The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Hon. Medill McCormick elected United States senator from Illinois with almost fifty thousand majority at his back. Senator James Hamilton Lewis fell by the way side after waging a hard political battle. THE GREAT POLITICAL UPHEAVAL THROUGOUT THE UNITED STATES AT THIS DISTANCE FROM THE ROYAL BATTLE, THE LEADERS OF THE GRAN OLD PARTY CONTEND THAT THE REPUBLICANS WILL CONTROL BOTH BRANCHES OF CONGRESS AND ELECT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1920. HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN, RE-ELECTED TO CONGRESS FROM THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELSON, RE-ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE FROM THE THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. HON. WILLIAM E. MASON AND HON. RICHARD YATES ELECTED CONGRESSMEN AT-LARGE FROM ILLINOIS AND THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET IN THIS STATE WINNING OUT HON. THOMAS F. SCULLY, HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER, HON. PATRICK A. NASH, HON. MICHAEL K. SHERIDAN, HON. WILLIAM N. GEMMILL, HON. WILLIAM J. HEALY, HON. JOHN F. DEVINE, HON. DANIEL P. TRUDE, HON. HARRY M. FISHER, HON. DENNIS J. EGAN, HON. DANIEL RYAN, HON. THOMAS KASPERSKI, HON. HENRY HORNER, HON. ALBERT NOWAK, HON. HARRY E. LITTLER, HON. EDWARD J. HUGHES, HON. EDWARD J. GLACKIN, ARE AMONG THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES, WHO WERE SUPPORTED TO THE LAST DITCH BY THIS NEWSPAPER; ASIDE FROM THOSE ALREADY MENTIONED. THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD, ENDORSED AND RECOMMENDED MICHAEL F. SULLIVAN A HOYNE NEGRO HATING DEMOCRAT FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT. THIS PAPER LOYALLY SUPPORTED Hon. HARRY OLSON FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT AND HE WENT OVER THE TOP; PLAINLY SHOWING THAT THE BROAD AX IS MORE POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL THAN THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD. VOL. XXIV Hon. Medill almost Lewis THE GREAT POLITICAL STATE FROM THE ROYAL OF THE GRAN OLDE THE REPUBLICAN BRANCHES OF CONPRESIDENT OF THE HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN GRESS FROM THE DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELS STATE SENATE FOR ORIAL DISTRICT OF HON. WILLIAM E. MASYATES ELECTED FROM ILLINOIS A LICAN TICKET IN THE HON. THOMAS F. SCULLY, TZER, HON. PATTI, CHAEL K. SHERIDGE MEMMILL, HON. W. JOHN F. DEVINE, HON. HARRY M. EGAN, HON. DANIEL KASPERSKI, HON. ALBERT NOWAK, HON. EDWARD J. J. GLACKIN, ARE A CANDIDATES, WHEN THE LAST DITCH ASIDE FROM THOS THE GREATEST WEEKEND WORLD, ENDORSED MICHAEL F. SULLY HATING DEMOCRACY THE MUNICIPAL OF YALLY SUPPORTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF AND HE WENT ON SHOWING THAT THE POWERFUL AND GREATEST WEEKEND WORLD. It was stated in these columns last week, that mighty hot times were ahead for the big Democratic and Republican politicians between that time, and November the 5th and the city election in 1919, and so far our prediction has come true, for mayor William Hale Thompson, after promising to do so failed to follow in the footsteps of his so-called Republican God and loyally support. Hon. Medill McCormick for United States senator, on the other hand he blindly went racing after the Democratic Gods and the Democratic mule and as a result of his short-tighted actions in that respect, Mayor Thompson is considered by the wisest Democratic and Republican politicians as a dead cock in the Democratic and Republican political pit. The smoke of the royal political battle has just about cleard away and the pains, the long-loud groins, or the Lamantations of the slain and wounded candidates or would-be-candidates or statesmen on the field of battle is something terrible to behold, and with all of the plugging on the part of mayor Thompson and his empty-headed Jund-mouthed colored and white retainers and shouters, for sen- ator Lewis, he very gallantly marched on down to defeat to the edge of Cook County with less than forty-five thousand faithful soldiers or followers who were overenhelmed by the vast army of voters who marched under the victorious banner of Hon. Medill McCormick who easily trampled all opposition under their Republican feet from the extreme southern counties of this State, to the edge of Cook County, where the forces of Senator Lewis were completely unhoared and routed and Mr. McCormick and his adherents swept on to victory with between fifty and sixty thousand majority at his back. The leaders of both the Democratic and Republican party claim both branches of congress at the present writing, the United States senators, governors of the various states throughout the Union, and congressmen elected here in Illinois follows: .SENATORS ELECTED Alabama: John H. Bankhead, D., Arkansas: Joseph T. Robinson, D.; Colorado: Lawrence Phipps, R.; Delaware: Lewis H. Ball, R.; Georgia: W. J. Harris, D.; Idaho: William E. Borah, R.; (long term), John F. Nugent, D. (short term), or F. R. Gooding, R.; Illinois: Medill McCor- mick, R.; Iowa: William S. Kenyon, R.; Kentucky: A. O. Stanley, D.; Louisina: J. S. Ransdell, D.; E. J. Gay, D., (short term); Massachusetts: David R. Walsh, D.; Michigan: Truman Newberry, R.; Minnesota: Knute Nelson, R.; Mississippi: Pat Harrison, D.; Missouri: S. P. Spencer, R.; Montana: Thomas J. Walsh, D; Nebraska: George Norris, R.; Nevada: Charles B. Henderson, D.; New Hampshire: Henry Keyes, R.; George Moses, R., (short term) or J. B. James, D.; New Jersey: Walter E. Edge, R.; David Baird, R, (short term); New Mexico: A. B. Fall, R.; North Carolina: F. M. Simmons, D.; Oregon: Charles McNary, R.; Fred W. Mulkey, R., (short term); Oklahoma: Robert L. Owen, D.; Rhode Island: L. B. Colt, R.; South Carolina: W. P. Pollock, D.; N. B. Dial, R.; South Dakota: Thomas Sterling, R.; or O. V. Rinehart, D.; Tennessee: John K. Shields, D.; Texas: Morris Sheppard, D.; Virginia: Thomas S. Martin, D.; West Virginia: Davis Elkins, R.; Wyoming: Francis E. Warren, R. As Indicated by Latest Returns Alabama: T. E. Kirby, D.; Arizona: T. E. Campbell, R.; Arkansas: C. H. Brough, D.; California: W. E. Stevens, R.; Colorado: O. H. Shoupe, R.; Connecticut: M. H. Holcomb, R.; Georgia: H. M. Dorsey, D.; Idaho: D. W. Davis, R.; Iowa: W. L. Harding, R.; Kansas: H. J. Allen, R.; Massachusetts: C. Coolidge, R.; Michigan: A. E. Sleeper, R.; Minnesota: J. A. A. Burnquist, R.; Nebraska: S. R. McKelvie, II.; Nevada: E. D. Boyle, D.; New Hampshire: J. H. Bartlett, R.; New Mexico: O. O. Larrazolo, R.; New York: A. E. Smith, D.; North Dakota: Lynn Frazier, Nonp.; Ohio: F. R. Wilis, R.; Oklahoma: H. G. McKeever, R.; Oregon: J. Withycomble, R.; Pennsylvania: W. C. Sproul, R.; Rhode Island: R. L. Beeckman, R.; South Carolina: R. A. Cooper, D.; South Dakota: P. Norbeck, R.-Nonp.; Tennessee: A. H. Roberts, D.; Texas: T. P. Hobby, D.; Vermont: P. W. Clement, R.; Wisconsin: E. L. Philipp, R.; Wyowing: R. R. Carey, D. ILLINOIS CONGRESSMEN ELECTED (Based on incomplete returns) District. At large—*William E. Mason, Rep Richard Yates, Rep. 1—*Martin B. Madden, Rep. 2—*James R. Mann, Rep. 3—*William W. Wilson, Rep. 4—*John W. Rainey, Dem. 5—*Adolph J. Sabath, Dem. 6—*James McAndrews, Dem. 7—*Niels Juul, Rep. 8—*Thomas Gallagher, Dem. 9—*Fred A. Britten, Rep. 10—Carl R. Chindblom, Rep. 11—*Ira C. Copley, Rep. 12—*Charles E. Fuller, Rep. 13—*John C. McKenzie, Rep. 14—*William J. Graham, Rep. 15—*Edward J. King, Rep. 16—*Crifford Ireland, Rep. 17—Frank L. Smith, Rep. 18—*Joseph G. Cannon, Rep. 19—*William B. McKinley, Rep. 20—*Henry T. Rainey, Dem. 21—*Loren E. Wheeler, Rep. 22—*William A. Rodenberg, Rep. 23—*Martin D. Foster, Dem. 24—*Thomas S. Williams, Rep. 25—*Edward E. Denison, Rep. 107 IPEV Elected to the United States Senate from Illinois, Tuesday, November 5, to the great gratification of his hosts of friends. Hon. William E. Mason and Hon. Richard Yates who have always been true blue friends of the Colored race were elected Congressmen-at-Large from this state, at the same time the entire Republican ticket which follows was elected, in Illinois: State Treasurer: Fred E. Sterling, Rockford; for Superintendent of Public Instruction: Francis G. Blair. Trustees University of Illinois: (3 to be Elected) Cairo A. Trimble, Princeton, John M. Herbert, Murphysboro; Mrs. Margaret Day Blake, 23 E. Walton Place, Chicago. race come in under the lines as real line winners. COUNTY OFFICERS. Judge of County Court. Thomas F. Scully, D., Judge of Probate Court; Henry Horner, D., Sheriff; Charles W. Peters, R., County Clerk; Robert M. Sweitzen, D., County Treasurer; Harry R. Gibbons, D., Clerk of Probate Court; John F. Devine, R., Clerk of Criminal Court; William R. Parker, R., County Superintendent of Schools; Edw. J. Tobin, D., Member Board of Review (full term); P. A. Nash D. Member Board R; Bernard P. Rooney, D. Associpal Court (Fillin Hazen, R.; Clerk James A. Kearn pal Court; Denn No other new supported as m dates both Dem olican who were a home runs on Ty Ax, it rushed in Olson and grea him over the tol election for Cler Here in this city and in Cook County many surprises were in store for the big politicians and the various candidates of course Hon. Martin B. Madden was re-elected to Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois in spite of the fact that he had been branded as an "old gray haired bastard" by some of the foul or lud mouthed followers of Hon. Oscar De Priest and the other shining lights of the peoples movement, within the Republican party in the second ward and Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson who had been designated as the "hooked nosed Jew" and called many other bitter and troase names by the same leaders of the Peoples Movement, within the Second Ward, was re-elected to the state senate from the Third Senatorial District of Illinois and for four years longer senator Ettelson will make good at Springfield and continue to back up his past brilliant record in the state senate of Illinois. The following Republican and Democratic candidates in this city and County made home runs on Tuesday and at the end of the tight and hard HON. MEDILL McCORMICK United States Senate from Illinois, Tuesday great gratification of his hosts of fr race come in under the lines as real line winners. Judge of County Court. Thomas F. Scully, D., Judge of Probate Court; Henry Horner, D., Sheriff; Charles W. Peters, R., County Clerk; Robert M. Sweitzen, D. County Treasurer; Harry R. Gibbons, D., Clerk of Probate Court; John F. Devine, R., Clerk of Criminal Court; William R. Parker, R., County Superintendent of Schools; Edw. J. Tobin, D., Member Board of Review (full term); P. A. Nash, D., Member Board of Review (to fill vacancy); Charles V. Barrett, R, Member Board of Assessors; Michael K. Sheridan, D., Member Board of Assessors; Charles Krutckoff, R., President County Board; Peter Reinberg, D. William J. Healy, R.; Harry E. Littler, R; Willis O. Nance, R. County Commissioners (City). Peter Reinberg, D; Joseph M. Fitzgerald, D; Albert Nowak, D; Bartley Burg, D; Frank J. Wilson, D; Daniel Ryan, D; Charles N. Goodnow, R; Emmett Whealan, D; Thomas Kasperski, D; Robert W. McKinlay, D. County Commissioners (County) William Busse, R; William H. Maclean, R; Joseph Carolan, R; George A. Miller, R; Dudley D. Pierson, R; Chief Justice Municipal Court. Harry Olson, R; Associate Justices, Municipal Court: John K. Prindiville, D; John A. Mahoney, D; William N. Gemmill, R; Joseph P. Rafferty, D; Joseph S. LaBuy, D; Harry M. Fisher, D; Arnold Heap, D; Daniel P. Trude No. 8 R; Bernard P. Barasa, R; John J. Rooney, D. Associate Justice Municipal Court (Fill Vacancy): Irwin R. Hazen, R.; Clerk Municipal Court.: James A. Kearns, R; Bailiff Municipal Court: Dennis J. Eagan, D. No other newspaper in Chicago supported as many real live candidates both Democratic and Republican who were successful and made home runs on Tuesday as The Broad Ax, it rushed in behind Hon. Harry Olson and greatly assisted to put him over the top in his race for reelection for Chief Justice of the Municipal Court. On the other hand the greatest weekly newspaper in the World endeavored to ram Hon. Michael F. Sullivan, a Hoyne Negro hating Democrat, down the thorats of the decent and highly respectable Colored people, residing in this city, for Chief Justice of the Municipal Court but to the everlasting credit of the majority of the voters of Chicago he was rebucked and defeated and one thing has been clearly proven not only in this instance, but many times in the past namely, that The Broad Ax is more powerful and exerts a far greater political influence than the greatest weekly newspaper in the world. Mrs. Della Lewis, 5400 South Park Avenue was the guest of Mrs. Alice Caldwell, at Parish Lawn, Sunday afternoon, during the meeting of the trustees of the Louise Trainin School for Colored boys. ```markdown ``` M. HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELSON Re-elected to the State Senate from t Re-elected to the State Senate from the Third Senatorial District of Illinois. AFTER THE WAR SHOULD WE TREAT GERMANY AS WE DID BEFORE THE WAR! By Ellis Parker Butler of The Vigilantes We are at war with Germany and in dues time one or the other of us will be licked. In my opinion it will be Germany that will be licked. We Americans are good sports and too apt to feel generously toward those we have licked Of course, it is all right for me to shake hands with a man I have licked in a fair fight That is no reason why I should shake hands with a burglar that I have prevented from robbing my home Embrace a degenerate because I have knocked him down and prevented him from doing rape Hug a priate because I have stopped his career of lawless crime Kiss a blood-dripping murderer because I have warded off the knife he had raised to murder me and family. I say—and I hope you feel the same way about it—that although we may have had some respect for Germany before the war, we now know that pirate1murderer nation for what it is After the war Germany must be treated as an outlaw criminal unfit for the company of decent nations, to be ostracized and boycotted. M. Chairman of the Finance Committee and re-elected as HON. DANIEL RYAN PAGE TWO BUT AND the Third Senatorial District of Illinois. NOES FROM QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. The first Quarterly meeting of this church will be held at Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash, Sunday, Nov. 10. The public is cordially invited. The pastor of the church is conducting a series of meetings from 7:30 to 9:30 every night. Sunday of sermons on the "Prophetic Message of the Modern Times." The church has been divided in two sections, to be known as the "Daughters of Allen, and the "Sons of Allen." Mrs. Belle Fountain has been selected as president of the "Daughters of Allen." The next meeting will be held Sunday evening at seven o'clock. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB —Notes— The Phyllis' Wheatley Woman's Club held its regular meeting at the Home 3256 Rhodes Ave., Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 P. M. Mrs. Belle Graves Fountain will be the speaker. Mrs. A. B. Clark, Ch. Musical Section has arranged a fine program. The handsome rocking chair will be awarded to the holder of the lucky number. Visitors are Cordially invited. The Phalaxn Club met in Casey's Hall last Sunday, November 3rd, and after nearly two hundred ballots were cast, the following officers were elected, President, F. S. Stephens; 1st Vice-Pres, Percy H. Ash; 2nd Vice-Pres, Ralph McCorroll; 3rd Vice-Pres, William A. House; Financial Secretary, A. M. Dozier; Recording Secretary, Excell Smith; Treusurer, Zachariah T. Rossson; Chairman Sick Benefit W. S. White; Board of Directors, B.H. E. Crockett, William Terry, W. E. Mitchell, Lawrence C. Haralson. of the Board of County Commissioner one of its members. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 THE COLORED SOLDIERS ARE COVERING THEMSELVES OVER WITH GLORY IN FRANCE HAD A CHANCE AT "BIG SCRAPING" ON THE SAME SCALE AS THE 15th FROM NEW YORK, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK EVENING SUN CORRESPONDENT WHO, IN WRITING ABOUT THE COLORED AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS, SAYS: "Negro troops from America already have established themselves in Europe as being cool and reliable fighters in the front line. Both American and French commands so testify, and if the enemy ever discovered who it was that held part of the line through Argonne Forest when the boches failed to get through some time agb, the German command has a decidedly high respect for American Negro infantry. "Up and down the line, after the test of a year's service, you hear no doubts expressed. The dark dongboys have made good in the line as well as behind. They have proved themselves cool and brave soldiers in the trenches, and gentlemanly when back at rest in French towns. You are continually running into units of these colored chaps as you travel up and down the line from Switzerland to Flanders. "Down in a little town some miles back of Verdun a large unit of these troops, all from Chicago or thereabouts, have been stationed. They had come back to rest, after a long period in the Argonne Forest trenches. Like New York, they had made a hit with the French officers in high command of the sector. Unlike the New York Negroes, these Chicago boys had encountered no big fighting, and they were disappointed at being given a real chance to show what they could do. THE FRENCH LIKE THEM "The French officers explained that good soldiers can be recognized just as well when they are holding the line as when they are fighting, but the dark doughboys were still dis- CITY NEWS Reported by Lawyer S. Z. C. Westerfield Miss Ada Neloms, of San Francisco, California, is visiting Mrs. Robinson, 520 East 35th Street. She expects to remain a few days longer before leaving for the far West. Rev. C. T. Walker of Sovannah, Ga., will be in the city soon to conduct a revival at the St. Jhon Baptist Church 3836 Dearborn Street. He will also speak at the Abraham Linecoln Center, on the night of November 18th under the auspices of the Young Men's Uplift League. William T. Offord has been placed in charge of the United States Labor Employment Bureau located at the corner of 50th and State Streets. He says it is a big job and keeps him very busy all of the time. Faustin S. Delaney, 312 So. Clark St., has been quite ill with an attack of the Spanish influenza, but is now doing very nicely. He will resume his former activities within the next few days. W. H. A. Moore, oftimes called "Judge" moore, left the city last Wednesday night for Kansas City and St. Louis. He goes in the interest of the Bundy Defense Fund, and before returning to Chicago will stop at East St. Louis and be present at the trial of Dr. Bundy, reporting the proceedings to prominent papers. Rev. D. E. Butler of La Grange, Ill. was in the city for a few days last week. He is pastor of the A. M. E. Church located in La Grange and is doing a wonderful work there, planning great things for the young folks and came to Chicago to get the best possible methods. Last Sunday he preached at the A. M. E. Zion church of which Rev. Webb is pastor. It may said that Rev. Butler is one of the most progressive young me in the Conference and will soon work his way to the best charge in the Chicago Conference for he is an enthusiastic and devoted worker. The public will be given its last opportunity to hear Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, on Tuesday night, November 26th, at the Eighth Regiment Armory. Those who have heard this brilliant silvery tonged orator will not miss this opportunity for he will soon sail to visit the boys "over there". Col. Simmons has cemented the friendly relations between black and white men in a most successful manner and is worthy of the greatest support that can be given him. Not only is he able to draw striking truths but he cance appointed. Finally the French general came down to review the Negro outfit. Down by the creek they went through some snappy exercises and the French general was delighted. When the review as it had been planned was finished the general turned to the American colonel. "If I were an American general what would I do now', asked the Frenchman. "Most anything', replied the colonel. 'These boys will do anything you wish.' "Well, suppose the Germans were across the creek, replied the general. 'I'd like to have this nearest company attack them.' "The captain of the nearest company was given the order, and he marched his men across the meadow, where they suddenly disappeared. Pretty soon a whistle sounded, and the company was up and running toward the creek. Only a minute, and then they dropped, waiting, them running, always skirmishing in the latest approved French fashion. "After a bit of flank movement by a couple of platoons, the supposed German positions along the creek were stormed and taken. The French general was delighted. Finally he said, 'My oldest veterans could do it no better, even if they were warned it was on the program, and your boys did that extemporaneously.' The general remembered the review, and a few days later these colored chaps from Chicago received a fine letter from him, congratulating them on their esprit de corps and their work. "It was interesting to see how these colored boys mixed with the French inhabitants of the village with whom the American were billeted. The French folk like them and felt highly pleased at the way they learned French. They are getting extremely fluent, and it fits entirely with their scheme of things to use all French form of politeness." them to sink deep through his clever phraseology. To miss Col Simmons' last appearance in Chicago will be to let a golden opportunity slip by of enriching your mind, your heart and your soul, for he touches all three. Come out and fill the Armory to its very doors. Mrs. Alice Dunn, late of Washington, D. C., who is now making her home with her sister, Mrs. Jenkins in Morgan Park and who assists her sister Mrs. Geneva Smith 5363 So. Dearborn Street to conduct the lovely ice cream parlor and up-to-date fruit store at 762 E. 39th street; expects to return to Washington on a visit, shortly after Thanksgiving. Sunday, November 17th, will be a gala day for Grace Presbyterian Church, as this is the time when they will move into their new structure located at 36th and Vineennes Avenue. The boy orator, S. S. Morris, Jr., has been secured for that occasion and many prominent persons will speak as well as furnish excellent music. The first meeting of the Lyceum in the new Church will be held that same afternoon. The congregation has long felt the need for larger quarters and this is a step in the right direction. May it be followed by some of other smaller churches whose auditoriums are very much overcrowded. A very excellent and high class program was present by Quinn Chapel Forum last Sunday afternoon. Seldom has any audience in Chicago heard such splendid selections. The wonderful technique and the delicate harmony in the selections by Miss Nannie Mae Strayhorn and Miss Goldie Guy were of the highest order and worthy of masters of the art. The nightingale tones in the vocal solo by Miss Angela Alpha Bratton brought forth unstinted praise and lasting applause. M. Theophilus P. Bryant was at his best in the rendition of his baritone solo, and he was compelled to respond with an encore number, as were many of the other numbers. The musical part was a treat within itself but then came Attorney Eugene J. Marshall who spoke on "The Second Emancipation of the Negro". With his wonderful oratorical powers and the vivid truths he presented, Mr. Marshall held his audience spell bound for forty-five minutes. He told of the many struggles we had come through and how the doors of opportunity were now open and to make the best of them. He said these condition were here to stay and as individuals we should make the best of them. Ashby B. Carter was chairman of the program and Layer S. Z. C. Westerfield presided. It was truly a par excellent program. PETER H. Re-elected Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago for the second time. Masonry in the Revolution. During the American Revolution craft lodges were found in many of the English regiments in America, and a number of them existed in the Continental army. There is a record of ten regularly constituted, acting under warrants and attached to the Continental regiments. It is claimed that General Lafayette was made a Mason at Valley Forge during the American Revolution, but R. F. Gould states in his history of Masonry that Lafayette was raised by the American Union lodge at Norristown, N. J. It was in the American Union lodge that the first resolutions were passed urging the election of a general grand master for the United States. Telephoning in Japan. The editor of the Japan Times says the telephone service in Japan is utterly bad. He wonders "what Job would have done had he lived in Tokyo and wanted to telephone to the specialist on boils." He concludes with the following incident: "A lady in Karulzawa called up her house in Tokyo, left by the next train, got the call and talked to herself in Karulzawa six hours after she arrived in Tokyo. That's not a joke. It's the solemn truth."—From the East and West News. Friendship's Opportunity. Many fine and splendid people at times try the good nature and good will of their very best friends. It may be that they are wrestling with some wearisome problem or endeavoring to bear up under some heavy burden and for the time being appear to be anything but their own natural selves. But instead of accusing them of unkindness or of taking offense at their attitude their true friends overlook their unnaturalness, realizing that they will not remain so for long. Jackson's Masonic Record Lost General Jackson was a noted Mason of the War of 1812, and it is claimed that he received his Masonry in an army lodge. As a matter of fact, no absolute record has ever been found of when and where Andrew Jackson was made a Mason. He afterward became grand master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. It is believed that the records of a lodge in Tennessee which were burned years ago would show it. Teach Children Correct Speech Teach Children Correct Speech. After all, the best place to carry on a campaign for better speech is right in the home with the little circle that three times a day gathers about the dining room table, or perhaps it is only the kitchen table, it makes no difference, and the same little circle which in the evening gathers about the hearth. For it is the speech which we hear about us at home that clings to us through life—Exchange. 2-85 HON. DENNIS J. EGAN The newly elected Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago MICRY OLSON the Municipal Court of Chicago second time. Making Them Comfortable Ethel, who was ten years old, was studying her reader and learned that fish are placed in brine before they are dried and prepared for sale. After explaining that brine is very salt water, the teacher asked why the fish were placed in it. Ethel's face was illuminated with sudden understanding and she promptly replied: "Because they are used to salt water!" The Main Question "Of course, you can support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed," said the weary-looking father, "but can you support her in the style to which she has been unacustomed, but to which she feels that she is fully entitled to become accustomed?" Didn't Suit Carolyn Carolyn was fond of sweet corn One day white the family was seated at the table her mother said: "Carolyn, I think you have had enough corn." Carolyn looked up earnestly her mother as she said: "Mother, hate for you to do my thinking." Bronze Casting an Ancient Art. The art of bronze casting was introduced into Siam by the Chinese about the eleventh century and many statues of the Indian divinities were cast from it for religious purposes. Musical Criticism Patience—"Do you know the name of that piece?" Patrice—"Do you mean the one the woman was singing or the one her accompanist was playing"—Yonkers Statesman. Said the facetious feller: "When it comes to genuine misfortune that muchly advertised giraffe with sort throat is slow traffic compared with a centipede for corn." Fuller's Earth in Big Demand. Fuller's earth is worth more per ton in the United States than the ore from many large gold mines now paying handsome dividends. Florida is the leading producer. Bumblebee's Solitude. Frank, seeing a bumblebee for the first time, said to his brother: "Heat that bug whispering to itself." Long Distance Covered. Including all the movements of the earth, a person travels 85,255 miles in taking a three-mile walk. Optimistic Thought. Revenge is sure though sometimes slowly paced. J. EGAN of the Municipal Court of Chicago. Worse'n John. W. H. H. HON. WILLIAM N. GEMMILLER Re-elected Associate Justice of the Municipal Court Mother's Cook Book Great Writ There ought to for an alarm clo One of these th Re-elected Associate Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago. A sweet temper is to the household what sunshine is to trees and flowers. The homes of a nation are its strongest forts. Good Things Mother May Make. Turnips make a very good dish, treated as one does potatoes for an escaloped dish. Garnish the dish with fresh parsley and serve from the baking dish. Cut two pounds of round steak into small square pieces. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter substitute in a saucepan and when hot brown the steak, then add one cupful of water and four tablespoonfuls of rice. Cover and cook until tender. Now add three canned red peppers cut in slices, one cupful of cooked beans, two parboiled and sliced onions, one tablespoonful of corn flour, four cloves, a clove of garlic chopped, a teaspoonful of salt; cook all together until well blended and the gravy is of the right consistency. Serve garnished with parsley. A spoonful or two of grated cheese added to the creamed toast will make of it quite another dish and one which all may eat except the two-year-olds and younger. Plum Pudding Jelly. Cover half a box of gelatin with one-half cupful of cold water and let stand for an hour. Mix one cupful of raisins, one-fourth cupful of sliced citron, and one-fourth cupful of currants; add a tablespoonful of orange or grape juice. Scald a pint of milk and a cupful of strained honey and an ounce of melted chocolate. Mix all the ingredients and when it is slightly firm, add the fruit so it will not sink to the bottom. Turn into a mold and when ready to serve, garnish with whipped and sweetened cream. Wash, pick over and chop one pound of figs. Beat three eggs'very light, put a cupful of suet through the meat chopper, add two cupfuls of breadcrumbs, three-quarters of a cupful of milk and a cupful of strained honey. Mix all together and turn into a well-greased mold. Steam three hours. Serve hot with an egg sauce or with hard sauce. Ices, sherbetbets and ice creams are all easily digested and most wholesome for all members of the family. When nuts and fruits are used in creams they should be put through the meat chopper. The flavor is better and the cream smoother. Leftovers of cake, creams, jelly and fresh as well as preserved fruits may be used for desserts. Stale sponge cake with a bit of fruit juice, a spoonful of nuts and whipped cream, makes a most palatable and satisfying dessert. Nellie Maxwell. One Ton of Meter Jewels. One ton of sapphires was used during the year of 1917 in one factory where the jeweled bearings of electric meters are made, says Electrical Experimenter. The jewels are purchased in the rough and are put through finishing and drilling processes which require a degree of skill comparable only to that of an experienced watchmaker. Chili Con Carne. Fig Pudding. Desserts. Great Wrong Done Willie. There ought to be a severe penalty for an alarm clock striking a blue note. One of these things got Willie out of bed an hour too early under the suggestion that he was an hour late, and landed him at the office like a runaway horse, before the janitors had finished their morning's work—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Snakes Bred for Profit Most of the snakes used by showmen are procured from a large "snake farm" at San Antonio, Tex., where all kinds of reptiles are bred. This farm consists of eight acres for snakes alone, besides the land required for raising rabbits, chickens, frogs and other "snake feed." Ancient Egyptians Played Ball. Egypt is the birthplace of the ball game. How it was played history does not record. Recent excavations made near Cairo have brought to light a number of small balls, some of leather and others of wood, dating back to at least 2,000 B. C. These are the oldest balls of this sort known. Baby Has Appendicitis. Charles Travitz, thirteen days old, was operated on recently at the Harrisburg hospital in Harrisburg, Pa., for appendicitis. The operation was successful. The child is the youngest patient to go on the operating table at that institution. A brave man dies but once; while he that lives in constant fear of death every moment feels its tortures. Everything on earth has its price, and sooner or later, we pay for all that we have. When we complain that doing right takes so much toll of effort, sacrifice, and the loss of what we call "success," we have only to look about us to see that evil-doing is more costly still. Its demands may come in on the installment plan, but they will be all the more exorbitant because of that. Herbert was asked to hand the tools to his father, who was under the car trying to repair it. For this his father praised him, telling him he had been of great assistance. When they reached home and explained to his mother why they were late Herbert promptly added: "Yes, and if there hadn't been two of us men along we might not be here yet." Much Good in Kind Words Muen Good in Muen Good Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. Though they do not cost much, yet they accomplish much. They make other people good natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls and a beautiful image it is.