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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Col. Franklin A. Denison Arrives Home From The Base Hospital, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, And He Will Spend One Week In Chicago Visiting With His Family And Friends. HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST, PRESIDENT AND GRAND GENERAL MANAGER OF THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SECOND WARD, HAS JOINED HANDS WITH THE DEMOCRATS. J. D. ARTIS, ONE OF HIS RETAINERS AND SHOUTERS, IS HOLDING DOWN AN EASY JOB IN THE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS. ATTORNEYS S.A.T. WATKINS AND JAS E. WHITE, REPRESENTING THE COLORED SHRINERS OF GEORGIA, WILL MOVE ON TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ON A WRIT OF ERROR. GREAT LIBERTY LOAN MEETING WAS HELD AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY ON LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON. JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL, WASHINGTON, D. C., WAS THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER. HE DELIVERED AN ELOQUENT AND FIERY ORATION, ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT IN ONE INSTANCE HE GLARINGLY MISQUOTED HISTORY. Indiana Avenue, one of its floors will be rigged or fitted up for the women members of the movement, the fittings or furnishings will consist of plenty of looking glasses, easy chairs, billiard parlor and bowling alley and with many other things which will be pleasing to the hearts of the dear, sweet ladies who so blindly follow in the footsteps of the Hon. Oscar De Priest, who seems to be a king or a new Moses among them and with much pleasure the ladies will aid him in joining hands with the Democrats for this week as the president and the grand manager of the Peoples' Movement the Hon. Oscar De Priest secured the appointment of J. D. Aitis, one of his loud shouters and retainers to a position in the rooms of the Board of election commissioners and it is maintained that in return for that favor and further rich pickings that Mr. De Priest and his followers will support Hons. Thomas P. Scully,师ley Reinberg, Denis J. Egan, and Robert M. Sweitzer for the positions that they are seeking at the election in November, still Mr. De Priest and his henchmen will claim that they are red hot Republicans while raking in Democratic jobs, Democratic whisky and Democratic money. The Supreme Court of Georgia has at last decided that Colored Masons or shriners have no rights which White Masons or Shriners are bound to respect and the high court of that state last week handed down a decision restraining for all time to come the Colored Shriners from using the name of Shriners; attorneys James E. White and S. A. Watkins, of this city, representing the Colored Masons and Shriners of that CHICAGO, OCTOBER 5, 1918 ison Arrives His ines, Iowa, And ing With His Far state will wend their way with it on up to the United States Supreme Court. Last Sunday afternoon the Colored citizens of Chicago held a great Liberty Loan meeting at the Eighth Regiment Armory and prior to the meeting a grand street parade was held and the following orders and societies were in it: The citizens' committee: Major-General Morris Lewis, Grand Marshal, who was followed by the band Local 208, under the leadership of Capt. W. E. Berry, John Brown Post, G. A. R.; the Spanish-American War Veterans, Capt. W. H. Montgomery, commanding; Illinois Reserve Militia, Col. John R. Marshall, commanding; Chicago Guarda, Col. Frank Stewart, commanding; Boy Scouts, Major Horde, commanding; Ladies of the Easter Lily Star; 12th Regiment Odd Fellows, Col. B. H. Johnson, commanding; 1st Regiment, K. of P., Col. B. H. Johnson, commanding; Uniform Rank, U. B. F., W. T. Griffin, commanding; Chicago Police Reserves, Capt. Polk Johnson, commanding; Easter Lily and Mayflower Clubs, Mrs. Emma Smith, commanding; Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. A. Wilberforcee Williams, president; Nurses and Canteen-Workers, Mrs. Benjamin Sayre, commanding; Appomattack Club, S. A. T. Watkins, president; Great Lakes Lodge of Elks, J. J. Dunn, commanding; Phalanx Club, A. I. Jones, president; Culture Drill Team, Capt. Carrie Seams, commanding; School Children, Mrs. Carrie Knight, commanding; Camp Fire Girls, Mrs. Irene Golns, commanding; Wabash Avenue Y. M. C. A. Boys, Lloyd Stone; Chicago Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Martina Walten, commanding. Between four and five thousand persons were in the line of march which was very imposing indeed. At the Armory, after the parade, the following program was rendered: Star Spangled Banner, audience; Invocation, Rev. W. D. Cook; "Feed Me, Jesus," chorus; Remarks by Chairman, A. L. Jackson; Band Selections, Local 208; "War Song to the Boys in Blue;" Address, Charles H. Burroughs, Chairman