The Broad Ax

HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON Starts his boom for re-election As mayor of Chicago. His administration for the past four years, from a business point of view has been a dismal failure, thousands of dollars have been borrowed from the banks to pay real estate experts who knew no more about the true value of City Real Estate than a hog does about conducting a sunday school. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN VOTERS HAVE SIGNED PLEDGE CARDS FOR HON. THOMAS CAREY FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO AND HE AND HIS ARMY OF FRIENDS FEEL CONFIDENT THAT HE HAS ALL OF HIS COMPETITORS ON THE DEAD RUN. THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF STATE LEGISLATURES THROUGHOUT THE UNION; HAVE RATTIFIED THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND WITHIN A SHORT TIME, THIS COUNTRY WILL BE BONE DRY. COL. S. B. TURNER AND JUDGE WARREN DOUGLAS VOTED IN FAVOR OF WHISKY IN THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS; ON THE OTHER HAND HON. A. H. ROBERTS VOTED AND FOUGHT AGAINST IT. PETER REINBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DRAWS THE COLOR LINE, IN SELECTING HIS COMMITTEE FOR THE COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT MONUMENT WHICH MAY BE CONSTRUCTED IN THE FOREST PRESERVE PARK. VOL. XXIV HON. Starts His adminis- view has borrow- knew MORE THAN ONE HUND THOUSAND MEN AND SIGNED PLEDGE CA CAREY FOR MAYOR AND HIS ARMY OF F THAT HE HAS ALL OF THE DEAD RUN. THE REQUIRED NUMBER URES THROUGHOUT TIFIED THE PROH THE CONSTITUTION AND WITHIN A SHO WILL BE BONE DRY. COL. S. B. TURNER AND J VOTED IN FAVOR OF LATURE OF ILLINOIS HON. A. H. ROBERT AGAINST IT. PETER REINBERG, PRESS BOARD OF COMMISSION OR LINE, IN SELECT THE COL. THEODO- MENT WHICH MAY BE FOREST PRESERVE No one does not need to leap forth from the grave in order to testify to the cold fact that mayor William Hale Thompson has from every business point of view proven himself to be a dismal or a rank failure as the boss executive of this city, for he and many of his unbusiness like assistants have during the past four years blown the small taxpayers money in like half drunken lords or sailors; they have expended the people's money as though there was no end to it and if though they had some kind of a machine and that all that they had to do was to turn the crank and say pres to change and that wagon loads of real money would come forth from their money making machine. No real sane person who did not have an ax, to grind has ever seriously accused mayor Thompson of being a hard headed consecutive far seeing business man; in fact he is no better business man than his two bosom friends, Col. Edward H. Wright, who claims to be the boss stud poker player of the Thompson administration and the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. who dishes up all of the side praying for the Thompson administration and in our humble opinion either one of these two distinguished Colored pap suckers can give mayor Thompson cards and spades and then conduct the affairs of this city much better than he can or has in the past. It will be re-called that mayor Thompson and some of his head henchmen borrowed almost two million dollars from some of the banks in this city in order to pay increased salaries to some of the city employees, and those same banks have lately obtained an uncontested judgment against the city for two million dollars, if there is any one outside of the lawyers and the bankers who have got all of the people residing in this city, where the hair is short, who can consistently claim that that transaction was in accordance with sound and safe business rules, than they are fit subjects or candidates for some lunatic asylum. At the time that mayor Thompson raked in the money from the banks CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 18, 1919 IAM I am for re-elect the past four mal failure, e banks to about the tr does about co M HALI pre-election A past four years failure, thousa nks to pay re the true value about conducting to pay some of the city help larger salaries he had any number of broken down politicians, shooters and retainers employed as real estate experts who were pulling in from twenty to forty thousand dollars as alleged real estate experts but as a matter of fact they knew no more about the true value of real estate in this city than a common black hog does about conducting a sunday school. Mayor Thompson can not reasonably expect to develop into a big successful business man and conduct the affairs of this city as they should be conducted as long as he permits himself to be controlled by Col. Fitzmorris who must belong to what is called the poor "white trash" for no first class white gentleman would brand a Colored man as an "old yellow bastard" and Col. Fitzmorris, chief stock in trade seems to be, is, cussing and lying to Colored people. The thousands of friends of Hon. Thomas Carey, feel more than confident that he will go over the top at the forthcoming primaries and ceasily come in under the wire far ahead of all of his competitors for so far more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand men and women, including many Colored men and women have freely and willingly signed his pledge cards for mayor of Chicago, and every day Mr. Carey's headquarters in the Briggs House are crowded down with new recruits or supporters who have all caught the "spirit or the fever" of Thomas Carey for mayor of Chicago. More than the required number of states throughout the union have through their legislatures wheeled into to line for the prohibition amendment to the constitution of the United States and the indications are that this country will be bone dry within the next year, here in the Illinois Legislature Col. S. B. Turner who has always in the past greatly delighted to preach from the pupils in the Colored churches against whisky and the devil and his unholy works, whose rambling remarks would always cause the brethren and the sisters to cry out Amen! Amen! preach it brother Turner, and so on, voted for whisky in the Legislature [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie. He is facing forward, looking directly at the camera. The background is a plain, light color with a decorative border. The man's face is clearly visible, with a serious expression. The image is black and white.] [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie. He is facing forward, looking directly at the camera. The background is a plain, light color with a decorative border. The man's face is clearly visible, with a serious expression. The image is black and white.] PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestans, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol. XXIV Jan. 18, 1919 No. 18 Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under Act of March 3, 1879 Christmas Box Nuisance The Christmas box was at one time greatly in evidence—so much in evidence that it finally became an intolerable nuisance, and the people rose up in rebellion against it. At Christmas time hordes of boys and journeymen and apprentices crowded the shops and ran about the streets in certain parts of England begging coins for the small boxes they carried. One can readily imagine how much of a nuisance the boy might make himself under such circumstances. Japanese Idea of Music Among the Japanese especially, a directly divine origin is attributed to music. The mythical legend runs that the art was invented by the gods to appease the anger of the sun goddess and to induce her to shine once more upon the earth and upon the other divinities. The melodies which resulted were potent to prevail upon her, and thus was light restored to the world and music and dancing were given for its delight. Sova Bean Oil Production Soya bean oil, which originates principally in Manchuria, is almost entirely controlled by Japanese. The supply of beans last year was very large and the amount of oil turned out was limited only by the capacity of mills. A number of large new plants were started both in Manchuria and Japan and most of the already established mills increased their capacity. Wasting Light A lighting expert says that about $200,000,000 worth of light is wasted every year in this country through failure to keep windows, globes, reflectors and other light sources free from dust and dirt. The lighting bill for the nation is about $500,000,000, and if this expert is right, we are wasting two-fifths of this. Antiquity of Gloves Gloves are of great antiquity, having been worn in England as long ago as in Saxon times. Practically the only change which there has ever been in styles of gloves has been in their decoration. Sometimes they were richly adorned with jewels, 15 having been paid for a pair in the fourteenth century. Like as Not: Like as No. As children we used to think that the sardines came from Sardinia. Now Maine cans and sends out $10,000,000 worth a year, and claims there are no better ones on the market. We suppose the olive oil the fish are packed in comes from Mississippi or South Carolina—Brooklyn Eagle. Origin of Apple Dumplings A dumpling is a good old English dish and comes from the word dumpen, that meant to throw down suddenly and the diminutive ending ling. The idea was a little cake that was made by throwing raw rough dough into boiling water. We've Met the Lady A modern novelist describes a lady with whose like some of us are not wholly unfamiliar. "One moment," he says, "you think you are great chums, and the next you wonder if you've ever been presented."—Boston Transcript. Cleaning Gold Jewelry When cleaning your gold jewelry you will add to the brilliance of the stones if you use warm suds made with yellow soap and warm water to which has been added ten drops of sel volatile. Quaint Packing of Eggs. In many Korean towns one sees piles of eggs outside the shops, done up in straw rolls. This is the Korean method of packing eggs. There are, as a rule, ten eggs in a roll, and the straw casing is so cleverly twisted and so strongly woven that it can be moved without fear of the eggs falling out. A native will lift up a roll, place it across his shoulders and march away, and though the roll may sway dangerously to and fro, its contents always remain intact. Bellic of Long-Past Age. While cutting peat in the Leithen headwater area, the shepherds unearthed a horn, which may have belonged to Bos primi-genus or Bos longifrons, the wild oxen that roamed over Britain from the glacial age to near historic times. It was found at a depth of four feet from the surface, and the shepherds also averred that there was a small patch of brown hair attached, which is quite probable, as the peat would act as a preservative. —London Mall. Heart Is Busy Organ. Your heart is a very busy organ. While you breathe once, it beats four times. At each beat it sends four pounds of blood through your veins and arteries. The weight of the circulating blood is 29 pounds. When you run, your legs and the other parts of your body need more blood, so your heart must pump faster. It is a ceaseless worker. X-Rays in Tuberculosis In the finished positive photographic print, the lungs of a normal person show white—this representing the air contained in the cells of the lungs. If the lung is diseased—as in pneumonia—it will show dark, i.e. the cells being occluded with matter. Tuberculosis is diagnosed by the spotted, mottled appearance of the affected lungs. What's in a Name? James, Bob and Billie were playing with a box of animal crackers. James "put in his thumb and pulled out a" rhinoceros cookie. "Ah!" he shouted, "look, Bob and Billie, at my rhinoster." Bob is older, he is the big boy of the family. "Tain't a rhinoster. Jimmie, it's a rhinostrudge!" "No, siree," said Billie. "it's a rhinostrous!" Why Turn to East in Prayer? The scientist will tell you that praying with the face toward the east comes from ancient worship of the sun. Sun worshipers, starting out on the day's work to plant, hunt or kill, would turn toward the rising god to pray for success.—Chicago American. Aid to Remembrance Dorothy has a habit of biting her finger nails. Her father promised her a ruby ring on her birthday If she would stop the habit. At the end of the first day she inquired: "Daddy, if I had the ring on my finger don't you think me could 'member more better?' Work for Homemakers The homemaker should be as alert to make progress in her life work as the business or professional man. The most profitable, the most interesting study for women is the home, for in it centers all the issues of life. Dare to Turn Back. It often requires courage to turn back when we have taken a wrong step, but it is easier to turn back after the first step than after the second or third, and much safer and pleasanter. How World Is Colored. After all, the kind of world one carries about in oneself is the important thing, and the world outside takes all its grace, color and value from that. —James Russell Lowell. Telling a Big Bell. At the Church of the Sacred Heart, in Paris, a 22-ton bell is tolled by electricity. A choir boy now does the work which formerly required the services of five men. When a Swimmer Fails Many a man who boasts of his ability as a swimmer will flounder around utterly helpless in the sea of a woman's tears—Florida Times-Union. Uncle Eben. "Politics," said Uncle Eben, "is mighty misleadin'. De man dak is able to intertain de bigges', audience ain't allus gerneter get de mos' votes." Helping One Another Feel a real regard for your fellow- men and some one will always help you when you are in trouble—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Fatal Diseases. Bronchitis is the most fatal disease in England; next comes consumption and then heart disease, pneumonia and scarlatina. Daily Thought I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as 'justice.—William Lloyd Garrison: Not Hard. The ticker doesn't always tell every thing that happens in Wall street. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, JANUARY 18, 1919 Handy Plant In Desert In the desert of Sonora, Mexico, there is a plant, the guarequil, which husbands its water supply. The guarequil is a relative of the squash and pumpkin, and inhabits a locality in which practically all the rain falls within a period of six weeks. The base of the stem is swollen to form a hard, woody structure, which in time attains the size of a large squash. It is really nothing more than a vegetable reservoir designed to hoard up the scanty moisture and dole out the precious fluid in time of need. Work While at Work It's a good thing not to take your hobbies to the office. It's also a good thing to dispense with easy chairs and other luxuries in your place of business. Take the rest cure at home. The office is a place of toil. It should be comfortable, but its appointments should be suggestive of work and efficiency rather than leisure. Instead of making a man feel like taking a nap the office environment should be an urge to his best efforts. English Lavender and Mint. The great secret of English lavender and mint lies in the soil—a light, friable, chalky soil, not often found in a climate congenial to both plants, yet essential to a perfect result. Each, in fact, may be grown with a certain measure of success on hill, in marshland, or meadow, for both are hardy, and, when well rooted, are nearly impervious to drought and frost. Ulustrious Family In tracing the genealogy of a New England family that came from England in 1684, Merton T. Goodrich reports to the Journal of Heredity that 43 per cent of this man's male descendants have held public office. Of his seven sons, five of them held town offices. Many of the female descendants were teachers. Snake's Skin as Barometer The skin of the black diamond rattlesnake is utilized as a barometer in Florida. When preserved like rawhide and hung up the skin will emit beads of moisture at the first indication of a storm. These indications occasionally occur several hours before the arrival of the atmospheric disturbance. Why Business Fails Dr. Malcolm Keir of the University of Pennsylvania attributes the 15,000 to 20,000 business failures which occur annually to one or more of the following causes: Inexperience, unwise use of capital, employment of relatives, poor location and accounting, extension of credit and dishonesty. Give the Best That's in You Give the Best Thats in You. The man who persistently and determinedly fills his position in the best possible way will eventually succeed from a monetary standpoint, not to mention the good he is doing by setting such an example, and his infinite gain in character and self-respect. As the Gang Saw Them. Three little boys were calling each other by the names of "Red." "Squinch" and "Bones." When asked why they did so. Squinch spoke for them. "It's our names what matches our looks best to the gang." Only One Kind of Right Action Rightness expresses of actions what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines—Herbert Spencer. "Fireproof" Orientals Orientals seem to be immune to the fierce heat of the fireroom in ocean steamers, and can endure for a great length of time temperature that would speedily prostrate white men. Great Is Power of Love If you would gain mankind, the best way is to appear to love them; and the best way of appearing to love them is to love them in reality.