—Blaise Pascal. It has been estimated that if the immense waste were eliminated, the daily output of the long-leaf pine industry would be 4,000 tons of paper, 3,000 tons of rosin, 300,000 gallons of turpentine, and 600,000 gallons of ethyl. Optimistic Thought Doing Right. Felt His Importance Pine Leaf Paper. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 CHARLES STUMP, THE KANSAS FARMER, NEWSPAPER WRITER HAS RECNTLY BEEN GREATLY ENJOYING HIMSELF AT ENNIS TEX. AND IN OTHER SOUTHERN CITIES ENNIS, Texas.—You see I have been doing some moving, yet I have been riding with fear and trembling, for so many people have died this year and for the past week that never died before, until thought any time to pick up a paper and see that I had passed into the great beyond. A fellow feels funny when he begins to think about this dying business, and I don't blame them. When in New York I heard them talk about this "Flu," yet I did not think so much about it. I met Miss Annie Patterson, whose home was in Clarendon, Ark., and she had something to say about the "flu," yet I could not understand it. She had me to take a royal meal with her, and it remind me of the times when I use to stop at the home of her father down in Arkansas. She is one more good cook. When I got up in New York the next morning, I felt a little shaky myself, was way down at the heel so to speak, but I just kept my upper lip stiff. I went over to the new A. M. E. church and made a few remarks, and then as I was feeling so sick, I went to the home of Miss A. A. Coffield, and she fixed up some medicine and tried to get me well. I had a little feeling like my wings were going to grow out and soon I was to be an angel, and I decided that I did not want to die in New York, hence I beat it to Philadelphia, getting there about midnight. I went to th ehouse of Mr. and Mrs. Gaines, North 27th street, and to my surprise found Gaines down with that "flu." His wife told me that it was in the house, and I thought I had it with me, hence I said I just as well come on in, and thought If I should die it would be a good place. Mrs. Gaines use to go to school at Normal, and she was from Snow Hill, Ala. I got some soldier dust and took five table spoons of it, and the next day I was feeling better, but far from being well. I knocked around in Philadelphia for a little while, and then beat it to Baltimore. Daniel H. Murphy, of the Afro-American was waiting in the office for me, and I went on to his home. It was a nice trip there. I went to see him, talked with him went to his home, and had one more fine supper. I got in touch with the financial king of the world, Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and it should be Bishop Brooks, and we hope that it will be in 1920. He is now planning to raise $53,000 which will finish the indebtedness on that big church there in Baltimore, and he will be entitled to promotion. From Baltimore, I beat it to Washington, where I took another look at the White House where I had just been a few days before to talk with President Woodrow Wilson. It is a great thing to get into good company and to mingle with big people. I shall never forget Dr. W. H. Jernagin, because he helped to put me on the map, and to say good things about me. I thank him for it all. Off from Washington, to Montgomery, W. Va., and then to St. Louis, stopping at Franfort and Louisville. In St. Louis I spent, the day with Maones, and found that they are little by little getting into their new building. It is not completed yet, but soon will be, and it will be the largest and most complete business building owned by our people in this country, and just think of it it will be owned by my people. Mr. Malone is one more active man. Anything that means advancement and uplift of our people, he is right there with the goods, and he is doing a great big work. He has been placed at the head of the state republican organization, and he and his wife put their hearts and heads together a few weeks ago and when they had them apart there was $1,200 check sent to Tuskegee Institute. He is just going about doing good, and is not making any noise about it. He at one time taught in Quincy, Ill. and went to the two churches there, tool them to get some work done there. One of the churches declared that he wanted to place them under obligation to them, and would not get the plummer, while the Rev. T. L. Smith, thanked God for the man, and had the work done which cost over $500. Malone paid the bill and has been happy ever since and the people have the benefit. There was nothing they could do for him, but he wanted to do something for his people. I have told you about Mrs. Malone from time to time. Miss Elizabeth Smith, one of our best educated young women is now working there and she is doing well. She knows how to work and is not afraid of it. She is in the right place. I wish that I had time to tell you just a few more things, but cannot do so now. Rev. S. A. Moseley, D. D. had just recovered from the National Baptist convention, but no one of the churches were allowed to have service on account of the "flu." Nevertheless it was a source of pleasure to see these people and to see the people with sad expression on their faces. I remained in the city all day Sunday and at night I got on the Sunshine and started to make it for this place. I do not mean for this place, but on to the world. That Old Sunshine train just acted like it was going crazy for a while. It sonrted, it whistled, it grunted, and at one time I thought that it had the "flu." I don't know how many stops were made, but I do know that when it reached Texarkana, I got off there, and went right on out to the home of Mrs. S. A. Matthes, whose daughter is in Chicago taking nurse training. Of course I was glad to see her. She shook my lily black hands, and soon had some real spring chiken ready for my eternity, and believe me when I tell you I sent it there without a question. I called to see Mrs. Nation, and she was sick. Mrs. Duckie Kennedy was as busy as could be trying to get rid of the "flu" and at the same time she was nursing Mrs. Carrie Mallard who had been down with it. I went to see them, because I had had my share of it. Saw Rev. J. M. Harris and others, and at night I left on the Cotton Belt for Corsicana, Texas. We left on time but got to the end over one hour late. I don't know how it happened nor have I called upon them for an explanation. I was glad to get there even though I was late. Reaching Corsicana, I went to the home of Prof. G. W. Jackson, who has been at the head of schools right there for forty years, and is one of the most respected educators in this section of the country. It means much for a man to teach in one county forty years and at the head of the high school in the city for over thirty years. He is just a good man, and I care not what has been said about him. He has been misrepresented. I believe in giving a man what he deserves. In Corsicana he has a beautiful home, and then he has some other good property. Some of his houses are rented to white people and they know that he owns them, because he collects his own rent. We are living in a wonderful age and a great country. You have the opportunity to learn anything in this city, or in this country of ours. The Baptist state convention was to meet in town, but the "flu" had caused the mayor to close up all the churches, yet they were granted permission to meet outside, and they took advantage of it. Just think of it a convention which did not have any speeches, did not have any sermons, no shouting, yet they collected HON. THOMAS KASPERSKI Popular Polish-American citizen, re-elected Commissioner of Cook County. $16,475.67. Rev. A. L. Boone, of Forth Worth is the president and he was reelected, Prof. M. M. Rodgers is the secretary, and he was reelected. Mrs. Edna Strickland is president of the women's convention, and Dr. D. A. Scott, is president of the Ministers' Union. More Than 55,000 Soldiers Totally Blinded in France As Result of World War. France has more than 55,000 men who have been made totally blind in battle. To care for these unfortunate is one of the most serious problems in that country. While in town I met Rev. J. H. Branham, and he invited me over to Ennis for a few days rest. I was not so tired, but accepted the invitation just the same. He is one of the young ministers who has a great respect for men, and he is going to rank with big men himself. I had the pleasure of meeting Rev. L. K. Williams, D. D., of Chicago, Ill. He was down here looking around. He was at one time president of the convention, and held the office until he was called to Chicago. He returned and presided until his successor was elected, Dr. A. L. Boone, and he has returned each year ever since, because they love to have him come, and he is pastor of a church that will permit him to come and see his own friends. These people welcome him. Some day we are going to have Rev. J. H. Branham right in Chicago. Put it down that I told you so, because he is made of the right kind of stuff. He is some preacher if you will take my word for it. I know good preaching when I hear it. Dr. Williams will be home when you read this letter. I shall not have more to say this time. Popular Symbol in China. One of the most frequent groups of symbols seen in Chinese designs is the Buddhist group. The Buddhist knot is the sign of longevity, and also stands for the eight Buddhist commandments. Two fish denote domestic felicity. These fish, or perch, go in pairs and are always faithful to each other. The umbrella of 10,000 people is presented to a mandarin on his leaving a district as a token of the purity of his administration. The canopy, like the umbrella, is a sign relating to official life, which is the ambition of every Chinese. Minor Scales There are two forms of the minor scale, viz., the melodic and harmonic. The former is simetimes called the vocal minor scale, because it is easier to sing than the harmonic. The latter has an augmented second between the sixth and seventh degree, and this is difficult to sing until one has acquired a certain degree of proficiency. The harmonic minor scale is more used in instrumental than in vocal music. Really Fine Eulogy. Here is a eulogy of a dead emir which Ibn Khalilkan declares the Commander of the Faithful, as the Caliph of Bagdad was known, pronounces incomparable: "Now let misfortune do its worst, and time inflict its evils. There is no excuse for eyes which have not shed their tears." Finding BrokSn Wire It is a difficult matter to locate a broken wire in an ignition cable, unless one knows how. Here is how: Draw each individual wire out somewhere along the cable. Hold a compass within a half-inch of the wire. If the current is flowing through the wire, the compass will be deflected from its normal position in one way or the other. A broken wire will have no effect on the instrument, which thereby acts as a detective. Needed: Qualifications Earnest Youth—"Father, what qualifications do you need to be a member of the Supreme court?" Father—"You have to be thoroughly respectable, honorable beyond reproach, and be able to write English in such a way that no other lawyer will be quite sure what you mean."—Life. to stay safe More Than 55,000 Soldiers Totally Blinded in France As Result of World War. France has more than 55,000 men who have been made totally blind in battle. To care for these unfortunate is one of the most serious problems in that country. Since the war began Eugene Brieux, the French writer, has devoted nearly all his time and energies to caring for the blind soldiers sent back from the trenches, and the following appeal in their behalf is from his little paper, Le Journal des Blesses aux Yux: "Within a year, if we do not receive sufficient aid, we shall have to cease all our distributions of help. It is serious. We have sent monthly to 371 families of the blind assistance amounting to from 20 to 40 francs. "We have paid the cost of civilian clothes for some of them, enabled a particularly afflicted victim (both blind and armless) to enjoy a winter season on the milder shores of the Mediterranean sea. And now I shall have to cut out many a stricken family from our lists if more assistance in funds be not forthcoming. And this at a time when the cost of living has exceeded all reasonable limits." FOR THE POULTRY GROWER ..... Corn, when it is just ripening and passing through the dough stage into the more hardened condition, if fed to chickens causes a loose condition of the bowels, and if no other food is given, the birds are forced to eat this kind of feed and digestive troubles will follow. The flock in its ranging about the farm at this time of year may, unbeknown to you, get some of this corn, and may show the symptoms at present. The first indications should be a warning, and the birds, if necessary, should be confined. If a good ration is fed, however, twice per day—that is, morning and night, and in sufficient quantities, the birds will not eat enough to do them any harm. Either one of the above methods will help to keep the flock out of trouble of this kind. The easiest way is to give them sufficient hard grain morning and night to satisfy their appetites. Robert Louis Stevenson's Advice to Class of Girls Robert Louis Stevenson was once called upon to address a Sunday school class of young girls. He told them the parable of the talents, and then went on to say that there were three talents every one possessed and ought to make us of. "Tongues that they must use to cheer and make happy all around them; faces that they must keep bright as new shillings, so that they might shine like lamps in their homes; and hands that must be kept employed in useful work cheerfully done." Very good advice in these war days for all of us, whatever our age or sex—Exchange. Timely Thoughts. The reason some men get more fun out of life than others is because they don't want to get all the money too. Luck and perseverance often go hand in hand. The other fellow is the man we all think ought to help out when we get into trouble. Mighty few people believe what a man tells about himself. That is the reason the courts insist upon the testimony of character witnesses. Another Feminine Industry. "Girls wanted for men's neckwear," reads the advertisement of a department store. But we imagine that a man would be uncomfortable wearing a girl around his neck—New Orleans States. Daily Thought. Plow deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin. 899A The highly accomplished and intellectual daughter of the late Mrs. Mark Hanna, who is pre-eminently qualified to dis social duties in Washington, as the wife, of the second Senator from Illinois. The highly accomplished and intellectual daughter of the late Senator and Mrs. Mark Hanna, who is pre-eminently qualified to discharge all the social duties in Washington, as the wife, of the second United States Senator from Illinois. THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN Wherever the English tongue is spoken, people know the meaning of "sportman". "A fair field and may the best man win" is the supreme law of all our games and sports. And that law, observed as a matter of honor, on every baseball, football, cricket and lacrosse field, accounts in no small measure for the magnificent victories of the Allies on the western front. Our national sports have made us despise 'quitting' and the "yellow streak". The same code of honor holds with reference to Liberty loan subscriptions. And it has a vital element in addition — that of loyalty to Country and loyalty to the Army and Navy. Every man, woman and child in America who subscribed for Fourth Liberty bonds on a deferred payment plan is in honor bound to live up to the terms of the subscription pledge. Nothing but "dire necessity", in the words of Secretary McAdoo can possibly excuse "quitting" and failure to carry through the plan. Make all the payments, receive the Liberty bonds and hold them fast until the Government repays the principals. This is a rule on the ball field. Fight for a fair hit. Run hard for the bases and the home plate. Work with the team. Fight down any selfishness. Combat any disposition to quit or accept defeat. Be honorable and play the game like a man This is the programme that Liberty Bond subscribers are in honor bound to carry through. No matter how much self-denial it may call for — no matter how hard the "scrimping" and economizing may seem — every sub- HON. THOMAS F. SCULLY Re-elected Judge of the County Court, with the great aid and influence of The Broad Ax. 1 actual daughter of the late Senator and minently qualified to discharge all the the wife, of the second United States scriber is bound by the law of Patriot- ism, and by the "honor rule" of good "sportmanship" to accept the sacri- cies and make good the subscription pledge. Any other course throws a burden on the government, and interferes with the best interest of the Army and Navy, an is a stain on one's personal self respect. Be a good "sportman". Be a patriot. Have "Nerve". Pay for every Liberty bond you