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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Colored People Throughout The Union, Must Array Themselves On The Side of Law and Order -- Contribute Some Of Their Earnings To A Fund Consisting Of One Million Dollars, To Be Expended, In Contesting The Constitutionality Of The Discriminatory Legislation Which Has Been Enacted Into Laws To Retard Their Advancement. Then If They Fail in That Respect, They Should Appeal To The Pope of Rome, To Use His Great Power and Influence To Prevent The American People From Treating The Colored People Like Unto Aliens and Criminals in a Strange Land JULIUS F. TAYLOR HAD AN INTERVIEW BY APPOINTMENT WITH HON. JOHN J. MITCHELL, PRESIDENT OF THE ILLINOIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, WHO IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FINANCIERS IN THE UNITED STATES. VOL. XXIV. The C Union The Son Co Then If They Fail in To Prevent The An JULIUS F. TAYLOR HAD POINTMENT WITH HOW PRESIDENT OF THE ILLIN BANK, WHO IS ONE OF T IN THE UNIT Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, the writer rushed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank building to keep an appointment at that hour with its president, Hon. John J. Mitchell, who is one of the greatest and most successful financiers in this country, as he had expressed a desire the day before to have an interview with as at that hour. As we entered the bank Rev. W. S. Braddan, pastor of Berean Baptist church and ex-chaplain of the old 8th regiment of Illinois, was conversing with Mr. F. T. Gaskell, one of the vice presidents of the bank, who greets all of its thousands of customers with a pleasant smile and a glad hand shake and after being introduced to him by Rev. Braddan, Mr. C. F. Monhandles more money belonging to Colell, accompanied us and Rev. Braddan, to the private office of the president on the second floor and a few minutes after entering it, Mr. Mitchell walked in and cordially greeting both of us with a hearty handshake, at the same time requesting us to be seated. Drawing up a chair right in front of us so that he could look us right square in the eye during the interview. Among other things, Mr. Mitchell said that he was very glad to learn that everything was settling down among the races on the south side, that white men who committed the crimes against the Colored people should be punished to the fullest extent of the law; that as the Colored people did not kill themselves that they must have been killed by the lawless element of the white race. Mr. Mitchell further stated that once more he desired to go on record as being friendly disposed towards decent, respectable and law abiding Colored people; that the best white citizens and the best Colored people must stand shoulder to shoulder on the side of law and order, that without law and order we would be in a state of anarchy and with such a state of affairs confronting us no person's life or property would be safe in Chicago. Mr. Mitchell was pleased to learn that the Colored men and women are eing rapidly re-employed at the Stock Yards and at other places in the city and expressed the hope that they will continue to save some of their earnings which they should invest in real estate and in high grade stocks and bonds which will enable them to enjoy their share of the great tidal wave of prosperity which will to continue to roll all over this country for many years to come. After conversing with him for fully fifteen minutes he extend his hand to us and to Rev. Braddan and said: "Mr. Taylor, any time that you want any information on public affairs, come in and see me." It is safe to state that Mr. Mitchell handles more many belonging to Colored people then any other, ten bankers in this city, for the Colored people have more than five million dollars on deposit in the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. It is a pleasure to state that all the time that Rev. W. S. Braddan was in France with the "Old Eighth Regiment" that Mrs. Braddan every week wended her to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and drew her 33 dollars allowance whether it had arrived or not which simply indicates that the head officials of the bank want to be more than fair in their dealings with worthy Colored people. The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and the Merchants Loan and Trust M. J. H. Eminent lawyer, ex-City attorney of Chicago, who is extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens who would make an ideal candidate for Judge of the Circuit court. Co. are being merged into one Great banking institution it will take about two years to fully complete the deal and they will occupy a new building to be constructed which will extend from La Salle St. and Jackson Blvd. to Clark St. and Jackson Blvd. The capital stock of the consolidated bank will be ten million dollars with undivided profits or dividends amounting to between 30 and 40 million dollars, as some of the best and wealthiest business men in this city are the directors in the consolidated banks, more than one hundred and fifty million dollars would have to fade away before there would be the remotest chance of the thousands of depositors losing one dollar of their money for it will be one of the greatest financial institutions in the world. "THOUSANDS OF YANKS RAN AWAY FROM THE FRONT." In a formal statement made public to-day by Col. Edgar P. Grinstead mentioned in testimony Tuesday before the Congressional committee in New York as one of the men responsible for alleged prison cruelties in the American expeditionary forces. Col. Grinstead said:—"Everybody that was a soldier in France knew that thousands of our men were running away from the front lines and that, depositors losing one dollar off their money for it will be one of the greatest financial institutions in the world. "THOUSANDS OF YANKS RAN AWAY FROM THE FRONT." In a formal statement made public to-day by Col. Edgar P. Grinstead mentioned in testimony Tuesday before the Congressional committee in New York as one of the men responsible for alleged prison cruelties in the American expeditionary forces.—Col. Grinstead said:— "Everybody that was a soldier in France knew that thousands of our men were running away from the front lines and that, Some Colored people thoughtlessly contend in a loud voice while standing on the street corners at 31st and 35th and State streets that they positively know that not less than 100 white persons were killed in various ways in the recent race riots in this city, which will retard the peaceful onward march of both races in this city for many years to come; that they know of this, that and the other Colored person who waylaid one or two white persons themselves; that the daily newspapers are afraid to print or publish all the names of the whites who lost their lives in the riots for the reason the other white citizens would get real mad at the owners or editors of the daily newspapers, which is all rot or hogwash. Such shortsighted and light brained Colored people are unable to understand that it would be utterly impossible to do or to get away with one hundred either Colored or white people at such a time or occasion unless they were all killed at one time in the dead hours of the night and no one at all was around and their bodies chucked into a big cave in some remote place, for even if they had been tossed into Lake Michigan the Chicago river or Bubley creek it would only be a question of a short time before some of the bodies of the 100 would float to the surface. It seems to us that for their own good in the future that the Colored people should refrain from doing a lot of loud wildcat talking in that respect for it may be the means of getting some of them into trouble with the officers of the law; but be that as it may, one thing is certain, and that is that we honestly feel that if the white and Colored people who by their lawless and bloodthirsty conduct who for four days and nights trampled all the laws of the city under their savage and human blood- had the war continued, many executions would have been necessary before these desertions could have been stopped." The above article was taken from the "Times Star". Those white sol- stained feet, murdering in cold blood men, women and children just because they happened to be either white or Colored, would have stopped and paused and pondered over the fearful consequences which would be sure to follow in the wake of their beastly or more than brutish conduct that they never would have transformed this fair city into a living hell on earth. In our humble opinion the Colored people throughout this broad land, those who are capable of drinking in the second, sober thought, should march under the banner of law and order save some of their money which should be placed into a common fund of not less than one million dollars which should be expended to secure the services of the very best Colored and white lawyers in this country to contest the constitutionality of all the discriminatory "Jim Crew" legislation which has been enacted by the legislatures of most of the southern states for the avowed purpose of retarding the progress or the advancement of the Colored race and if the highest courts in the land should finally decide that the Colored people are not and never can become fullfidged American citizens; therefore, they never should be permitted to enjoy the civil and political rights the same as other American citizens (not social equality, mind you.) Then in that case the sane and sober leaders of the Colored race should assemble in a great convention somewhere, draw up strong resolutions clearly setting forth all of their grievances in the most respectful manner, and appeal to the Pope of Rome to use all of the power and influence of his great office in an honest effort to prevent the American people from treating the Colored people as though they were aliens and criminals in a strange land. ders had every incentive to fight for the glory and honor of America. No segregation, no lynching, citizenship in its highest form was theirs and yet they had to receive drastic punishment to keep them from deserting! PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX In this city since July 16th, 1899 without missing one single issue. Re publitans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- testants, Single Taxers, Priests, in fidels or anyone eise can have their say as long as their language is prop- er and responsibility is fixed. 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August 16, 1919 No. 48 Entered as Second Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chi vago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879 | Paths of G mocrocy. | To accustom oneself io disregard jthe accidents of manner aud station | sumciently to see the anzn 2s he fs, to have a clear sizht for genuine charac. ter under any of the dixzuises of un- ‘familiarity and prejudice, to know ‘how simple and how common are the elements that go to the making of manhood, are the paths that lead to belief in democracy. —eorze E, Wood- berry. Not Appreciated. A tourist was being driven thronzh a picturesque glen in Scotland. and while his companions went into rap- tures over the wild, weird, awe-inspir- ing features of the place he yawned over his cigar and newspaper. “Don't you like the glen, sir?” the driver ask- ed, at a particularly striking spot. “Why,” grunted the tourist, “I suppose it’s all right, but I can't see any of the scenery for those wretched hills!” A “Qentieman® And the scholar said: “Originally the term ‘gentleman’ (Latin: gentilis), signified well born. A man of gentle birth usually was refined in manners and conduct, and so popular usage has extended the term to all men of chiv- alrous character; a gentleman ‘lives right, rights wrongs, fears God and honors the king.’"