Chicago Committee, Fourth Liberty Loan; (a) "When We Come Out of the Wilderness," chorus; (b) Land of Mine, chorus; Battle Hymn of the Republic, audience; Address, Judge Robt. H. Terrell, Municipal Judge of District of Columbia; "Over There"—Selection, Band and Audience; Remarks; "My Country Tis of Thee," audience. Major L. Gordon Sanford, of the British Army, who is resting up in this country at present, delivered a blood-curdling talk on his experience on the battlefields of France and in doing so he paid a high tribute to the valor of the Colored soldiers; A. L. Jackson was chairman of the meeting. Judge Robert H. Terrell, who has honorably served as one of the Municipal Court judges of Washington, D. C., for the past ten or twelve years and he painted a vivid and glowing picture of the part played by the Colored soldiers in all of the wars in the past in this country and the important part which the Colored people in general are playing in the present world wide war for a broader and a more humane Democray. --- es Home F And He W Family A The Gallant Comm In his highly interesting talk Judge Terrell only misquoted history in one instance. He went on to state that at the battle of New Orleans, in the Revolutionary war in 1812, that a Colored man by the name of Jeffery rallied the American soldiers together after they had been disorganized completely under the generalship of Gen. Andrew Jackson, and led them on to victory. If Judge Terrell will carefully re-read Johnson's History of the Colored Soldiers in America correctly, he will learn that it was at the battle of Mobile, Ala., where the Colored man Jeffery snatched up the American flag, leaped upon a white horse, frantically waving the flag, re-rallied the American soldiers who were fleeing in every direction and led them on to a glorious victory against S. The Gallant Commander of the 370th United States Infantry and the Idol of the Colored People Throughout the World The above item is from the columns of the last issue of the greatest weekly newspaper in the wide world, and the rotten article which it refers to which appeared in its columns August 3, was very racy and glimy reading, but come to think of it that is what the vast majority of the Colored people call high class journalism and it is the only kind of stuff or rot that they will read. It will be recalled that less than two years ago that it was stated in the columns of this same newspaper that a young Colored lady who was a graduate of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., who at that time was living in this city, attended a swell dancing party which was given at the Dreamland Hall by one of the social clubs; that the young lady in question was being kept by a White man from the South who ascerted her to and from Dreamland Hall where she had the nerve and brass to boldly associate with her White paramour while associating with the For a long time this same Colored newspaper greatly delighted to refer to Colored women as "wenches" and only last winter it turned its black mud batteries against Bethel Church and many of its short sighted members feel very proud of its record in that respect and they claim that it is by far the greatest black or yellow newspaper in the world.—Editor. St. Louis, Mo.—Special—Sunday, September 29, the Venerable Edward Thomas Demby was consecrated a bishop in that long line of prelates of the Anglican communion which reaches back to the time of the establishment of the church in Britain. The services were held in All Saints' church, the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels. Peculiar interest was attached to this service, because it was the first time that the Episcopal church consecrated a Colored man as bishop for work in the United States. Dr. Demby was consecrated bishop suffragan of Arkansas. In its entire history the Episcopal church has had only two Negro bishops—one consecrated in 1885 for Liberia, and the other in 1874 for Haiti. Both are now dead and Bishop Demby will be the first of a line of American Negro bishops in charge of work among American Negroes. A. H. HON. JAMES G. COTTER The Able and Brilliant Assistant Atti Becoming a Strong Factor in Repu out the State of Illinois. HON. JAMES G. COTTER MAKES GOOD AS A CAMPAIGN MAN-AGER. The Able and Brilliant Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, Who Is Fast Becoming a Strong Factor in Republican Politics in This City and Throughout the State of Illinois. Although comparatively young in years and in political experience his genius and ability completely offset whatever lack of experience there may have been and the results on primary day tell the tale. The subject of this sketch is a Kentuckian. His father, the Reverend S. R. Cotter, was one of the best known ministers of the gospel in the State of Kentucky. The son is a graduate of the Lincoln High