The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Mayor William Hale Thompson Has Opened His Fight in Dead Earnest for His Election to the United States Senate and There Will Be a Terrific Fight Between Him and Hon. Medill McCormick From Now Until the State-Wide Primaries, Tuesday, Sept. 11th FORMER ALDERMAN OSCAR DE PRIEST IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATOR FROM THE THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS; NEITHER IS HE SEEKING ANY OTHER OFFICE AT THE PRESENT TIME. HE WILL LAY LOW UNTIL NEXT SPRING; THEN HE WILL MARSHAL HIS BATTLING FORCES TOGETHER AND MAKE A DESPERATE EFORT TO KNOCK ALDERMAN LOUIS B. ANDERSON OUT OF THE CITY COUNCIL. COL. EDWARD H. MORRIS HAS DECIDED THAT OWING TO THE TIGHTNESS OF THE MONEY MARKET, HE WILL NOT MAKE THE RACE FOR CONGRESS AGAINST THE HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN, AND HON. JAMES A. SCOTT HAS BEEN SELECTED TO CARRY FORWARD THE BANNER OF THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT AND ENTER THE RACE AGAINST MR. MADDEN. Mayor William Hale Thompson has started his boom in dead earnest for United States senator from Illinois, and he and his followers feel that he will bring home the bacon. One thing is certain, and that is that there will be a red-hot fight between him and Hon. Medill McCormick, and the fight will continue from now on right up to the primaries. His platform contains several good planks and some startling statements. The following are the most striking planks in his platform: In confident belief that I speak for a vast majority of the people of Illinois, and asking for careful and unprejudiced consideration by my fellow citizens, I submit my candidacy for the Senate on the following declaration of principles: 1. To bring the present war to an early and a victorious conclusion for the United States, and to establish an honorable, a just and an American peace is the paramount business and duty of the Nation. 2. I favor the vigorous prosecution of the war until the United States can obtain peace with honor to our flag, our arms, our people and our country. 3. I will vote for appropriations of every character in the interest of and for the support of our American army and navy. 4. I am in favor of the government making generous appropriations to care for our invalid soldiers and sailors and the dependents of those who bear the burden of war. 5. I believe in the maintenance at all times of an adequate American army and navy, sufficient to protect our country and our people against any foreign foe or combination of foreign foe. 6. I am for the establishment and maintenance of an American merchant marine, capable of transporting our products to all parts of the world, and which could be converted, whenever necessary, into a powerful adjunct to our navy. 7. I believe it unwise to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordi- nary vicissitudes of European politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or ennities. I favor, so far as we have already formed engagements with our associates, that they be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. 8. I believe in the principle laid down by George Washington, that the best policy for this government to maintain is to hold aloof from the quarrels and jealousies of Europe. This principle, crystallized and perpetuated in the Monroe doctrine, has been for a century our accepted international policy, and under it our Republic attained its proud position in the family of nations; and in the settlement of our foreign relations after peace is declared I shall be governed by this wise policy. 9. I am in favor of adequate appropriations for the purpose of carrying on the war; but I insist that, as the people must bear the burden of these appropriations, care should be taken to guard against waste and extravagance. I will oppose the diversion of any portion of these funds to greedy profiters. 10. I favor a specific declaration by Congress of America's war nims and demands. 11. I will insist upon maintaining inviolate the division of our Federal Government into the legislative, executive and judicial branches; and I shall oppose any attempt of one branch to control or unduly influence another. Congress has duties and responsibilities which it should not evade or delegate to the President. I will support the President or any other official when I believe he is right, but I will not support him when I am convinced he is wrong. 12. I shall insist upon maintaining our constitutional liberty in this Republic in times of war as well as in times of peace. It is a nuance to the very life of our Republic to centralize autocratic power in the hands of any man or set of men. private citizens alike be held to a strict observance of all the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. 14. I am unreservedly in favor of upholding the majesty of the law. This is a government of laws, and so long as I am a servant of the people I shall demand that those in office and out of office obey and uphold the law. Would Impeach Profiteers. 15. I favor the impeachment of and will vote to remove from office any official, high or low, whenever it is proven that such official has sacrificed the interest of the United States for any foreign nation or profited directly or indirectly by the war. 16. I do not believe in putting dollars above human lives. So long as American manhood is conscripted for war service, I will vote to conscript wealth and all excess war profits. 17. I am opposed to propaganda of hate which seeks to divide our people on racial lines and thus to weaken our national unity. We are of many races, but of one mind when it comes to protecting our country against any and all enemies. 