—Exchange. Roman Shorthand. The Romans were the first to use shorthand. They used it throughout the first century, B. C., continuing its practice for at least four centuries. Marcus Tullius Tiro, the secretary and Ubrarian for Cicero, was the pioneer of Roman shorthand. ‘The Laborer and His Hire. Billy had been running errands for his mother, and to show her appre- ciation she offered him a penny. Billy looked disgusted and, glancing Into her face, he exclaimed: “Oh, be # sport, ma, and pay me what it's worth!” i ta “We caught him, forced him at the pistol point to give up the stolen prop- erty, and then cut off one of his ears. ‘It will be both ears, and both hands, if I cath you again.’ "—Pictorial Mag- azine. Catches Failing Hairs, To catch hair as it is being cut by barber, an Inventor has patented a cir- cular piece of fabric with the edzes turned up, to be fastened around a coe Alaskan Trees. In Alaska a willow tree of a species suly a few inches high grows farther Borth than the hemlock, spruce or eedar, which are important cold-re- esting trees. Kissing Spot. “If you must kiss a baby,” says a ‘medical writer, “the back of the neck fs the safest place.” We always ‘thonght that was what you lifted them ‘up by.—Exchange. Carob Tree Vieids Dye. ‘It has been found that a dye of ‘Khaki color can be obtained in Argen- ‘time from the wood of the carob tree. ‘Sun Pressure on Earth. ie oe ee oon. caste a. ae ware of 70,000. tons on the earth, ac- ‘cording to 2 British svientist. Priceless Persian Rugs. It ts & well Known faef that an On ental never sets foot upon his rug with even the soft sandajs that he wears. When his foot is set upon his ‘Pug It is entirely bare. and this Is the ‘reason why oriental rugs woven bun dreds of years ago are still perfect! preserved. The hunting rugs of Persia have a great historical value. as they depict authentically how the phoenix and efephant were hunted in ancient days. Mounted hunters pursuing the Yon, deer, and other creatures, both fabulous and real, form the ground- work of all of these rugs. African Pigmies. ‘The historian Herodotus, 2500 years ago, described the African pigmies which he located near the source of the Nile. Herodotus, for once, told the truth, for it is in that region.that modern explorers have found them. ‘Stanley described them a8 having huge stomachs and short legs, and as “leap- ing about like grasshoppers.” One specimen he saw was a full-grown young woman, three inches short of three feet in height, but “perfectly formed and of a glistening ,sleekness of body, with absurdly large eyes.” Use of Drinking Water. Drink whatever water you desire with meals, but do not take ice water. and do not use water merely to wash food down your throat. Water aids di- gestion by helping to Uquefy the food and by bringing the gastric Juices into closer contact with the food partictes. Water does not affect the enzymes and weaken them by dilution ax some peo- ple maintain, because the power of the enzymes depends not on the percent- age which ix present, but upon their total amount .and chemical composi- tion. First Maine Post Office. In 1775 the first post offices in Maine were established at Kennebunk, Falmouth and Bath. The smils were carried by carriers on foot or on horseback nd the averige week's mail did uot amount to five letters at each office. ‘The rates were hizh, GY, 12%, 18%. 25 and 871g cents, according to the distance the letter had to be carried, and double the rate when the letter was on more than one sheet of paper. @enduation af Geant. No substance that refuses to dis- solve In water has an odor. It is the actual substance itself, floating in par- ticles in the air, as in the case of light and sound. The damper a thing ix the more powerful the odor it gives off. A pleasant ‘proof of the fact can be hud by walking in a garden after rain. It ‘is the vapor of & liquid that smells ‘and not the Liquid in the maas itself. ‘One Common Tongue. “There was one word.” wrote an American Red Cross nurse serving in @ French army hospital. “that we quickly learned in five Iancuages. It was the word that came most often to the lips of sick or wounded soldiers when suffering or delirium wrung ut- terance from them. It ix Mutter, mere, moeder, madre and mother.” Natural Cloth. In tropical South America the inner bark of # species of tree yields an ex- cellent cloth, the fibers of which are interwoven much as if the fabric came from a loom. All that is necessary is to wash and beat out the ccllular stuff from the interstices and, when dried, it is light, flexible and altogether suit- able for making up into garments. eee Ween ae America is an inspiration. America fs a spirit. America is something mystical which lives in the heavens. It is the constant and continuous searching of the human heart for the thing that is better—Franklin K. Lane. | Boo eee Australian Newspapers. The Australian daily, weekly and monthly publications are considered great institutions, especially the dailies. and the consumption of news- Print alone is large, probably running Into 4,000 tons monthly for the com- monwealth. Sweet Potato. ; It Is not known certainly who intro- @uced the sweet potato plant or when. Some authorities believe it to be of East Indian origin, but others more Ukely hold that it was a native of tropical America. Cash Value of Bolt. It has been estimated by an Euro- pean scientist that the commercial Yalue of the electricity in a flash of lightning lasting one one-thousandth ‘of a second is 29 cents. / Pe ne More than 23 per cent of Scotland's Muminating gas is made in municipal plants to more than 51 per cent in Ire- land and about 30 per cent in Engtand. Siam at the Gentle Sex. “If dar was any sho™'nuff beautiful menraids.” sald Uncle Eben, “a lot o” humen indies would git Jealous an’ Grown deirse'ts tryin’ to imitate “em.” Daily Thought. ats Bic at. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 i a a | Suffer for Sins of Others. Greeks Prize Rugs. on | “There ix no sort of wrong deed of Rug making is us old as Gi =| which a man can becr the punishment !#elf, bat it was never made | Sone; you can't trolate yourself. amd|mercial Item. and it was rare nis | Say that the evil which ts in you shall that a weaver couid be persu Bis] pot spread,” says George Ellot in| Part with his rug. Greek rug un. | Adam Bede. It is only too true that two kinds, the heavy ones used vily | We caanot bear punishment alone. ter and the light ones used -sia | And usually our mistakes entail worse times, In the beginning the hey | Suffering on those who love us than were of the simplest, but Ia nix | they do on ourselves. Just as on the Greeks borrowed floral desig ent | other hand our successes and rewards the Persians, which loan was the | bring more Joy to our dear ones than repaid with the development oth | to ourselves. “No man liveth to him- cian art. Venetian rugs are a nd- | Seif alone.” rare. Arctic Light. Ticket Not Filled Out. ‘At noon of December 21, the short-| There was a new baby in thi ars| est and darkest day of the year, we house, and the proud parents t es | could easily detect a faint glow of | Out announcement cards to ‘of | light in the south. The true dark- and neighbors. Mary, who live ola | Bess of night Is a result of the com-| same block, was anxious to hat | Plete disappearance of all traces of | new baby, and was waiting im »m, | twilight, which occurs when the sun ly for the time to come when sl ge | Teaches a print of 18 degrees below | £0. One afternoon at another ap- | the horizon, Our latitude was 78 de- | bor's house she saw that she, | me | STees 20 minutes, therefore the sun an announcement of the bal wn | at this time was only about 12 degrees | Fival. “Oh, did you get a ticke ‘ot | below the horizon.—From “Four Years | the baby?” she said. “We did tiy | In the White North,” by Donald B. | didn't say what day to come.” ay | McMillan. When Piano Was New. | ‘The first public performance on a piano was at Covent Garden, London, 152 years ago. The invention of the in- strument is credited to Cristofalll, an Italian; J. C. Schroter, a German, and Marius, 2 Frenchman. The first crude Pianofortes were made early in the eighteenth century, but for many years they received ne serious consideration from musicians. Johannes Zump, a German, established the first piano fac- tory in Englend, and it was he who bullt the instrument that was used in Covent Garden. Mica. Mica, se named from its being eas- fly divided into glistening scales, con- sists of silica and alumina, associated with magnesia, soda and lime in vary- ing proportions. Thus we have potash mica, consisting of silica, alumina and potash; and magnesia mica, in which the alumina is partially replaced by magnesia, passing—as the proportion of magnesia increases—inte soft tale, which ix chiefly composed of silica and magnesia ‘The Office Boy's Trouble. ‘The office boy had been sitting for hours at a typewriter, gazing vacantly into distance, and the force was becom- ing worried. “He's sick.” suggested the kindly, old, gray-haired bookkeeper, bit the blonde stenographer insisted there must have been some tragedy at home. The suspense ended when the lad suddenly turned to the fat claim clerk and inquired: “Say, Mr. Jones, Low de you spell Thelma?” On Lite’s Journey. We should rather Iw tife's good comrades thin its passionate lovers, nelther-ensily wTonled, nor imagining evil, yet not tiking its affairs too Ughily. Le. us hold Life taithfaily hy the hard, loving It through falr ard i repute: as good travelers, grembling little. pratsing much, and sharing sin ond shadow and wayside inns.—Exchange. Rubber Easy to Cultivate. After four or tive years of semf-cul- tivation a rubber plantation requires practically no cure, except to see from time to time that ozher trees whieh may have gotten = <tart, are cut out. ‘The yield of rubher zum begins about the seventh sear under favorable con ditions, and continues thereafter in- definitely. Seek Perfection. Alm at pecfection in everything, though in most things it Is unattain- able; however, they who alm at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose Inziness and despondency make them give It ap as unattainable —Chestertield, Cotto 2 Hybrid, The cattailo Is an saimel one par- ent of which fs the buffato and the other the cow, ‘The hybrids have been raised In considerable nmnbers on a. cattle ranch in the Panhandle of Texas Useful as Well as Cheap. Automobile oll is inexpensive, and useful for many household purposes; ‘one drop will relieve a squeaking door hinge or a heavy running sewing ma- chine; wipe it off with absorbent cot- ton. a. Knew Him Well. ‘The Sunday-school lesson was about Abraham and the classes were discuss Ing the lesson when little Marian was beard to say: “Oh, yes, I know him; Tve got him on my penay.” ae io ees Extreme views are never just; some thing always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon this data. —Disraefi. Very Few Are. “No man 1 ever saw.” sald Uncle Eben, “was quite as good his own- ne'f as he thought ev'ybody else ought to be.” Optimistic Thought. ‘Af thou takert time into thy affates tt ‘will eflay end arrange all things, Greeks Prize Rugs. Rug making is us old as Greece tt- self, bat it was never made a com- ‘mercial item, and it was rare indeed ‘that a wenver could be persusded to part with his rug. Greek rugs are of two kinds, the heavy ones used In win- ter and the light ones used at all times. In the beginning the designs were of the simplest, but later the Greeks borrowed floral designs from the Persians, which loan was amply repaid with the development of Gre- cian art. Venetian rugs are also very rare. Ticket Not Filled Out. ‘There was a new baby in the corner house, and the proud parents had sent out announcement cards to friends and neighbors. Mary, who lived in the same block, was anxious to see the new babs, and was waiting Impatient- ly for the time to come when she could go. One afternoon at another neigh- bor’s house she saw that she, too, had an announcement of the baby’s ar- rival. “Oh, did you get a ticket to see the baby?” she snid. “We did, but it didn’t say what day to come.” Sunrise. She struggled to a certain hilltop and saw before her the silent inflood- ing of the day. Oyt of the east it welled and whitened; the darkness trembled into light; and the stars were extinguished lke the street lamps of a human city. The whiteness brightened into silver, the silver warmed to guld, the gold kindled into pure and living fire; and the face of the