School, of Paducah, Kentucky, and was valedictorian of his class. He afterwards attended Fisk University, Nashville Tennessee, and won signal honors there as orator and debater. In 1909 he entered the Illinois College of Law, as a student, and graduated with high honors from the Webster College of Law. He has been engaged in some of the most celebrated law cases in the country, notably, the famous 'Delbridge Case,' which attracted the attention of the civilized world, and the famous case of Adams versus William Hale Thompson, Mayor, et al, which was a mandamus suit against the city and the chief of police compelling them to grant a license to the Pekin Amusement Hall, after numerous attempts of other lawyers to obtain the license had failed. REV. J. C. ANDERSON WILL PREACH HIS FIRST SERMON AT HIS NEW CHARGE, ST. JAMES CHRUECH, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER SIXTH. Last Sunday, Rev. J. C. Anderson preached his farewell sermon at Quinn Chapel, where he had been stationed for the past five years and on Thursday evening he left the city for Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., where he spent one day and this coming Sunday, October 6th, he will begin his labors, as pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church, St. Paul, Minn. Rev. Anderson is about the only A. M. E. preacher in this section of the country who has been permitted to serve one five year term or administration at any of the churches which he has pastored. At the end of each five years, he has been transferred out of Chicago; while some of the other A. M. E. preachers have been shipped from church to church in this city for the past twenty years and it would seem that they have a stronger political pull or drag with the powers that be, than Rev. Anderson, who has never permitted himself to mix up in ward politics and to fall to the level of those who believe in debanching the Colored voters at every election in the most reprehensible manner. Some years ago Rev. Anderson served as pastor of St. James Church, St. Paul; freed it from debt and bought a new parsonage for it and he is right back on the same staumping ground where he had formerly held forth, for his Methodist Lord and Master. He served for five years as pastor of the Wayman Chapel this city. Then he was pastor for five years after that of the largest A. M. E. church at Lexington, Ky. At the expiration of that time he was hustled back to Chicago and put in charge of Quinn Chapel where he held forth for five years. Some of the many friends of Rev. Anderson contend that inasmuch as Rev. Griffin was sent back to Hyde Park, where he will serve altogether eight years, and, inasmuch as other preachers in the same connection cannot be driven out of Chicago with a pack of blood hounds, that he should have been permitted to spend one more year at Quinn Chapel. PAGE TWO His political conections have always been strong. He has won the confidence of the strongest men in public life today. In recognition of his worth and character, he was appointed by Hon. Martin B. Madden as precinct captain of the Second Ward Republican Club, and occupies said position at this time. On December I, 1917, the Hon. Edward J. Brundage appointed him Assistant Attorney General of the State of Illinois, which position he now holds with credit and honor to the race. In May, 1918, he was selected by Mr. Brundage as manager of the McCormick-Brundage campaign in the colored end of the Second Ward. The results in the ward showed the wisdom of the selection. His ward gave the Brundage County ticket some of its greatest pluralities. Through the good offices of Major R. R. Jackson, who led the Second Ward delegation to Springfield, and other representatives of Congressman Martin B. Madden. He was a delegate recently to the Republican State Convention at Springfield, and was elected assistant secretary of the convention. This honor is the first of its kind to be given a Colored man in Illinois. He is now being prominently mentioned as a candidate for alderman of the Second Ward against Ex-Alderman Oscar De Priest, next spring, and the wise ones say that he could win. Rev. and Mrs. Anderson will carry the best wishes with them of a large circle of friends in this city and they will soon be located in their new home, 425 Jay street, St. Paul, Minn. BUY LIBERTY BONDS CAPT. JAMES S. NELSON HAS BOUGHT FIVE THOUSAND DOL- LABS' WORTH OF LIBERTY LOAN BONDS. It can be reasonably stated that very few Colored men in Chicago surpassed Capt. James S. Nelson in owning or possessing United States Government Lib- erty Loan Bonds. Prior to the present Fourth Liberty Loan drive, Capt. Nelson had $4,500 worth of bonds and this week he gathered in $500 more, making $5,000 all told invested in bonds. Captain and Mrs. Nelson own a fine home at 3652 Wabash Avenue and an eight-flat building in the 3500 