signed for. KELLY MILLER'S BOOK BARED FROM CAMPS His Famous Disgrace of Democracy With Other Books Said to be Unfit. New York—Declaring that the recent pamphlet issued by Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of Howard University, Washington, D. C., entitled "The Disgrace of Democracy" was undesirable for our soldiers to read while training for war, the department of military censorship ordered the various camp librarians to take the book from the library shelves. Sventy-two books from the pen of noted authors have suffered a similar fate. The books were barred from every army camp and from every post where American soldiers are located because their influence tended to make the soldiers who read them a less effective fighter against the German, it was asseerted when publica- tion of the complete list was authorized. In the list also are numerous religious publications opposing war and emphasizing the views of pacifist. Other publications were barred because they were unfit from a moral standing point. WHERE WOMEN MUST HELP THEMSEE Labor Commissioner Pointed Difficulties in Safeguarding When They Do Not Cooperate Efforts for Their Protection. DON'T SHAKE—SALUTE Quit shaking hands. It is a custom that does not mean much anyhow. True, it is time honored and stands for friendship and good will. But when a custom becomes a menace to public health; when it is a means for the transmission of infection and disease from person to person, an enlightened and progressive community should be able to find a substitute that will meet all social and friendly observances and yet be safe. It has long been known that human hands are seldom clean, that is, clean in the sense that they are not contaminated with invisible dirt that is dangerous. Even hands that look dirty may not be dangerous. The hands of the plasterer or bricklayer, covered with lime and mortar, or the hands of the man at the plow, grimy with soil, might not be nearly so dangerous as the hands of those in other callings and which appeared to be clean. You have been told to smother the sneeze with your handkerchief or a paper napkin. When you sneeze into the open hand and then shake hands with a friend, you are handing him the germs of disease. The hands are in contact with the mouth and nose scores of times daily. From the mouth and nose come disease germs which cause influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever and sore throat of various kinds. When you shake hands with a friend, infection from the mouth and nose is conveyed to your hand from the friend and to the friend from your hand. Then the hand covered with germs goes to the mouth and disease results, and you wonder how it came about. Let society pull down the sentiment that keeps up hand shaking and insist on the salute instead. The salute is also a safe substitute for kissing. --- A recent decision, rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, is of importance as sustaining and defining the powers of health officials in enforcing quarantine regulations. In the case cited, the writ of hebeas corpus was sought by a person who had been detained in quarantine by order of both the city Health Department of Seattle and the State Board of Health. The petitioner had been arrested first for disorderly conduct and upon examination by the Commissioner of Health of Seattle, in accordance with an ordinance of that city, was found to have syphilis, and was sent to an isolation hospital for detention and treatment. An appeal was made through attorneys to the State Board of Health, as provided by law, which Board affirmed the finding of the Municipal Commissioner of Health. The dedenfant then petitioned the State Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. In its final decision on the case the Supreme Court held that, "While the writ of habeas corpus is a writ of right and is never to be denied in any case where the liberty of the subject is made the subject of inquiry, yet it has always been held that a return showing a legal cause for the detention of the petitioner is enough to suspend the operation of the writ." The court held that, "Where a statute gives a discretinoary power to an officer to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, he is made the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of these facts." The court also held that the City of Seattle had power to pass health ordinances and to create the office of Health Commissioner and that his actions were, therefore, legal. WHERE WOMEN MUST HELP THEMSELVES Labor Commissioner Pointed Out Difficulties in Safeguarding Them When They Do Not Cooperate with Efforts for Their Protection. While the Government is doing all possible to safeguard women who are taking the places of men withdrawn from industry to serve in the war, it is imperative that the women themselves should cooperate with the Department of Labor. At a recent conference of State officials charged with the enforcement of State labor laws, which was held in Washington, it was brought out that in many cases women choose night work and prefer long hours. Both of these tendencies are easily explained. Night work enables women who have household cares to look after their homes, and they know that their children are safe in bed while they are working. Moreover, they have time for necessary shopping and for recreation. Long hours mean more pay, and women in industry have been always paid less than men, so that it is necessary to give added time and strength in order to obtain equal pay. The remedy for the wholesale employment of women at night and for overwork is in the establishment of equal pay for equal work. It has been proved that in many places where women in large numbers work at night the wages they receive are less than men could command. It is the inference that if the standard of equal pay for equal work were maintained employers would not be so likely to employ women at night. In view of experience in Great Britain and France since the world war began, the United States is making every effort to avoid the exploitation of women and to protect them from labor conditions that will break down health and affect not only this generation but the next. The high standard of education among workers will enable them to look beyond the present and to prepare for the future, labor experts believe, and as more women are absorbed by the factories and other lines of industry the need of conserving strength will be recognized. While manufacturers are providing rest rooms, cafeterias, and sanitary environment, and while the Government is watchful everywhere, it is necessary that the women should realize that it is their patriotic as well as their personal duty to comply with all the provisions of the laws for their protection. MUCH TO DO AT HOME IN WAR TIME While Men Are Giving Their Lives Women Must Give Their Work. Writing from France several months ago, when he acknowledged the receipt of $1,000 sent to the American Committee for Devastated France, Lieut. Carl A. Johson said: "Money has ceased to be a part of our lives here. We gave our money away and we will give our lives, if need be, that our mothers may not need to suffer the fate of these women." Lieut. Johnson did give his life. Miss Elizabeth Perkins, of the committee, in referring to the service of this American officer, said: "We are not asked to give our lives. We at home are asked only to give our best. Whether that be of our money or our work, let that be the best we know how to give. Our men abroad can give their lives but once—we at home can give our work six days a week. Let us dedicate that work every hour of every day with the same spirit of heroic brotherhood which animates our fighting men, for it is this spirit of service which is bound to win the war." Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pastor of the Hope Presbyterian Church, 61st and Loomis Boulevard, has resigned as one of the trustees of the Louise Training School for Colored boys. 1970 MRS. FLETCHER DOBYNS As Chairman of the Republican W worked extremely hard, for States Senator from Illinois. As Chairman of the Republican Women's Loyalty Campaign Committee, worked extremely hard, for Hon. Medill McCormick, for United States Senator from Illinois. ANNUAL MEETING OF TRUSTEES OF THE LOUISE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR COLORED BOYS. THE BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY. The officers of Bethel Literary or Last Sunday afternoon, the annual meeting of the trustees of the Louise Training School for Colored boys, was held at the home, Parish Lawn, Ill., twenty-seven miles south of Chicago. Will J. Davies, Mrs. Georgia Davies, William O. La Monte, C. M. Reed, Leo Phillips, Rev. Dr. Emery Lyon, Mrs. Alice Caldwell and Julius F. Taylor, were those present. Miss Mary Kennedy, Mrs. Emery Lyon, Mrs. Della Lewis and Mrs. Leo Phillips, comprised the victors. Mr. Davies, was re-elected President, Mr. Phillips, re-elected treasurer, and Mr. LaMonte was elected treasurer. Judge Merritt W. Pinkney of the Circuit Court of Cook County, was elected one of the trustees. There are at the present time 55 boys in the home, who are healthy and sound and Miss Nellie Tompkins, who has charge of the educational work. Plainly indicated, in her annual report, that they are making remarkable progress, along educational lines. SPECIAL NOTICE. From on and after this date; all matter intended for publication in the current issue of this paper, must reach the editor, not later than Thursday morning. Personal or social items published free. Write plainly and briefly on one side of the paper only. ```markdown ``` HON. MICHAEL K. SHERIDAN The small tax-payers and the poor man's friend; re-el Board of Assessors of Cook Count The small tax-payers and the poor man's friend; re-elected member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County. women's Loyalty Campaign Committee, Hon. Medill McCormick, for United THE BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY. The officers of Bethel Literary are urged by the members and friends of the society to again invite Mrs. Olina Bank Bush who spoke last Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Bush's subject, "The Lyceum in the community," was instructively and calssically told to her hearers adn preeted with unanimously incessant applause. Bethel Literary feels highly honored in having secured her as speaker and has been promised by her that at her most convenient date she will again be with us. Next Sunday afternoon Nov. 10, at four o'clock, Judge W. H. A. Moore will address us. Subject: "Modern Literary Tendencies". Solos will be rendered by Mrs. M. James and Mrs. Clarinder Hunter. Everybody invited. Free admittance. Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D. Pastor, Sandy W. Trice, Pres. J. W. Bell, Sec'y. Mrs. Geraldine Withers, Musical Directress. Twenty popular maids and nations under the supervision of Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Ch. C. N. D., tagged for the Fatherless Children of France, Monday, Oct. 28. Their will filled boxes and the fact that they were out of tags early in the day was the best possible evidence of their success. Our women are never one with behind any other group when it comes to a test of loyalty or patriotism. ```markdown ``` n's friend; re-elected member of the of Cook County. TAG DAY. 86 PEU HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER The most popular and painstaking pu Re-elected Clerk of the Coun than fifty thousand majority; "Baby Blue Ribbon Candidate The most popular and painstaking public official in this neck of the woods. Re-elected Clerk of the County Court, leading his ticket by more than fifty thousand majority; entiteling him to be designated as the "Baby Blue Ribbon Candidate." SILLY WOMEN! By Gertrude Atherton of The Vigilantes Although the women of this country have no such stupendous task as confronted the women of both the North and the South during the Civil War, when there was no Red Cross, and the Government was at its wits' end to care for the wounded and the poor, to say nothing of a few other problems that in these highly organized days are being directed by specialized men and women in authority, still for the most part they have risen eagerly to all the demands made upon them. Almost immediately upon the outbreak of the war in 1914 the more earnest and responsible women of the country began to knit and make surgical dressings, from societies for the relief of the afflicted in Europe, and by degrees impressed into service women of less initiative and who had done little or no work before. After our entrance in 1917 it may safely be said that the best of our women arose as a unit and demanded opportunities for service. Their record to date is a fine one and the country is justly proud of them. If they are not able to rise to the heights of the European women or of the American women during the Civil War it is because no such burden has been placed upon them. They 1930 M. B. To the great delight, of his thousands of loyal friend member of the Board of Review of Cook Co are already urging him to enter the race for m To the great delight, of his thousands of loyal friends, he has been elected member of the Board of Review of Cook County and some of them are already urging him to enter the race for mayor of Chicago in 1919 public official in this neck of the woods. City Court, leading his ticket by more entiteling him to be designated as the " have sufficiently proved, however, that, given the same conditions, they would prove as equal to the demand. Therefore, is another class of women all the more contemptible by contrast. Even before the war it was patent to any student of the country that our women might be roughly divided into two classes, those that thought and those that did not, those that cultivated their brains and those that remained, either from disabilities imposed by nature, or from choice, the silliest, most thoughtless, and most selfish in the world. Rich or poor, their standard was self-indulgence, they lived for what they could "get out" of life, and they cultivated a sickly sentimentality. The primary fault lies in our system of education. A sound, thorough, severe education will drill some sense into the most brainless and imbue them with a sense of responsibility. But a vast number of our women do not go to college, do not even finish school, do not make the most even of their slender opportunities. Only those of good natural parts, to quote an old phrase, rise above their conditions, educate themselves when they are old enough to realize what they have missed, and learn the great lessons of life. It is from this inferior brand of American women that this country is suffering in a peculiar and sinister M. of loyal friends, he has been elected w of Cook County and some of them the race for mayor of Chicago in 1919 way at the present moment. They are the cause of a great additional expense to the Government, and of severe punishment and mortification to many heedless young men. WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THE United States School Garden Army Six Months 1. One million five hundred th sand boys and girls have respon I am not at liberty to give figures, but a great number of soldiers during the past year have overstayed leave, missed their transport, been reduced in rank, kept in the guard house (with pay held up) until there are two hundred and fifty of them, when they are shipped off to France and give the military authorities endless trouble before their regiments can be located. The blame is laid chiefly on the class of women with which this country is cursed. If the women who tempted the young men were outcasts there would be no comment to make, for the soldiers, knowing them for what they are, would alone be to blame. But it' is the wives and sweethearts and sisters, in a few cases the mothers, women whom the soldiers heartily respect, who weep when the hour to return to duty approaches, they beg them to take the risk for the sake of a few more hours, wail that they may never see them again, protest that a day more or less cannot matter, hang on their necks, possibly faint in the good old style. Nor is it only the women who play upon the heart strings that indulge in this criminal foolishness. An officer told me that he was sitting in the train not long since and overheard a conversation between a plain unattractive middle-aged woman and a soldier returning to camp. They had just struck up an acquaintance and when the woman learned that the young man was returning to camp on Saturday instead of Sunday night she began to condole with him. "What a shame not to give the poor boy another day. Now, I do think that is mean! They ought to give you boys who are going over to save democracy and probably to be killed, all the fun you can get over here." She soon had the boy so sorry for himself that the officer was forced to interfere, and tell the woman what he thought of her. The woman was astonished that her "natural sympathy" should be construed as treason. Of course she was a plain fool and no doubt is still nursing a grievance. It is quite true that we are not a military nation, that for two generations we have been unaccustomed to any but the laxest of discipline. No wonder these boys, for rthe most part uneducated, are easily tempted, and that women, naturally foolish and selfish, should be the unconscious tools of Germany. If there were a few more of them we should not have two million men in France today. As it is they not only have affected the morale and bright hopes of more of our soldiers than we like to consider but they have forced the Government to appoint a board known as the Military Morale, and, with the building, staff, and large incidental service necessary, runs up into a cost of many thousand dollars a month, paid for by the long-suffering public. Although, as the war goes on, more and more women who have led useless lives are absorbing common sense and patriotism, doing any work that comes their way, and improving daily in consequence, still is there this hopeless residuum imperilling the success of our arms. It is quite useless to appeal to them personally, for their conceit is no a par with their silliness, and they are quite sure that whatever they do—and want—is right; but at least we can appeal to loyal women to watch and report all women of their acquaintance whom they suspect of this particular from of treason. And there is no reason whatever why their punishment—whether mother, wife, sweetheart, or sister—should not be as excessive as any inflicted upon the boys, who at least are prepared to do their duty when they are actually at the front. These women have no intention of being of the slightest service to their country, or of regarding the war in any light but that of a personal annoyance. WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THE United States School Garden Army in Six Months 1. One million five hundred thousand boys and girls have responded to the call of the President and enlisted in the United States School Garden Army. 2. Twenty thousand acres of unproductive home and vacant lots have been converted into productive land. This will realase en equal acreage now used in truck gardening for the production of other foodstuffs more important for war purposes. It will also relieve transportation congestion through home consumption of home produced foodstuffs. 