east was barred with elemental scarlet—R. L. Stevenson, Fingers Tireless Travelers. Typists’ fingers are the most amaz- Ing travelers in creation, and are ca- puble of guing tremendous distances without the fatigue that would come to the feet and lezs in performing a similar journey. In ordinary type- writing the hand may travel, according to an expert, 10.000 miles a year and not indicate any impairment in effi- ciency. This refers, of course, to the avernge typist in an office. . a 7 “Father, you took a science degree at college, didn't you?” “Yes, my boy; I spent two yeurs on science.” “When you look in @ mirror the left side of your face appears to be the right side and the right side seems to be the left. ‘The looking-glass reverses it, doesn't itv? “Yes, my iad.” “Then, why, papa, doesn’t it reverse the top and bottom of your face in the same way?” About the Diamond. ‘The diamond ix the hardest stone known. Its name (French, diamant) is derived from the Greek adamao—un- tamable. The word was probably at- tached to the stone because it con- veyed the idea of invincible hardness. No acid will sear it; no solvent will dissolve it. Ages may pass without dimming the luster of its adamantine face. Male and Female Swimmers. Swimming comes easier to women than men because the specific gravity of their bodies ix less than those of men. The proportion of flesh is great- er in the body of a woman than in that of @ man and the proportion of bone | 1s less. ‘Therefore the woman is light- er in proportion to her size and floats more readily. This gives her an ad- vantage as a swimmer. Women Doctors. Tt wax in 1874 that the London School of Medicine for Women was founded. This was the first of Its class. Shortly afterward women were allowed to take the medical degree of the Universities of Dublin, London and Durham. But it has been in more recent years that the fair sex in large numbers have veutured to practice. Few Things Really Count. A man can pile up a palace of mar- ble and live the life of a pauper with- in it, or he may be able to build only @ hovel and yet live a princely life within its poor walls. ‘The things that can really help or hinder # human soul are, after all, comparatively few. Forests of Camphor. One of the most important of Jap- an’s monopolies ts the camphor gpro- duction of the island of Formosa. The present area of camphor afforestation is 10,650 acres, and some of the trees are from 500 to 1,000 years old. iteadl Uhiemndin Mien Julla was invited to a birthday party given at an exclusive tearoom. When she was asked to choose dessert she said: “I believe [ll take gum—it will make the party last longer.” Paws Here for Reflection. Said the facetious feller, “The main difference between valuable city prop- erty and valuable dogs is that the v. ¢. p. Is sold by the front foot, while the dog ts jest charged for all over.” Sentimental Paradox. From e Story—“Each hour that they ‘speat apart only brought them closer together.”—Boston Transcript. Dimensions. ‘The Atiantic—1 may be only 16 beurs 9 but I'm just as deep as ares ees York Sun Cannot Photograph in Colors. Tt seems a remarkable thing. consid- ering the progress of the science of photography and cinematogruphy, thai color photography Is stilt an undis covered secret. There are processes by which a very natural camouflage o Nature can be produced, but the plat ix yet to be made which will produc ‘a landscape in autumn fn all its wo drous tints, or take a portrait of a lac with the natural coloring of the hal: eyes, and complexion, with the variou colors of her costume “in the manne as she lives.” Pennilion Singing. Pennilion singins is quite common in Wales, and peculiur to the princi ality. Tt consists of an Instrument pry Ing over # tune in strict time and re peating it over and over again, while the singer or <inzers extemporiz words to it in rhymie. ‘The imprompte poetry must fit In with the music anc is generally of an smusing character The custem Is qu!e common among the people, and the instrament used is thelr national instrument, the harp. Cees: il staid: ens: Siete: Women preachers are taking com fort from the fact that one champlon has discovered what thes think fs bib- Meat recognition for them. In the | Prayer book version of Psalm bxviii, occurs the verse. “ihe Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers.” The revised version of the Bible translates the passage thus: “The Lord giveth the werd. The wom- et. that publish the tidings are a great ae Never the Same Again. Friendship is « vase which, when It fs flawed by heat or violence, or accl- dent. may as well he Broken at once: It can never be trosted after. The more graceful and ornemental it was, the more clearly de we discern the hopelessness of restoring it te its for- mer state. Coarse stones, if they he froctnrod. may he cemented again: precloms ones, never.— Walter S. Lan don, Setter Th-w Sted ctes Remember that medicine is, for most Part, norliug but ihe substituie of ex erele ond eight Tenk'ng. And it does Lnet tke m great deal of either right ‘thinking or fresh air to enable you to throw aff any ordinary symptom of Mines, AN that Is nececsiry is for yen te held in your mind the thought that you are hoth healthy and cheer fut. What Pewter Is. Pewter is an alley of tin and usu- ally antimony, copper and bismuth for the best qualities of pewter, and lead for the inferior kinds. ‘The tin always preponderates, and the proportion is largest in the best pewter. One bun- dred parts of tin to eight of antimony, four of copper and one of bismuth wre given as the proportions of good ware. A Perfect Arm. ‘The proportions of the perfect arm in a woman of shout 5 feet 5 inches are as follows: The circumference of the upper arm should be about 13 inehes, that of the fore arm 9 inches and of the wrist 6 inches. ‘The upper arm should be one-third shorter than the forearm, Incredibly Silly Order. Army orders regarding mustaches Tecall the fact that the Bank of Eng- lend once issued wn order forbidding clerks to wear mustaches during bus- iness hours! This remarkable order afforded the public so much amuse- ment that it was soon canceled. Some Romance Needed. If life has never led you down the paths of romances, go in search of it. Find It in books—lose yourself in ro- mantic plays. For, you need romance. Let it lift you out of the workaday world and refresh you. Man Who Moves the World. ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists ‘n trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress de- pends on the unreasonable man.—Ber- nerd Shaw. Who Could, Indeed? English paper—“Miss Leitch played delightful golf up to the hole, but when once she had arrived there the result was almost ludicrous, as she could not bit the ball truly with her puttee” , ea Our young friend Clarence Snod- grass says he sent a dollar to Chicago for a “Neverfailing Cigar Lighter” and received by mail a box of safety matches—New Orleans States. Chums. : Money may not bring happiness, but many people believe that the two travel ip company.—Roston Trans- cript. 6 Candle Factories in Africa. Six candle factories in South Afriea hsve an output valued at $3,000,000 an- anally. Flexible Spout. A sew oll can has a flexible spout to Teach places in machinery difficult of ‘eccess without spilling. Penon de Coron, Pew persons besides Chinese tratey Wislt tne forvidding tutes yg me Bound Penwm se Coron. Te Ddenuty of Its towering clits, with get dark und jazzed outlines acs at feathern sky. 1 lost upon the at who see them anly as a source of enue. By swinging from ropes or rier ing lndders thes scour these maine the tiny nests from which ine gent ted the famous bird nest soup. They Bests they yell to ottental triden yp thousands, who come rexilariy to ht ter for this delicacy of Chinese gat eee eee ‘Trees of Sorrow. ‘The Persian “Trees of Sorzun™ am so called becuse they blooms aniy'e aight. When the first star appean the sky the first flower oens ant ¢ the evening advances wore and me buds burst into bioom iil the ue tree appears to he one vast flower has a delicate fragrnuce not uae the scent of the evening primrose at the dawn appronches the ilowers begs to fade until by sunrise not « tions to be seen. Pe Se Of the many clubs in London, pen haps the newest und most exclusive the Thirteen Club, which mets at the thirteenth hour of the thirenth day of every month. It owes its snveptita te a lunch held to celebrate the ann. istice during the world war. at whieh it wa found that 13 were sitting dows, ‘The membership is restricted to 13, ang ‘at a recent lunch every raember mate At @ point to upset the salt, Where the Grocer Was Doris’ mother was in the habit of op dering her bread at Smith's zrocers One day while entertaining callers ther heard Doris in the next room talking through her toy telephone, askinz Cen tral for Smith's zrocery. whe ste called: “Mother, Mr. Smith isnt et home.” “Where de yon supose he js replied the mother. Doris answer: “Why, he's up in heaven getting or daily. brent.” Canditicn to Avoid, The dangerous mewert in life comes when men begin to oversalye the past @t the expense of the pre vent. It is the moment of religions controversies, for ancestor worship for narrowing in, for exalting one of people and exeluding another When we reach it, it means thot we are growing olf. But we need neve reack it.—Exchange. Almost Universal Symbol ‘The swastika symbot bas been foand depicted on tombs at Hissarilt. near ancient Troy: on Buddhistie inerip tions In India. in Etruscan se lises, on coins of Gaza and Corin'h: on rock carvings in Sweden, and on Celtie stones in Britain. In Americ: in pre-Columbian times, it was in com mon use by the aborigines. To Preserve Letters. ‘The following method of preservist the legibility of peneil writing is vale able: Steam the letter until quite liv. then brush over with a solution co posed of equal parts of milk and we ter. Hang it up until nearly dry. Thea press it between two sheets of blo ting paper with hot iron. tat ot Cini Gane | Chinese gardeners sometimes P's" | statuettes of tiny men firmly in pes ‘Just like real plants, and thea tris live evergreens to grow up wver thee statuettes. The vines thus form * Kind of robe for the statuette men. ‘their white faces and hands protro ing from the green leaves Madness of the Moon. So far as we ean gather. there fs ne foundation for the old belief that moon affects the mind and hrinss abot madness in some people. The isles ™: have originated from the wor! atic,” which is derived from “Iuna” nieon. Kind of a Mixture. At the dinner table Robert was Ing us that “a new kid came to shel today.” As T always take an inter! in: his school affairs [ asked. “8 bes °f girl?” “Well,I don't know, ‘ear © wears pants, but it’s got curls" cago Tribune. Watennciosie Beseun Chicka Two French scientists conten? 10 per cent of the chickens in ths! country have tuberculosis and that ‘* disease runs as high as 28 per among poultry in some other cou tries. { Carlyle’s Wise Advice. Remember now and always tt life is no Idle dream, but a sen? reality based upon eternity ant compassed by eternity. Fine out sour task; stand by it; the nigt: come when no man ean work.—Carlsie Ses ‘Must Have Something to Feed O™ ‘Affection can withstand very seve" storms of strife, but not a lonz pols? frost of downright Indifference. 