18. I am in favor of observance of the law without evasion, discrimination, or equivocation; and I condemn all efforts to mete out punishment for alleged offenses by mob violence and lynch law. 19. I favor the policy of tariff protection to American industries, the American farmer, and American labor. Such protection should be so adjusted as to prevent exactions by monopolies or trusts. To Regulate Food Prices. 20. I am in favor of such legislation as will effectively prevent the sale of American food products at a less price in foreign markets than in our own market. 21. The Government should protect its people against injustice, extortion, and oppression. My sympathies are with those who toll in the diversified fields of industry, agriculture, and commerce. I shall demand for labor as well as for the masses of the people an equal voice in the settlement of all industrial and social problems which will confront the United States at the conclusion of the present war. I will oppose the importation of Chinese labor. 22. I affirm my allegiance to the principles of the Republican party as declared in its national platforms. Mayor Thompson's reference to mob and lynch law will catch the unthinking Colored people, although he fails to state that in case that he is elected to the United States Senate that he will use his best endeavors to enact a law which will brand those as red-handed murderers who in any manner, shape or form, mix up or take part in mob and lynch laws and that is in favor of conferring upon all the judges of the Federal Courts absolute power in all cases where men resort to mob and lynch laws and unlawfully end the lives of human beings in the most horrible manner. His Honor, the Mayor, takes a fall out of President Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party in the following manner: "Have the American people forget that we shall 'that while the head of Mary music halls in the downtown district. The officers of the Woman's Amateur Minstrels are composed of some of the best known and most highly respected women in this city. They are as follows; Mrs. George Cleveland Hall, president; Mrs. Joseph Shoecraft, vice-president; Mrs. Edward Odom, treasurer; Mrs. Dave Lawrence, secretary; Mrs. Theodore W. Jones, corresponding secretary; Mrs. D. P. Frunch, chairman executive committee; Mrs. James P. Lawson, stage manager; Mrs. Hansel Thompson Davis, acting stage manager; Miss Estelle Arnold, chairman patronesses. it knows no color line in administering to the sick and the afflicted. It, therefore, richly deserves the hearty support of all liberal minded citizens, regardless of their race or nationality. It will be recalled that Mrs. Hall, almost single handed and alone, gave a bull at the Masonic Temple in May, 1005, for the benefit of the Frederick Douglass Center, and she realized $855 for it. That sum has never been exceeded except once and that was by the Amateur Minstrel Club in 1817. Mrs. Hall first broke the ice and made it possible for Colored people to hold or give first-class affairs in theaters and 1910 One of the upright and honorable Associate Justices of the Appellate Court who would make a fine or splendid candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1919. [Name] CHARLES E. STUMP CONTINUES TO TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHLAND; HE HAS SPENT SOME TIME IN BASKING IN THE WARM SUNSHINE AT ORLANDO, FLORIDA. ```markdown ``` head of the district, is Bishop W. D. Chappelle, who was once the president of the school, but now he is following after the other presidents—in other words he is at the top and directing the work. It is one of the leading institutions in the country for the education of our boys and girls, and you may put it down that I told you that it is at the top if not over. Dr. Mance has been doing some good in this direction, and right now they are having what is called in the educational world "Commencement." It is the closing of the school and why they call it by that name I am not able to say, and you must not expect me but congratulate me on being frank enough to confess that I don't know. They have had a piano recital, May 20, which was extra fine. Then this followed with the next night "Operetta" by the 5th, 6th and 7th grades, "A College Town," was the drama presented May 23 by the 8th grade, and I am not prepared to tell you much about the oratorical contest, May 24, and you will not expect it, but I tell you them fellows made the old time orators go back in their graves and take a seat. Then on Sunday a wonderful sermon was preached by Bishop Joshua A. Jones, D. D., and he walked about Zion. It was called a tobacolaw sermon or something like that. These new words get crossed in my head and I may not get them all out in straight goods, but I mean well. Give me credit for the effort. Well known among the legal profession of Chicago as "Hboss Corps" Anderson, Republican candidate for member of the legislature of this State from the Third Senatorial District of Illinois. Now then followed other sermons and addresses, and these big things were delivered by Rev. W. F. Rice, of Greenville; Dr. C. W. Dunlap, Spartanburg, S. C.; Dr. E. R. Anderson, Manning, S. C.; L. F. Alston, Charleston, S. C.; Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Memphis, Tenn., and a few others whose names I cannot recall, although I went with my eyes and mouth wide open and saw many inspiring thoughts and those who did not graduate will be there next fall right on time to add some more education to the already partial education, and you must not blame them for