3. Fifty thousand teachers have received valuable instruction in gardening through the garden leaflets written by experts in this office and distributed from here. 4. Board of Education and other civic organizations have been influenced to give financial and moral support to the school and home garden movement and to pay extra salaries for supervision and teaching. 5. Hundreds of thousands of parents have become interester in the garden movement and are working with their children in home gardens. In Salt Lake City alone 5200 mothers representing sixty-two parental associations are avtively supporting food production in the schools. 6. Thousands of civic, commercial and patriotis organizations have become interested in the movement and are giving it hearty support. 7. One and one half million children have been given something to do this summer: something that will help carry the burden of their country in this struggle for freedom, something that will help them to build character and something that will appeal to and develop their patriotism. 8. Home and vacant lot gardening in cities, town and villages have been dignified and made popular to a degree that practically insures them a prominent place in the school system of our country. It would be difficult to estimate the educational and material value of such results. The United States School Garden Army was organized in March of 1918 Origin President Wilson set aside $50,000 from his National Security and Defense Appropriation to promote the work for the first six months. He has since appropriated $200,000.00 more to carry the work though another ten months Purposes Two main purposes prompted the planning of the United States School Garden Army: (a) Increased food production and (b) training of school children in thrift, industry, service, patriotism, and responsibility. The necessity for man power was being felt. his was Tespecially true in agricultural pursuits. Not alone were the drafted young men going from the farm, but great numbers of farm employees were being attracted to the cities by higher wages offered in other industries. If the millions of city boys and girls could be induced to give their leisure time to cultivating the thousands of acres of untilled land in front and back yards and vaeant lots of our cities, towns and villages, it would result in a substantial increase in food production and an improvement in the quality of our coming citizenship. The Bureau of Education undertook to accomplish this through the organization of the United States School Garden Army. It is an educational problem and can be solved with economy and efficiency anly by the schools. Plan The plan of organization involves (a) a general director who is responsible for organization, propaganda, and administration. (b) Regional directors who are charged with the responsibility of writing instructions upon gardening that will enable supervisors and teachers to take a garden company successfully through a season even though not expert gardeners. These instruction have been put out in leaflet form and sent from the central offices to all who applied for them. (c) Assistant Regional Directors who work under the Regional Director and whose duties are similar to those of the Regional Director excepting that of writing garden leaflets. (d) Cooperation with State Council of Defense through a State representative appointed by them. (e) The Army plan of organizing school boys and girls into companies of 150 or less under the direction of a garden teacher, a captain, first lieutenant and second lieutenant. (f) An insignia for each enlisted soldier. A double bronze bar for the captain, single bronze bar with two stars in the border for the first lieutenant, and onestar for the second lieutenant, and a combination bronze and black enameled bar for privates. [Name] HON. ALBERT NOWAK Successful business man, re-elected Commissioner of Cook County. THE UNITED WAR WORK CAMP AING HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY, SPECIAL TO THE BROAD AX, BY WILLIAM T. TRAWFORD. inspired by patriotism, and will up with any number of hardship long as they can get at the Hun trying times, however, will come ring the period of reconstruction Following is a telegram from Lawrence Y. Sherman, Senator of Illinois, urging that his constituents give their full support to the drive being held by the United War Work Campaign for raising funds to carry on the glorious work that they are doing among the soldiers and sailors and marines, both at home and abroad. This drive takes place November 11-18 and represents the Y. M. C. A., Y. M. C. A., National Catholic War Council — K. of C., Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service, American Library Association and the Salvation Army; "The United War Work Campaign has done a most commendable service. It has filled in work that otherwise has no agency to perform it. I commend it unreservedly to the public for its efficiency and results. It is broad in its organization and deserves the support of all. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN." I will greatly appreciate it if you will give this telegram the prominent space which it deserves and also editorial mention on this subject. The work is so vast and therefore requires an immense amount of money. They are asking for $170,500,000 which is none too much. Some people probably may think that the war is nearly over and that therefore it will be useless to contribute such a large amount for this purpose. Of course, you know that there will be more need of work during the reconstruction period than at any other time. The boys will be contented as long as they are fighting, for they are [ ] [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, looking slightly upward. The background is a solid black color. There are no other discernible elements in the image.]] HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN The steadfast friend of the Colored in spite of the bitter opposition on the Movement, in the Second Ward Congressional District of Illinois The steadfast friend of the Colored race, throughout the United States, in spite of the bitter opposition on the part of the high chiefs of the Peoples Movement, in the Second Ward re-elected to Congress, from the First Congressional District of Illinois. M. inspired by patriotism, and will put up with any number of hardships as long as they can get at the Hun. The trying times, however, will come during the period of reconstruction and the necessity of these organizations will be increased ten fold because there will be a let down in the enthusiasm among the boys. They will be anxious to return home as soon as as their duties are over. This of course, as you know, will be impossible as it will take eighteen months or two years at least before they can be sent to America and mustered out of service. They will have more leisure time, and leisure breeds discontent. Therefore, in order to keep up their morale, it will be more necessary to amuse, instruct and entertain them. We appeal for you support more boldly because we know the work that is being done among the boys "over there." SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION 2830 S. State St H. FRANKLIN BRAY, D. D. Supt. (Services every night in the year.) Mr. Wm. Hadley of the Moody Institute delivered a very helpful message last Sunday night. Mrs R. M. Perkins of the Pacific Garden Mission also inspired the hearts of all in the congregation with her earnest appeal to the unsaved to accept Christ. . . . The Sabbath School at 2 P. M. every Sunday is growing in interest. There is a great opportunity here for some christian who would like to be actively engaged in christian service. A haerty welcome will be accorded anyone who will assist us with the teaching department. The Sunday afternoon services at 3 o'clock will be resumed tomorrow. 10 pace, throughout the United States, in part of the high chiefs of the Peoples re-elected to Congress, from the First Ois. PAGE FIVE Berk County. --- PAGE SIX TIGHT AT ANKLES LOOSE OVER NIPS Hobble Skirt Plus the Japanese Toddle, Chief of Season's Developments. FASHIONS BORN THIS AUTUMN Elimination of Waistline; Simply Cut Shoulder and Back; Long Sleeve; Arabic Tunic; Cravat Girdle; No Bustle Effect. New York.-The substitution of one idea for another as a form of regenerating, rejuvenating and re-arranging the human brain, is as old as psychology. It was practiced, avers a leading fashion critic, probably, long before the word was invented. It is one of the world's fundamental creeds, moral, physical and mental; and when some of the religionists got hold of it as a new doctrine, they were only exploiting what began before the Pyramids. In the early part of the war, those who were not clever in the art, deplored the extraordinary skill of the Germans in being able to control the masses by deliberately substituting a new idea, covered up by a phrase and hammered in by reiteration. They are doing it today, and so far it has never failed them with their own people. They use the word "defensive" instead of "to conquer." America is going through many phases today, probably the most powerful in her career, which have come about through the substitution in her composite brain of one national idea for another. And the work filters down through crevices until it seeps through the strata of underlying, and seemingly insignificant, by-products of our national life. It is this seepage down to dress which is the point of this preface. One idea has been substituted for another. With all the critics against its success, the psychologists watch with interest the public playing into the hands of those who started the idea. Today American labels are put into French gowns. This is not a wild statement. It is done at some of the best houses. Mannequins will come in wearing frocks which the public is told are the designs of the house itself, and these models are sold to shops and lesser dressmakers and pass through the country as the creations of an American designer. They were really made in France, brought to this country by importers, copied verbatim, and turned out as American creations. That is not honest; but that is not exactly the point of this particular story. The extreme interest centers in the fact that the substitution of one idea for another in the national brain has compelled or persuaded the trade to offer to the public whatever it can that bears an American stamp. We really are a very well-dressed continent today, and we have fewer A Afternoon frock of terra cotta velours embroidered in blue and gold. The tight skirt is of dark·blue satin. The tunic is cut into petal panels. These are in different widths. Afternoon frock of terra cotta velours embroidered in blue and gold. The tight skirt is of dark blue satin. The tunic is cut into petal panels. These are in different widths. women parading around in old clothes than we expected. Here and there we see a tendency to wild exaggeration, but there is no blatant immodesty. Indecency is left out of the scheme of apparel. You all know by this time the facts which govern the season's clothes; the skirt which is tight at the ankles and gracefully loose over the hips; the oriental elimination of-the waistline; the slimly cut shoulder and back; the long sleeve, or the absence of sleeve; the Arabic tunic; the cravat girdle which ties in front; and the elimination of the bustle effect. It is quite important that the silhouette has really changed since September. Don't throw up your hands 1 and gasp at this and say that fashion never leaves one alone for a minute. It is really a change that was foreshadowed by those who watched clothes from the beginning of last March. No one should protest at this agreeable change from the silhouette of the planked shad for it carries grace with it. This loosening up of the hips is a return to the skirt of a nearby season and a far off epoch. It is not adhered to in a strict manner. Remember that. If you want that plumb line from shoulder to knees, have it; but you will find that unless you adopt the straight, chemise tunic of the French frocks, you will prefer more width at your hips than at your knees. It is one of the subtle changes in clothes that has caused women to stop, think and renovate. Cultivate Japanese Toddle. The entrance of the hobble skirt plus the Japanese toddle is almost enough to take a woman's mind away from war A Arabian-inspired street suit of black velours trimmed with gold braid and buttons. The bell-shaped tunic is edged with black caracul. The tight hem of skirt is finished with gold braid. work. These are strange twins of fashion to be born in his autumn of 1918; but women will overcome the handicap, adopt both of them, and, become immensely well pleased with themselves before Thanksgiving day arrives. That is the peculiar and mysterious quality with which women are endowed; adjusting themselves to a circumstance and seeming to fit into it in a few days. The Japanese toddle has already become the walk of the moment among the mannequins. They caused immense amusement at the exhibitions of gowns, because they exaggerated it with none of the equally laughable majesty that the French mannequins have assumed for a decade. We have no Margots or Audreys in this country, but we have our Dolores and Josephines of the immediate past and our Mabels and Madelines and Marguerites of the present; so we get all the gestures that go with the new gowns. It makes an exhibition of clothes quite worth while seeing. It is these mannequins who have introduced the Japanese toddle, and it is a necessity if one would walk in some of the long, draped skirts that pull at the ankles. Callot makes evening gowns that have a tight jet strap across the back of the ankle to hobble the material. No matter what the nature of the gown above the ankles, it is narrow there to the irreducible minimum. Tunics and panels may float above it, minaret overskirts may swing outward with their bell-shaped hems, but the hem of the skirt has taken to itself the dimensions of a man's trousers. Adds Turned-Up Cuff. It has also added the turned-up cuff, and some of the really smart frocks that are turned out have this cuff when they are not draped. It breaks the line of the tube effect and is quite good. It is made of peltry or of a cloth different from that which makes the skirt, and it is often faced with a bit of brilliant blue that Callot combines with black. Whatever else these skirts may do, they have made the skirt with the flare an impossible garment. Few women dare to wear it. If it is a plaited or a full skirt that hangs in straight lines, its hem is pulled into an extremely narrow strip of cloth or peltry; if it is the skirt that tried to tide many women over last season, the gored