block on Rhodes Avenue and they still have one or two dollars in the bank to help to further back up Uncle Sam in his efforts to win the war for a world wide Democracy. BUY LIBERTY BONDS CITY NEWS. Reported by Lawyer S. Z. C. Westerfield. Ashby Carter, Secretary of Quinn Chapel Forum, has matriculated at Northwestern University in the Dental College. Lawyer Jasper Ross, 3512 South State Street, has resigned his position at the postoffice and is now devoting his entire time to private practice. Eumor has it that Mr. Melvin Treadwell, postal employee, is soon to enter the "circle of newlyweds." Congratulations in advance we extend to him. Frank Young, formerly of the Chicago Defender staff, more recently managing editor of the Chicago Plaindealer, has resigned his position, so reports go, to take up governmental activities. More than 200 drafted men from Local Board No. 4, Charles Travis, secretary, were dined at a local cafe, 34th and State Streets, last week. This took place just prior to their departure for Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 5, 1918 Mrs. Josephine H. Lawrence was first on the eligible list in the county civil service examination the past week for assistant superintendent of social service. She had a mark of 79.7, which was higher than any made by her three competitors. The successful candidate created the county bureau of social service eight years ago. She is credited with reconciling 80 per cent of the divorce cases investigated by the bureau in that time. No one is more highly pleased than the writer that Mrs. Lawrence successfully passed the County Civil Service examination for the position which she so acceptably filled or occupied for the past eight years. It was through the efforts of Mrs. Lawrence that the writer was enabled last summer to send twenty-odd little Colored boys and girls to Camp Reinberg, for one week's outing. There is one thing that can be truthfully said, namely, that Mrs. Lawrence is broad and liberal minded and never permits herself to be controlled by narrow-race prejudice. Her sympathies are broad enough to embrace or cover all of the unfortunate sons and daughters of struggling humanity.—Editor. BUY LIBERTY BONDS STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, OF THE BROAD AX, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT CHICAGO FOR OCTOBER 1, 1918. Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of The Broad Ax, published weekly, at Chicago for October 1, 1918. State of Illinois, County of Cook, ss. Before, a Notary Public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared this October 4, 1918, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of The Broad Ax, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. Julius F. Taylor, Owner. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of October, 1918. [Seal.] Michael J. O'Nally. (My commission expires March 8, 1920.) This is to give notice that an application for the pardon of Joseph Glover, who is imprisoned in the House of Correction at Chicago on a judgment of the Municipal Court of Chicago, entered on or about the 8th day of July, A.D. 1918, on the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a child. This is the twenty-first of a series of weekly articles on "How Mothers Can Help in Children's Year." When is a child well-behaved? Children's Year has called attention to many needs of children which are problems for their mothers. Malnutrition and the bearing on the children's health of the relation between the inches of his height and the ounces of his weight are questions just beginning to be understood which Children's Year has brought before millions of mothers. But training her child to wear his good manners as if they belonged to him and were not borrowed for the occasion is a problem of no recent origin. Regard for the feelings and desires of others has always been the basis of good manners, but the expression of such regard and methods of inculcating it are very different today from what they were a generation ago. Then "manners" in children consisted in paying rigid deference to their elders and superiors. Nowadays children are treated more humanely and given much wider latitude in their relations with grown people. Other standards of conduct have very largely changed. Pessimistic observers are prone to regard the change as not altogether favorable, and to attribute to this some loss of deference to the presence and opinion of parents, teachers and other adults a corresponding loss in manners and behavior, and even a real loss of moral fiber. It must be remembered that the rule "other times, other manners" applies generally. Life is a very different thing for most children of today than it was for their parents, certainly for their grandparents. With the wholesome and desirable growth of comradship between growing boys and girls and their