—J. Bentham. Responsibility If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.-Charles B. Newcomb. On the Go. Comfortable incomes today are rare —most of them don't stop with us long enough to make themselves comfortable.—Boston Transcript. Stockholm an Icehouse Stockholm is built upon islands, and the same means "an island in sound." For several months in the year it is closed by ice. Mildew Stains To remove mildew stains, rub with lemon juice and salt. The same treatment will remove peach and all friut stains. Much Effort, Little Result. "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "is like tops. Dey buzzes around an around and don't never git nowheres." Optimistic Thought. Remember not to cast pearls before swine. Wasted Patience. He was a green Scottish lad, and one of his duties was to answer the telephone. When first called on to do so, in reply to the usual query: "Are you there?" he nodded assent. Again the question came and again and yet again, and each time the boy gave the answering nod. When the question came for the fifth time, however, the boy, losing his temper, roared through the transmitter: "Man, are ye blin'? I've been noddin' ma held aff for the last half oor"—Boston Transcript. Cubeb. Cubeb berries are from the climbing plant called Piper Cubeba, native of the West Indies, being extensively cultivated in Jawa and Sumatra. It is used as local stimulant in indigestion and as a flavoring vehicle in mixtures and gargles. It is valuable particularly in diseases of the mucous membrane, especially of the bronchi. Frequently smoked in cigarettes for their effect on the mucous membrane of the bronchi and larynx. Bee Farming Has Future. It is a fascinating business, that of bee farming, and a business which notwithstanding the fact that it dates back to prehistoric times, is even yet an infant industry. Which is to say, it is not one-fourth developed to the potential limit. There is an immense amount of honey wasted every year because there are not enough bees to gather it. Power for Good and Evil Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or for evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what a man really is, not what he pretends to be. Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. Palm Brushes The same Chinese palms which provide the ordinary palmleaf fans are now being cultivated for fiber as well as for leaves. The outer portion of the leaf stems is removed, the fiber cut into different lengths, and the product is ready to be shipped to the United States for use in brush manufacture. Refresh Your Principles When a man starts afresh, either with the newness of a new year or with the stimulus of altered circumstances or with the inspiration of a new work, what his start ought to do for him is to refresh the deepest principles by which he lives.—Phillips Brooks. Wheat and Flour. No wheat thousands of years old has ever been known to germinate, many yarns to the contrary notwithstanding. Baking tests have also been made by the department of agriculture, showing a distinct inferiority of the Alaska wheat flour as a bread producer. Care of Steel. Steel knives and other steel articles which are not in general use may be kept from rusting if they are dipped in a strong solution of soda, one part water to four of soda, then wiped dry with fannel and kept in a dry place. Treadmill for Chickens. To make chickens take exercise necessary for growth, an inventor has patented a feed box in front of which is a revolving platform over which they must scramble to get anything to eat. Eagle's Flight An eagle has been observed to rise from the ground and completely disappear into the sky within three minutes. Eagles sometimes soar to heights of 15,000 feet or more. Right Sequence. A Denver doctor says that taking a sip of lemon juice before a kiss will render the germs harmless. First the lemon, then the sugar, eh?—Boston Transcript. Strange but True. You can't find any molasses that tastes like maple sirup, but you can find a lot of maple sirup that tastes like molasses—Buffalo Enquiler. Lanterns of Horn. Lanterns of horn were used by both Greeks and Romans; they put lamps into them for the purpose of lighting themselves home on moonless nights. The Modern Complaint The fellow who used to kick when he was handed small change now kicks about the smallness of the change he is handed. Too. True. Alas. Too True! If you would be classed as a good fellow all you have to do is to applaud your fool friends.—Milwaukee Journal. It's mother's love in the apple dumplings that gives them an irresistible flavor—Toledo Blade Optimistic Thought He who accuses too many accuses himself. Wonderful Miniature Motor. A miniature electric motor is described as weighing only 150 grains, and as being inclosed in a shell about an inch and a half long and an inch and a quarter in diameter. The shaft is designed especially for holding tools of deists or surgeons, but it may be used for fine drills for metals or gems, or for other similar purposes. The motor is driven at a maximum rate of about 5,000 revolutions per minute, and is adapted for use with either direct or alternating current. Look for the Large Chance. The opportunity that is bigger than you are cannot help you, no matter how close it comes. To be worth anything, a chance must fit. Instead of simply waiting for your opportunity, grow up to it. Big people do not need to put up with small openings, and little people find it impossible to fill big ones. If you are growing all the time, and fitting yourself for the larger chances, you need not worry for fear they will fail to present themselves. Took Time to Prepare Work. The more one reads of the great war the more one must appreciate the fact that Victor Hugo's immortal description of the battle of Waterloo was not written until 1861, or 46 years after it happened, and time had been given for the dust to settle. It was 37 years after Waterloo that Tennyson wrote "Bury the Great Duke With an Empire's 'Lamentation." What Is in Your Heart? It is not always necessary to make a conscious effort to help others. If we are trying our hardest to do right, helpfulness will radiate from our lives, as heat radiates from a fire. If there is kindness and sympathy in our hearts our very silence will be eloquent. The greater part of helpfulness is the conscious sort which is the direct result of our being what we are. Something Else to Do. You will see the pools and the standing water frozen through the winter, when the little running streams are bounding along between fringes of icy gems. Why is this? The streams have something else to do than stand still to be frozen up. Be you like them.—John Hall. The Fandango. The dance bearing this name is of Spanish origin. It is in three-eighth time and is invariably accompanied with castanets and sometimes also with a tambourine. Its musical character is the strong accent on the second beat of each bar instead of the first. Cheerfulness Wins Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculations its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous—a spirit of sunshine—graceful from every gladness—beautiful because bright. To Clean Marble. To clean discolored marble, first of all wash with soap and water, then wipe dry and apply a paste made of powdered bathbrick and lemon juice. Rub it well into the discolored parts and rinse it off in clean cold water. A Flax "Hurry-Up" A machine has been invented by a Scotchman that prepares flax for manufacture within a few hours after it has been pulled from the ground instead of taking days, or even weeks, as usual. All There Is to It. Philosophers make a great deal of the mystery of life, but when you've got it all summed up, it turns out to be nothing but an opportunity to be a friend to somebody else. Great and Small Minds. If you would stand well with a great mind leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself. → Coleridge. Impossible. Hub-"I don't believe in parading my virtues." Wife-"You couldn't, anyway. It takes quite a number to make a parade."—Boston Transcript. Prevents Cracking. When pouring boiling milk or water in a tumbler or glass dish stand the tumbler or glass on a knife and the glass will neither break or crack. There is a wonderful power in sympathy to open and display the hidden richness of a man's own seemingly narrow life—Phillins Brooks. The Way Out If a man or a machine is unable to accomplish a task it should be turned over to a woman and a hairpin.—London Answers. Rubber in Auto Tires The American automobile public calls for 80,000 tons of India rubber for the manufacture of its tires each year. Daily Thought. A bad ending follows a bad beginning.—Euripides. Fruits Stand First Fruits have the honor of being most widely diffused geographically, grown with the kindlest care, and of being first used by man as food. They still enter largely into the regimen of the cultivated nations, and are the fairest of civilizers. . . . The use of them is of such universal importance that we cannot substist in any plenary or elegant without them. And everywhere be side the cultivated man grows the orchard, to intimate his refinement in those excellences most befitting his race.—A. Bronson Alcott A Man and the World The world owes you nothing, unless by your own achievements you have made it your debtor. The man who imagines that the world owes him a living has taken the first step toward knavery; the second step is taken when he tries to collect the debt which is not due him. The greater his success in this, the greater thief he is, he takes out of the world more than he has put into it.—Lyman Abbott Round Robin Originally a round robin was a petition or protest signed in such a way that no name headed the list; that in the signatures were usually placed in circular form. The device is French and the term a corruption of round (round) and ruban (a ribbon). It was first adopted by the officers of government as a means of making known their grievances. To Prevent Rugs Slipping There are many devices to prevent rugs from slipping on highly-polished floors. One of the best and also the cheapest is to cut pieces of rough sheathing paper the exact size of the rugs and lay it under them. They will not move them. Another way is to sew triangles of corrugated rubber sheeting to the corners of the rugs. The Sunflower In olden times the name for the sunflower was sollece the sun-follower. The ancient sunflower, or sun-follower, was the marigold; the plants of the present day are of American origin. It sometimes attains a height of 20 feet. It was introduced into Europe in the middle of the sixteenth century. It Can't Be Done. A French professor avers that the greatest wealth of ideas comes to the human brain between two and five o'clock in the morning. Has the learned professor ever been able to hit on one that came anyways near fooling his wife during the wee small hours? Neither have we—Grit. Picturea of Christ All pictures of Christ now in existence represent the artists' imaginative conceptions, based more or less on Biblical and other descriptions of his personal appearance. The works of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are the earliest acceptable ones. Mixed. A certain professor was struggling to make clear the point that both parents have an equal influence upon a child. "For," he said gravely, "a man is as much the son of his father as he is the daughter of his mother." One Word Spoils All Just when a woman begins to be invited out a little by nice people her husband spoils all by referring to the laundress as the washerwoman right out where everybody can hear. Ohio State Journal. Head Down. An Indiana paper tells of a woman "with tears coursing down her brow." Imagination can only picture a trapeze performer doing the weep with her other act—Boston Transcript. A. Little Success Don't let a little success turn your head. Remember that there are several billion people in the world who don't even know that you are alive—Arkansas Thomas Cat. Darkest Just Before Dawn. Darkest Just Before Dawn. It is just when a man gets down the lowest, and things look the darkest around him, that light breaks in and hope begins to live again.—R. B. L. Left-Handed. It has been noticed that parrots usually seize objects with the left claw, and that the lion uses the left paw when striking its prey. Spasmodic Sermon. When a rich man departs this life without leaving a good will there isn't much peace on earth among the remaining heirs. Reason in Their Fall. Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth.—George Bancroft. Optimistic Thoughts Age is venerable in a man—and would be in a woman if she ever became old. Finds It Out, Afterward. If a young man is really in love, he never says he can't afford to marry. EARTH'S RICHEST RUBY MINES Center of World's Store of Precious Stones is Known to Be Located in Upper Burma. The world's ruby center is Mogok, in upper Burma, some 70 miles north of Mandalay. Here are the great ruby enes, one of Burma's most valuable monopolys, says the London Weekly Telegraph. Indeed, not only does this country produce the finest of these coveted gems, but they are recovered in such quantities as to enable her to dominate the market. Few are aware that, weight for weight, a ruby is more valuable than a diamond. It is estimated that one the color of pigeon's blood, weighing five carats, will sell for ten times the value of a diamond of the same weight. Furthermore, the price increases with the size of the stone. As the "byon," or earth containing the coveted gems, is taken from the ground it is placed in a great revolving tub. Here it is screened and all loose earth removed by water. The residue is then tipped on the sorting table. A white overseer carefully examines the pile, selecting the true gems from the worthless debris. If he's lucky he may at one sorting find gems worth many thousands of dollars, while on the other hand the yield may be but a hundred dollars or two. The yearly output of rubles from these mines totals about $400,000. Device That Automatically Turns Off Power Has Been Found to Be of Real Value. One of the considerable sources of fuel waste is the unnecessary burning of electric lights. A large percentage of lights are used chiefly for limited periods, as for instance in cloak rooms. They are turned on and then heedlessly left burning. Thus we are constantly recommended to shut off needless lights as a matter of national saving. An invention designed to 'remedy this condition is the work of J. E. Lewis of New York. By pushing a button the light is turned on and glows for a predetermined period—say, five or ten minutes—and then is automatically cut off. The device has been tested and found practical and seems useful in the way of checking electric light waste. Marine Fireflies The bay of Toyama, Japan, is the some of a peculiar phenomenon that occurs each year in April and May. The cause of it is an almost limitless swarm of cuttlefish that shine like glowworms. The fish are tiny, says a writer in the Boston Transcript, and when they meet with anything objectionable they emit a wonderful display of phosphorescence. Every spring the coasts of Toyama swarm with these little creatures, and fishermen go out with special nets to catch them. When caught in the meshes the fish emit their light and cause the nets to sparkle as if charged with electricity. The people regard the sight as wonderful, and rush in great excitement to see it. Pleasure boats are in demand on those occasions, and it is a favorite courtesy to invite a friend to an evening of entertainment in watching the sparkling cuttlefish. Precious Salt. What is known as "radium" is a radium salt, usually either radium bromide or radium chloride, sometimes radium sulphate. Tiny grains of these salts are extremely precious and are usually sealed up in little glass bulbs. The radium in one of the first bulbs that were received in London had a curious history. A physician in Portland place was applying the bulb to a patient when he accidentally let it fall, and a moment after crushed it under his foot. The value of the radium to the physician was very great. He removed his boots from his feet and cut out a square of his valuable carpet. He had boots and carpet burned, and out of the ashes refined the original radium salt. Lon 20,000 Years Old. Not so long ago a workman, 81 feet below the surface of Broadway, near Pine street, in New York city, found a piece of cedar wood that certainly presented a remarkable discovery. The wood was uncovered in excavating for the foundation of a big office building. It was a part of the trunk of a large cedar tree that grew at least 10,000 Years ago, and more probably 20,000 Years ago! The wood was within a foot of bedrock, and it was covered with 80 feet of bowler clay and glacial drift, which showed that the tree from which it came must have flourished before the last great age of ice. Benefit From "Melting Pot." Silent From - Melting Pot. The Alhambra, that exquisite Moorish palace at Granada, which our own Washington Irving so graphically describes, is still a silent witness to the beauty and skill of Moorish architects and sculptors. Out of all these allen people who have come to us, who seem so very foreign to us that assimilation seems almost impossible, no doubt we shall derive a benefit, just as other countries have benefited in other days. History repeats itself, and America, the great melting pot of the world nations, may bring forth from the crucible men who in the future will do their part to uphold her prestige on land and sea. THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER In a Tug-of-War With a Boy the Animal Won Out in Quite Easy Manner. One day I was standing on a mound when an armadillo bolted from his earth and running to the very spot where I was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying himself in the soil. Neither men nor dogs had seen him, and I at once determined to capture him unnaided by anyone and imagined it would prove a very easy task. Accordingly I lald hold of his black bone-cased tail with both hands and began tugging to get him off the ground, but couldn't move him. He went on digging furiously, getting deeper and deeper into the earth, and I soon found that instead of me pulling him out he was pulling me in after him. It hurt my small boy pride to think that an animal no bigger than a cat was going to beat me in a trial of strength, and this made me hold on more tenaciously than ever and tug and strain more violently, until not to lose him I had to go flat on the ground. But it was all for nothing. First my hands, then my aching arms were carried down into the earth, and I was forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself of the mound he had been throwing up into my face and all over my head, neck and shoulders.