1"? ‘will subsist on wonderfully litte boP® but not altogether without It. ea Intrusion of Willie. "Sense me, aunt! I hate to bather you—but I really think you are ~!'tiné on u little snaxe that I've misiuld’— Ute NEW STYLES IN PARISIAN HATS Smartest Headgear Now Shown in French Capital More or Less Crownless. HINDU TURBAN IS POPULAR Milliners Must Be Credited With Some Remarkably Smart Effects In Those Styles—Both Plain and Printed Foulards Worn. Paris milliners are sending us mid-summer hats that are in delightful contrast to the utterly unreasonable velvet-crowned hats with tulle or organde brims we have been wearing during the last two summers, says Sarah Marshall Cook, writing in the New York Tribune. The smartest tulle hats are crownless, but for those who object to having their carefully coiffed heads disarranged by the breezes a soft puff layer of tulle is provided as a crown. Every type of both day and evening headaddress that French women are wearing carries out some phase of this hat, over which Paris has gone quite mad. Turbans Are Worn in Evening. An everlasting source of inspiration for our hats is the Hindu turban, and now it has found its way into hats of tulle. Turbans are worn in the evening. They are not a variation of the oriental headdress, but the real thing, being formed of a braided band of gold tissue, topped by tulle and shower wreaths of aigrettes. A very smart effect is produced by placing black aigrettes on brown turbans. Lewis, the man milliner of Paris, has had phenomenal success with transparent hats. His favorite model is in shape very much on the order of the head covering worn by the beauties of the court of Louis XVI. The brim of this crownless hat consists of frills of brown silk net, held in at the back by a saucy bow of the same material. Any woman with chestnut hair who tops her well-coifed locks with a hat such as that may be sure of looking particularly lovely. Metal Brocades in French Parasols. Metal Brocades in French Parasols. When we saw fetal brocades in our summer evening gowns and hats we thought the craze for this material had reached its climax; but that it had not is now indicated in the newest French parasols. Those of black taffeta are finished with deep bands of metal brocaded ribbon. Black tulle parasols have bands of embroidery done in silver and gold threads. Handles are as elaborate as parasols themselves. Ebony sticks studded with turquolse beads are used, as are also sticks of ivory. Some of these ivory handles have two bracelet rings, one of ebony and the other of ivory. THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY From Renee of Paris comes a frock of printed foulard, with the foundation skirt of plain foulard; undulating frills of white organdle trim the abbreviated sleeves and the low surplice opening. Huge knobs of carved wood finish the sticks of the new coaching parasols. In contrast to these elaborate sunshades are lovely little garden sets, consisting of pagoda parasols made of mousseline frilled at the edge with two rows of narrow black ribbon and of hats made of the same materials. Plain and Printed Foulard. We have, at one time or another, experienced the exhaustion and despair which come from the search for frocks to wear on trips to town that will give us the coolness and comfort provided by dresses of perishable light summer materials without making us conspicuous. French dressmakers are combining plain and printed foulards in a way that is altogether charming to make midsummer dresses suitable for such wear. One of the cleverest of these combinations is made by Renee, who is continuing to hold the interest of the smart Parisienne by the loveliness of the models which are constantly appearing at her place on the Champs Elysees. Mme. Renee uses the printed fabrics to form a Bagdad skirt, over which she places slender panels arranged to fall in triple loops. In this way she accentuates the idea of a caught-in skirt. The sides are open, to show a straight, narrow foundation A This is La Laveuse, the simple morning frock that Premet is making for country wear. skirt of foulard. The neck and abbreviated sleeves are finished with softly undulating frills of organle. That the success of the foulard dress is assured is proved by its remarkable popularity at the Paris races; large patterns in black and white being particularly in evidence. There is a great demand for both silk and cotton dress fabrics of large designs. Mousselines are printed in very bright colored patterns and in designs reminiscent of the old shawls of Kashmir. A Bagdad skirt open all the way down the front to correspond with an open bodice gathered in at the waistline and having kimono sleeves is made of soft white mousseline printed in bright red. This dress is worn over a straight white organdie slip frilled around the bottom and down the front, the frilled white slip falling at least four inches below the mousseline skirt. Something New. More than a century ago the ill-fated Marie Antoinette popularized a simple dress, known as La Laveuse, or the washerwoman dress. Today the house of Premet is making charming frocks of this kind for its favorite customers, who order a half dozen at a time made in different becoming colors to wear on summer mornings in the country. So simple and easy fitting are these frocks that they are almost negligee. The frill aprons which are part of the dresses are demure and charming. Sometimes when pale-tinted cotton fabrics are chosen for these gowns little frills of black organdie are used for the collar, cuffs and ends of the apron strings. One of these Premet dresses is here illustrated. Any home dressmaker could easily copy it, and with very little work have morning dresses that are distinctive as well as comfortable and useful. Fichus Ressemble Quaint Capes. Another pleasing French idea that could be utilized in having clothes made by a seamstress, or perhaps in having a gown remodeled—for it is difficult to get remodeling ideas—is the fichu bodice which Lanvin has emphasized in so many of her dresses this season. This fichu resembles a qualit shoulder cape. It is a simple little thing to make and is picturesque and becoming to all slender women. Mme. Lanvin attaches slim, straight skirts to equally high, high-waisted bodices, and then drapes around them the fichu, which she makes of lace, embroidery or crepe. When crepe is used an embroidered pattern of a contrasting shade is usually worked on it. The one shown in the sketch today Mme. Lanvin made in the colors of France. For the skirt she used crepe the shade of the French soldier's coat, whereas the fichu was red embroidered in blue. Little Girls Party Dress For party wear this summer the prime favorite of the little girl is the frock of georgette, trimmed with tucks or hemstitching, or with dainty embroidery in contrasting color. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 ALL SHOW RIBBON Dresses for Midsummer Are the Prettiest in Years. Net, Lace and Sheer Organdle Frocks In Particular Call for the New Effects in Way of Trimming. Nothing prettier or more daintily feminine could be imagined than the ribbon-run midsummer dresses of this year. Net, lace and sheer organdie frocks have sat ribbon of two-inch width run through shirred casings, the ribbon emerging here and there to make a coquettish bow. Severall of these dalty frocks have been worn on the stage this winter. There were three at least in "Gloranna" and the determined ingeneue in "Miss Nell o' New Orleans" wears a delectably youthful frock run with pink ribbons; one across the bodice and three across the skirt, the emerging bows of ribbon coming under each other, all the way down the frock. A lovely summer afternoon dress for a young girl is of white net, with several shirred casings on bodice, tunic and skirt and blue satin ribbon run through each casing. Care should be taken, in planning such a frock, to have the ribbon-run casings at equal distances apart. One across the bodice just below the bust; one at the hip and anther at the knee, usually makes a graceful proportion of trimming. Of course, the wide elbow sleeve will be finished at its edge with a shirring ribbon, and a smart bow of the ribbon on the other side of the sleeve. SEVERE STYLES COME BACK Return to Correct and Neat Tailleurs of Ten or Fifteen Years Ago Observed. There is a revival of the correct and neat tailleur such as we wore ten or fifteen years ago. One might even say that there is no difference in the cut, either in skirt or jacket. The little handkerchief in the side pocket and the flowers in the buttonhole have resumed their place. Often a waistcoat in color or a white border coming below the vest adds to the smartness of this costume. The only difference between the severe tailleur of today and that of the older mode is the insistence on the wide waist; there is no indication of corseting or of girdle. This return to the stricly tailored costume for street wear, the resumption of the clear definite lines, and the desire to be free, on street costumes, from incumbering folds and restless fringes and floating panels is very decidedly marked among the women of the smart world. One may see the women who sponsor this new mode jumping out of their cars in front of the hotel looking as if they were ready for horseback, with a flowery button-hole in the left revers, or perhaps a Spanish carnation. It is with this idea in mind that the great dressmakers are thinking of bringing back the Louis XV jacket, that is to say, the jacket worn by the men of that period, which opened over waistcoats of heavy stuffs imported from London. They are in brilliant colors printed with English hunting scenes of the eighteenth century.—From the Paris Letter in Vogue. COOL-WEATHER COSTUME T. H. Black panne velvet makes this attractive model for Fall. Black panne velvet makes this attractive model for Fall. Those Old Crochet Edges. You probably never thought to use again the crocheted edges already used. And you can, by the very simple expedient of cutting the edge away and crocheting a single chain to connect the remaining loops. It is a very simple matter after that to sew on to the new edge as you would a fresh lace edging. Then should the old edging be obviously old, what say you to treating it to a dye bath? Wonderfully effective are dyed laces of all sorts just now. And whether you are going to use the edging on frock or blouse or undies, the dyeing can hold good for all. A further suggestion is to dye the undies and the edging at the same time, so as to be quite sure that they match up. Botquet designs of simple field flowers f their natural colors, daisies, poppies and cornflowers on vivid grour such as yellow and green and on tl trees conservative navy blue, are a the other novelty patterns. RUN MIDSUMMER DATS © Western Newspaper Union Cool, summery gown of soft autumnleaf brown georgette crepe, suitable for afternoon wear. The Girdle frock, it is called. The beading is very unusual, and the girdle of old blue satin strikes a bright note. FASHION IN NEW BLOUSES Probability That the Smartest Will Reach Well Below Normal Waist-line—As to Sleeves. Designers of blouses appear to have finally decided that the model reaching well below the normal waistline is quite the smartest thing. The question of sleeve length is now being bandied about. French-designed blouses brought over this season generally show very short sleeves—in fact, some are entirely sleeveless. American women have never favored the very short sleeves for daytime wear, most emphatically not for street wear, but the three-quarter-length sleeve has always been a favorite whether in dresses or blouses. Indications are that the smartest blouses for next season will have three-quarter-length sleeves. Handsome laces are used to make blouses for wear with separate skirts of satin, net or chiffon. In this way an unusual and interesting costume may be developed, and as the waist of a dress made of one of the very sheer materials usually wears out before the skirt shows any signs of wear, the separate dressy blouse of allover衣 is an excellent investment. It enables a woman who is economically inclined to utilize every bit of available material and wear each frock until it is wholly worn out. For blouses of georgette, chiffon or crepe de chine is a favorite trimming. Artificial flowers are also effectively used. FASHION'S FANCIES A frock of buff organdie is stitched effectively in green. Quaint frocks of English prints are trimmed simply by bands of plain white braid. Gray and black printed voiles are often chosen for the matron. White organdie and black velvet appear together, even in capes. A dress of almond green satin is daintily embroidered in silver. An oilcloth motorcoat in white and red has three buckled belts. Heavy black silk jersey suits are embroidered with tan colored silk. Evening gowns have a new rule; very low fronts and very high backs. All lace frocks are being shown in color. Pinked taffeta ruchings are being introduced. Lace and chiffon parasols are worn with lace and georgette. Cock feathers are still the best liked decoration