elders, the old rules of proper behavior must necessarily have given way to something less formal. The change has probably been in the direction of the development of strength of character and independent judgment in children. But that they have also lost something is perhaps equally certain. To remedy this loss by teaching them the rules of true courtesy is the business of thoughtful parents. Such an achievement may well be one of the valuable by-products of the Children's Year campaign which the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor and the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense are conducting. Good manners in children as well as grown people are the expression of an innate consideration for the rights, privileges and opinions of other people. Years of experience have crystallized this feeling into certain conventional forms of expression, which every child should be taught. The little habits of courtesy, which should be a part of everyday life, are really the "outward and visible sign of inward grace." Few acquisitions are more valuable to anyone than that charm of manner which wins the immediate regard of everyone with whom they come into contact. To teach children good manners must be the work of every day and hour. "Line upon line" they will learn the little courtesies. Children are so imitative that very much of this will be unconsciously acquired through imitation of the habits and manners of their elders. "Thank you," and "If you please," and "Excuse me, please," come easily to the tongue if they are frequently heard, and the-boy who sees his father rise when a lady comes into the room will instinctively follow that example, even with very little direct instruction. Good manners at table are so necessary to the comfort of everyone concerned that mothers will hardly neglect to watch and direct their children most carefully in this respect. It is very easy to teach children the right use of the knife and fork, to ask for what they want politely, and to chew their food quietly. To fail to do these things has condemned many a man as a boor and a nuisance. In other words, manners often make the man; certainly the lack of manners may unmake him. Mrs. Hester Barnett, 3210 Federal street, has for the past two weeks been confined to her home from the effects of a very severe cold, but to the delight of her many friends she is recovering from its effects. ARGENT ARCHER. PHOTO KENSINGTON LONDON MADAM E. AZALIA HACKLEY Founder of the Vocal Normal Institute, Success with Her Musical MADAM E. AZALIA HACKLEY GAVE A SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL PAGEANT AT DETROIT, MICH. Last Thursday evening, Madam E. Azalia Hackley conducted a patriotic pageant at the Arcadia, Detroit, Mich. for the benefit of Mercy Hospital in that city. The affair was a grand success in QUAKER CITY HAS MANY WOMEN IN WAR WORK. Pennsylvania Railroad Employs 9,800 and Schuylkill Arsenal Has 1,300. Founder of the Vocal Normal Institute, This City, Who Is Meeting with Brilliant Success with Her Musical Entertainments in the East More women are employed in war work in and near Philadelphia than in any other part of the United States, according to James F. McCoy, an official connected with the Philadelphia office of the United States Department of Labor. "The Pennsylvania Railroad now has 9,800 girls in its service, and the Frankford arsenal 1,500. There are 1,300 at the Schuylkill arsenal, and the Pont powder plant, which has now several hundred girls at work, has been adding them at the rate of about 100 a week. There are many smaller plants in the locality that employ from 30 to 100 women each." The demand for women, he reports, is steadily increasing. BUY LIBERTY BONDS THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. The Negro Fellowship League will have a reading of original poems by Mrs. Moore, Sunday, October 6, at the Reading Room at 3005 South State at 4 p.m. Mrs. Moore is a poetess of no little ability. The literary lights of the city are invited to enjoy this treat. There will also be a report from the committee investigating the segregation of Negroes at the Wendell Phillips night school. This committee was appointed last Sunday as a result of a report from Mrs. Ella Powell, one of the students in attendance there. The president of the Negro Fellowship League, Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, has been appointed one of the saleswomen for the fourth Liberty Loan drive. All members of the League and friends are urged to purchase from her. BUY LIBERTY BONDS THE PALACE TURKISH AND ELECTRIC BATHS ARE THE FINEST ON THE SOUTH SIDE, 3543 SOUTH STATE STREET. Several years ago L. A. Branch established the Palace Turkish and Electric Baths, massage with Turkish movements at 3543 South State Street, telephone Douglas 3919, and these baths are highly recommended