—From "Far Away and Long Ago" by W. H. Hodson. TREE PUZZLE TO FORESTERS Peculiar Formation of Spruce Has Caused Speculation Among Men Learned in That Lore. A cross section of a great old spruce tree from Alaska tells the story of a tree which executed a spin, like a ballet dancer. This cross section shows a most peculiar spiral structure, which has caused a great deal of speculation among the various foresters throughout the country and a very interesting explanation is advanced in American Forestry. It is known that a tree growing at a slant forms on the lower side of the trunk a dense reddish wood known as "rotholz." This spiral in this case is of such sort, and as it is a continuous formation, winding from the center to within half an inch from the circumference, it is surmised that it was growing in an inclined position on the edge of a glacier, where by some shifting it was caused to rotate, so that all sides of the tree were successively on the downward side. Thus, as the tree grew, and its rotation continued slowly, the "rotholz" developed into a spiral. There cannot be complete enjoyment from growing flowering plants unless the gardener is sufficiently interested to watch them closely, observing daily changes, trying different experiments and carefully studying the results. It is in this way we learn what certain plants like best—light or heavy soil, full exposure or partial shade, abundant moisture or moderately dry soil, what fertilizers produce the best results, and so on. When a lot of cuttings are made and placed in the sun, the base of the cuttings one after another turning black and the cuttings "damping" off, without the gardener trying the pan of cuttings in a shaded place, the case seems hopeless. A gardener of this kind had better confine his efforts to a few sturdy geraniums or other equally robust, full-grown plants. "Cepatomtegoataturing." Schoolmasters have often serious problems to solve. The following note, containing only one word, was recently handed to a Thanet pedagogue: "Cepatomtegoataturing." The missive was tendered by one of the boys on behalf of a neighbor's child. The schoolmaster was nonplussed for the moment. But he had received too many weirdly worded notes in his time to allow this one to baffle him. Albelt it was not till the work of the school was over and much tobacco had been consumed that the word at last yielded its mystery: "Kept at home to go a-taturing."—London Chronicle. Ever "Catch a Tartar?" "Catching a Tartar" does not refer to the Tartars around Russia, or rather it does not mean that a Tartar is so very hard to catch. The expression originated a century ago, when the Russians and Tartars were having a little war. A Russian soldier called to his captain that he had caught a Tartar. "Bring him along," replied the captain. The soldier called back: "Yes, but he won't let me." It came out that the Tartar had caught the Russian soldier, and so to this day when a man tries to catch somebody else and himself gets caught he is said to have "caught a Tartar." Handicap Can Be Overcome. Misery besets the man who has chosen his work unwisely. He is unhappy for the reason that he knows his blundering choice of a vocation is keeping him from making the most of his talents for his own good and society's. Even so, if he will but cultivate a keener sense of the social value of whatever work he is trying to do, he may gain therefrom a stimulus enabling him to a surprising extent to overcome his vocational handicap, and at the same time giving him the peace of mind he has hitherto lacked. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 18. 1919 Day That Is Observed by Moslem Corresponds With the Christmas of the Christians. The Turk takes his pleasures pretty sadly; about the only time he publicly relaxes is during the feat of Balram, which in the way of gift giving, feasting and good will to man corresponds to our Christmas. On that day every good Moslem kills a lamb, its fleece dyed a bright orange with gold or silver leaf, says the Christian Science Monitor. When the lamb has been sacrificed on the morning of the festival, its flesh is divided into three portions, one being given to the poor, another to relatives, the third being kept for the household. On that day the sultan goes to the mosque which is nearest the Yildiz Kiosk—the vast assemblage of buildings which go to make up the imperial residence—thousands collect to watch the bent, frock coated, yellow faced, blackeyed, red fezzed little man driven sadly by, in a plain black barouche; followed by regiments of cavalry, infantry and marines; also—aquaint custom—by a half-dozen led horses—beautiful, graceful Arabians. The month-long fast of Ramazan is held by the Moslem to be a divine institution. Its observance is strictly enjoined on all true believers over the age of fourteen, invalids and travelers only excepted. Ramazan is held in the ninth month of the Mohammed year. The Moslem year being lunar. Ramazan makes in the course of time the round of the seasons. But through the winter days, from sunrise to sunset, the plous Mohammed does not take a bit of food or sup of drink; he also abstains entirely from coffee, tobacco and sweets. But the moment the echoes of the sunset gun have died he is at liberty to break his fast. ATHLETES OF INSECT WORLD Compared With the Ant, Man Cannot Be Considered as Other Than a Puny Creature. Ants are the athletes of the insect world, easily carrying ten times their own weight. The edifices they rear by conjoint labor render the pyramids ridiculous, for the common wood ant will build structures as large as a haycock, all of mere fragments. If others are content with small domestiles it is because their needs are sufficed, but all alike dwell beneath their underground galleries and halls with the order and activity of a busy, well-governed city. No nonsense is taken in ant land about everybody being as good and great as everybody else. They nurse with infinite devotion the ant babies, putting them in the warm upper galleries by day and at night tucking them up in the snuggest lower chambers. They bring home stores of food to the ant city, for those are wrong who say that the little creatures do not lay up winter provisions. Gautier and His Cats One of Gautier's peculiarities was love for cats. As soon as he could conveniently do so he afforded himself the luxury of twelve of the hand-somest felines that money could purchase. It was an interesting sight to behold this Hercules in his writing room playing with his regiment of cats, whom he had taught to love one another as they did himself. When some of them broke a valuable object of art—his study, by the way, was a curiosity shop—he seriously deliberated upon getting rid of them; but when the man he had engaged came to remove the obnoxious pets, he relented and sent him away. He named each one of them after some well-known person to whom he fancied it bore resemblance, physical or otherwise. He seldom wrote anything without a cat or two in his lap—Maurice Mauris. Arctic Circle Flower Garden. A flower garden in Spitzbergen sounds like an anomaly, Spitzbergen being within the arctic circle. A party of British travelers, struck with the beauty of a plateau, called it the Flower Garden ever after. It was in the nineties of last century and the party that of Sir Martin Conway. Landing in midsummer on one of the headlands by Dickinson bay, they were impressed with the deep water, clear as crystal, the marvelous wealth of seaweed, the splendor of a great glacier and the sharp blue peaks of the mountains separating glacier from glacier; while in another direction, over Advent point, coiled wreaths of ragged clouds. Added to it all was a carpet of flowers—andromeda, saxafrages and dryas; so the Flower Garden was actual after all. Throwing Chalk for Luck. In throwing a piece of chalk after his men for luck as they poured into the enemy's trenches, the Irish colonel was but reviving a superstition which dates back to the ancient days of Thrace, where the custom originated of marking lucky days with a white stone and unlucky with a black one. In its early youth Rome adopted the custom, and although chalk, not belag indigenous, was chiefly known, as its name, creta, implies, as an import from Crete, it was generally used for the marking of lucky days. According to Horace, the marking was done with chalk for good and coal for bad luck. "My dear fellow, that is an unknown quantity with me." RODS GIVE NO PROTECTION French Vine Growers Find They De- rive No Benefit From Metal Rods They Erected. The vine-growing region of the Glorde, in France, has been quite extensively equipped in recent years with tall metal rods, similar to lighting rods, known as paragreas on "electric Niagaras," and alleged to afford protection from hallstorms. A careful study of the functioning of these rods has recently been published by M. E. Courty of the University of Bordenaux. The statistics presented show that numerous hallstorms have occurred in the vicinity of nearly all the rods. Moreover, according to M. Courty, there has been no obvious change in the character of these storms since the erection of the rods. His article points out some of the principal reasons for the erroneous conclusions that others have drawn in favor of them; for example, the fact that, normally, only one thunderstorm in five is attended by hall; that the area over which hall falls is normally very small in comparison with that covered by the thunderstorm, and hall tends to occur in scattered patches or narrow bands; and, lastly, that a district in which hall has fallen for two or three years in succession often remains free from hall for years, regardless of the installation of hall-protecting devices. MAKE USE OF WASTE HEAT Councilors of Reykjavik, Iceland, Apply System That Reduces the Taxation of the Citizens. The city council of Reykjavik, Iceland, has now begun the baking of bread in a special bakery in connection with the gas works, where modern machinery has been installed in a special building. The result was excellent, in that the waste heat from the gas works is being used in a practicable and profitable manner, and in the course of a short time all the black bread which may be needed will be baked in the new bread factory. The idea was that of a young student there, and it is considered one of the best means of saving coal, time and money. Three-pound loaves have been completely baked in three hours in considerable numbers. Lake Silian. The forested district roundabout Lake Siljan is one of the most interesting bits of country in the world. In the matter of local color and folk customs that have been preserved almost unchanged from earlier times. Lake Siljan lies in the heart of Sweden. in a region still relatively isolated. The lake is large enough to afford traffic for small steamers, and the country boats of the peasants are numerous In dress and customs, the people of the villages that dot the shores have kept the variety and color that distinguished country districts before modern means of transportation made the world a unit, forcing us all to dress and act and think alike. Thus the village of Orsa has even a dialect markedly different from its neighbors, which is said to resemble the old Scotch more than Swedish. People of villages 10 or 12 miles apart can be distinguished by their distinctive dress. —Chicago Daily News. Think of Yourself You cannot reach a high degree of success in anything without making enemies. Perhaps your lack of success has been caused by this very feeling that you desire to make and retain your friends. You might have improved your position many times, but you feared the ill feeling engendered in certain circles with your advancement. There are times in the lives of all men when they must each choose between what is for their own best interest and their friends, and this does not mean that it is a case of taking advantage of friends—merely displeasing them. Perhaps it is a principle of business involved—perfectly honest and honorable, and to your financial credit—but what would your friends think if you took the decisive step? Loyal, but Not Honest How a man may be honorable in big things but dishonorable in lesser is shown by the story told of Prince Charles Edward, the Pretender. After the Pretender's defeat at the battle of Culloden Moor in 1746, the prince took refuge in the home of a Scottish peasant. There was a reward of £30,000 for the capture of the fugitive, but, although the peasant knew this he did not betray his royal guest. Later, this same peasant, who had scorned to possess himself of great wealth by disloyal means, stole a cow, and was tried, convicted and hanged, stealing being a capital offense in those days. To Protect the Trees. From Bordeaux comes a description of a new method of protecting fruit trees against late spring frosts. This consists of spraying them with a chemical mixture called agarine, said by its maker to be compounded from the juices of certain plants. It is a liquid, and may be handled in the ordinary hand-spray pump, but after it has been applied and exposed the air it acquires a waxy consistency and has the appearance of a sugared or resinous coating, which is not washed off by rain and lasts for from two to five weeks effectively. PRAYER ROCK WIDELY KNOWN Idea of Vermont Citizen Has Been Productive of Far Reaching and Splendid Results. On a cliff at the foot of Drake's hill, in Bristol, Vt., is the so-called Prayer rock, which has become widely known during the past 15 years with the increased use of motor cars. It was in 1891 that Dr. Joseph C. Greene, a former citizen of Lincoln, Vt., bethought himself how he might do something to stop the excessive use of hard language indulged in by exasperated farmers seeking to urge their horses and oxen up the steep rise in the main road between Lincoln and Starksboro. He decided that some ethical or religious reminder should be established at the foot of Drake's hill, and finally gave an order to a stonecutter to engrave the Lord's Prayer upon the face of the cliff. As the nature of the rock did not bring out the lettering clearly, Doctor Greene had the text painted white. Every spring the town authorities now repaint the letters. For many years Doctor Greene lived in Buffalo, and there received hundreds of letters from tourists, expressing approval of his prayer rock idea. The carving had the effect desired, for few drivers could but be patient with their beasts of burden in the face of the scriptural quotation on that great tablet. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE Matter of Saving Part of One's Earnings Is Really Nothing but Display of Strength of Character. To earn money is easy; to save money is easy, too, if you know the secret. To know what you want and what you don't want, that is the secret. Don't argue with yourself when you see a thing, "Can I afford it?" To do this is a sure sign that you can't. Have the strength of character to say, "I can do without it." Don't try to save money by investing all your spare cash. Keep a reserve in the bank. A banking account is a reference. It gives you a better standing in business and out of it and leads to other good things. Don't argue with yourself as to whether you can afford to speculate. You can't, if you have to put that question to yourself. Invest instead, if you feel that you must put your money to some use. Investment means income; speculation means profit—or less—often the latter. But don't put all your eggs in one basket. In other words, don't keep on making investments in the same company, the same locality, or the same industry. Statesmen Robbed Russia The congress of Berlin, consisting of Germany, Austria, France, England, Italy, Russia and Turkey, lasted only one month—from June 13 to July 13, 1878. Russia did not have "a look-in," but was treated in the most arbitrary manner by Bismarck and Beaconsfield. The peace of San Stefano, although formally concluded between the victorious Russians and the conquered Turks, was torn up and Russia was practically robbed of all her success—given only Bessarabia, taken from Boumania, and the rocky citadel of Kars in Asia Minor. Nations that had not participated in the humbling of Turkey were liberally treated. Bulgaria, north of the Balkans; Serbia, Montenegro, Roumania were declared independent. Not a single "reform" promised by the sublime porte was carried into effect. The congress of Berlin was nothing but a personal triumph for Beaconsfield and Bismarck and has been the direct cause of at least five subsequent wars. Out of the Mouths of Babes The trouble was caused by father's chickens and his habit of calling them "chicks" for short. At least Bobby thinks it was. He and mother were on the car when one of mother's friends entered. She wore a new hat which was adorned with a beautiful green feather. Bobby was eyeing the feather when he heard mother say to the woman. "You're so chic, you know." So he drew his own inferences and acted accordingly when the cross nextdoor neighbor, resplendent in new yellow turs, came to call. He looked at the furs on the woman and then at his mother. Then "Now, you can call her a cat, mother," he informed her. Cure for Malignant Measles. Doctors Dumas and Brissaud of Paris report the case of a man in the last stage of malignant measles, with death in coma threatening. A transfusion of blood from a man who had recovered a week before from uncomplicated measles was resorted to. Two hundred mils of the donor's blood were received in 25 mils containing one gram of sodium citrate, and about 100 mils of the mixture were administered. Within a few hours there occurred not only a temporary fall in temperature but a complete transformation of the patient's general condition. A relapse occurred and another injection of blood was given. An unexpected recovery followed. At the station the other day a naval officer on leave was met by his wife and small son. After greeting his wife the father lifted up the boy and kissed him several times and said, "Oh, you don't know how glad papa is to see you!" The boy answered, "You'll be gladder when you get acquainted with me." PAGE THREE LABOR DRIVEN TO ITS LIMIT Hardest of Hard Work Demanded of Boatmen in the Early Days of the Country. The high moral courage of the missionaries who strove to convert the Indians of the Canadian Northwest is well illustrated by the life of Father Lacombe, who dared to rebuke Chief Factor Rowan of the Hudson Bay company for heartlessness toward the company's men. Katherine Hughes describes the incident in her biography of Father Lacombe. The factor and the priest were journeying to Edmonton in a keel boat, towed by a company of cordelliers. Of the boatman's toil Father Lacombe has written: "Imagine, if you please, after resting a few hours on the bare earth, to hear at 3 o'clock the cry, 'Leve! Leve!' Et puis, hurrah!— to pull and pull on the lines drawing the heavy boat up against the current, walking in the mud, the rocks, the swamp, along cliffs, and sometimes in water to their armpits—and this under a burning sun or beating rain from early morning until darkness fell about 9 o'clock. Without having seen it one can form no idea of the hardships, the cruel fatigues, of these boatmen."—Youth's Companion. RANKED WITH GREAT POETS John Greenleaf Whittier Has Written His Namé Among the Immortals of the Earth. John Greenleaf Whittier, one of the best loved and most famous of American poets, and, perhaps, the most ardent abolitionist known to United States history, was born December 17 near Haverhill, Mass. He was apprenticed to journalism and became an editor at the early age of twenty-two. He held various editorial positions, and throughout his life devoted himself to the writing of both prose and poetry, having no doubt a deep inspiration in that he belonged to the same age that gave Emerson and Longfellow to America and Tennyson and the Brownings to England. With such as his contemporaries Whittier, being himself blessed with natural talents, could do no less than what he did in literature. Whittier, however, is better known to fame because of his poems. His prose is not so exalted, though true. He wrote "My Psalm." "Barclay of Ury." "Barbara Friedlech." "At Sundown" and various other wonderful poems. He lived to be eighty-five years old, dying peacefully September 7, 1892. Reading as a Narcotic The habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine drinking or opium smoking; it is like a narcotic, something that helps to pass the time, something that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind, and leaving the deeper springs of feeling and the higher faculties of perception unemployed. The result of all this reading means nothing but a cloudiness in the mind. That is the direct result. The indirect result is that the mind has been kept from developing itself. All development necessarily means some pain, and such reading as I speak of has been employed unconsciously as a means to avoid that pain, and the consequence is atrophy. Lafcadio Hearn. Be Careful With Electricity. Some safety hints for the wise, which are intended to guard against serious accidents and a possible loss of life, are being sent out broadcast by the electric light companies. From them may be selected the following: Do not cover an electric globe with paper or cloth. It may start a fire. Do not hang an ordinary lamp cord over a nail or metal work. Do not leave a cord connected when you are through with it. Do not touch any wire that is down on the ground, whether it is an electric, telephone or guy wire. In an emergency, remove a wire with an instrument equipped with a wooden handle, keeping the full length of the handle between yourself and the wire. Discovery of Anthracite. It is only a little more than a hundred years since authracite coal has been used as fuel, the first attempt to burn it proving unsuccessful. Judge Jesse Fell of Fell house, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was convinced that "stone coal," as it was called, would burn, but his arguments were laughed at. Finally, convinced that what was necessary was a strong draft, Judge Fell built a fireplace of brick with a bottom and front of iron grating. Piling the coal in this, he built a wood fire under it. Soon the coal was a red-hot mass, and the neighbors flocked in to marvel at this and revel in the grateful warmth. That was in February, 1908!—Louisville Courier-Journal. What Did She Mean? "My husband saved me from drowning." "That was romantic." "Yes, it was romantic at the time. But sometimes I have an idea he is gazing at me with a speculative eye." —Lousville Courier-Journal. "The detective who arrested the fleeing criminal on the high seas trampled on the impossible." "How so?" "He landed his man in the middle of the ocean." 1910 M. Successful business man; extensive real estate or popular with all classes of his fellow citizens and women in all parts of this city are also banner for Mayor of Chicago. Successful business man; extensive real estate owner; who is extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens and many Colored men and women in all parts of this city are already marching under his banner for Mayor of Chicago. HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON sponsibility for their conduct to the STARTS HIS BOOM FOR RE- government. The other should be (Concluded from Page one) of this state and Judge Warren Douglas who could easily pass muster as a first class saint also voted for whisky. On the other hand Hon. A. H. Roberts delivered the talk of his life against whisky and worked hard day and night in favor of the passage of the prohibition amendment also manfully and courageously voting in its favor, Mr. Roberts is bound to make his mark in the Legislature of Illinois. Hon. Peter Reinberg, President of the Board of County Commissioners, must be effected, with a severe case of color blindness, for he has selected a large number of men and women, to serve on a committee, to erect a memorial monument, to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in the Forest Preserve Park and not one Colored man nor woman, has had a look in, as a member of the committee. Evidently, Mr. Reinberg, has no use for Colored people, except at election times, when he desires to have them, to assist to vote or boost him into office. MERRIAM GIVES RECONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR CITY. Promises to Appoint a Commission if He is Elected. Capt. Charles E. Merriam has announced his "reconstruction program" for Chicago. While Mayor Thompson was assailing him in one end of his ward, the Seventh, he was telling another gathering of his constituents what he would do if elected mayor. "The next four years in the history of Chicago should be a period of reorganization and reconstruction. Every effort should be made to meet this critical situation as effectively as possible. The Chicago plan commission has presented a program which I have already indorsed, but, in addition to this, if elected mayor of Chicago, I propose, with the approval of the city council, to appoint a reconstruction commission, constituted for the purpose of dealing with the biggest problems of the city and composed of representative men. "My policy would be to select strong men and women, capable of working together without regard to faction, party class, or creed, on exactly the same principle that united action was obtained during the war. A considerable part of these men should be aldermen or other city officials, because of their practical contact with municipal affairs and their direct re- PAGE FOUR * * * He said: sponsibility for their conduct to the government. The other should be private citizens drafted into public service. Public opinion should compel them to act, regardless of their personal inclinations. No private interest should be allowed to stand in the way of the great public interests of Chicago during the next few years. On this commission there would be four sections, as follows: "SOLDIERS—This section should employ all the power of the city government, in co-operation with the state and federal governments, and with any private organizations, to guarantee the very best treatment to the returning soldiers. This applies not only to their reception on coming home but also to helping them secure employment appropriate to their proven ability and any and all other possible ways of helping them through the necessarily trying time of readjustment. Our boys who have offered to give everything in life should not be neglected by the community in whose defense they fought. "THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND CHARTER—This section should look after the interests of Chicago in the coming constitutional convention. Great interests are at stake in the approaching revision of the organic law of the state, and the city government should take the lead, in co-operation, of course, with other organizations, in the great and difficult task of seeing that Chicago's just claims are fully considered and properly recognized. The great questions of home rule, just taxation, public utilities should be given the most earnest consideration and should be closely watched by the city government. In the same way, the question of a new charter for Chicago should be taken up. It is universally agreed that many important changes in our local government are absolutely necessary, and the united action of our citizens should be secured in order to make these changes promptly and with the least possible friction. "BUSINESS—The city government ought to aid in every legitimate way in advancing the trade interests of Chicago. Matters like the new postoffice, the town hall, the development of water and rail facilities, the proper advertisement of Chicago in the great territory around us, are all proper work for the city. The government naturally would co-operate with the organizations such as the Association of Commerce, the real estate boards, the Greater Chicago Federation, and other societies of our citizens. It is now definitely recognized that a good city government is a business asset to a community, and a bad city government gives a city a 'black eye.' The penalty of a Rip Van Winkle at- Plana for Soldiers. Plans for Charter. Aid for Business. titude toward the government is too great for any city to pay, while the advantage of a reputation for first class city government is very definite and very great from an industrial point of view, as well as from any other. seems to be that too many to take the way of least resistance doing the things carelessly andiciously that they ought to do fully and well. Because this is true, there be no such things as dark, dirt Help for Labor. "LABOR AND LIVING CONDITIONS—A section of the reconstruction commission should deal with the working and living conditions of men and women in Chicago. Whatever the government can properly do to make the daily life of men and women comfortable should be undertaken. Housing conditions, sanitation, reception and care of the immigrant, regularity of employment, sound working conditions, the high cost of living all challenge the attention of the city and should be dealt with on broad lines. Many of these conditions are beyond the control of the municipal government, but in some specific cases it is possible to act directly and, in other cases, for the city to take the initiative. In view of the revolutionary conditions now prevailing throughout the greater part of the world, it is imperative that Chicago leave no stone unturned to remove the causes of social discontent." DARK CORNERS Dark corners are dangerous. There are many kinds of dark corners, but they are all dangerous. Dark corners in lavatories, toilets, kitchens, work rooms and living rooms, in fact in all places of human habitation are dangerous corners. Dark corners are dangerous because they are hiding places for dangerous dirt. Have you ever noticed that careless, ignorant and vicious spitters always seek dark corners where they may practice their dirty, dangerous habits without so much fear of detection as though they did it in the open? Dirt in dark corners is, of course, hidden away and not so easily discovered. Filth that has been deposited in dark corners is more difficult to remove than when it is placed out in the open where it can be seen and properly taken care of. The man who spits into a dark corner is a first cousin to the fellow who dumps the objectionable waste and refuse of his premises on the nearest vacant lot under cover of darkness. Both of these offenders against the laws of decency and health are seeking to evade detection and punishment, for as they well know, it is an offense against the laws of society, the laws of any well organized community. The well lighted work room is easily kept clean because it affords little or no opportunity for the practice of unsanitary habits by the dirty, the ignorant or the careless. Living rooms that are well lighted are also more easily kept clean because the sunshine and the daylight pouring in through the windows reveal the presence of dirt and dust that should be removed. There should be no dark corners or recesses in any rooms used for human occupancy. Light and air are indispensable essentials for all indoor occupants. Darkness encourages dirt and filth; it also encourages dirty, sneaking, filth habits among people who are both ignorant and vicious and who, if not ignorant, are lazy and cowardly. The man who under cover of darkness puts objectionable matter on a vacant lot is both a sneak and a coward, or he wouldn't be guilty of such conduct. This is pretty plain language, but it is true. The workman who takes advantage and uses it, of dark, illly lighted corners or recesses, as a cover for his cussedness, it not a good man to have on the pay rool of any working establishment. It seems to be a dominant characteristic of many people to dispose of their dirt, filth and rubbish of every kind in almost every way but the right way. This is why not only in Chicago, but in every city, town and hamlet in the land, the dirty, vacant lot and the equally dangerous, dirty dump heap are always in obtrusive evidence. The litter habit is nationwide and it seems to be a mighty hard habit to eradicate. The trouble seems to be that too many people take the way of least resistance in doing the things carelessly and viciously that they ought to do carefully and well. Because this is true, there should be no such things as dark, dirty corners. Let in the light so that the dirt can be seen and then it will be taken away and such places will be made clean and safe. The litter habit is a bad habit. Don't cultivate it. Air as nature provides it is good. Man alone defiles it. Keep close to nature's supply and through the outdoor life and the open windows of home and workshop get it in its purest form all the time. THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Washington, D. C.