for small hats. Many of the extremely low necks are now being veiled with tulle. A sailor of tan pineapple straw, mushroom shape, is smart. Tinsel Cloth Turbans Among the various styles of turbans offered to the trade is one in which tinsel cloth is used. The best model in this line, according to the bulletin of the Retail Millinery Association of America, is the Hindu draped one made of this fabric. The drapings appear in a variety of arrangements on the pill box or elongated toque lines. Old gold, light blue, pink and steel are the colors used in this material. Various pretty trims are used—tinsel roses, ball, tassels, pearl hat pins and beaded flowers. Large models have this material, too, in a plainly fitted and semi-transparent effect on the brim and draped on the crown. SKIRTS TO ANKLE American Ideas Have Won Over Those of Paris. English Leaders of Fashion Refuse to Wear the Excessively Short Design Sent From France—Newest Sleeves and Shoes. It's the most amusing thing in the world to watch what is happening in the fashion world in London. A few weeks ago word came that in New York women were wearing long tubular skirts, way down to their ankles and as tight as a pipe. At the very same minute in Paris the skirts only ventured a miserable half dozen inches below the knees. What was to be done? London hesitated a week or so. Paquin and Lauvin brought over staggering creations that looked as if they were intended for children's fancy dress parties and so skimp and short that no well-developed British female could possibly get inside. So just naturally the English turned to our New York mode and now it's the rarest possible thing to see a dress in Bond street or in the park that is cut above ankle length. French dressmakers are astonished, indeed they will not acknowledge that American fashion is actually competing with French. They shrug their shoulders and adjust their dresses to suit their patrons over there and pretend that they invented the idea themselves. But the French have their way in sleeves, for one thing it's no way at all, for there aren't any. On the street, in the house in the evening, you certainly can't tell by the sleeves what sort of a dress you are looking at. The only garment that has sleeves is a negligee or a tea frock, and these have long wings that trail along the floor. It's a great pity, too, the lack of sleeves, because it's not one woman in a hundred that can boast a dimpled elbow, and the sights of red and unlovely arms that are exposed every day are getting on people's nerves. Everybody wears brocaded shoes. Colors match the dress or suit and stockings are usually a very pale shade of the same color, or flesh, and so thin that they look like nothing at all. There is hardly any upper to the latest shoes, really they are sandals with a tiny strap and a beaded or jeweled buckle to clasp. CONVENIENT HAT-STAND egor Hats are always difficult to dispose of, especially when a closet is very shallow without much shelf space. So, to solve the problem, a little wooden stand can be constructed to hold four hat boxes. This stand is built like a table with two shelves underneath—any kind of wood will do that can be painted or enameled. Each shelf holds two hat boxes, and these are made more attractive and durable by covering them with either a light-weight flowered chintz or cretonne, or heavy flowered wall paper. To be very practical the fronts of the boxes should be hinged by means of strips of linen so that the front can drop, and the hats be removed without taking the boxes from the shelves. CHOICE IN FALL MILLINERY Duvetyn Pretty Sure to Be Popular, Though Many Other Materials May Be Selected. Duvetyn is one of the biggest factors in the advance fall models that are now being shown in local millinery circles. Manufacturers are unanimous in the belief that it is going to exceed the popularity it enjoyed last year. Beaver strip is also well thought of in some parts of the trade, as there is no material for hats that is more fattering to a woman than beaver. Embroidered effects are being shown for the new season in a large way. Heavy wool, silk floss, chenille and gold thread embroideries are used extensively. Hackle is a big factor, especially the domestic pasted variety of this plumage. Pasted feather breasts are being used in combination with heavy fabrics to good advantage. Flower trims are seen in heavily padded wool and chenille effects. Chenille grapes also are used as trimming. Used by the French. The French designers are, sponsors for all sorts of embroidery on midsummer and autumn blouses. Floss, chenille worsted, beads and ribbonless embroidery all are being used by them. PAGE TH. ER Copyright Underwood & Underwood Pretty little dress of pink organdie with coral velvet ribbons and a dainty frill of lace at the throat; just the thing for a young girl's party dress. TO PROTECT THE SLEEVES Most Serviceable Coverings May Be Made From Men's Handkerchiefs of Cheap Materials. Nearly all business girls wear over-sleeves while at work; but if the sleeves are made of the usual black or dark material, they give a severe look to any dress. It is a good plan to make the sleeves from men's handkerchiefs; the cheap ones, sold for ten cents, answer the purpose. Perhaps the most serviceable kind is that with a white center and a colored border. A center of solid tint is pretty, and may show the dirt less; but the tint is likely to soon fade, and the goods on which it is used is likely to be more expensive than the white handkerchiefs. Fold the handkerchiefs diagonally twice, to form a right-angled triangle, four folds in thickness, with the edges of the handkerchief as the hypotenuse. Then cut off one of the corners or acute angle, somewhat on a slant. The wrist of the sleeve should be about five inches before it is bound. All seams must be French ones so that there shall be no roughness. Gather the wrist slightly, and bind it with a bias strip from one of the pieces that were cut off. It should be from three and three-fourths to four and one-quarter inches across when finished, or just large enough to slip the hand through easily. A narrow edging of face may be added; it gives the sleeves a more finished appearance. Folding twice, of course, gives a pair of sleeves from one handkerchief. When the sleeves are in use, the seam comes on the inside of the arm, and the point is pinned on the outside, just above the elbow. That will hold the sleeve comfortable in place, and the strain being on the bias of the cloth, it gives with every motion of the arm, and fits more closely than a sleeve made on the straight would. Such a sleeve can also be worn by any housekeeper when she is at her work. They can be made and laundered so easily that they commend themselves to the practical girl. COMBINE COLLAR-AND GIRDLE Attractive Feature of a Frock That Meets With Favor Among Many Women. Navy blue and white organdie combined with bright-toned blue and red embroidery fashions an unusual little frock. Its very attractive feature is a high surplus collar, which is prolonged into a girdle and fluffy sash bow of navy blue organdie. This comes also in combinations of brown or rose with white organdie. Finer than calico but invested with all the quaintness and charm of that material are the new English prints of the type which one frock represents. Almost any of our grandmothers might have worn just such a dress with its square neck and elbow sleeves, but the modern young woman who wears this frock does not look in the least like anybody's grandmother. Bands of plain white braid emphasize the simplicity of the design and the material, and a band and bow of contrasting ribbon velvet is tied over the print sash. The flower design comes both in rose and in blue. Garter Fancies. Some garters of the present day are quite elaborate. They are made of all sorts of silks, ribbons, laces and embroideries and are ornamented with bows. One pair is made of blue silk fringed at either side and embroidered in lavender and pink. PAGE FOUR Founder of the Poro College St. Louis, Mo., who is one of the shrewdes! and most successfull Afro-American business women in the Unite< States; who pleasantly celebrated her umpteenth birthday last week MANY PROMINENT MEN SIGN PE-! Among the signers from Pensylva- TITION DEMANDING CONGRES. | Bi# are Samuel S. Fels, Philadelphia, = (Fels & Company) ; George Wharton SIONAL INVES’ ] 5 TIGATION OF | pepper, Philadelphia, Lawyer. RIOTS. | eee a ns NewsYork, City:— Demand for an investigation by Congress of mob violence and lynching in the United States is made in an address to the nation signed by 150 citizens through- out the country, including ex-Presi- dent Taft, Attorney General A. Mitch- ell Palmer, Dr. Henry van Dyke, the governors of seven States, including Governor A. H. Roberts of Ten- nessee, every living ex-attorney gen- eral of the United States, the heads of California, Illinois, Princeton, West- ern Reserve, Fisk and Vanderbilt Universities, Charles W. Eliot, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, J. R. Bigham of Mississippi and Senator Arthur Copper of Kansas. The Address To the Nation is an. outcome of the National Conference | on Lynching, which was held in New York City, recently. “The people of the United States | suffer justly under the rievous| charge that they continue to tolerate mob murder,” says the address. “In | the year 1918 no less than 67 persons | were done to death without trial on any process of law, having been aes) nied the right to a day in court, ac- corded by the Federal and State Con- situations to all citizens. “It is well-known that the innocent with the guilty suffer the cruel in-| fiictions of-mob violence. Mobs have | even invaded court rooms and prisons to seek and murder prisoners whose punishment had already been fixed. Early in 1919, a hospital was invaded by a mob, and the attack resulted in death from shock of a patient that day operated upon. “Patriotic citizens thivaghant the country feel the shame which lynch- ing cast upon the nation, but they have assumed partial responsibility for this shame by their silence and their acquiesence. The time has now come when citizens of the United Sta- tes can no longer contemplate without Protest the setting at nought of the fundamental principles upon which tiieir citixenship is based. “The undersigned, therefore, as citizens of the United States, without sectional or party bias, with the inter- est only of the Republic at heart, urge all public-spirited men and women, to oppose with all their power the re-| currence of the crime and the shame of mob murder; they urge the govern-| ors of the several States to do all that} is possible to prevent and punish lynching; they pledge their support} to the officers of the law who, in the face of mob excitement, discharge fieir duties; and they urge upon the] Congress of the United States nation-| wide investigation of- lynching and| mob murder, to the end that means}, may be found th end this scourge.” |; ~ Athong the Southern signers of the address are Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland, former attorney general of | the United States; George M. Bailey, |. editor of The Houston Post; William M: Hunley of Lexington, Va, secre- } eee ee 5 Wale “oe ee ee as | & we iN MALONE Among the signers from Pensylva- nia are Samuel S. Fels, Philadelphia, (Fels & Company) ; George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia, Lawyer. RIOT JURY CENSURES POLICE. Foreman Says No Evidence Was Ob- tained About Temple Killing. The Rev. R. Keene Ryan, foreman of the coroner’s jury investigating the death of Eugene Temple, white, a ‘nr at 2604 South State St, ‘one of the vietims of the race riots, wednesday censured the police depart- ment for failure to obtain evidence = would lead to apprehension of |any of the guilty persons. ' “Last week this jury spent four [days listening to, evidence in the case of a riot victim, hearing scores of witnesses testify, none of whom test- ified to anything definite,” Mr. Ryan said. “Here is a case’ more atrocious than the other, and, semingly, no ef- fort has been made by the police or anybody else to determine who killed this business man, who had no con- nection whatever with the riots.” END TRIAL OF 14 NEGRO SOL- DIERS AT CAMP GRANT. Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. — Trial of the last of the fourteen Camp Grant Negro soldiers alleged to have assaulted a white woman in May, 1918 has been completed. Private Elizer Chapman, the last defendant to face the military court was the only one of the Negroes who had not previously been tried. He was brought back from France under guard and his trial, which lasted but two days, was the speedy ending of the most sensational criminal trial in the history of Camp Grant. - Within a few days the findings of the army court will be forwarded to Washington for final review by Pres- ident Wilson. HONOR COLORED MAN. New Orleans, La. — Many Confed- erate veterans attended the funeral of “Old Peter” Brown held here Yues- day. Brown went through the Civil War with his master, Col. Maginnis. Members of the Cotton Exchange sent wreaths and tokens of respect to the deceased. Mrs. James 4. Johnson, 3650 Prai- rie avenue; President of the Phyilis Wheatley Home: 3256 Rhodes avenue; and Mrs. James H. Porter, 3302 Rho- des avenue; have returned home from a six weeks pleasure trip through the Northwestern and western states. oie 0s Attorney James E. White, 3630 Vernon avenue; left the city Saturday evening, for Providence Rhode Island, where he has been attending the meet- ings of the Shriners and the other high Masonic bodies. Hon. 8. A. T. Watkins, President of the Appomattox Club, left Thurs- day evening for, Atlantic City, N. J. to attend the sessions of the Supreme Lodge of the Kaiights of Pythias throughout the world. Mrs. Watkins, THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 SS MRS. ANNIE !4. MALONE, FOUNDER OF THE PORO COLLEGE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, WHO IS ONE ‘OF THE BEST AND MOST ENTERPRISING AFRO- AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN, CELEBRATED HER UMPTEENTH BIRTHDAY LAST WEEK IN THE MIDST OF MANY FRIENDS, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS AND A BIG BIRTHDAY CAKE. AT WHICH TIME HER HUSBAND, PROF. AARON E. MALONE, PRESENTED HER WITH AN AMPICO, BABY GRAND KNABE PLAYER PIANO. By CHARLES E. STUMP. Sn a ee eae every year, and it would not be out of placetosay they grow older every time the clock ticks, and it takes them just that much farther up the hill of time, I have heard them say that they quit having birthdays after they reach a certain age. The race has just celebrated in Rich mond, Va., under the General Baptist Association, of the Old Dominion ‘state, and the Woman's Baptist Mis- sionary and Educational Convention; the Baptist State Sunday School con- vention, and the State Baptist Young People’s Convention, the three hun- dredth anniversary of our pedple land ‘ing in the United States from Africa, and it was a great big thing believe me. The people put on ill their Sun- day clothes and made it to Richmond, and there they had a week of good time. Separate meetings were held in the churches during the day, but at night by the thousands they assembled in the City Auditorium to tell the story. The opening session was held join- tly in the First Baptist church. Would you be surprised if I tell you it was really the first Baptist church of that city. They do not go by First Colored Baptist Church, or First African Baptist church, but just First Baptist chureh. It is historic, and back of it is & great history, and you will aa it down because I told you so. The. pastor is a young college man, Dr. W. T. Johnson, and I am told that he | is a fine preacher. I know that he is a | thinker, and knows how to put his| thoughts on paper. I enjoyed reading | some of the things he had written. | Mrs. W. T. Johnson, is president | of the Woman's convention, and 1 heard her make some speech herself. She knows how to speak and did speak | right out in church when the time| came for her to deliver her annual address. The General Association was | presided over by one of them noted | preachers in this country,-Dr. Z. D.| Lewis, pastor of the second Baptist church, but on account of health cond- itions he declined to be re-elected, and there was another giant elected, but a young man. There are more large churehes in Virginia than any other state in the Union. I was there, and I had the pleasure of stopping with that intellectual riant, Major J. H. MeCrew, state sec’t. of the Y.M.C.A. He is called the man hunter of the state, and he is on his job daily helping the young men to higher things in life and inspiring them to lives of worth while. His wife is a native of Hampton, Va., and got her education at Hampton Institute. She is a worker in the Y.M.C.A. She s just putting her life into the work and doing it freely. I will have to tell you about my rip just a little later, for I want to}, ell you I am in St. Louis and what| | have seen since I have been here. |. | have been talking about celebrations | snd I would like for you to know that he founder of Poro College is not ; Id enough to quit having birthdays, | ind while the celebration of her — | nniversary was a surprise to her, yet | he employes, husband and friends | howed to Mrs. Annie M. Malone that |. hey loved her and rejoiced that she | iad reached another mile stone in her | ife, and to say to her “Go on.” ! She 1 blessing to humanity | o the cify, to the state and to the|; ountry. She has so used her time and | alent thdt when the United States | ras in ae money, she could say [ can let you have some”, and she |} SS ay ee eo ee en ee | Pine Street Branch of the Y.M.C.A | the Annie M. Malone building because | she has put more money into it than las other one individual. She planked j down at the suggestion of such a build jing five thousand dollars, and then | another time one thousand five hund- | red, and it is hard to tell how many | other contributions she has made. | In the work of the Y.M.C.A., it is shared by her husband Aaron E. Ma- |lone, one of the leading educators of jour country and a general good man. He is lover of humanity. She is in ie front rank for the things that mean racial uplift and development. No hungry man or woman, or child jever appealed to these people and were turned away. “We are servants ‘et God,” is the declaration to which ‘they subscribe, and say that they are ‘also God's stewards. But now about the celebration. The two hundred or more employes of Poro assemble in the chapel, every morning before starting work and there have devotion. They start the day then in song and prayer, one of the number conducting the excereises. On the morning of August 9, Miss. Genevie Huff, of Warrensburg, Mo.,| presided. They met, and as is the custom, Mrs. Malone was there, and by her side was her husband, the man of foresight. The Bible lesson had been read, prayer had been made, Nick Chiles, Charles Stewart and sev-| eral others had made remarks, Mrs. Malone had made remarks touching the week to come, when the National Negro Business League would be in session; Miss. Bessie Keith had filled the auditorium with her sweet voice, which thrilled out souls, and Miss. Etta Searcy, was just about the have | her nimble fingers dance over the| piano, when Mrs. A. H. Stevely, who| has been with Poro for so many days| that the memory of man runneth not | that far back. | No doubt you are asking yours what I am talking about, and I don’t blame you, but I was getting around and trying to say that Mrs Stevely stepped forward and asked permission | to say just a word. Although she was | not on the program, she desired a word.— Stepping back, and then brought forth a boquet of flowers almost as large as she was. She made some speech, telling about the visit! of some Miss. Sheba to Mr. Solomon. | I don't know whether these people | lived in St. Louis or some other place. | She spoke of the winsdom of Mr. Solo-| mon, and Miss. Sheba said “The half has never been told,” or something ike that. She then turned to Mrs. Ma- jone and spoke of her wonderful brain power, what she had done and was still doing, hence the employes) ator her inher a he sirthday to present the large boquet |, f flowers, but a slight token of their | ove and psteem for the real example lor the girls. For a few minutes Mrs. Malone was) peechless, but in a short time found vords from some where to express her | sppreciation but to the life of her did | jot understand how they knew it was] ser birthday. If a secret she had|, orgotten that man could not keep al, ecret. Then to business they went. | fhe next thing, at 12:30 he carried|j er by to see Mrs. Jones, the wife of | he secretary af the Y.M.C.A., and her | ew baby, but hehold there were| , thers there, and it was another sur- rise in a way of luncheon. q ‘Mr, Malone carried her by the office | uilding for a few minutes, and next |" H jamteY ee <a % i f. 7 cre a. 5 frets -»~ 6 er . See Pe F Be ae Pope oh a : ol : gies as . a bo eae geese it “a = a7 5 eee a Py te 3 =a Es es <9 serra Be 3 ro be . HON. J. GRAY LUCAS ~ Ex-member of the. legislature of Arkansas; former United States Conmis. sioner; ex-president of the Texas Fellowship Club, who has for twenty. six years been successfully practicing law in Chicago. MUNICIPAL JUDGE STEWART | that they had no particular busines RUNS AMUCK ‘out on the street. — Judge Hugh Stewart after abest Refuses to Allow Atty. J. Gray Lu- an hour's delay whilegMr. Lucas was eas to Assist in the Defense of — waiting to try three other Colored Eleven Colored Men Charged — men’s cases ord2red by Judge Stewart With Riot; Fines Him $10 | to apologize to the court. This Mr. Lu For Contempt cas refused to do, insisting that he When he insisted that it was his right and privilege, orders him locked up without 2 hearing on charge pre- ferred, when’ Mr. Lucas pays fine which is afterwards returned to him. Meantime five or six of the Colored men on trial are given terms in the House of Correction. No evidence of any overt act committed by any of them except that a policeman had been shot at State and 29th streets by some one and these men were part of a crowd of several hundred on the corner. Their worst offense being |Picnic at the park. At the Jones ‘residence she was presented with a birthday cake and flowers. Some time was spent at the park, reaching home cae To'clock, she found her living ‘quarters filled with women. She de- Jclared that she could not go in’ her a quarters. It completely took her breath for a few minutes. She wanted to know the cause. Of course it was another surprise. She could not see it all, but in a short time she was in where the crowd was. There was a special march played, and they marched in to the living rooms. They listened to music. Soon Mrs. Malone joined them and sat down and listened to the music. When some one suggested the music was beautiful, she replied “Yes, who is playing Mr. Tyler?” With this she moved in sight or the piano, and saw the stool sitting there but blank. She got real nerveous for a few seconds. This was Mr. Malone’s surprise 5 her. He had kept her ‘away from home all day, and while she was away there| had been put inan Ampico, Baby coat Knabe. It is different from the player, because it is the actual record of the artist, giving all of his expressions, ete., and you would just think he was right there with the goods himself. It is one of the latest inventions. | That thing actually played for Mr. Tyler to sing a solo, and then another one. All listened to music for a while, and the ladies were called into the dining room, where they had a birth- day ‘dinner. This had been arranged by the ladies who were with Mrs, Ma- jone during the war, or had wor:ed | with her for the men who needed the help. They helped to make all the ie In he prt were Meta Mabele Breediove, Fannie P. Peck, Vietcria Turner, Jennie Chaney, Lau- 1 F. Christian, Mary Din, Willis Me- that they had no particular busines out on the street. Judge Hugh Stewart after abost an hour’s delay whilegMr. Lucas was waiting to try three other Colored men’s cases ordered by Judge Stewar to apologize to the court. This fr. Lu- cas refused to do, insisting that he was within his rights and the court wrong and oppressivesin its acts. Whereupon the court not being able to force Mr. Lucas to retract or apo ogize, ordered him to repay the $10 which had been returned to Mr. La- cas. Following are the names of the men sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction to please the police. some Negroes had to suffer for being unfortunate enough to be illegally ar- rested: Henry Patrick, Elisha Thomp- son, Otis Peterson, Eugene Coleman, Clyde Cowans and Thomas Cox. jer, Annie Malone, Ray Tuler, and oe Allie Simms. A birthday cake was presented with ,nine buring canals, but wit they represented I am not prepared to say, except the day on which she was bern, the ninth of the month. It was a great event. Mrs. Malone got many cards and other little tokens. Perhaps you would be surprised te know that the business has outgrown the building already, and plans are being made for a wing to be erected at once. It was necessary to retain the old building. We all extend ber congratulations on the years she ba lived and hope she will live many more. CHARLES E. STUMP. CHIPS | Mr. A. E. Pinckney entertained * ‘number of friends at luncheon Sunday ‘afternoon. Among those present were Maj. Arthur Williams who has just returned from Franee, Miss Mary E- Branch, a teacher at the V. N. & I. |. Petersburg, Va., Mr .