by the leading physicians. Baths, with private room, $1.00; six baths, for $5.00; lady attendants for ladies; ladies' day, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.; gentlemen all hours, aside from the time reserved for ladies, manicuring and barber shop open all hours. For first-class service and the best of attention, patronize the Palace Turkish and Electric Baths at the number above mentioned. every way. It was attended by fully three thousand people. It was preceded by a grand street parade which was participated in by Boy Scouts, Colored Soldiers from Fort Wayne, the Constitution Band of seventy pieces, all White men, discoursed patriotic airs. The whole affair was a great credit to Madam Hackley, and to the White and Colored citizens of Detroit. WOMEN EMPLOYED IN PITTS-BURGH ARSENAL. Experiment of Giving Them Work as Common Laborers Appears to Be Successful. Women have now found their way into Pittsburgh war industries. The shortage of labor in the district led to their employment at the big Butler Arsenal, where they are acting as common laborers and relieving men who have some experience in mechanical work to 'dilute' the labor supply for the more skilled processes. The women give highly satisfactory service, according to the management of the arsenal, and it is likely that eventually women may be employed extensively in the Pittsburgh district. The Department of Labor is now working on detailed plans whereby dilution can be applied most effectively in industry. Camp Dixie, 6,056; Camp Dodge, 3,000; Camp Funston, 6,000; Camp Gordon, $8,000; Camp Grant, 3,000; Camp Jackson, 6,000; Camp Lee, 6,000; Camp Meade, 6,000; Camp Pike, 4,000; Camp Sherman, 6,000; Camp Taylor, 6,000; Camp Travis, 9,000; Tuskegee, 570; Howard University, 453; Atlanta University, 125; Florida A. and M., 128; Georgia State Industrial College, 206; South S. Carolina College A. & M., 247; Camp Shelby, 2,000; Camp Beauregard, 2,000; Wilberforce University, 180; Wendell Phillips, 175; Recent additions bring the total to 277,541. The number of women in the munitions industry is steadily increasing, according to statistics prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. One plant which had 22 per cent of women employees in 1915, now has 58 per cent. There are wide variations in the percentage of women employed, however, even in establishments of the same type, for one establishment had less than 10 per cent of women among its employees. BUY LIBERTY BONDS JAPANESE WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY DOING RED CROSS WORK. Japanese women are not lagging behind those of other nations in work for the comfort of the soldiers. The Japanese women in New York have done a tremendous amount of work for the Red Cross, which they have supplied with nearly 2,000 compresses, pads and other much needed articles. BUY LIBERTY BOMBS Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hudlun are now pleasantly located in their new home at 4503 S. Wabash avenue. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 5, 1918 For the Sake of Our Faith in Democracy President American Federation of Labor It is not only our duty to buy Liberty Bonds of the Fourth issue; it is our privilege. Liberty Bonds are in fact Liberty Bonds. It is now found necessary to issue a Fourth Liberty Loan. I appeal to all my fellow Americans, and especially to the men and women of Labor in America, to do all in their power to buy the bonds of this Liberty Loan in a spirit of consecrated and generous patriotism. Our Republic is winning its future liberties with men and labor and money. We must give all of these until Liberty is won. To buy these Bonds is not a sacrifice; it is an investment in Liberty itself-an investment in the future glory of free mankind! All Americans stand on a common battle-ground fighting for a common cause. All must cooperate to give our country its maximum of strength. Our country calls for this service of our money. Let us respond quickly, with ardor, with pride in our country's cause. For the sake of our faith in Democracy, let us do this service. 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Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. VOL. XXIV OCTOBER 5, 1918 No. 8 People are seldom ever as bad as their friends make them out to be. The above sentence is not elothed with the rhetorical dignity of syntax, but if we had said it any other way it perhaps would not have appealed to you. Don't you know that most people alive are not tongue-proof? Don't you know that most of us are held up to ridicule? Have you done anything like a fool recently? That is, have you done any thing lately that you would call your best friend a fool for doing? Reader, this is an earth-plane existence, most of us, or all of us, possess a human nature that makes us whisper, or not speak at all, and Ohl dear me, if our