that, but let the good work go on. HON. WILLIAM One of the upright and honorable Assoc would make a fine or splendid canoe ness League, Charles H. Anderson, and he is one more hustling young man if you don't care about it. He is standing up and making it possible for other young men to get something in this world. He started from nothing and worked up to his present state of efficiency. I did not tarry there long, for after taking a little lunch with Dr. Gregg, and I am going to talk about him and his work in my next letter, then I pulled out and started for this part of the work, spending Sunday in Tampa, and then off for this place. I say Tampa, and there I was with Rev. S. A. Williams. Perhaps you want to know what I am doing here? I am just here and you will be delighted to know that Alderman Robert R. Jackson, from Chicago, is right down here too, attending the session of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias. The other big men here are Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, from New Orleans; Supreme Worthy Counselor Joseph L. Jones, from Cincinnati, Ohio, and supreme from U. S. A. S. W. Green is one more great man, and he knows how to preside. I am going to talk about him and Gen. Jones in another letter for this one is long enough. THE AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUB CLEARED SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE OLD FOLES' HOME. Last Saturday evening the members of the Amateur Minstrel Club held their annual banquet at the home of Mrs. Wilson, 3533 South Wabash avenue, and after all the stars of the club had sang their favorite songs and the choruses had been rendered, which they had executed before the footlights recently at the Eighth Regiment Armory during their annual show, the report was read a reference to the amount of money received and expended in connection with their last show and dance. The expenses were five hundred and forty-four dollars and twelve cents, which left six hundred dollars clear for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home, and check was turned over to the treasurer of the home calling for that amount of money. COLORED WOMAN TEACHES FOOD SAVING. Washington.—Special—In Delaware a colored woman has been employed to teach food conservation to the Colored people. A small traveling exhibit has been arranged for her, and her work has been a great success. MR. GEORGE T Secretary of the Renewal Jackson Undertaking High Priests of the Grand United Orde bought and moved into his new IAM E. DEVER Associate Justices of the Appellate Court who indicate for Mayor of Chicago in 1919. MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMP- SON STARTS HIS BOOM FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR for the re-election of their president because, they claimed, he had 'with honor kept us out of war,' and how bitterly the Republican party and candidates were assailed because, as they charged, if Judge Hughes should be elected president, this nation would surely be thrust into war? As a guarantee of peace they offered their candidate for president. "'On that plea, that pledge, that promise, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected! "Twenty-nine days after being inducted into his second term of office he called upon congress to make a formal declaration of war against Germany." Many people are inclined to make or to poke fun at Mayor Thompson and his fight for the United States Senate but they must remember that there are thousands of people in all parts of this state who will vote for him if for no other reason than to slap at the present administration at Washington, D. C. Hon. Oscar De Priest, the head and front of the people's movement in the Second Ward, states that he is not a candidate for any office at the present time, that he will work hard in order to get some of his White and Colored friends and strong supporters on the county ticket, then he will wait until next Spring at which time he will rally his fighting forces together and make desperate effort to knock Aldermore Louis B. Anderson out of the City Council. Col. Edward H. Morris has finally made up his mind that he will not permit any of the small fry, tin-horn politicians to spend any of his nickels and new dimes and that owing to the extreme tightness of the money market that he will not make the race for Congress against the Hon. Martin B. Macken, that the Hon. James A. Scott has been selected to fight Congressman Macken to the bitter end. WOMAN'S DAY AT QUINN CHAPEL This coming Sunday will be Woman's Day at Quima Chapel. Its pastor, Rev. J. C. Anderson, will preach at the morning services; his subject will be: "The Mission of Woman." Solos, by Mrs. Ada M. Crawford and M. H. Jackson. Afternoon services: Sermon by Rev. Dr. Timothy Beeves, who will be the leading speaker. Organ prelude, Miss Gertrude Jackson. Solo, Mrs. Iraminta Thomas. An interesting program will be rendered at the evening services, beginning at 8 o'clock. T. KERSEY king Co., 2559 S. State Street; one of the order of Odd Fellows, who recently w home on Bowen Avenue. 