& Mrs. A. B- Young, 3556 Forest Ave., and M. T- Bailey, manager. Pailey Press Bure” 3638 State St. Many Chicagoan attended the grand Chapter of 0.E.S. which convened in Peoria during the week. Among them were Mrs. Lou Elia Young, matron Elector Chapter No. 1, Mrs. Blanche I. Smith, secretary of Elector Chapter No. 1 and Mrs. A. L. Harris. see Mrs. Pearl White Newborn, 5ist St., and Wabash Ave., is visiting latives and friends at Hickory Valley Memphis and Nashville, Tenn. Ex route home, Mrs. Newborn will stop it Kentucky for a short stay. The U. S. Public Health Services through the U. S. Railroad Administration Bureau, asserts that America is the only modern country which throws the burden of providing public comfort stations upon private initiative. This conclusion is rendered after the committee on health and medical relief had made an extended survey of sanitary conditions as relating to railroads. This survey included investigation of conditions at stations and depots as well as matters of proper drainage of areas through which the roads run, due to obstructed ditches along rights of way, high culvert bottoms, moquito breeding holes and pits, responsible for the spread of malaria infection, etc. The committee also found that the water closets in railway stations throughout the country were, as a rule in worse sanitary condition than were the lunch counters; and this alone should indicate how bad they are. As to the water closets, however, the committee's report says that in many places they were so filthy as to transgress all rules of decency. And even in the large cities there was a disgraceful lack of the care and attention needed to keep toilet room fixtures in sanitary working condition. As a result of the work of the committee it is now drafting a set of sanitary rules and regulations for railroad stations, shops trains, etc. which when completed, will be submitted to the U. S. Public Health Service for approval and adoption throughout the country. The health officers, state and municipal, will also be asked to co-operate to the end that a standardized set of rules for all such places may be posted and enforced, and which will do away with the many drastic and oppressive regulations sought to be enforced by local health authorities. While it is conceded that the installation and proper maintenance of adequate toilet facilities in railroad stations and depots is a matter of public concern and comfort, yet the fact that the saloon is passing out of existence, should serve to emphasize the need for more and conveniently assessible public comfort stations not only in Chicago, but in most, if not all of the cities in the United States. In Chicago the need is particularly acute and unless measures are taken for speedy action, will grow worse instead of better. At present the city has only five public comfort stations in the loop, two in the City Hall, two at the Public Library and one at Market and Madison Streets. There is, however, an unexpended balance of $142,000 to the credit of the public comfort station fund, which now that all building restrictions have been removed on account of war conditions, will no doubt be used during the present year. * * * * If men and women only understood the vast benefits which they may now derive from the applied use of sanitary science, they would be both ready and willing to avail themselves of what this modern science has to offer them almost without cost. The scientists have formulated the long list of preventable diseases and have told us how we may avoid them, but we ignore their advise even though we accept as true the things we should do to keep us free from desease. The Wisconsin Legislature, among other health measures recently enacted, has passed a law requiring every municipality in the state to establish one or more public comfort stations according to population. This legislation, it may be noted, is a logical sequence of the passing of the saloon, which heretofore has largely filled this public need. Through M. T. Bailey, 3638 State Street, manager, Milton Mercantile Agency, Mr & Mrs. Delaware, 1940 Walnut Street, purchased a beautiful residence at 42nd. St., and Prairie Ave., and into which they will move about the 1st of October. Albany, N. Y. — Mrs Marion Blake who said she lived in Albany, adopted a two-weeks-old baby in New York lately. At the same time she left in the office of Dr. Mary Halton, at 17 East 38th Street, a five months-old Negro baby which she said she legally adopted when it was but a few days old. At the time she did not know the child had Negro blood in its veins and she was heartbroken when she learned the real fact and knew that she would have to part with the little one to whom she had become greatly attached. The story reads more like fiction than real facts. Dr. Halton advertised in a New York paper that a home was wanted for an infant girl, two weeks old. The parents died of pneumonia a few days after the child's birth. There were no relatives. Dr. Halton made herself responsible for the little orphan. When the doctor arrived at her office a woman who said she was Mrs. Marion Blake, was waiting. She appeared to be troubled. In her arms she carried a baby whose skin was dark. "I am a widow of comfortable means", she said "and live with my mother in Albany.For years I had one servant girl. A year ago she married a soldier, but came back to us when he sailed for France. "A few dayse before she gave birth to a child she received word that her husband had died in a French hospital. The shock kelled her. She died as the child was born. For years I had wanted to adopt a child and I took her baby. "The baby was small and plump, reddish, as new-born infants usually are, and had bright, pretty brown eyes. I adopted her legally and had her christened "Barbara". The loves of both my mother and myself were glorified by the advent of the little orphan. Every day found the tiny mite occupying more and more room in our hearts. "It was when she was three months old that we first noticed that her skin seemed to be growing darker each week. Neither my mother or myself put our fear into words, however, until the baby was four months old. "Finally I took her to a hospital for an examination. I had to go home and tell my mother that Barbara was a Colored baby. "The last month has been one of agony. She is five months old now and I realized that sooner or later I must give her up. It would eventually bring unhappiness to all concerned and the most unhappiness of all to herself. "When I read that you had in infant girl for adoption I thought perhaps if I had another baby near me it would be easier to part with mine." Little Barbara was passed from the arms of her foster mother to Dr. Halton. Mrs. Blake sobbed as she said:— "I can't see her again." She turned her head away to gaze from a window with eyes that could not see. Then into the empty arms of Mrs. Blake the doctor quietly placed the tiny unnamed white child. Long minutes passed before the "mother" looked at the dainty bundle in her arms. Tears fell silently on the baby's white dress. At last the woman gazed reluctantly upon the wee face, snuggled against her heart; and into the blue eyes of her own race she smiled through her tears. Dr. Halton concerned today about Barbara. That the drama may end happily for all, little "Bab", too must find a home, Dr. Halton said. "Somewhere in New York there must be good Colored people who want her. I want to find a good home for her with her own people." After spending several days in the city, Maj. Arthur Williams who has just returned from France, left the early part of the week for Camp Grant where he will complete his services for the government. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 HON. WILLIAM B. CARLILE Postmaster of Chicago who during the race riots in this city was in favor of calling out the Federal troops, in order to protect the lives of the Colored men and women working for Uncle Sam in the main and in the various branch post offices in this city. DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS HIGHLY PRAISED FOR HIS SPLENDID PROFESSIONAL LA- BORS IN FRANCE. The work of the Y.M.C.A. among the A. E. F. has unfortunately been a subject of both highest praise and unmeasured criticism. Many of our returning soldiers, mindful only of immediate temporary benefits, have found occasion and excuse for hostile thinking and speaking in remembering the arbitrary action of some of its representatives suddenly clothed with a little bit of authority or over jealous in the administration of affairs committed to his charge. Many of these defects in management may justly be attributed to that basis in preparation for a great task and the consequent inexperience which was the dominant feature of our entire participation in that great struggle. But that it was a great moral force permeating our entire military organization reaching and taking hold of that great something in the hearts and minds of men which stirs most deeply when facing danger and dea'h must be conceded by even its most unsparing critics and that its influence has largely helped in the making of that bigger and better manhood, which seems characteristic of every returning soldier. The sudden ending of the war found this great organization just entering its great stride and coming into the full realization of its grave responsibilities. In measuring up to its task, it still saw that there was work for it to do; that the flower strown paths of peace held as many hidden dangers as the shell torn roads of war; that the idling soldier of the camp need its helpful ministration even more than the trenches awaiting the signal to go over the top. And, to that end and purpose, it planned its great Campaign of SANITATION and CLEAN LIVING and chose for the spreading of that gospel of Light some of the best and brightest minds of our entire country. To the lasting clory of the organization, yielding nothing to prejudice or race antagonism caring only for efficiency for commanding ability, it made its selections from both races and to the Negro it fell to the lot of the Health Editor of the Defender to be one of the chosen few. Commissioned by the U. S. Government and clothed with all the authority of a WAR official of the Y.M. C.A., he sailed for France May 13th, the race riots in this city was in favor ups, in order to protect the lives of the ing for Uncle Sam in the main and in in this city. S arriving at Brest, France may 25th 1919. Entering spiritedly into the work at Paris June 1st, and receiving every aid and encouragement from all with whom his mission gave him contact, he has found his golden opportunity in bringing home to the soldiers of both races the lessons of SANITATION, HEALTH and CLEAN LIVING which for so many years he has sought to empress upon the millions of readers of the Defender. That his gospel is falling upon willing ears and open minds and is receiving the fullest measure of appreciation is the cheering news that is almost daily coming to our attention. That its value and scope may be more fully realized, we are happy to be allowed to reprint two of the many letters of commendation that have come to him in recognition of the great work he is carrying on among our boys whose unwelcome duty it still is to guard the fields of France. AMERICAN E. F.