thoughts were known by others perhaps none of us would be found to be what is required of the high place we pretend to occupy in our own estimation. Then shall we say one is lacking in the sober graces, on the mere pretext that none of us is as good as we pretend to be? Wherefore good? Who is good? If no one thinks us good what credit does one get for being good? And yet being good brings its own reward. People are not indifferent to individual conduct. Every one is supposed to stand well on the principles of decency and good behavior. The proper precept and example will ever be the criterion of any race. We should never lose sight of the aim of society. By society is meant the high reaches of one's best nature to measure up on all the noble deocrines of a well ordered and well governed people. Outside of this realm we find the outcast and the degenerate, all of the degraded among both men and women, high or low, rich or poor, of their kind. People are often better than we suppose them to be, and the trouble that our friends meet with is found in the lack of their personal knowledge of us. Most of this arises out of the selfish spirit that mirrors our human nature. The desire to occupy the highest place cannot be criticised. No one cares to eulogize somebody that will crowd them out when they are given the right of way. All of us have a good opinion of ourselves, and why not? Self-ism, and that chief preservation in Nature's first law. Our prejudices are never to be trusted. Our good opinion of others should grow so strong and impregnable that doubt might never find fertile soil in our hearts to flourish. Our friendships must be bound with hoops of steel. BUY LIBERTY BONDS GOD IS KEEPING WATCH. In his recent speech in New York setting forth the conditions of peace for enemy belligerent nations, President Wilson has virtually analyzed an Emancipation Proclamation for every variety of mankind ever which the tyranny of a majority has ruled all helpless races. Out of this war has come to the surface of a turbulent sea of - oecial conflict the noble essence and attribute of a Christ who nineteen hundred years ago enunciated the great Magna Charta of all humanity, the Golden Rule. This doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you is but the natural plea of the most righteous saint that ever walked the earth, and it has taken the long stretches of centuries, with its jars, and its belligerency, its wars and its outrages of horrifying proportions to sift through the crevices of our obstinate, incorrigible human nature to arrive at a peace spoken to mankind on the plains of Judea in the first years Christianity. The President is a real man of great courage and logical resources to thus speak for the rights of weaker peoples. We can plainly see the picture of the poet when he wrote: "Truth is ever on the scaffold Error sits upon the throne, Standeth God within the shadow And behind the dim unknown, Keeping watch above His own." The above is the sense and the kernel, if not the true and accurate quotation. This old world tossed and driven as it has been by hurricanes of man's ugly impulses and hate, will yet be led to see the righteous preachments of the doctrine upon which hang all the laws of the prophets: "Love one another." It is no impropriety to take the words of President Wilson as a special benediction for the oppressed Negro in America. Words fitting for the oppressed of every land, and yet very appropriate to palliate the sad condition of our race in the South suffering the brutal usages of criminal tyranny indescribable. I was thinking this morning of the day when our boys Of the Eighth went away to their camp. 'Twas a day to remember, full of music and noise, Through our streets how proud was their tramp. It's been a whole year since we bade them good-bye, And they seemed so glad to entrain. For they were full fledged and the snap in their eyes Told us what they would do at Lorraine. Lorraine you well know is a lost child of France, Since '70 she has been a prey To the Kaiser's strong will and his wealth to enhance For many a long, weary day. But now that our boys of the Eighth are on guard, The rest of the world may be sure That things with old Wilhelm are going to be hard And it's doubtful if he can endure. These black boys of ours, and of Illinois Are men that shoot straight, every one, And for having fear, these city black boys! Not as long as they can look down a gun. So dpn't ever fear for our fellows can fight, They'd fight like the devil, this Kaiser, And while they're helping to get Europe right, They'll be getting all America some wiser. BUY LIBERTY BONDS ABOUT CROWDING TO GET IN PUBLIC PLACES AND ON STREET CARS. Undue haste is often misplaced and too often causes trouble not intended and besides it is unmanly to crowd and make uncomfortable our women and girls or any women and