1910 HON. JOSEPH S. LA BUY CHILDREN AND WAR FOOD SUBSTITUTES. By Mrs. Max West. (This is the sixth of a series of weekly articles on "How Mothers Can Help in Children's Year.") The necessity of guarding the food supply of young children, and assuring to them an abundant diet of properly selected foods, is assuming every day a more critical phase as the war strengency increases and demands for the conservation of foodstuffs become more urgent. A most wholesome educational movement is going forward among the American people in the use of different foods. Nature is exceedingly adaptable, and the healthy human being can be fed with a fair degree of success on widely varying diets. But while the adult may thrive very well on substitute foods of various kinds and even be better off with some of these dietary changes, it is not always true that young children will profit by the same course. The child's dietary requirements are less flexible than are those of grown persons, and insufficient or unsuitable food is likely to have serious consequences for the growing child. Authorities on the subject state that there is practically no substitute either for milk or green vegetables in the food of the growing child. Milk should be given in many forms. Directions for the use of milk in a variety of ways are contained in a bulletin of the Children's Bureau, which will soon be ready for distribution. judges of the Municipal Court whose many b and re-election to the Municipal bench th One of the popular Judges of the Municipal Court whose many friends feel dead sure of his calling and re-election to the Municipal bench this coming fall. demands for the instills become more wholesome educational forward among the use of different feedingly adaptable, and being can be fed of success on widely it may thrive very gods of various kinds off with some of us, it is not always children will profit by the child's dietary us flexible than are adults, and insufficient likely to have seri- the growing child. the subject state that one substitute either vegetables in the food child. Milk should be ams. Directions for a variety of ways bulletin of the Chil- will soon be ready. (Boston, Mass., weeks from today. Colored America w deliberative conven- Capital to ask if Ceral Government w ward the restoration gardless of race o rights of democracy public's active par- European war for a world. This nation will be a test and e of Colored America's race group in the against Germany the prescription after the The formation of Rights Committees the object of prom delegates, the litteraries, churches delegates foretell rights convention h Reconstruction day for every city w Spinach is one of the best of green vegetables. It can be prepared in a number of ways and should be used freely in the daily diet. Fish and chicken are better for children in many cases than beef or other meats, and where these foods can be obtained one or the other may be given to children. In the face of the great need for conserving wheat the use of new cereals has become a matter of necessity. There seems to be no reason why such food may not be as wholesome as wheat, if properly cooked. Mothers may need to be warned that all cereals, and particularly the coarser ones, like oatmeal and corn, need very long cooking to be suitable for children. Therefore it stands to reason that the "quick" breads and great need for con- duce of new cereals of necessity. There son why such food desome as wheat, if fathers may need to cereals, and partici- cies, like oatmeal and cooking to be suit- Therefore it stands "quick" breads and walk, Conn. This New Haven, Brid- Conn., and in Prow of support and in- the National Exc at 34 Cornhill, wh be reached for spe- Let it be "On June 24-29, at the E. Zion Church, Streets, Washington the other hand, makes foods generally less suitable to the digestion of children. COLORED LIBERTY DRIVE. The Colored People of the Entire Country Getting Ready to Meet at National Capital to Approach Congress for the Abolition of Race Proscription and the Federal Government to Take Action against Tynching—Answer Valdeosta at Washington. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 1. 1918 NEGRO AUTHORS THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD'S LITERATURE COPYRIGHTED 1918, BY IRENE McCOY GAINES 5827 WENTWORTH AVENUE ABTICLE VI - This was the most beautiful of all. Here I found the little African girl, Phyllis Wheatley, who in 1671 was sold in a Boston slave market to a very cultured and loving woman, Mrs. John Wheatley, who grew to love little Phyllis dearly and trained her in the finer arts. There were many beautiful poems written from the depths of her pure, young heart between the years of 1763 and 1784. The poem addressed to Gen. George Washington brought to her a lovely letter of thanks from the Father of Our Country. Her translation of one of Ovid's stories was widely published in Europe. It was she who said: "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land And taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God—that there's a Saviour, too; Once I redemption neither sought nor knew." And there was a young man, very young, who had written poetry since his childhood until his pathetic death in 1906, the beloved poet of the American Negro, Paul Laurence Dunbar. He is to us as Robert Burns singing to the Scoten among the hills of his native land. He wrote many poems of the lowly life of his people. He wrote of their sorrows and their joys and the common walks of their daily life, and gave them in permanent literary form to the reading world. Most of his poems are in dialect. They are com- piled in several volumes, among them "Lyrics of Lowly Life," "Lyrics of Love and Laughter," "Lyrics of the Heartstone," and others of equal merit. It was he who expressed Life so poetically and incisively: A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to laugh and an hour to weep in; A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the means come double; And that is Life. A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With the smile to warm and the tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when care comes after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is