one with flaring seams at the side and a blas front width, then alteration is helpless. Rip it open if your mind is economically inclined, and make a culrass blouse of it, one which is cut in panels below the waist and held in by a loose belt. All the discarded materials of the household seem to go to these blouses, for we do not look with keen eyes upon a house with a temperature of 60 degrees and a transparent blouse; it makes the goosewell rise even now. (Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper) THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 BLOUSE AND SKIRT Combination Forcing Unchallenged Frock Out of Place. Oddest Colors Now Being Used Together—Jet, in Tiny Sparkling Beadlets, is Popular. This is a season of practical clothes and quite naturally the blouse and separate skirt, always popularly considered the most practical of costumes when economy in dress is under consideration—for either patriotic or personal reasons—are in the limelight of fashion's favor just now. A good many of the new skirt and blouse combinations, however, seem to accept the virtue of practicability accorded to them by reason of their classification and let it go at that. Instead of possessing one separate skirt for wear with various blouses, the woman who keeps up with fashion must now have several skirts and blouses. The whole frock has maintained an unchallenged place in woman's favor for several seasons now, but the blouse-and-skirt combination is pressing it hard. No separate waist, however elaborate and expensive, is suitable for a formal occasion and the best dressed women do not wear waists and skirts for restaurant dining or at even afternoon performances at the theater, says the Brooklyn Eagle. A waist-and-skirt combination is supposed to express informality. It matters not how different a blouse is from accepted standards, provided it is different enough. Designers vie with one another to produce original and intricate designs. The oddest color combinations are displayed and when colors themselves do not harmonize, outline embroideryes of beads emphasize the effect of contrast and give a welted yet fascinating oriental effect. What would you think of olive green and cerise as a color scheme? Yet one of the stunning blouses for fall combines those two shades, with artfully placed outlines and embroideryes of jet beads, and the result is truly sumptuous. The French houses use a deal of jet—jet in tiny, sparkling beadlets sewed close together, rather than a large palllette or cabuchon. A Cheruit blouse of rust-colored crepe de chine has bands of bead embroidery passing across a flat vest of flesh-colored chiffon. The bands disappear under the blouse fronts and emerge through slashes about an inch beyond the edge, the series of tabs thus formed flanking the cross-bands on the vest. This Cheruit blouse falls to the hip and the flesh-tinted vest extends several inches below the waistline, giving a very graceful long line. A loose belt fastened with jet cabuchons passes across the vest and around the waist. A narrow band of black fox outlines the neck opening. Another French blouse of cream-colored velvet is slashed to show under-facings of brown satin, small bronze beads outlining every satin motif. DRESS FOR AFTERNOON WEAR © Western Newspaper Union Black satin and rose-colored tricolor ette form this attractive gown. The rose overdress is embroidered in black and edged with broad black silk fringes. A Standard Blouse The little sailor blouses are in high favor with few changes in line from the original, made to slip on with slit at front and regulation sailor collar and small side pocket with big crush tie of black silk. This style is shown in both white and navy, satin and georgette, with silk braid in contrasting collar for trimming. Copyright Underwood & Underwood Extremely stylish and charming is this afternoon suit of old blue duvetyn and squirrel. Like most of this year's suits, the lines are simple, the rich effect obtained by the luxurious materials employed. Bands of yarn embroidery trim the coat. METALLIC-CLOTH IS PASSE There Is No Widespread Use of the Material, Writes a Leading Fashion Correspondent. One cannot get away from the metallic effect that grows in clothes as the season develops. It is frequently used where it is most garish and should be avoided, but that depends upon the person. $ ^{*} $ There is no widespread use of metallic cloth. Gowns of it are conspicuously out instead of in, says a fashion writer. Here and there a celebrated French designer uses a bit of dull, tarnished cloth as a foundation for some sombre, transparent fabric, but this is not often repeated. Where we get our glint of metal throughout all the women's clothes, is in the embroidery, and now and again, in buttons. This is one of the military touches that seems to be permissible. When velours is trimmed with gold or silver braid, the effect is good, because the metal sinks into the pile of the fabric and does not proclaim itself so boldly as on a flat, smooth surface. There is a good-looking black velours gown now shown which looks uncommonly like an American costume worn by a man, with its tight, narrow skirt and its long, swinging tunic slim at the shoulders and girdled at the waist. It is trimmed with gold braid and buttons, and there is a narrow band of this braid to form the hem of the skirt. To soften the metallic glitter, there is an exceedingly deep band of black caracul on the tunic. The richness of the frock gives it a distinguished air and puts it out of the common. It seems as though that deep color of red known as terga cotta and which is very much in fashion, takes gold embroidery in an agreeable fashion. One of the colorful gowns of the season is built up from a long terra cotta tunic cut in petal-shaped panels below the hips and embroidered in blue and gold. Beneath the tunic is a tight skirt of dark blue satin pulled in about the ankles. Make Your Own Shades It is not always economy to make things that take a lot of time and save very little money in the end, but it will be an economy to make your own shades that can be washed and ironed like the other curtains. Select a heavy bleached cotton cloth, cut the length and width of the windows and make a hem one inch wide at the bottom. Tack onto the rollers with small tacks and insert the old curtain sticks in the lower hem. These can be taken off the rollers washed, ironed and starched stiffly as often as they show soil. Decorators are using cretonne and other drapery material for shades. They are made in the same way. A good printed linen or cretonne can be washed as well as the plain cotton, and if the room calls for cretonne in the furnishing scheme it might prove more attractive than the plain white. School Girl's Cost Brown seems to be the leading color in children's coats, in fact all the lighter shades of tan and those that blend into beaver and nutria are quite the fashion. Nutria is the best fur for children's garments and raccoon and natural lynx are the furs that belong to the young girl from twelve years up. LOOK OF WARMTH Velours and Velveteen Are the Prime Favorites. Embroidery Goes on Both Materials—Split Panels Call for Immense Amount of Ornamentation. There is such an accumulation in the dressmaking places of velvetween gowns being made to order that one feels that every woman has decided to have at least one in her wardrobe. Velours is another favorite. One has more confidence in the former than in the latter, says a fashion writer, but there is a look of warmth and purring comfort about velours that makes one choose it even against the debate that goes on in one's mind about its durability. It is combined with satin while velveteen is left to itself. Embroidery goes on both velveteen and velours, and when satin is used for an evening gown, as it is more than for any other kind of frock, it is elaborately embroidered or festooned with beads, or bugles, or ostrich flues. The Americans do very good embroidery and they do not seem to hostile over attempting a most elaborate design, so the French models have been easily, if expensively, copied in this country with all their original scheme of decoration and coloration. The idea of using split panels, not one or two, but five or six, like the petals of a rose, has brought about an immense amount of applied ornamentation. Culrass, as well as leonies are split up in this fashion. The panels rounded at the hem and sometimes holding a bit of barbaric metal, or silk, or dull-beaded work. Other panels are held down with pompons of fur or straight strips of peltry. One of the original and entirely new American frocks which is one of a series put out by a well-known designer is of red cloth with immense collar and cuffs of black and white 1 American street gown of red cloth showing the new long skirt pulled in at the ankles and bordered with fur. The bodice of deep tucks has a collar of striped fur matched in the cuffs. striped fur; and the skirt, which is exceedingly narrow, is of instep length, is draped upward in order to give room at the knees, and is finished with fur at the hem. Its panels are weighted with deep bands of it. The effect is very striking, probably more so than a conservative woman would care for on her own person; but the gown is also copied in more sombre tones. Voile for Curtains. Sash curtains should be measured from the top of the inside of the window casement to the sill, allowing two inches at the top and the same at the bottom. The top is turned and stitched through the center, which allows for a small heading and the casing for the small brass rod. A hem is turned in at the bottom, so that the curtain just escapes the sill and swings free. The curtain may be perfectly plain or else finished with either a ruffle of the same or a small lace edge. A narrow gimp braid is sometimes used for a finish for sash curtains. The French stripe nets or Brussels net are always nice. Scrim and a good quality of voile made for curtain purposes are always good, especially where a less transparent material than net is desired. A double set of sash curtains may be used, one at the very top and one just halfway down. Both sets are then tied back with a band of the same material. Variety in Hate. The new hats apparently show a marvelous variety in shape and trimming. But one notices, too, that the old popular mushrooms are to be with us still. There are certain women who can wear no shape as well as the mushroom. H This is an unusually good-looking skirt of navy accordion plaited satin. The two panels are of navy georgette stenciled in conventional rose design and edged with broad bands of satin and chenille fringe. WHY RIBBON HOLDS FAVOR Bright Material Always Adaptable to New Tricks and Affords a Charming Diversity. One of the reasons why ribbon is maintaining its favor so long is very probably because there are ever new things to do with it, and a charming diversity of ways to do them. Here is an idea for glorifying that plain, felt velours, or velvet hat of yours, the one that is too, too plain for chic. Your working materials will consist of grosgrain ribbon about an inch on an inch and a quarter wide. Then a little bit of vari-colored chenille. Mark off the crown of the hat into four equal parts. Then draw quite a large spiral in the center of each spacing. Now with fine stitches sew the ribbon keeping close to its edge, to follow the line of the spiral, which leaves you a free edge on the ribbon. This is turned over, then under and stitched as close as possible to the first stitching. Thus your ribbon will be folded exactly in two and left out the design in relief. The chenille comes in in the form of long and short stitch rays around the design. Gray for the ribbon and rose and old blue, more gray and a spiral ling of black, make a stunning conbination on navy. LACE SCARCE, BUT IS USED Decoration for Gowns Costs More an Is Harder to Obtain Than in Former Years. The French models, some of them show lace. This is an interesting an nouncement just now. For one thing we haven't used lace for a good man years, excepting a bit of fillet or valerien clennes in our lingerie blouses. They were a few black lace evening frocks few seasons ago, but on the whole lace has not been in high fashion for a long time. Another interesting phase of the lace question is this: Lace is scarf. At least, with the lace workers of Belgium out of the market and with the lace workers of the European fightin countries presumably winding bands ages or making munitions, it is difficult to see how much new lace can be produced. For lace making takes time. Probably there is a certain piquance in using lace just now, when it is difficult to obtain. Just as we are deluge with wool embroidery this year, when we are thinking of cotton padded frocks and fur coats to save wool, so we find it fascinating to use lace not that it costs more than usual and harder to obtain. Of course it is a afternoon and evening frocks that lace is to be used, and much of it is to be black—black lace used in frocks or black. AUTUMN MODES Millinery colorings are dull and on tone effects are favored. Organic and brushed wool for other additives combinations. one of the oddest combinations. Embroidery is much used, especial in geometrical designs. Very little jewelry should be worn but pearls are still permissible. It is always better to buy one clos or hat with really beautiful lines and wear it for two or three seasons than to purchase a cheap, ordinary one and wear it for just one. Dress Accessory Dress Accessory Swords studded with rhinestone and arrows on the same style, as well as many little rhinestone pins for vells, are worn directly at the center of the hat. The large quantity of vells that are sold with the hats are nearly all in the delicate handrun pattern on the fine mesh grounds. Scarf and Turgan. Black satin duvetyn was used for an effective scarf and turban smartly trimmed with an embroidery of white angora and jet beads. Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 Attorney At Law Suite 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO Residence: 508 East 36th Street Phone Douglas 4307 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law Suite 815 Hartford B 8 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Phone Central 6583 PHONE MAIN 2214 A. D. GASH Attorney At Law 118 North La Salle Street CHICAGO Tel. Central 3142. S. A. T. WATKINS LAWYER 36 WEST RANDOLPH STREET CHICAGO Residence, 4533 Prairie Avenue Phone Kenwood 8520 WALTER M. 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Bees have no ability to detect red; in other words, to bees red is the same as black. A noted biologist recently determined exactly all the colors and shades of color bees can see, by feeding experiments. In a few hours bees would learn that the professor put sweets in blue or yellow dishes, but not in gray dishes; and by varying the details it was easily possible to discover the color senses of the bees. They were found to confuse red and black so uniformly that it was evident both seemed black to the bees. When "Jack" Is Abroad. The name Jack or John is a very common one and seems to be found in general use in many countries. True it is not spelled and pronounced as we use it in America, however, it means the same thing and the "Jack" of our United States will be "Johann," in Bohemia or Sweden, "Jaos" in Portugal, "Jean" in France, "Hans," or "Johannes" in Holland and Germany, "Juan" in Cuba, "Glovanni" in Italy, "Ivan" in Russia, "Jan" in Poland, and "Janos" in Hungary. Avoid Unprofitable Moods. Angry moods and "grouches" and their twin sisters, "grudges," serve absolutely no purpose. If some one hurts or wounds us generously forget it. Time heals the deepest cuts and makes us braver and wiser for the experience. Let us love life and its worth-while things and avoid all unprofitable moods. Otherwise happiness will never come our way, and if we search for it, it will flee from us like a phantom, for after all it is the state of our mind. Work With a Will Whatever your work, do not wait to "feel just like it." before you begin to do your best. If you wait for inspiration you are doomed. Disregard your moods. Pay no attention to your feelings. If it is time to work, set about it, not half-heartedly, but with the whole-souled energy which is an admirable substitute for enthusiasm. To wait till you feel like it before you do your best, is to waste life and power. Tangan-Tangan Weed. The tangan-tangan weed or vine of the Philippines is the source of a valuable lubricating oil. Those interested in the wild growth claim that 1,000,000 gallons of the oil can be produced in one year, while cultivation will greatly increase the output. Besides its value as a lubricator for delicate machinery, tangan-tangan oil is prized by the natives for its medicinal properties. Reputation and Character Reputation is what men think you are, character is what you are. Both are important, but character is indispensable to success. Without character you are not likely to have a good reputation—very long. Meanness Hard to Overcome. Some men's meanness consists of their stinginess with their means. When they give up their meanness they will be willing to give up more of their means. Such men, however, are pretty hard to convert. Daily Thought Fear not, lest existence closing your account and quine shall know the like no more. The eternal Sakl from that bowl has poured a million bubbles and will pour.