeRoy M. Bundy, late of East St. Louis, Ill., who will remain in this city for some time. William Randolph Cowns was elected chairman of the meeting and Attorney John R. Anter, secretary. The members of the club will assist Dr. Bundy in every way they possibly can in his forthcoming trial in September. REGITAL AT GRACE CHURCH MIDDAY NIGHT, FIRST OF SEASON. The recital Monday night, April at Grace Presbyterian Church under auspices of the Young People's League in which George Dewey Lipscomb appears is expected to be the most largely attended affair of the spring season. Mr. Lipscomb is the young man who is an electonist and reciter of own poems. He is a student of Northwestern University and the Iyme University encouraging him to go further in preparation for a life's work as a writer. Critics have claimed him a worthy lesser of the late Paul Laurence Dix bar. Get your seats early for the Women Amateur Ministrel. Seats are sold rapidly. Watch the next issue for an insider of the box holders. All Christian Society will be seen in the orchid seats and boxes.