—The failure of the United States to provide adequate care for mothers before and at the birth of their children and the great loss of maternal and infant life which results are cited by Miss Julia C. Lathrop, in her sixth annual report as Chief of the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor as evidence that the United States should develop on a national scale facilities for protecting maternity and infancy and thereby for cutting down the maternal and infant death rates. The adoption of similar measures for the protection of mothers and babies in England and New Zealand has been followed by material reductions in their infant death rates. The English Government in August, 1918, passed a measure extending local provision for the care of mothers with Government aid. New Zealand has for several years provided special facilities for mothers and has reduced its infant mortality rate from 88.8 in 1907 to 48.2 in 1917—a rate less than half that of the United States. The report suggests provision in the United States through Government contribution to State activities in a manner similar to that in which Federal aid is now granted for vocational education, better framing, and good roads. The Bureau's studies show that adequate care before and at childbirth is now available for few mothers whether in city or country. Scarcely a mother in any of the widely separated rural areas studied by the Bureau had prenatal care measuring up to an accepted standard of adequacy, and more than three-fourths had no medical supervision or advice. The report states that even in the cities in which pioneer work is being done for prenatal care many mothers have no skilled care either at childbirth or before. The seriousness of these conditions is emphasized by the fact that in 1915, for instance, more than two-fifths of the infant deaths occurring in the birth registration area of the United States Census Bureau were from diseases directly traceable to the care and condition of the mother during pregnancy and confinement. That is, at least one baby in every 25 born died from these causes. The actuel loss of infant life in the first month shows no decrease from year to year, although the results of infant welfare work have begun to appear in a lowered death rate among babies who have survived the hazards of early infancy. This decrease is chiefly in deaths from gastric and intestinal diseases. It is to be noted that in 1916 about twice as many babies under one year of age died from causes related to the care and condition of the mother as from gastric and intestinal diseases. Similarly, Census Bureau figures indicate that no reduction in maternal deaths has been accomplished from 1900 to 1916, although each year some 15,000 mothers in the United States have been dying from causes that are largely preventable. While the lack of adequate care is general and the resulting loss of maternal and infant life great in this country the results of provisions for better care in other countries lead to the recommendation that nation-wide effort be made to provide better care in the United States for mothers and babies. HON. FRANK I. BENNETT The able Commissioner of Public Works of Illinois who is strong for Hon. Frank O. Lowden, for President of the United States in 1920; who would make a splendid candidate, to succeed him as the chief executive of this state. SUPREME COURT HITS COLORED THE NEGRO POPULATION IN SHRINERS. THE UNITED STATES FROM 1790 TO 1915. Negroes Restrained from Imitation Shrine Title. The Bureau of Census of the Uni Washington, special.—Injunctions restraining the use of the name Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine by an organization of Negroes on the ground that it is an imitation of the name of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were in effect made permanent today by the Supreme Court, which refused to review proceedings in the Georgia state courts. The Negro organization was enjoined from using its corporate name, badge, emblems and titles. Attorneys S. A. T. Watkins and James E. White of this city, who were called into the above case after it had been poorly prepared by two white lawyers, down behind the sun in Georgia state that they failed to set up in their petition that any property rights were involved, that the 26 colored shriners were really entitled to some consideration at the hands of the United States Supreme court and so on. Messers. Watkins and White contend that the action of the court will not in the least effect the other cases pending in that court by the Colored Masons of Georgia, that they will be whipped into proper shape and that they will stand on four solid legs. The white masons of Texas are hot after the colored masons of that state and they will make an effort to put or run them out of business and Messrs. White and Watkins expect to lead the great legal battle for the colored masons of the Lone star state, and with plenty of money behind them they will bitterly contest every inch of the ground through all of the courts right on up to the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D. C. SOCIETY FORMED TO GET JOBS FOR NEGRO FIGHTERS. Negro heroes of the old "Fighting Eighth" regiment, who come home to Chicago after their months of front line service, will find a powerful organization at their service in their search for civilian employment. Organization of Negro welfare societies to co-operate with the federal bureau for returning soldiers and sailors was completed Wednesday and arrangements were made to establish another bureau branch at Twenty-eight and State streets. Relatives of men in the old Eighth have received no definite word concerning their return other than that the regiment has been ordered to an embarkation point in France. THE NEGRO POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1790 TO 1915. The Bureau of Census of the United States has recently issued a most wonderful and comprehensive book, entitled the "Negro Population in the United States," from 1790 to 1915. Hon. Samuel L. Rogers, director of Department of Commerce and Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., has recently furnished the edition of this paper with a volume of the work. The copy which lies before us is worth its weight in gold. It consists of eight hundred and fifty pages. It very minutely gives a detailed account of the Colored people, residing in each and every state, throughout the union, its territories and other possesions and a thousand and one occupations which the Colored people, men, women and children are employed in in this country; the number of homes and farms owned by the Colored people and the amount of taxes they pay on more than a billion dollars worth of property in the United States. On the whole it is a most remarkable and highly instructive work from every point of view, and it would be well indeed, if the Colored people in general would familiarize themselves with its contents. For our part, we wish to most heartily thank Mr. Rogers, director of the Census, for favoring us with a copy of the "Negro Population in the United States," from 1790 to 1915. AGREE TO LOWER POSTAL RATE TO PRE-PRW WAR BASIS. Washington, D.C., Jan. 16.—House conferees today accepted the senate amendment to the war revenue bill for removing war taxes on first class postage next July 1, when pre-war rates of 2 cents an ounce on letters and 1 cent for post cards again would be effective. Action on the second class mail provision of the senate proposing repeal of the present zone system and establishing new modified zone rates, was deferred. The senate amendment levying a tax of 10 per cent upon products of child labor entering interstate commerce, and designed to have the same effect as the child labor act recently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme court, was adopted by senate and house conferees. A separate vote on the amendment will be taken in the house before final passage of the bill. 86 PEJ HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER the regular Democratic candidate for mayor of Chicago who will be voted for at the primaries in February. The following men and women have been selected by President Peter Steinberg of the forest preserve district to serve upon the committee to erect a Roosevelt memorial. Raymond Robbins, Otto C. Butz, Medill McCormick, H. H. Merrick, Dr. Graham H. Taylor, E. D. Hulbert, Alexander H. Revell, George M. Reynolds, Carter H. Harrison, E. J. Brundage, W. R. Dawes, Daniel Ryan, Edward H. Bennett, John S. Miller, Simon O'Donnell, Matthey Woll, Miss Harriet Wittum, John F. Smulski, Frederick A. Rawson, Ivan O. Ackley, James C. Ames, Carl Latham, Harold L. Ickes, Jacob M. Loeb, J. Hamilton Lewis, Roger C. Sullivan, John J. Mitchell, Charles H. Wacker, James F. Stepina, Angus Roy Shannon, Macclay Hoyne, Charles S. Deneen, Leroy A. Goddard, John Duddinger, A. M. Liebling, Jacob M. Dickinson, George W. Perkins, Miss Jane Addams, Miss Frances Drake, Harry Olson, Charles L. Hutchison, Mark Levy, Oscar G. Foreman, Foster S. Nims, Allen B. Pond, Frank L. Shepard, Joseph Medill Patterson, John Eastman, Arthur Brisbane; Robert R. McCormick, Jesse A. Baldwin, Thomas F. Scully, Louis F. Swift, Nelson Morris, D. F. Kelly, Harry Pratt Judson, Ransom E. Kennicott, John C. Vaughan, Frank G. Logan, Julius Rosenwald, A. D. Weiner, Wright A. Patterson, Joseph E. Otis, Samuel Insull, The Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, Archbishop George W. Mundelein, Father T. V. Shannon, B. E. Sunny, John R. Thompson, Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, Miss Amelia Sears, Mrs. Heaton Owsley. Oscar F. Mayer, Ernest Kruetgen, Henry G. Zander, H. H. Kohlsaat, Edward F. Dunne, Harrison B. Riley, Victor F. Lawson, John C. Shaffer, Amos C. Miller, Marcus Kavanagh, Henry Horner, J. Ogden Armour, Thomas E. Wilson, John G. Shedd, Thomas F. Holgate, William Hale Thompson, Dwight H. Perkins, William Peterson, M. E. Greenbaum, Albert D. Lasker, Kenesaw M. Landis, Everett C. Brown, Dorr E. Felt, James B. Forgan, The Rev. John Timothy Stone, Father E. J. Vattman, The Rev. Emil G. Hirsch, James F. Bowers, Mrs. Henry Solomon, Mrs. Edwin T. Johnson, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Lorado Taft, Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, William Rothmann, W. L. Moody, Elmer Schlesinger, Levy Mayer, Frederick Moulton, Peter Peel, Clarence S. Darrow, Peter A. Mortenson, Dr. Frank Billings, Roy D. Keehn, Louis Betts, Francis D. Simmons, Merritt Starr, The Rev. Johnston Myers, Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, Peter S. Lambros, Charles W. Folds, Peter Reinberg, Willoughby Walling, David E. Shanahan, John P. McGoorty, William Russe, Carl Roden, Dr. W. A. Evans, Ralph Clarkson, Frank R. Grower, Henry G. Foreman, The Rev. Rufus A. White, The Rev. Rudolph A. John, Dr. Camillo Volini, Felix Streyckmans, Edgar A. Bancroft. SECURITY LEAGUE CHIEF DE NIES TRAITOR CHARGE. Washington, D. C.—Charles D. Orth, chairman of the congressional committee of the Nantional Security league, testifying today before the special house committee investigating the league's activities in the last campaign, declared he did not believe any member of congress had been a traitor or had violated his oath of office. MRS. THOMAS CAREY, IS GRADUALLY IMPROVING, AFTER UNDERGOING A SERIOUS OPERATION. Mrs. Thomas Carey, 4427 Grand Boulevard; the devoted and faithful wife of Hon. Thomas Carey, is gradually improving after undergoing a serious and most difficult operation at one of the most prominent hospitals in this city. The numerous warm friends, of Mr. and Mrs. Carey sincerely hope, that she will soon be restored, to the very best of health. PLANS FOR TUSKEGEE CONFENCE ASSUMES SHAPE Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 17.-Announcement that Bishop Thomas F. G. of Memphis, Tennessee, whoseeral expressions on race relate have been so heartening to the ored people, will be one of the principal speakers at the Tuskegee N Conference insures an interesting helpful discussion of the various plems growing out of the demobition of the Negro soldiers and a reabsorption into the arteries of dustry and farming. NEGRO SOLDIERS IN TRAINING. Those who felt that Negroes should not be armed, and that, if they were armed, they should not be allowed to go into any of the Southern camps, have long since changed their minds, because Negroes have been drafted by hundreds of thousands; they have been put into nearly all of the camps, North and South; and as far as my observation goes in the ten camps visited the Negro has turned out about as good soldier in Camp Sheridan, Alabama or Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as he has in Camp Dix, New Jersey, or Camp Meade, Maryland. The different ways that these men are being selected and put into the positions for which they are best suited, the moral safeguards that the Army throws around them, the great amount of physical training they get, the way in which every man is being trained to look out for himself, the real interest taken by the company commanders in their men personally, the excellent care they have in case of sickness, the extreme care at the average camp to keep things clean, the correct personal habits that the officers try to develop in their men, and the work of the medical men in looking after the health of every man in camp—all these go to show that the United States Army (when it comes to the matter of developing men), if it does not lead the world for speed and efficiency, cannot be very far behind the leader. The officers seem bent on one desire and one object—to sift until the right job is found for every man.—Southern Workman. SANDY W. TRICE SELECTED BY HON. JOHN G. DRENNAN TO REPRESENT THE COLORED EMPLOYES OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY AT A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING. For several months past a movement has been on foot in this city, to organize a Building and Loan Association among the Colored people, and such men as Judge John Stelk, of the Municipal court, have been actively interested in it and recently a meeting was held, at Odd Fellows' Hall, to further that project; all the large employers of Colored people, were requested to send some one to represent them at the meeting and in every instance, excepting one, white representatives were selected. Mr. A. E. Clift, general manager of the Illionis Central Railroad Company, through Hon. John G. Drennan, District Attorney for the Illinois Central, who is a tried and true friend of the Colored race, selected Mr. Sandy W. Trice to represent the Colored employees of the Illionis Central Raidroad Company at the meeting, and Mr. Trice feels very grateful indeed, to general manager Clift, and Hon. John G. Drennan, for conferring that honor or distinction upon him. THE APPOMATTOX CLUB. For the remainder of January 1919 the calendar of events are as follows at the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash ave.: "A Trip to Africa," by Hon. W. J. Yerby, U. S. Consul, Dakar, French West Africa. Sunday afternoon, January 19, at 4:00 P. M.: Music, Members and friends. Bachelors' Third Annuel Party, Friday evening, January 24; formal; members and guests. S. A. T. Watkins, Pres., H. T. Corowell, Secretary. Watch for announcement of reception for our members of the old "8th." PLANS FOR TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE ASSUMES SHAPE Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 17.