—Omar. Impossibilities. We cannot vote right into wrong, or wrong into right.--Froude. Polite Service High Grade Goods DQUGLAS 5990 THE PALACE ICE CREAM PARLOR Fresh Line of Fruits, Candies, Cigars and Tobacco C. S. SMITH, Proprietor 762 EAST 39TH STREET KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Elginte Med. Co. Gentlemen. My picture shows your hair for this EXELENTO QUININE POMADE has done for my hair. Before I used it my hair was diluted, and now it is it looks long, and so much better. I can do it up any way I want to. JAMIE RAND. Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE POMADE does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes a few times you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fix it up to suit you. If Exelentdo don't do we claim, we will give your back. 25c by mail on receipt of stamp or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. Write For Particulars. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 Ilfracombe, Popular English Summer Resort, Has Been Well Known Through Many Centuries. Ilfracombe is rapidly becoming popular as a summer resort—or, as the English call it, a watering place. It is set on a steep hillside, surrounded by "the seven hills," on the beautiful Devonshire coast. From the near town of Hillsborough Ilfracombe shows a mass of white cottages, clinging desperately to the hillside to keep from tumbling into the Atlantic ocean. Many people think that Ifrafcombe is a modern town, in spite of its quaintness, because it has such an up-to-date air. But Ifrafcombe is a skillfully camouflaged antique, having been a harbor of some note 'way back in the twelfth century. This attractive townlet has been inflicted with a great variety of jaw-breaking names during the centuries of its existence. Its names range all the way from Aflefringcombe and Iffordcombe to Aflredscombe, and, at last, Ifrafcombe. But the good folk round about Ifrafcombe just call it 'Combe. In 1344 Ifrafcombe was one of the 45 English ports that sent representatives to the council of shipping, and in 1646 it was captured by Fairfax. They say there were some hot skirmishes at that time in what is now known as "Bloody Meadow." Some cannon balls of that period found here corroborate this tale. In these olden days wrecks near Ilfracombe were frequent, and pearls and other valuable treasures of the Indies were often sold to advantage by the fisher folk to merchants in neighboring towns. SEA BUFFALO "GOOD EATING" Other Things Beside the Beefsteak to Which the Nation Is Attached, May Be Made of Use. Sirloin of sea buffalo is much esteemed in San Francisco and other Pacific coast cities, where meat of this highly valued animal is coming to market in such quantities as to lower the cost of living by keeping down the price of beef and mutton. Sea cows and sea horses have long been familiarly known, but most folks would confess themselves unacquainted with the sea buffalo. If they saw one, they would call it a whale; and no wonder, for that is the sea buffalo's other name. Some people might be prejudiced against eating whale meat, but sea buffalo steak sounds good. It is good —quite equal, in fact, to the best beefsteak, and hardly distinguishable from the latter. In the market, sea buffalo tenderloin (boneless "flet") costs only 15 cents a pound; other cuts are cheaper. The gray whale (common in Pacific waters) furnishes most of the meat. A 60-foot specimen will yield as much butcher's material as 70 head of cattle. First Quakers The first Quakers to land on American soil were Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, who reached Boston in 1656 after a long voyage from England by way of the West Indian island of Barbados. The two women caused great consternation to the Puritans, and George Bishop, in an address to the magistrates, said: "Two women arriving in your harbor so shock ye, to the everlasting shame of you and of your established order, as if a formidable army had invaded your borders." The Quaker sect, or Society of Friends, was founded by Fox in 1648, about eight years before the first members reached America on July 11, 1656. Later George Fox visited America. The part played by William Penn and other Quakers in the early history of Pennsylvania and New Jersey is familiar to all students of history. Can Shyness Be Cured? What is the remedy for shyness? What is the shy man to do in order that he may be shy no longer? The remedy is simple, and is to be found by consideration of the cause. The shy person is shy in the presence of strangers only. Let him have no opportunity of meeting strangers, and let the opportunity be abolished not by abolition of the meetings, but by abolition of the strangeness. In other words, shy persons are those who in early life had not practice and no experience in meeting strangers, and so having the attention of strangers directed to them and attracted to them. If the meeting with strangers becomes customary it loses its strangeness. As a Gentleman! Little brother accompanied his mamma on a visit to some friends in Chicago, and included in the entertainment of the visitor was a luncheon at one of the fashionable cafes. Little brother was taken along because there was no place to "check" him. "Now, brother," said mamma, "you see this beautiful place and all these lovely ladies—you are the only man present, and I want you to be very polite and act just like your father would if he was here." "Well," said brother, "I guess I'll take a cigarette." Enterprise "How far can you travel on a gallon of gasoline?" "Not as far as I used to" replied Mr. Chuggins. "But I'm hoping to reduce the expense by developing a byproduct. The gasoline is so oily and the roads are so rough that with a little care we ought to make every trip yield a good churning of axle grease." To Outwit the Pickpocket To Outwit the Pickpocket. The haunting fear of being held up and left penniless out in a strange world is done away with by a little device so small that it may be carried on the key-ring, where no self-respecting holdup man would think of looking. It has a capacity of one reserve bill. The bill, whether a one or a hundred, when closely rolled, fits into the barrel of the holder. A man who has lost his keys might become excited if the holder contained a thousand-dollar bill, but the average citizen can use the device safely enough. —Popular Science Monthly. Chrysanthemum Is China's There is a common belief that the chrysanthemum originated in Japan, but like many other good things, it was really borrowed from the Chinese. It is, however, the royal flower of Japan, appears on the seal of the emperor, and on the postage stamps of the country, while it has been the principal feature of an annual fete for 900 years. Adopted though it was, the Japanese have done so much with the chrysanthemum that they feel they have a right to call it their own. Importance of the Past. To think of ourselves as masters of our habits is to bait a trap for our own moral death. What we are at this moment, what we can do at this moment, depends not only upon making up our minds at the time being but also upon how we have made up our minds countless other times in thousands of minutes already gone by and now out of our control. The one thing we cannot control is the past; it may, however, control us for good or evil—Youth's Companion. Peace. Peace is not an ideal at all; it is a state attendant upon the achievement of an ideal. The ideal itself is human liberty, justice, and the honorable conduct of an orderly and humane society. Given this, a durable peace follows naturally as a matter of course. Without this, there is no peace, but only a rule of force until liberty and justice revolt against it in search of peace.—N. M. Butler. Wire's Long Stretch. While S. E. Wharton of Boston was travelling in Switzerland his attention was called to the longest unsupported telegraph wire he had ever seen. It crosses in one span the Lake of Wallenstadt, being fastened to two iron towers which are almost 8,000 feet apart. The line is made of steel and that section of it closest to the lake is more than 100 feet above the surface of the water. Above. Not Against. We may not be able to dissipate the forces which war against us, but we can strengthen the forces which range themselves for us. We may not be able to change the conditions in which we must live, but we can train ourselves to be more brave and patient in their endurance; to keep our spirits above them, instead of in constant irritation against them. Kauri Gum. The kauri gum district of New Zea land covers an area of approximately 914,000 acres. From kauri gum (named after the kauri pine) is made the high-grade varnishes used for furniture and for automobiles. Since the discovery of the gum by an American sea captain in 1853, New Zealand has produced kauri to the value of $92,000,000. Controlling the Winds. Controlling the winds is not yet an aviation triumph. If an aircraft starts from one point to another due east, and there is a wind blowing of 15 miles an hour northeast, that will clearly have to be taken into consideration, and the compass course altered (before ascending). according to the total distance of the journey. Losses by Poisonous Weeds. The loss of cattle and sheep due to poisonous weeds is very great. On the United States national forest ranges alone the loss in 4916 amounted to 6,648 cattle and 16,273 sheep, besides a number of horses, goats and other animals. Trouble Ahead. Mrs. Smythe—"Yes, Nora, I hate to have my husband kiss me after he comes from the barber's. I detest the odor of that brilliantine on his mustache." Maid—"Do you? I rather like it, ma'm." The Difference. Said the occasional observer: "There may be a lot of differences between the old-time writin' feller and a crook, but one of 'em uses a pseudonym and the other just a plain alias." Rich Man's Guide to Health. The only rule for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence—to live as if he were poor.—Sir William Temple. Perhaps. Lucky is the man who marries a widow whose first husband was mean to her.—Chicago Evening Post. Merit does not always receive its re ward. 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HARRIS, Manager The E and 3030 STATE STREET FOR 2, 4, 5 and LAKEVIEW BUILDING The Elite Cafe and Buffet TE STREET FOR RENT 2,4,5 and 6 Room Flats VIEW BUILDING, 3100 ELLIS A 2,4,5 and 6 Room Flats LAKEVIEW BUILDING, 3100 ELLIS AVENUE Steam heat, hot water, electric light, wall beds, and strictly modern in every respect GEO. F. HARDING, J Phone Douglas 1 APPLY . HARDING, Jr., REAL ESTATE GEO. F. HARDING, Jr., REAL ESTATE OFFICE Phone Douglas 1 3101 Cottage Grove Ave. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS JOHN B. HARRIS Phone Main 263 As Your Telephone NCE IMMATERIAL City of this size, death knocks every some door. Too often that death ow, but misfortune as well. Let the funeral be a business proposition and it in service, quality and cost to you. The result of my campaign has of the largest and most magnificent NFORD Building AVENUE to Colored tenants in Chi- tile baths, marble entrance J. W. CASEY, Agent 133 W. 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Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth Street, Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. DR. M. A. MAJORS, 4700 S. STATE STREET. PHONE DREXEL 1416, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Entered as Second-Class Matter Augu 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under Act of March 3, 1879. Vol. XXIV November 9, 1918 No. 8 HONEST CRITICISM ON THE NEGRO CHURCH In looking over the fields of the different avocations of life, which men choose by which they wish honorably to earn their living, we find more room for candid criticism in the church than in any other business. The iegal profession regulates, and adapts itself, the man's social and economic development and progress, making laws to restrict the hands of conduct within the premises of decency and good order, and granting plenary power to none. Not even the supreme court of the United States, nor the President. While supplying a fixedness in the regulation of man's conduct, it grants and warrants a flexibility to its edicts, predicated on the wisdom of a jury, consisting of twelve men. The legal profession acknowledges that all laws are subject to change. The profession of medicine is high also on the road of progress and development. So rapid is its growth, and so remarkable are its changes to newer and advanced scientific development, that every physician qualified, must study and adopt himself to the requirements of ever increasing changes and researches. As in the law, a man has to meet the criminal test of schoolship, and later the exigencies of intricate sciences that deal with phenomind more potent than a hoarse rasping moaning and gwaning preacher. The clergy goes to the university, and often through it. Some of the clergy go to the university. Most of them who do go and come away prepared to give eloquent truth to divinity and preach of a real Christ rich with all the splendid graces of Holiness do not meet with the joyful welcome and rich harvest of skeckels (it used to be of souls). There is everywhere ignorance. It is not the educated clergy that is to blame, but the 95 per cent. ignorant preacher, who is abroad in the land that is the cause of general complaint among the new Negro who is insisting that the whangdoodle preacher must be suppressed. The pulpit like the bar, and the medicine has got to undergo a change. It must cast off its old shell of reveneer and pretense of righteousness, and preach to intelligent people a sincerity, not meaningless doting on perfection, (there is none and cannot ever be), but feed them on the practical and tangible ambrosias nutritions to the intelligent mind. Moses gave to the world the words on a tablet of stone, the ten laws difficult and bewildering, a yoke that Jesus came to earth to unloose, and He gave us a noble law, quintessence of all the laws, embodying every holy thought and righteous human im- 1 pulse. "I besech you to love one another," greater than all the law of Moses and the prophets. The writer is not in any manner attempting to embellish truth by any fictitious effort, nor by any proclamation of wonder, nor would he immolate himself or his usefulness to arouse if peradventure the ill-will of any one who deprecates the truth being told. The preacher is weighted down with a great responsibility. Greater than most of them seem to appreciate. He is to educate. He is to inspire with Holy and righteous truth. He is to glorify the man of sorrow and dequainted with grief; by the esponsal of principles consistent with logic and good human sense. When he woved make religion a burden to ignorant people he is transcending his power and traducing his honor. "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light," this is the hed-rock principle enticing to all those who would find the sacred folds of joyful Christianity within the anxious keeping of their human possibility. When they lay out a great propaganda of preplexing inconsistencies, and set a fearful program of perfection for untried over jealous feet, it is possible that they of hypocrits that surely must follow are paving the way for the multitude of hypocrits that surely must follow almost blindly. Jesus only preached one sermon; and it abanded in blessing for every noble impulse of the human heart. Those principles were of love, charity, and humility and He meant them to stand for our human salvation. THE NEGRO IS MAKING GOOD The present time is pregnant with great opportunities for all peoples. The great world war almost in every case is the real cause, and the Negro race in America however, much it has been hindered and obstructed heretofore, at this writing it is not ostrocised nor emphasized as a minor factor. These are great days, great for the man and woman who has some education, and with it spirit to make and save. Great for the race in more than a hundred phasis of honest honorable livelihood. The Negro in great measure has availed himself on a broad guage manifold industrial plane. He has thought out much of the destructive plan of warfare, and made himself a known quantity, wherever least resistance operated in his favor, he has given in like measure his all in the proportion of his numbers and ability to uphold the stars and stripes, and to float the notes of national music on all the battle fields. He has shown his fitness, to work by the side of more skilled artisans, and held his own in the matter of capability at whatever his hands were allowed to work. Color distinctions and racial prejudices do not mask his noble heart to forgive and forget, and while yet he suffers more than any other race because of strife and human infamy, he has that indefinable courage to go forward, hopeful and anxious in search for all that is best in human life. He will not despair because of brutal usage, nor fail to look up in spite of horrible tyranny. He is proud of his race, of his progress and his history. Valiant and entrepid in arms where a redy mind skill of head and hand with gun and bayonet test the power of men he will not be found wanting. The furies of shot and shell that rain like hail on the battlefields of Europe furnished amusement for his overwrought and sickened spirit in the same measure that prayer in a lonely spot in the dark days of slavery brought consolation. He knows that the terrible days of war will be followed by some mighty days of peace, and that a spirit of world democracy will light up the dark places of the human hearts of all the world, and hence he fights, to die, to live, and to make the world better for his race. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 EDITORIAL PAGE A JUST RETRIBUTION The Armistance will call for all of things for which we have been at war with Germany, and chiefly unconditional surrender. Is it not strange reasoning that as long as Germany was trying to destroy Paris and a third of France virtually all of Belgium and Serbia according to German logic all was well. But after Foch got busy and with a large American army the tide began to turn in the favor of the entente allies, the will of Germany became too sacred to be trodden upon Frenchmen Englishmen and Americans. Germany should not be spared. Her cities should be given the same treatment she has given France and Belgium. She should receive the torch and the fagot and then she should be cut up into a smaller vasal state, her Kaiser electrocuted, her militarist shot, her autocrat prowar statesmen imprisoned for life, after she has been forced to pay the cost of the war, and refunded the huge assessments against the hundred and more cities of Belgium and France. KEEP YOUR IMAGINARY TROUBLES TO YOURSELF Wouldn't it be very remarkable if you could go right up to folks of your acquittance and relate your troubles to them, and feel the ease and freedom that their pleasant faces and smiles hold out to you? Do you think they are interested in your troubles? Well my dear child no indeed! Before you are turning the corner, they are at the phone, snickering over your affairs with another of their kind, and now since you come to think of it, can't you see that God had every matter properly estimated when he made hell? The poor fool listened at last to one other devil who pretended to know something to tell her, and of course, she was radiant in smiles, and loocked as though she might be dainty at the table in the presence of spring chiken fried country style, but the informer to the poor little idiot who was looking for sympathy had hardly the chicken bones left the poor troubled soul metephorically speaking. FALT OF THE KING OF GERMANY The Kaiser now should abdicate and pay the cost of all the war, and more, the gold in buttons rings and crown will say; might help a little, these jewels that he wore; if sold to highest bidders to buy food, for starving people in a war, rid land. His hundred palaces stripped to nude should also leave his royal command. We'd take his throne and costly robes and auction them for money. They'd bring some millions, and his royal globes of half another world, the greedy king was wont to conquer even across the seas. Spent riches stolen from his vasul states. To sew sedition in this land to please an appetite for power within our gates. THE COLORED PEOPLE In this issue we have given merely a very short exegesis on the Candid Criticism of The Negro Church. Ye writer wishes to say to all Negro preachers that "the thing is loaded" and they had better use discretion as above editorial is only a few of sixteen sheets of a closely written article and Negro Preachers." — By the Writer. If it is dangerous to get on the heels of an untame mule, it is equally as dangerous to ask us for the proof of the above statements in the criticism. His Last Hope Gone. In an Oklahoma court an attorney had been many times overruled by the court during the morning session. The attorney arrived in the court room at 1:35 p. m., whereas court had adjourned to 1:30. The court and the attorney disagreed as to what was, in fact, the correct time, and the discussion ended with the jespairing statement by the attorney: Very well, your honor. Let's have it that way. I had hoped, however, that the time of day was one subject on which we might agree."—Law Notes. Each Season Has Its Charms. Each season has its own outdoor charm, even winter, when heavy snows cover the earth. Read Thoreau and John Burroughs and learn how the tracks of small animals on the snow's surface show the life of the woods and how the grace and shadow of twigs, the beauty and variety of the seed pods of weeds and the activity of birds cause the stroller to forget the cold, while the tinkling of small streams through a double margin of icicles is music to his ears. Broaden Your Mind. Brush the cobwebs out of your mind. Rid yourself of the rubbish of prejudice and prepossession. No longer be content with surface thinking, which is not thinking at all. Form the habit of looking at everything from more than one point of view. Balance, weigh, test, observe, analyze, meditate. Thus alone can you gain opinions that are really your own and really well based. Thus alone can you grow in success-winning power of mind.—Exchange. Wanted to Know Photographer Arthur, aged five, was a Sunday school pupil and listened attentively to his teacher telling the class about Christ. Next day he went visiting with his mother and on the mantel was a picture of Christ, to which his mother called his attention, explaining that Christ was the subject of his lesson the previous day. After surveying the picture thoughtfully for a moment he suddenly exclaimed: "But who took it?"—Chicago Examiner. Seek Healthy View Point If you desire to posses a broad, healthy point of view, observe the horde of restless, unhappy men and women who have failed to find happiness through a worship of false gods, and who find it only after having found a purpose that would effectively serve humanity. They will teach you a lesson on the futility of striving after the things that serve no useful end. Get a healthy viewpoint upon life! All Biblical Towns It was at Lydda, which was "nigh unto Joppa," that Peter restored Aeneas, "who had kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy," and it was, of course, in Joppa itself that Peter restored Tabitha to life. Here also he lodged for a time "with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside," and it was here that he saw the wonderful vision which taught him the universality of Christianity. Care of the Telephone The telephone is a fine receptacle for germs of every kind, and little attention is paid to sterilizing this much-used machine. It should be washed out with alcohol as often as required, and to keep the dust out of it make a small round cover of soft leather or heavy cloth and stitch a broad ribbon around the edge, through which can be run a drawing string or elastic. Put this over the transmitter. Well Described A short time ago we were discussing a friend, who, while her hair had grown white with the years, had retained a youthful figure. A few days afterward Ruth, referring to her, said, "You know who I mean. Aunty—that lady who looks so young behind and so old in front."—Chicago Tribune. Happiness Above All He is a fool and worse than a fool who trades his happiness for any other thing that the world has to offer. If, with a crust you are happy, do not trade the crust for a feast. If you buy a fortune with a penny and lose happiness, you have made the worst of bargains.—Aristotle. Shedding Light There are persons whose very presence spells cheer and inspiration. There may be times when we can do nothing to help our friends, but we can always be something to help them if our own lamp of faith and love burns clear. Eucalyptus' Superiority A cedar tree requires more than a century to grow large enough to yield a 30-foot telephone pole. The eucalyptus will attain a larger growth in 30 years and its wood is quite as durable. Do It Aristotle said that the way to learn to do a thing is by doing it. If the saying be applied to the things of the mind as well as to the things done by the hand, great good will come of it. Cave Dwellers in France. In prehistoric times, when man had to fight with wild beasts not only for food but for life, he found a welcome refuge in grottoes and caverns. But as soon as humanity had achieved some degree of progress in civilization our ancestors forsook these primitive natural shelters for more comfortable dwellings. Our readers, therefore, remarks the Scientific American, doubtless imagine that the troglodyte ceased to exist many centuries ago, at any rate in Europe. Yet even today there may be found Frenchmen who live underground only a few hundred kilometers from Paris. Charm of a Rabbit Foot An explanation of the marvelous and mysterious properties of the rabbit foot as a good luck piece is to be found in the fact that witchcraft regarded the rabbit as a particularly mystical animal. The favorite disguise of the witches of old was to take the form of a rabbit—a close second was the cat—and records again and again show convictions and executions of women for the fearful crime of changing themselves into rabbits. A rabbit foot was a potent charm against the evil spells of the witch-rabbit. Unkindness Often Bad Habit Unkindness is more a loose, indifferent habit than intentional neglect, disrespect, or downright meanness. Words and deeds are parented by thoughts; and it is so easy to fall into slothful, indifferent thinking that, oftentimes unthinkingly, we neglect, speak carelessly to, or treat unconcernedly those toward whom we ought to act with most consideration and deference. G. E. W., in Great Thoughts. Chinese Don't Like Cheese. Statisticians have figured out that England eats the larger part of Europe's output of cheese. Europe's output amounts to 340,000,000 kilograms. England alone consumes 180,000,000 kilograms of this amount. Next comes Holland, which takes 56,000,000; Switzerland takes 43,000,000; France, 31,000,000, and Germany 20,000,000 kilograms. The only people on earth who eat no cheese are the Chinese. Color Blind. One man in England in every sixty is partially or wholly color blind, so at least the tests for the English mercantile marine seem to show. A noted professor maintains that the proportion is even larger. Candidates, after passing all the usual tests relied upon by the navy and the railway companies, have been found to be defective by his lantern. Contrary Mineral. Coal is a contrary critter. Instead of expanding generously, like water, in freezing weather, it contracts rapidly. The sensitive coal pile shrinks at the first touch of winter and, with the mercury at zero, when every respectable commodity is frozen stiff, the costly coal pile melts away like Simple Simon's snowball before the fire. Painful Insinuation Little six-year-old to young aunt showing him a family portrait: "What a funny way that granpa is dressed, auntie!" Auntie—"That is the gay gentlemen dressed more than a hundred years ago." Six-Year-Old—"And when gentlemen dressed like that, what did you wear, auntie?" Choose Your Work Carefully. If possible, choose your work because you believe you are fitted for it not simply because it gives you the wherewithal to live. Be glad because you can do it well, not because it pays better than something else, or brings you into association with people you admire. Many Varieties of Timber Burma grows over a hundred varieties of every sort of timber. Yet up to last year she exported her rubber in packing cases made of wood imported from Japan. It has now been found that they can be made locally at about half the cost. Appropriately Directed. "I met a sailor on the road," writes F. G. B., "and asked him if he could direct me to the Woodlawn cemetery. Turning, he pointed back and said with nautical brevity, 'Dead ahead.'"—Boston Transcript. Evolution. Said the almost-philosopher: "The fellow. whose pap used to drive 25 miles to see a balloon ascension will heartlessly call his kids out of the street while they're watching an airplane." No Slacker. . Father—"Why don't you stick to work more? It ought to be a real enjoyment to you." Son—"It is, sir, but I don't like to give myself up wholly to pleasure." Sincerity Must Be Perfect. Sincerity is impossible unless it parade the whole being, and the pretense of it sape the very foundation of character—Lowell. Became Masons During Ww Because masona During War. The following are but a few of the Masons who became distinguished during the Civil war: McClellan, Hancock, Logan, Picket, Garfield, McKinley, Albert Pike, Miles and Gen. John Corson Smith of Illinois. The latter was noted as a Masonic writer and author, and served in the Civil war in every grade from private to brigadier general. Later ne became lieutenant governor of Illinois and general grand master or the Grand Lodge of Illinois and grand master of Grand Encampment Knights Templars of America. Proceedings Grand Lodge of Quincy 1016. Object Lesson Stald and serious Mary felt keenly responsible for the department of her younger sister, Margaret, who was entirely lacking in a sense of decorum. At a children's party one afternoon Mary was horrified to see her sisters chewing gum with all the vigor and abandon of her nature. Hastily sweeping the offender into a corner, Mary pointed out a third little guest who was managing her stick of gum with commendable moderation and restraint "Margaret," she said severely, "I was you to notice how a lady chews gum Need for Discipline The price we must pay for continually proving and possessing the good is eternal vigilance. Often a sort of pig-headedness in self-assertion, in self-management, sets up its ownership. That is one reason why discipline—submitting ourselves in some ways to the will of others—is good for us all, big and little, young and old. It is the best and often the only means of breaking down the willfulness that is likely to enter any one of us at any moment—Youth's Companion. "Earn Your Salt" When any one earns a salary he is really "earning his salt," for the word salary has a very interesting story. When the Roman governor traveled on his rounds through the provinces which he governed, the people at each stopping place had to provide him with food for his horses and salt for himself. This was his salarium—sal being the Latin for salt—or his "salt money." Pulse in Animals The normal pulse beats per minute in the domestic animals are as follows: Horses, 36 to 42; cattle, 38 to 50; sheep, goats and hogs, 70 to 80 and dogs, 80 to 100. The pulse beats foster in young than in old animals. Excitement and a nervous temperament may cause a more rapid pulse. When exercising and immediately after, the rate is higher than when the animal is at rest. Tall Trees. The tallest of California's "big trees" is three hundred and twenty-five feet in height, but among the great gum trees of Australia, not to mention Bitech ibish Columbia's great firs, many specimens are more than four hundred feet in height, and one, which was felled in southeast Australia, measured four hundred and seventy-one feet—the tallest tree on record. Special Clothes for Motorists It was in 1900 that a well-known tailor in Chicago introduced specially designed clothing for motorists. His announcement read in part as follows: "We can furnish a leather chafer's suit, jacket, trousers, cap and goggles complete in any color found in kid gloves at $50 the outfit." Incurable. Too. Little Edith was very fond of hearing her father play the guitar, but one evening he placed a table knife across the strings and it sounded somewhat like a ukulele. Edith listened for a moment and then said: "Papa, what makes the music sound so sick?" Life's Quiet Places Without the silence of life there can be no true greatness, and no man can be great in the hours of expression and daily activity unless he has first been great in the silent places of his individual life.—Theodore Lyman Frost Dogs' Claim on Humanity Dogs' Claim on Humanity. Canine capacity for untiring and unfalling loyalty is the dog's strongest hold on human friends and protectors. It is the quality which gives dogs their greatest advantage over all other animals as pets. A. Chronic Disease It is like getting a letter from home to pick up an old-town newspaper and find the men who were chasing political office ten years ago still engaged in the sport -Toledo Blade. Chase Procrastination Chase Procrastination A distasteful duty is doubled by procrastination. We suffer not only the unpleasantness of the actual action, but the scarcely less discomfort of prolonged dreading. Spamalotic Germaine Because a fellow gets a reputation as a rounder is no indication that he is moving in high social circles. Indianapolis Star