girls. A brusque and ruffled nature often creates a scene of hostilities which could be avoided. We have noticed this awful and needless hurry of men to get in the doors of theaters and on street cars apparently oblivious of the presence of ladies, reckless and heiter skeletor abandon, a very measly misconception of the chivalry our men folks should ever show toward the female of the species. Scene: Any theater door, or where large numbers get on the street care—Fearful rivalry, crowding and jostling. boisterousness, often unfit language, lighted cigars or breath smelling badly with liquor, tobacco or garlic and spaghetti. All jamming and crowding toward the point of entrance. In rival haste to get into an empty theater often, or to take a half filled car. Men climbing over the arms of women, or snatching them loose in terrible rush to get a seat that always should belong to women by right of her superior sex. RESIDENCE: 308 E. 36th STREET PHONE: DOUGLAS 4397 J. Gray Lucas Attorney at Law Suite 815 Hartford Building 3 S. DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO PHONE: CENTREAL 4083 Residence, 1262 Macallister Pl Too often this condition obtains when there is not a shred of excuse. It is not the crowning intention that men show feeble regard for women, on the contrary every man has a heart lit up with that genial lone spark of honor toward the women. We should not come to Chicago and go wild in the bewilderment and excitement of the freedom one enjoys in this great metropolis. As a race we will never show any great mark of our civilization and character until we have given to women of our own blood the first consideration and always pay them the special honor that is due them and what we would expect of the conduct of other men toward them. Let us stop this fearful rushing and pulling and squeezing and jostling and crowding and jamming. It looks bad. Buy Liberty Bows By Br. W. A. Majors. George W. McKinley will not be remembered and measured in the scales to the full value of his worth. He had convictions, and the courage to state those convictions. His true spirit gave him this courage, and in his general tendencies to make himself understood-he feared no man. With him the question was always, is it right? He did not try to barricade his argument with logic, nor festoon his speech with elegant language. This in part is somewhat a description of his personality. We knew him in the early years of the '80s, and at a time he came to our home city, Austin, Texas. He soon won the respect and confidence of the city officials and about the year '89 he became a city officer of the peace, a position he held for several years with honor and credit to his race. When he left Texas to make Chicago his home in 1898, he left a host of friends behind including many of the best known and wealthiest White citizens of Austin. For many years Mr. McKinley has lived a consistent Christian, never compromising between right and wrong. Devoted to his church and to his family, and always filling some place of worth with whatever he united himself. He was steady, earnest, honest and sincere, his sympathy was of the candid, but always pathetic kind. His tendencies of heart and his tears extolled the virtues of goodness. In later years he has been almost an invalid, and yet frail or feeble, he was industrious and engaged in real estate, united himself to the civic organizations and more recently became a uniformed officer of the Chicago guard. He was a charter member of the Texas Fellowship Club, acting in official capacity in one form or another until he died. He was a useful, courageous man who had ideas and could express them. True to his God, true to his family and himself, he could not be otherwise to his friends and thus he died. May he rest in peace. Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty God to call our friend and brother, George McKinley, from labor to reward; and Whereas, His family has lost a loving, fond husband and father, therefore be it Resolved, That the Texas Felowship Club extend its sincere and most heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family of our beloved brother in this, their hour of great sorrow, and Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be entered in the records of the Club and a copy be sent to the bereaved family. Signed, Mrs. M.J. MORGAN TEL. CENTRAL 3142 S. A. T. WATKINS LAWYER 36 WEST RANDOLPH STREET CHICAGO Residence, 4533 Prairie Avenue Roc., Kenwood 6228 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 708 184 W. Washington St. Phones, Office, Main 4133 Auto., 2571 CHICAGO Office Phone 8078 (Douglas) Residence Phone, Douglas $179 S. A. BEADLE Lawyer 3502 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO Rea. 208 Preh's Ave. Phone Doug. 8128 PHONES: MAIN 2017 AUTOMATIC 22-305 A. L. 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