-Announcement that Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Memphis, Tennessee, whose liberal expressions on race relations have been so heartening to the colored people, will be one of the principal speakers at the Tuskegee Negro Conference insures an interesting and helpful discussion of the various problems growing out of the demobilization of the Negro soldiers and their reabsorption into the arteries of industry and farming. Other speakers include Hon. Bradford Knapp, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Geo. E. Haynes of the Department of Labor, and Mr. Emmet J. Scott, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. This will be the Twenty-eight Annual Conference and there is every indication that the attendance will be the largest perhaps ever assembled for these Annual Meetings. THE CLIO SCHOOL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. The Second Anniversary Celebration of the Establishing of the School in Chicago. This coming Monday evening, Jan. 20, the Second Anniversary Celebration graduating exercises and reception of the Putman Class of 1918, of the Clio School of Mental Scineces will be held at the school, 3543 South State street, at which time the following program will be rendered: Introduction of Chairman, Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch; Remarks by Chairman, Alderman Louis B. Anderson; Overture, Moseau de Salon; Demoiselle Adena L. Price; Salutatory Address, Mrs. Emma McDougal; Vocal Solo, (a) "Goodbye" Tosti, (b) "Daddy's Sweetheart" Lehmann; Mrs. Mamie Marshall; Valedictory Address, Mrs. Mary Thurman; Address—The Unfailing Law of Success, Prof. Adena C. E. Minott; Presentation of Certificates to Graduates, Pros. Richard T. Greener; Vocal Solo (a) You Aak Me If Love, Burleigh; (b) Polonaise (from Mignon) Thomas; (c) Awakening, J. R. Johnson; Mme. Martha Broadus-Anderson. Social Hour for Students, Members and Friends. Landlords had better beware, "Cold flat" tenants won a big victory Wednesday. Mrs. Anna Eckland, owner of an apartment building at 6125-29 Drexel avenue, was fined $100 by Municipal Judge Stewart for failing to provide enough heat to keep the tenants com- fortable. It was the first case brought by the health department to test its power along this line. Health Officer J. J. Troy testified that on Jan. 6 the apartments in the building showed temperatures of from 48 to 55. He said there were two sick children in one of the apartments, and that a sign placed on the building by the health department had been torn down. "This ought to be an answer to the persons who said we had no right to compel building owners to furnish sufficient heat," said Health Commissioner Robertson, when told of the case. "The health department has the legal right to condemn any building without sufficinct heat." RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS AT TUSKEGEE Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 17.—Warren Logan, Acting Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, announced today that according to present plans, the Reserve Officers Training Corps will begin here February first. The R. O. T. C. represents a splendid opportunity for young men of the colored race, as all male students over fourteen years of age are eligible for enlistment; the Government furnishing a full uniform for each student and also appointing a regular army officer to conduct the drills. Students maintaining highest records in military science and practice may be recommended for further training looking towards a commission in the Officers Reserve. PETER H. HON. HARRY OLSON Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Deneen, Brundage Republican candidate for Mayor of this city. SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION 2830 S. State St. H. Franklin Bray, D.D., Supt. Service Every Night in the Year. The Superintendent preached at Bethel last Sunday morning and delivered an address at the Y. M. C. A. at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Everybody invited. Admission free. Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Rev. W. D. Cook, Pastor. J. W. BELL, Sec'y. THE HON. ROGER C. SULLIVAN DEMOCRATIC TICKET. The following candidates have been put forth by the Sullivan wing The second link in our chain was broken this week in the death of sister Hattie B. Williams. She was "faithful until death." Rev. F. F. Moten, known throughout the West and South-West as the Texas "Cyclone," will be with us in the arly spring in a revival meeting. The Sunshine Rescue Workers are behind the heaven-inspired movement of the young people of the city for a city-wide revival campaign. A second piano and a large graphophone have been added to the equipment this week. A hearty welcome awaits you here every night. COME! CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank the many friends for their most kind attention during the long illness and at the death of my devoted husband, Samuel Taylor, who departed this life January 4, and was buried January 7, at Oakwood Cemetery, from his late home. Funeral services, by Rev. Timothy Reeves, pastor of St. Stephens church, where Mr. Taylor was a member, was beautifully delivered. Rev. Reeves was assisted with a short address by Mr. Sims. I also wish to extend my appreciation to Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer; Hon. P. A. Nash; Alderman George M. Maypole; Alderman Joseph Higgins Smith; Mr. James Martin and Mr. Julius F. Taylor. I am especially thankful to the members of St. Stephens church, and to the Saints church. Mrs. Anna Taylor, 1728 Fulton st., Chicago, Ill., January 16,1919. Up to December 31, 1918, the war had cost this country, in money, the sum of twenty-one billions and five hundred millions of dollars. During the year the cost in money was eighteen billions and one hundred and sixty millions of dollars. During the month of December alone the cost was two billions and one hundred millions of dollars. During the year 1918 the daily cost was nearly fifty millions of dollars; the hourly cost more than two millions, and the cost per minute $335,000. So far the cost per person, and this is only a part of the total, has been about $200. Next Sunday afternoon, Jan. 19th, at four o'clock, Bethel Literary Club presents Att'y Eugene J. Marshall, subject "Brotherhood of Man." Mrs. Geraldine Withers has secured several special numbers in connection with her regular musical program. Short address by Mr. Geo. T. Kersey. Everybody invited. Admission free. Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Rev. W. D. Cook, Pastor. THE HON. ROGER C. SULLIVAN DEMOCRATIC TICKET. The following candidates have been put forth by the Sullivan wing of the Democratic party: For Mayor: Robert M. Sweitzer; For City Treasurer: Henry Stuckart; For City Clerk: James T. Igoe (incumbent); For Municipal Court Vacancy: Francis Borrelli; For Superior Court Judge: John M. O'Connor, (incumbent). Mrs. Mamie Clark, 5827 Wentworth ave., is still receiving expressions of sympathy from her many friends over the recent death of her aged father. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 6438 Eberhart ave., has for the past four weeks been confined to her home with illness, but to the delight of her many friends she is rapidly regaining her health again. The writer has received an invitation to attend the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference, which will be held at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Jan. 22 and 23. We very much regret our inability to be present on that occasion. Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, 5827 Wentworth ave., left the city the first part of the week for Newport News, Va., where she will attend a conference in the interest of the Colored people. From there she will visit Old Point Comfort, Hampton Institute, Va., and Washington, D. C. She will be absent about ten days. In his last so called spread-eagle speech at the Eighth Regiment armory Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons declared that Col. Robert S. Abbott is the greatest black man in the world and only a few years ago Col. Abbott branded Col. Simmons as a grand rascal and a dishonest scoundrel, so you can pay your money and take your choice. It is said that Col. Cary B. Lewis and Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, whom the Chicago Defender claimed stole a whole lot of money from its editor several years ago, cleaned up five hundred dollars each out of the big so called Peace Meeting, which they pulled off at the old Eighth Regiment armory. Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons would give up one thousand dollars in real money if his lawyer Alderman Louis B. Anderson could find his wife Mrs. Simmons, so as to be able to serve her with some kind of papers which would enable Col. Simmons to secure a divorce from her, for it is said that he would be greatly delighted to become united in marriage to a real young live chicken. PAGE FIVE J. W. BELL, Sec'y. 1 At the left is shown a dainty frock of pale-green organdie trimmed with large daisies formed of narrow white braid, with yellow used for the centers; two square pockets in front. At the right is a little boy's "Victory" amock of unbleached cotton, embroidered in red and blue. tiny, colored fringe as a lining for jackets. It had the triple qualities of endurance, originality and cheapness, this new lining. It was a war-time necessity, so Doucet thought, but it speedily became a piece of economy that threatened to be a high fashion. Probably the spring will make it exceedingly popular. It is a good idea for those who deplore the lack of service in coat linings, especially in these days when one is not sure of dyes. The use of unbleached muslin for interior decoration has become well established, especially for country homest where curtains of this fabric are edged with colored fringe and bedspreads and pillow shams are made of it with borders of colored cloth in turkey red or dark blue. As a bit of fine dressmaking, it was not even considered until the interior decorators brought the idea into the fashionable world; and then came Doucet's coat linings, and now these children's frocks with their red and blue decorations. Came Out of the South. One woman who was enchanted with a Victory frock of this fabric exclaimed: "Why, that's the material I use to cover my ironing board!" It is. And it will wear as well on a youngster as on an ironing board. This style of costumery for children came out of the South, out of Virginia, where unbleached muslin is well known and the devastation of At the left is shown a dainty frock of pa- daies formed of narrow white braid two square pockets in front. At the smock of unbleached cotton, embroi not be parts of the flag. It is not fitting, writes a leading fashion authority, that any but youth should wear the bits of red, white and blue which, combined with a certain skill, make the alluring Victory clothes of this hour. There are tiny frocks for tiny children in which the colors only flash as long ribbons that are run through two buttonholes in the front or back of a round collar and drop to the hem. There are frocks for older children which are made of red, white and blue stripes held in by soft sashes of colored bunting in the three colors. There is a return to a far-off and fascinating fashion in the blue bunting frocks for children between eight and ten years old which are touched up with red bunting and ornamented with white turnover collar and cuffs. There are pleated skirts of red flag bunting with straight little cutrass blouses of blue bunting fastened in a straight line down the front with red buttons. The cuffs and collar are taken from the time of the Stuartts. They are made of white linen edged with linen lace and touched with red and blue buttons. There are red and blue hair ribbons for girls; there are red and white-striped awning rompers for the nursery fastened with blue bone buttons; and one of the successful frocks of the season is made of ordinary unbleached muslin smocked with red, white and blue worsted threads, the design giving a blurred impression of the flag. It was a clever idea, this, to turn out the children of the land in flag costumes, making them living, joyous symbols of the red, white and blue which today is the banner of freedom all over the world. And it is not only our flag that they represent; it is the flags of the allies. Frocks of Unbleached Muslin. Two months ago Doucet of Paris gave the world a new idea when he used unbleached muslin edged with KIDDIES TO DON COLORS OF FLAG Victory Clothes Successfully Launched as Change for Youngsters. UNBLEACHED MUSLIN IS USED Material Is Found to Make Substantial Lining for a Jacket, as Well as Being Suitable for Frocks for Children. New York.—Nothing so delights the heart of a child as to hold a flag in its hand. Youth and the symbols of patriotism are linked. Wasn't it Galsworthy who gave us that association of the two gay elements of life in saying of a girl that she carried her youth in her face, like flags flying? It was clever, therefore, of the designers to launch the youngsters into Victory clothes. The elders may express their relief from the tension of terror that handcuffed us all for four years by bursting out of the chrysalis into the butterfly, but their clothes will pale-green organdie trimmed with large aid, with yellow used for the centers; the right is a little boy's "Victory" boldered in red and blue. war, its restrictions, privations and economies, is still a terrible memory even to those who were born after the Civil war. It is rather a strange thing that some of the great centers have adopted juvenile clothes that have been designed and made by Virginia gentlemen ever since the war began. Many a youngster going to a party in a house which stands on a pedestal of millions, as well as others who trail into Central park with their expensive French nurses, are wearing adorable frocks from some little southern town, made very often by aged fingers that have kept the art of rolling, whipping, streaking and tucking with fine cambric needles and the thinnest of cotton threads. Children Lead Fashions. The season has impressed upon those who are interested in juvenile clothes the fact that the youngsters are sometimes well in the lead with new fashions and that their elders stumble along after them. Once upon a time, when the world was young and cruel, it considered it correct for children to be encased in bones and costumed in brocade and metal, heavy embroideries, long skirts and stiffly-pointed bodices. It was cruel to make youth the resemblance of age. Today we make age the resemblance of youth. In that lies our virility, our enthusiasm and our sanity. The children lead the way in belts around hips, short sleeves, smocked blouses, bobbed hair, socks, low-heeled shoes, straight lines and uncorseted figures. Their mothers, and sometimes their grandmothers, imitate them. It behoves women to look upon this parade of fashions with interest, for the little human flags running down the path of fashion today are blazing the way for us. (Copyright, 1915, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, JANUARY 18, 1919 NECKLACE IS HUGE NECKLACE IS HUGE Ornament Is Brought Back as a Pronounced Fashion. Strings of Pearls Allowed to Hang Full Length Instead of Being Wrapped Around Neck. The French designers have brought back into fashion huge necklaces from an ornamental past. They are not made of jewels, yet they are costly, and the supply of fine ones rapidly diminishes. Once upon a time our dians bartered petrives for bright cuts. Such was the foundation of one of our great American fortunes. Today, declares a fashion writer, there are women who vehemently declare that they would barter their second year fur pieces for a gay necklace. They sell old clothes in order to get one of these much desired possessions. It is the hour of the necklace. All that has gone before is as nothing to what now exists. And, mind you, the necklace is not of precious stones. There are few well dressed women who wear any precious stones about the neck except pearls. Diamonds hold a place with some, but they are not considered among well dressed women as an ornament of parts. Costly they are, it is true, and in unique settings of carved platinum they have their place, but the bare, bald, crude diamond necklace is a bit blatant for the fastidious woman. She prefers pearls, and so it seems does every other woman who can buy a string, from six dollars up. If the attention of the latter class is turned toward the barbaric necklaces, it may be that they will quickly fall into disuse; but one thing is certain, which is that six dollars will go a short way toward purchasing one of the rare necklaces of the hour. An individual designer of clothes in New York found himself the fortunate possessor of a half dozen necklaces which he had seen in an antique shop, where they were thrown over a string in the back of the store. He immediately purchased them. Then the French fashion found its way across the ocean into America, and the designer attached his necklaces to costly gowns, either at the neck or at the waistline, and they added to the price he asked for the garment. There is nothing fastidious or delicate about the new chains; they are as heavy in appearance as medieval armor. They are made of great rings or long, oblong links, and the plaque or medallion in which