Life. It would be difficult to find in the whole range of literature lines more immortally beautiful than these from the soul of this Negro poet: An angel robed in spotless white Stooped down to kiss the sleeping night; Night woke to blush, the Spirit was gone; Man saw the blush and called it dawn. When I left the World's Literature Building my heart was joyful and filled with exceeding gladness. May our authors ever write; and our poets ever sing, and in the end may they be heard 'way out upon the uplifted plains of the future in one grand sweet strain: Bring forth the royal diadem And crown Him Lord of all. The End. extremely anxious to witness with their own eyes just what the Colored people of Chicago can accomplish in the world of music. DEATH OF CHARLES H. DAVIS. Shortly after the first of May, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Davis, 4539 Vincennes avenue, was bombed and as Mr. Davis had experienced much trouble two or three years ago with his white neighbors in the 45th block on ANDREW A. TODD Clerk in the Recorder's Office; one of the Republicans of the Third Ward who may enter the race for the Legislature from the Third Senatorial District of Illinois. SUMMER FASHION SHOW AND MILLINERY PROMENADE WITH LIVING MODELS UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. BOSA MORGAN COOPEE WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. Mrs. A. L. Jackson, assistant stage manager. Mrs. Bertha Wright, who is the head soloist at the Provident Baptist Church on the West Side, was presented with two large beautiful bouquets at the con- Monday evening Mrs. Rosa Morgan Cooper gave her second summer Fashion Show and Millinery Promenade with living models at the Unity Club House, 3140 Indiana Avenue, and the affair was largely attended by the cream of the four hundred among the Colored people in this city. The living models were as follows: Misses: Delia Banks, Kate White, Rhygnette Webb, Ada Gaines, Helen S. Smallwood, Carolyn Sparrow, Grace Hawkes, Anna Le Gare, Lillian Martin, Blanche Shaw, Emma Shaw, Mac Perkins, Edna Rohney, Ione Harris, Cleo Dickerson, Katharine Davis, Inez. McAlester. Mesdames: Adele Cabelle, Hazel Alexander Bureh, Samuel Hudson, Ralph McCarroll, Grace Hoxter, Frances Crawford, Mrs. W. Elliott. Master Edw. Alexander Bureh, little Eva Crawford. Right here it can be truthfully said that all of the very neat and exquisite costumes worn by the living models were the creations of Colored modistes and the lovely and the most beautiful hats that could be beheld anywhere were all constructed by Mrs. Rosa Morgan Cooper, the whole affair was very educational from beginning to end for it naturally tended to inculcate taste and neatness into the minds of those who witnessed such an elegant display of so much finery. The program was as follows: The program was as follows: Individual Presentation, all models; solo, Mrs. Bertha Wright; display scenes; society dance, Mrs. Etta Moore, Mr. Bobt. Harding, Jr.; garden scene; Indian princess, Madam Klota Bundrleka; music, orchestra; sport and bathing scene; solo, Mr. Chas. W. Settles; millinery promenade; music, orchestra; statuary scenes: (a) "Watchful Waiting." (b) "Our Boys." (c) "Liberty." Miss Blanche Shaw, stage manager; ```markdown ``` DR. W. One of the head or high prieste of the "P" is willing to make the ruse Senatorial D Mrs. A. L. Jackson, assistant stage manager. Mrs. Bertha Wright, who is the head soloist at the Provident Baptist Church on the West Side, was presented with two large beautiful bouquets at the conclusion of her singing. The Misses Kate Kennedy, Jessica Anderson, Olive Bankin and Katherine Ellis were ushers; the Patrons and Patronesses were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Waring, Prof. & Dr. Emanuel, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Mead, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson A. Mitchom, Dr. and Mrs. Jno. W. Lewis, Dr. and Mrs. I. H. Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coranwell, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dobins, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Mackey, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence N. Jones, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Lawton, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Buckner, Mrs. Araminta Black, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Ash, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bason, Mrs. Erina Jones, Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. H. Harvey Horsley, Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. W. Jones, Mrs. William P. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Avendorph, Dr. Carrie Golden, Mrs. Clifford Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. W. Grinnell, Mrs. Mrs. I. T. Yarbrough, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Petrad, Wm. and Mrs. Ambrose Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lightfoot, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Venie, Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Thorne, Mr. and Mrs. Albert George, Mme. Adena Minot, Mrs. Edith George, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hutchison, Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Garnes Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. A. Brent, Mrs. Samuel A. McGowan, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Peyton, Mrs. T. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Delany, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Porter All in all Mrs. Cooper deserves much credit for planning such a pleasant evening's entertainment for her many friends.