they end looks like a Japanese crest. It is as full of color and as massive as the Egyptian jewelry of other centuries. All of these new chains are short. The big, carved medallion rests on the bust. They do not reach to the waist, which is the desire of the precious stones. The woman who owns a marvelous string of pearls now lets it hang to its full length, you know, instead of wrapping it around her neck several times, in royal fashion. DRESS SUGGESTIONS A red organdle underslip may be worn under a pale pink dress of the same material. A blouse of cream-dotted net is charming when trimmed with platinum gray ribbon. A dress of brown silk jersey may be collared but not cuffed with pale rose organdle. White silk braid and black jet beads make charming trimming for a simple crepe de chine. Evening cloaks and elaborate evening gowns are made with the new dropped shoulder line. In the evening one may wear a hat of white clipped beaver, banded with white grossrain ribbon. An afternoon dress of gray and redbrown marquisette, trimmed in redbrown satin and crisp white organdle, is tightly draped and pulled around the ankles to fulfill the effect of tapering. CHIC SMOCK OF WHITE LINEN © Western Newspaper Union This smock of white linen which is embroidered in attractive shades of blue, brown, yellow and red, is of the latest design and is a good-looking and comfortable early morning gown. This smock of white linen which is embroidered in attractive shades of blue, brown, yellow and red, is of the latest design and is a good-looking and comfortable early morning gown. JUST ONE DRESSMAN & COSTUMER Cafe au lait forms this smart turture that should appeal to many women. The surplice waist has a large collar of beaver and the bell sleeves are edged with the same fur. Tassels of brown silk add an effective touch. TO DETECT IMPURE MATERIAL Silk, Linen, Leather, Among the Various Articles That Are Being Cleverly Counterfeited. The "beware of imitations" line sd common in advertisements is really a piece of good advice, observes a correspondent. An almost limitless amount of ingenuity is devoted to producing cheap substitutes for popular articles. In appearance they must rival the genuine, so it is well to know how their real quality must be tested. Nothing, for instance, is more satisfying to eye and touch than pure linen and most woman shoppers believe it has a distinctive "feel." It has, but mixed with the linen of the next tablecloth you examine may be mercerized cotton, treated with magnesia so that it counterfeits this "feel." An easy test is to hold the fabric up to the light. Along the threads of good linen tiny knots will show. Cotton threads are smooth. An infallible method is to soak a corner of the napkin in glycerin. If it becomes translucent it is pure linen; if it remains opaque it is cotton. Short skirts make stockings a distinctly conspicuous feature of woman's dress, so the demand was greatly increased for silk substitutes. Some are made of wood pulp, others of artificial silk. Cotton, of course, is mixed with good silk, and a poor quality product is given weight by treating it with oxide of tin. Small particles of the metal are scattered through the fabric, which cut tiny holes or cause the garment to crack along a folded edge. The sure test for silk is to burn a bit of it. If pure scarcely a trace will remain, but a poor quality will leave one-third to one-half its weight in ashes. Beware of silk that has a hard feeling, or if it has a transparent look when held to the light. This means it is a mesh, filled in and weighted with metal. Wool will disappear if bolled in a solution of caustic soda. If the fabric be mixed with cotton the latter will remain undissolved. This is a valuable test, for it is hard to tell what goes into some articles guaranteed as "all wool". Blankets offer a good field for the imitator, sheep furnishing but little of the fiber in some of those labeled "half wool". Specimens of such have been found to contain but 10 per cent wool. These are made of a mesh cotton, filled in by means of an air blast with scraps of waste wool. The result 's a soft, fluffy covering, but little of it will remain after a first or second washing. Shoe soles are made of ground leather scrap mixed with paper pulp and rubber. Cowhide is split into half a dozen layers and the source of many an expensive alligator handbag or pigskin leggings once wore horns—perhaps the pride of some dairy. Corduroy Kimonos Some new kilonos shown in some of the shops are a strange combination of style and fabric. They are Japanese kilonos made of corduroy. But when you come to think of it, wouldn't they be delightfully comfortable? Think of wrapping one of them around you some cold winter day when the necessary restrictions in coal make the thermometer lower than comfort calls for. That is probably what their makers thought of. And so although kilonos of silk and rose corduroy embroidered with silk chrysanthemums seem a bit of a strange combination and contrast still they are a delightful concession to the cold that is coming. TULLE HAT VOGUE Headgear Classed as Newest and Most Up-to-Date. Unexpected Creation Appears When Toques and Bonnets to Match Winter Togs Are Worn. After all it is the unexpected and unusual little thing which seems to set the final seal of success on one's appearance. Smartly dressed women realize this and often gain their reputation for being smartly dressed by the addition of something original and pleasing—and perhaps also a bit more daring than the more conservative choose. Nothing is more unexpected at this time, writes a fashion correspondent, than the vogue of the tulle hat, for instance. Just when most of us are reaching out after fur toques and bonnets to match our heavy winter togs the very newest, most up-to-date creation of millinery appears to be the tulle hat. It has taken on surprising shapes also, as for instance a curious, upstanding brown tulle bonnet with a crown like a Cossack's cap. Around the brim flares a band of tulle which ends in a flat, smart bow directly over the face. As yet it is only the brown tulle hat which seems to be favored. This suggests coquetry, for long ago French women decreed that the very perfection of artistic effect was produced by a hat of so nearly the exact shade of the hair that one could hardly tell where hat left off and hair began, so clearly and softly did the two mingle. Of course the brown shades of tulle permit this perfect harmony, as brown hair is easily matched. Along with the tulle hat come some new feather trimmings — feathers trained and curled into all sorts of designs, such as leaves, blossoms, tricorners, rosettes and cockades. A certain wide-brimmed hat of leaf brown tulle which has been much admired has its crown entirely covered with feather leaves laid on quite flat and overlapping so that nothing of the hat underneath is visible. The hem is wide and flaring and is made of several layers of tulle placed one above the other. Another hat of the same sort, also of brown tulle, has the same wide and flaring brim of several thicknesses of the tulle, and at intervals narrow bands of the feathers appear. The only trimming is a very wide, flat butterfly bow tied just in front. This hat has The Popular Tulle Hat the thinnest of crowns through which the hair shows prettily. Of course these frall and delicate chapeaux are intended only for the most elaborate and dressy occasions, such as matinees, afternoon teas and restaurant wear. A variation of the tulle-draped toque of the summer has appeared in a smart model of moleskin and taupe-colored silk net. The fur and the net are cunningly draped together to form the close-fitting hat. From the back the net falls away into a long veil, which ends in a deep band of the moleskin finished with a button and catch to fasten at the back, thus presenting the appearance of a fur collar. DECOLLETE COAT AND DRESS Vogue Among Fashionable Dressers is to Swathe Neck, Leaving Bare a Triangle of Throat. A smart trick much in vogue among fashionable women is to swathe the neck, leaving bare a triangle of throat below the fur, writes a Paris correspondent. This fashion will be much adopted. We shall see women, their necks and ears well muffled in furs, fortified thus against the elements, with throat left bare by the decollete of coat and dress. I have already seen several examples of this fashion, hiding the mouth and chin, but leaving uncovered a square of bare throat like a little window, appearing whiter by contrast with the darkness of the furs. A no less piquant contrast will be the pallor of bare arms almost innocent of sleeves, while neck and ears are warmly enshrouded in a fur collar. Fashion's decree, then, is to hide the lower part or, rather, some part of the face, since some collars reach right up to the eyes. Those who do not fear influenza will willingly bear some minor discomforts to be a la mode. For the others there will be the smartness of fur collars completely hiding ears and neck, with a straight plastron, which will have the fascination of novelty. Volles Will Be Favorites. Among the dress cottons for spring, volles will be the favorites. The airplane has been the model for several of the smartest hats. All girdles are narrow. Torpedo turbans are still with us. Terra cotta is a fashionable color. Conservative styles are liked in coats. © Western Newspaper Union This is a distinctly new and effe tive cloak of lustrous black in, with bands of black velvet pla near the skirt edge and on the collar The collar is a broad band of mink Careful Attention to the Hair Is Decidedly Important, Advises an Authority. If you expect your hair to be fair you then pray be fair to your hair. If you expect your hair not to make you look any older than you are, let lend itself to becoming arrangements, then remember that there are certain indulgences and attentions that you owe to your hair, writes an author. One thing American women do very often, and they really ought to do, is to let their hair hang down loose. The English woman will tie the pins out of her hair and let ripple unconfined over her shoulders every chance she gets. If she takes a little mid-day nap she is not content unless her hair is down and she really enjoys giving her hair a sunshade when she finds a little leisure on winter's day and a sunshining window in which to do it. On the other hand, American women are more fastidious about washing their hair than are any other men. They should remember sometimes an air and sun bath is beneficial as a water and soap bath. Even oldish women's hair has a wonderful way of restoring itself to health if it only has a chance. Sometimes what it needs more than anything else is seeming neglect. For women had lustrous and luxurious tresses before there were any hair tonics and restoratives and electric massage. And if you notice it is not always the woman who devotes the most time to hair treatment when hair is thickest and in best condition. One of the worst things that you can do for your hair is to keep it ever confined under a hat. That is the way the housewife so often better hair than the woman whose duties keep her very much dressed for the street. Another very bad thing for the hair is to overdo the hair curling process. Some women as soon as they take out the pins that confine their hair in one position all day, after a hurried brushing, twist it into kids or other curling devices that strict just as much as does the day time position. There is hardly a time when the hairs are not being given more or less strain, hardly a time when they are allowed the free pin of air and ventilation. And of one thing beware—that the hair dresser and shampooer you cannot vouch for. In fact she must be more than superficially clean. She must practice as thorough sterilization of her implements and her hands we expect from the dentist or surgeon. COATS FOR LITTLE MISSE Chinchilla Cloth, Cheviot Serge, and Fur Trimming are Favorites— Capes Not Practical. Chinchilla cloth is always a favorite and the gray chinchilla coats have been fitted this year with small gray squirrel collars, making them extremely good looking. For general use, these heavy coats will be found smal- and practical. Cheviot serge is a new fabric season. It is made up only in dark blue and has a rather wide, heavy stripe which will not always recommend it for a small child, though it is stylish. The dresser coats for little girls are made up in velvet, but the broadcloths in the soft, pretty baby shades are more favored. A trimming of some sort of fur, in very narrow banding, dresses these cloth coats beautifully, the dark fur contrasting handsomely with the light colored material. A favorite color is rose, next in popularity being the lovely blue known as Belgian. ly blue known as blue. Military capes for little girls and seen, but as it is hard enough to keep small folks warm in the tightest fitting garments the capes are not practical. Heavy coats of fur are very smart, nutria especially and gray squirrel being most desirable. A Pen Joke. A boy who is a firm believer in the "raise-a-pig" plan has a porter which he has christened "ink," because he says the pig runs so freely from the pen. Pacific Deepest Ocean. It is believed that the Pacific is fully a mile deeper than any other ocean. Daily Thought. Wise to resolve and patient to reform—Homer. Take an ounce of sal-ammoniac and salt of tartar, mix and pour over them a pint of soft water. Dip into it those parts of a white article stained with wine, fruit or mildew. After the stains have thus been removed, wash in the usual manner. For women to take their husbands' names on the marriage day was a Roman custom. For example, we have Octavia of Cicero, meaning Octavia, wife of Cicero. Now we omit the "ot." Slipper Styles. In the east, as a general rule, Turks wear yellow slippers, Armenians red and Jews blue. Optimistic Thought. 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"scrape" is a hole which deer dig the ground at certain seasons of the war, and the man who fell into one these holes was usually lucky to get with a broken bone. shields Protect Propellers. Shields Protect Propellers. Because of the great number of salmon nets spread in the Columbia river in the sea near its mouth, boats using those waters are provided with speiler and rudder shields. These table the boats to run over a net about becoming entangled. One Possibility. He—"Nothing could ever come be- een us, could it, dear?" She—"I can't think of a single thing, unless I would happen to become engaged to me other man before we get mar- ried"—Pearson's Weekly. We Wouldn't, You May. "Would you call the lady you sing with in the church choir a chants ac- countance?"—Boston Transcript. Flying Fish. Flying fish are chiefly found along the trade path of the North Atlantic. Safe Proposition. Abuse the public all you like; no owe considers it a personal affront. PETER H. Marriage Custom. 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Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street, Phone Drexel 1416 IMPORTANT NOTICE For resolutions, obituary notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, special announcements of events to happen, when a charge of admission is made, and the opening of new business enterprises, etc., 15 cents per line; 6 words or fraction makes one line. Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879. SOME DOPE, BELIEVE ME! Politics is a game in which the fellow who can tell the biggest lie about his sincerity and earnestness most often gets the most votes. It is dirty business and it's a puzzle to us why it is so very attractive. The charm about it is the salary, but the politician is too shrewd to grow eloquent on what he intends to get for holding office, and for the graft, and the side tips for voting to enact ordinances repudiated by the administration. Some of these days we will have men to run for office that are honest, but perhaps not so eloquent at making promises, and who will think more of serving the public than for the money it takes to support their little spineless backbones. As Negroes we must be careful not to choose political hirelings, who lack the manhood to say no to big corporations like the street car companies. And while we are on this subject let us go a step further. The Negro politician or office holder should be strongly intrenched by honor, honesty and fair dealing. He above all others should have the courage to be blind and deaf to alluring bribes. He ought to remember that he is representing a people that suffers much with no voice to appease that suffering, that when he forfeits his honor by the lack of courage in the exercise of his sworn duty, there is no other resort, or resource for appeal. He should remember that when he barters away the power his race has conferred on him by electing him as their representative, he has sold them (his race) to the highest bidder. Often the best fit to hold office is crooked, and cannot be made to see straight. Frequently the novice becomes useful, but politics is so infernally corrupt an honest man can get but little show. The Organization has its Czar, the Czar has no conscience. Then there is political satellite with somewhat of a halo about his head. Then the henchman, the candidate whose cloth is cut to fit the anxiety of the organization which puts him there, and tries to keep him there whether the voters want him to represent them or not, and the Czar says the voters be damned. (He doesn't say it outside of the committee caucus, and those within the rotten circle are afraid to tell it; that is why their backs are spineless.) The voters are confronted at the political meeting by spellbinders, men gifted with gab, who can make you warm in fervor and patriotism, and if you don't watch yourself you'll find yourself wrought up, and cheering something a spellbinder is drilled in. The political lackey swarm in droves at every public political coming out party. There must be a deal of magnetism let loose, because at such times almost everybody gets nearly crazy or wild with delight, and they are not drunk either. Somebody has got to hold office. It is not always a public trust and the PAGE EIGHT 1899, without missing one single issue. cics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, their say as long as their language is id. ever whose platform is broad enough for right to speak its own mind. receive attention. Write plainly, only in advance. ..... $2.00 1.00 own on application. RY 18, 1919 No. 18 notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, to happen, when a charge of admis- of new business enterprises, etc., 15 on makes one line. such as marriages, births, deaths and published free of charge. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill. March 3, 1879. Negro who aspires does not feel that he is making any sacrifice. Often he regards it as a sinecure and once he gets a good feeding at the public trough you've got to almost shoot him to get rid of him. Oh! if once the eyes of honest men were allowed to look behind the scenes. Watch them and hear them fixing things up to spring on an honest, innocent community? What chachinery! What trickery! What skull-duggery! And last but not least what infamy is resorted to by men who can look a Pope in the face with the crooked countenance of sanits. For our part our redress is in going contrary to the organizations wishes and select for ourselves a leader upon whom we can keep a close eye. Tell him what we want him to do, and see that he does it for the voters who lose nights of sleep pulling and boosting him. By this method politics will become clerified. THE WAGES OF SIN On four corners of 47th street and State street are big, flourishing saloons. Standing at a window we watched one large truck unload six dozen boxes or cases of bottled goods for the consumption of people who drink out our way. In two blocks within the corner above mentioned there are no white residents, with possibly the exception of a few poor families of Jews and Italians, who keep some kind of shop, and sell things to Negroes. The corner rent out here is enormous, the one having the largest Negro patronage rents for $350.00 per month, the others a little less but not a great deal less. These four places are run by white men, Irishmen and Jews. The Negro seems to be fast asleep, or stupefied, or drunk, the only way they can keep us down, rob us of our thinking faculty, take our money and give us in exchange fire water, the Indian name for whiskey. But this is a white man's trick, that he plays on his own race, too. I do not believe the government should allow whiskey, beer or any of those near-things that rob a man or woman of their character, or their sober-selfhood. I am sure it is not good for our people to drink anything that intoxicates the brain, benumbs the senses, and imbrutes the body. Statistics are not obtainable, but it would hardly be considered a rough guess should we say that the Negro throws away for drink alone in Chicago more than enough of his hard earnings for which he gives almost his very life blood, to operate two or three such department stores such as the Boston or Hillman's. Strange our ministers of the gospel do not make house to house crusades against this awful holicus of sin. The Educational Association for the Advancement of the Colored People cannot hope to accomplish a great deal as long as they fight to fight the great monster intemperance. The Urban League THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, JANUARY 18, 1919 EDITORIAL PAGE among Negroes will fail utterly if it fails to strike a death blow in its preachments against drunkenness. The civic organizations, lodges and other societies all seem dead asleep to the great monster that is sapping the moral stamina and vitality of our people. Look if you please at the open sesame to the appalling rum palaces, called cabarets, where the debutantes are given their firts dark lesson on vice and demoralization of their finest human nature. Our young men and girls seem to be destined for poverty, broken down health, harlotry and disease, right before the eyes of reformers, the Y. M. C. Association, the Y. W. C. Association, the moralists, etc. Thousands upon thousands of the very flower garden of our race are being carried into this whirlpool of hell every day, and the preacher is absolutely dumb. Why don't they get busy in their ministers association and augment a crusade against this ugly saturnalia of devilish design, so potent in emasculating the race of noble qualities? Why do we not hear mothers and fathers appealing for aid to put an end to the pitfalls of vice so farreaching in its wholesale destruction? Do we as a people stand opposed to intemperance and immorality? The ugly devices and easy way to the downward path may suggest certain excitement and intoxicated emotionalism, but there is not one minute of happiness the day after, nor to follow one night's black orgy of foolish sin (called good time) for the insipid upstart misled in the storm of human folly. Let us get busy and save something amid all this wreckage! POPULAR FAVOR, SPOTLIGHT, ETC. Extravagance is the first thought that gets in the mind of very sensible people when they witness some silly man, and vapory young girl straining themselves to death to win popular favor. What do they want it for? Who is benefited? The man? No. The woman? No. Who then pray? Let us see if we can guess who is the beneficiary. Some poor mother, straining over a wash tub wearing the life out of herself to get money to dress her daughter finer than some other girl of her daughter's acquaintances, and what is that for? Some poor, silly fellow, who ought to realize that in order to be somebody ten years hence, he must have a head full of real knowledge, working himself early and late to get money to show how swell he can make himself look and peradventure find himself in a class of other fellows, who have no better sense than himself, and, Oh! my, it's awful to hear these young insipid upstarts felling frivolous nonsensical yarns about themselves, escapades, captives they have made, women and girls that foolishly fall prey to their scampish notions. Ugly harangues about girls often they do not have a speaking acquaintance with. And the poor, weak thing of a girl makes a fool of herself when she happens to get a glimpse at one of the pig-ankle barons dressed a bit stylish. She doesn't know the young buzzard, but he is dressed up like a dancing master, and between her reason and her idiocy she sees the gang of green flies. Dressing beyond incomes of people in comfortable circumstances, spending salaries that only last half way to the next pay day, for what they call a good time, getting popular and getting a spot light that shows the emptiness of the head and the heart. Suppose you do wear furs? Does that make you really decent? Or do they make you warm? But what do you care? You wear them in the summer and you are not wearing them then to keep hot or cold. Well, yes, your dress is cut the latest of fashion. What of that? If you haven't any real stamina, and if the most unquestionable as to character don't rave over your popularity, who is the gainer? Do not lose your head about fine clothes. Anybody who do not want anything else but clothes can dress well. If you are somebody and have real character, you do not need to parade yourself as some august personage. What is the thing all about anyhow? What have you got to advertise? Is it your wig? Is it your paint and powder? After all, who cares? The real beneficiary is the man who runs the store where you trade. THE PEACE TABLE By M. A. Majors, M. D. We should have a seat at the table in France Where the nations are fixing up peace. It is only fair play to give us a chance. We are anxious that trouble shall cease. But they tell us that matters will come out all right And the world will be set free of strife. That our Uncle Sam called his Negroes to fight That the world might be given new life. But somehow a thought comes into my heart That things won't be done on the square. And it seems after all, tho our blood is still ? On the fighting front, we won't be there. Is it right that a people whose courage to fight For a nation, for a world, not for race? Cannot sit at the Table of Peace. Is it right That they should not be given a place? Let us hope that reason will rule a world's heart, That a way shall be found for our cause. That a people whose fighting has played such a part May be given a voice in the laws. It's no foolish notion, why we wish to go. We're not understood, and, what's more, There are causes unsettled that only we know That have never been tackled before. Dutch Form of Golf. Where and when golf started nobody knows of a certainty; whether or not it comes from Holland or Scotland matters little, perhaps, except to the seeker after the truth and nothing but the truth. To him we would say that some sort of a game resembling golf was played in Holland oftentimes on the ice with stakes instead of holes. No rules for such play have ever been discovered, but from pictures we learn that the finish of this Hollandish form was somewhat after the fashion of croquet, with the ball being hit between two sticks. Wisdom of Solomon In the proverbs of Solomon there is this bit of wisdom: "Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among whet with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." More than two thousand years of world experience sustains the accuracy of the Biblical proverb. Braying the fool in a mortar may not cure him, but it is sometimes the only way of ridding the community of pernicious fools intent upon spreading the contagion of their own folly. Portuguese Cemeteries Instead of headstones and monuments, the cemetery of Lisbon shows rows and rows of tiny chapels ranged in long avenues bordered by cypress trees. The Portuguese are reluctant to bury their dead out of sight, and these chapels serve as mortuaries for the coffins, which are placed on the shelves within. Through the iron grills the eye discerns small altars and flowers gleaming through the subdued light of the interiors. "A Little Learning." The following are some of the answers recently given in a school examination on "general knowledge:" "Gravitation is when an apple falls on the floor." "Benjamin Franklin invented lightning." "The place where they keep all kinds of wild animals is called a theological garden." "One of the most important inventions of modern times is the North Pole." Competitive Accompaniment "My daughter is taking fencing lessons, and you should see how she can feint." "That's nothing. You ought to see how mine can throw a fit." Elephant Hunting In Ceylon elephants are hunted chiefly for sport, as they do not bear so much ivory as the elephants of Africa and elsewhere. Putting It in Clothes "Har, har," said the facetious feller, as he slyly dropped a dime in his waistcoat pocket. "here is where I invest a little money." That's So. The world owes you a living, but it takes work to identify yourself as the fellow it's coming to.—Boston Transcript. Defeat What is defeat? Nothing but education; the first step to something better.—Wendell Phillips. Making of Hand Grenades It has been found that one sound of ammonia will make 20 hand grenades. Remarkable Armistice One of the most remarkable armistices on modern record was concluded between Spain and the western republics of South America at Washington in 1871. It provided that there should be no renewal of hostilities between the contracting parties, except after a three-years' notice, which was to be given through the United States government. Notes Instead of Calls. The note of sympathy for sick persons has taken the place of the call. It is proper and kind to send a note expressing regret for a friend's illness and suggesting one would like to call when the invalid is convalescent. All messages written or sent to the sick should be brief and cheerful.—Biddy Bye. Had No Credentials A little boy who was used to seeing persons bring home-made bread or flowers to the sick, answered the door one day when his aunt was ill and came up to report: "A lady came and just said: 'How is your aunt today?' and she never brought flowers or anything." Good Reason "When a man hasn't a good reason for doing a thing, he has one very good reason for letting it alone," said Sir Walter Scott. The deed without a good reason back of it is like a house without a foundation—it is not wise in its beginning, or of much value when completed. World's News Agencies. The European news agencies, such as Reuter's, Havas and Wolfe's are similar to the Associated Press in America and grew out of similar needs of co-operation of newspapers in obtaining news. Reuter's agency covers Europe generally, Havas agency is French and Wolfe's German Caribou. Those Alaska caribou, so numerous that they make river navigation difficult, are a reminder of the days in the West when one couldn't see the sun for the flights of wild pigeons that obscured the sky. Those were the good old days.—Oregonian. Inch of Rain. "An inch of rain" refers to the marks on a standard rain gauge as used for record purposes by the United States weather bureau. An inch of rain means 101 tons of water distributed over one acre of land. Job for a Statistician Some day a clever statistician may publish some appalling figures showing how much time is wasted at railroad depots by folks who arrive on time for trains that are late.—Des Molnes Register. The Only Way. "I understand you began life as a newsboy?" said a friend to a "captain of industry." "No," replied the millionaire; "some one has been making a fool of you. I began life as an infant." Bad Boy! Jesie came into the house carrying a dead bird in her hand. With tears in her eyes she said: "Oh, mother, see the poor birdie; there was a bad boy outside and he gunned it." Room in Morocco With an area equal to that of Teras, two-thirds of it tillable, Morocco has less than 10 per cent of its soil under even the rudest cultivation. Optimistic Thought. One hand opened in charity is worth a hundred folded in prayer. In flowers of the common marmorium the low sun of the early morning developed yellow coloring matter, the middle sun brought out the reds in the midday sun stimulated the violet blues and purples, according to observations by Col. R. E. Rawson, in a port to the Royal Microscopical ciety. Novel Experiences Did you ever chance to see a sea fish, a bottle fly, a stone fence, a nip, a bed spring, a mill race, a prick up its ears or a potato wig eyes? Or have you ever had the most experience of hearing a birch hatch, pillow tick, or a tree top hump? Gas Loge. Ink Stains To remove black ink stains, the article should be washed immediately several waters and then in milk, biting it soak in the milk for several hours; the stain will disappear. Washing the article immediately in vinegar and water, and then in soap and water, will remove all ordinary ink stains. Biblical "Propheta" The numerous "prophets" of the Bible were not persons who formed the future, but in the original the man means story writer. It will be found by a short examination that this is true. The "Seven Seas" The phrase "seven seas" is fun general reference to the ocean. man said to have traveled the "new seas" is one who has been made the waters of the globe. Wolves! Tempering the wind to the thorn wolf is not scriptural, not even a verbal doctrine. Let any read make the application for himself. Brooklyn Eagle. Extort Sympathy "Some folks." said Ungle Eben. "up act so dut de daf sew you have dey begins to get an a little sympfo foh bein' so mean an 'unpopular' Daily Thought Thought is the wind, knowledge sail and mankind the vessel.—I Hare. FROM THIS DATE ONWAR THE BROAD AX CAN A WAYS BE FOUND ON SA AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Mrs. L. Graves, The Providence Candy Shop, Notion Store and New Stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near San George I. 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