—Y.M.C.A. To: Mr. W. S. NAYLOR, Field sect. From: M. H. BICKHAM, Paris Regional Director It gives me great satisfaction to report to you on the good work that Dr. A. W. Williams has done for us among the colored troops in the Paris Regiorm. We put Dr. Williams out as a lecturer and have used him at Belleau Woods, Fere-en-Tardenois, Chery and Joinville, keeping him from two to three days in each camp, his message having been helpful to the men of his race, stimulating them to new interest in the folks and affairs at home and certainly creating in them aspirations to more fully meet their part as citizens of the Nation upon their return. Inasmuch as the colored troops are now nearly all moved out of our Region, I am returning Dr. Williams to your office in the hope that you will be able to use him at Le Mans or perhaps at some of the coast ports where colored troops are going on board. [Signed] M. H. Bickham, Regional Director. PERSHING STADIUM Joinville — France Dr. A. WILBEFORCE WILLIAMS, Chicago, Illinois. DEAR SIR: I cannot permit you to return to America without telling you how your services were appreciated by the men of Companies "G" and "H" of the 006 Pioneer Infantry stationed at the Pershing Stadium. These men were on their way home when they were turned back to work at the Stadium and when they reached the camp were the most discontented men I have seen over here. It was our duty to keep them conted, and we found that our duty was not an easy one, but did not hesitate, and with the assistance of six American girls and one other Secretary, we began to serve them with ice-creams, lemonade and cake all day free, next we secured the best entertainment for them, the best speakers for lectures, and on Sunday two good speakers with good singing, and soon this discontented group was the happiest men in the camp. Of all the speakers, no one pleased them as you did on the three occasions that you spoke to them, they were always asking: "Has Dr. Williams gone home? Get him to come out, he delivers the goods." Now I agree with all they say and only regret you were not stationed with me permanently. Your addresses on "What to expect when you return to America" and "Get the Vision" were practical talks that could have been repeated every night and listened to attentively by those men. You may think because you were over here for a short time that you have not accomplished much, but the work you have done here is like bread cast upon the water, they will be seen and gathered in years to come You have prepared these men for the duties that will be theirs when they return to AMERICA, and for their personal responsibilities in making our future dream come true. May God Bless you to live long and to continue your good work. Yours for sincere service, (Signed) J. HARRY SCHROGGINS, 27 So. Ruby St. Philadelphia, Pa. "C." ARRIVALS AT BEAUTIFUL IDLE WILD. Charles Lett, City. Leonard G. Boone, City. Chas. P. Hill, City. James Wilson, N. Y. City. E. W. Campbell, Champaign, Ill. Chas. W. Stewart, City. Westley Lawor, City. Douglas Owens, & wife, Washington Mrs. S. Evans, Lexington, Ky. Mrs. E. McDonell, Lexington, Ky. H. Cook, City. Westley La Mar, City. A. W. Lewis, Omaha, Neb. Geo. Woodfolk, Washington, D. C. Joe Bass, Washington, D. C. Christine Arnold, City. J. G. Wahair, Boston, Mass. E. Dillard, N. Y. Mr. R. L. Wood & Wife, Washington D. C. J. Graham, Boston, Mass. Mr. Brown, Indiana. O. T. Martin, City. Z. F. Preston, Richmond, Va. Mr. R. Williams & Wife, City. Mr. & Mrs. Warnell, N. Y. City. Rev. I. A. McCoy, New Haven, Conn. R. R. Gilbert, City. Cliff Young, Cleveland, Ohio. Van D. Wallace, K. C. Arthur Stevenson, Cincinnati, Ohio. W. H. Marris, Columbia, Ohio. Howard Tallry, City. Prince A. Hysterical, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. J. E. Thompson, Peoria, Ill. Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Patterson, Benton Harbor, Mich. Idlawild Notes. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The "Broad Ax" and Publisher was a welcome caller at The Idlewild during the week. Prof. Davis, of Evansville, Ind. who has recently returned from France where he was assigned as Field Sec't. of The Y. M. C. A. paid the Idlewild a pleasant visit Friday last. Mrs. Geo. Walker, traveling sales-manager of Kashmir Toilet Preparation Co., was a delightful and interesting caller at The Idlewild Sunday. The installation of a Ferris Wheel Merry Go Round and Plent Show as a permanent features has been installed in Moseley's Dixieland Park where thousands go for dancing, riding, sightseeing and other wholesome recreation nightly. Mr. Beauregard F. Moseley Prop., and Manager of the Idlewild Hotel and Annex and Dixieland Park will join his wife and daughter at Idlewild his summer home next week for a few days recreation. Look here's the spot in fact the Mecca for cheap, wholesome Meals best in the City both filling and satisfying Come Sunday and try one from 3 to 9 P. M. at the Idlewild. CHIPS In company with her neice, Mrs. Emma Davis, 1940 Walnut St., left the city for Richmond, Va., where she will stay two weeks visiting relatives and friends. * * * * Mrs. Harriet Pharim, Evanston, Ill. was in the city during the week on business. ```markdown ``` Lowell P. Johnston who returned recently from overseas and who paid a short visit to Richmond, Va., to visit relatives and friends, has returned to the city much pleased with his trip. The Virginian Society will hold its regular meeting, Wednesday evening, August 20 at which time the officers expect a large number present. Many Chicagoans were in Gary Ind. during the past week attending the State Baptist Convention of Indiana which convened at Rev. Hawkin's church. M. T. Bailey, manager of the Milton Mercantile Agency, 3638 State, St. has cancelled all engagement south on on account of the new bulk of collection and adjustment matters which has come in the office and which requires the personal attention of the management. --- Mrs. Eva Hooper, 5214 State St., president of the Baptist Women's Congress and a representative of the National Baptist Convention, uninc. will leave in a few days for Ohio, Pennsylvaniai New York, New Jersey and Maryland prior to the meeting of the National Convention which will convene in Norfolk, Va., Sept 10. --- Mr. U. G. Canada of 601 E. 41st Street, is well pleased with his stay of twelve months on his farm in Maklinburg County, Va. The year has been a successful one for farmers and the outlook is a reduction of the high cost of living. --- Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain Avenue, returned home Friday morning from Peoria, Ill., where she attended the meeting of the Grand Chapter, of the Order of Eastern Star and was elected organ- --- Miss. May L. Lewis, was last week happily united in marriage to Hon. James W. Breen, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, who has always been considered the handsomest batchelor in the City Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Breen are receiving the hearty congratulations of their many friends and they are at home to them at 947 W. 54th Place. Later on, they will enjoy their honeymoon trip. Big Girl for That That tooth was certainly annoying. Miss C—, the primary room teacher of the A— school, put her finger into her mouth to discover the cause of this annoyance. Ole, a bright-faced little pupil, noting the act suddenly asked: "Teacher, how old are you?" Choosing to ignore his impertinence she made no answer. He was not to be daunted, however. With an expression of scorn he said: "I know you're over twenty, and just think! still sucking your finger." Obedient Little Winifred. Winifred was in the habit of visiting a neighbor and coming home with her hands full of chocolates. I remonstrated with her about it and the day after she stood by the neighbor's door and said: "My mother says I'm not to come in if you are busy, but you're not busy, and she says I must never ask for chocolates." A moment's pause and then she shuffle winningly: "But you have to take chocolates, have you?" PAGE SIX MAMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS Has Been Acknowledged One of the World's Wonders, Practically Since the Year 1809. The most famous cavern in America is Mammoth cave, in Kentucky, writes "Niksah" in the Chicago Daily News. Mammoth cave was an old Indian refuge, and the story of redskin adventures is written plain in the skeletons, tomahawks and reed torches that have been found in the cavern depths. Then, in 1809, a white man, a pioneer hunter, followed a wounded bear into the mouth of the great cave, and from that time on Mammoth cave became in American estimation the eighth wonder of the world. Almost as soon as the white man discovered the cavern he began to make practical use of it. Long before the era of Indian possession bats had inhabited the cavern halls and in the course of time their skeletons had accumulated on the floor, especially near the entrance. These skeletons, containing nitrate, played an important part in the war of 1812, for nitrate, so needed for making explosives, was scarce in the colonies and the Mammoth cave became the main source of supply. When the country settled down to a period of comfortable prosperity, Mammoth cave became, even more than it is today, a great show place of America. The cave's history is told in the names of the various rooms and galleries. Jenny Lind and other artists visited the cave and sang or played the airs that had made them famous in "Ole Bull's Concert Hall" or other cavern corridors. In a room since named "Booth's Amphitheater," Edwin Booth was inspired to declaim some of the lines of Hamlet before a small and select audience. FIND UPAS TREE VALUABLE Natives of Java Procure Ready-Made Clothing From Its Branches, With Little Effort. One of the strangest myths is that which concerns the "deadly upus tree" of Java, whose poisonous exhalations were formerly alleged to kill any man or animal that ventured into its neighborhood. Doubtless it had its origin in some traveler's tale, for the tree in question—rather widely distributed in southern and southeastern Asia—has no terrors for the natives of these countries, who, on the contrary, find it extremely useful. It is the only kind of tree in the world that produces ready-made clothing. The inner bark is a natural cloth, only requiring the removal of the soft cellular stuff in order to render it available for use. A cylindrical section of it from a small branch will furnish a leg for a pair of trousers or an arm for a coat, while from a bigger branch the body of the garment is obtained. Copyright Auto The first act providing for the copyright of books and other publications in the United States was passed 129 years ago. The term of copyright was then fixed at 14 years, with the privilege of renewal for 14 years longer. In 1811 the period was extended to 28 years and providing for a renewal for 14 years. For nearly a hundred years after the passing of the first copyright law the protection was extended only to citizens of the United States. In England a similar injustice was practiced upon Americans, although the British government did permit foreigners to take out a copyright, provided their work was first published in England and the author was at the time of publication anywhere within the British dominions. International copyright conventions now exist between nearly all nations. The first copyright act in England was passed in 1709, giving protection for 14 years and for the author's life if then living. In 1814 the English law was amended by extending the period to 28 years. Germ of Laughter Laughter, we are told by all authorities on the human emotions, springs from a sense of satisfaction and superiority in the laughter over the laugher, if we may coin the word for the occasion. The Paris Rose Rouge publishes a hitherto unprinted essay on laughter by Stendahl, in which the following definition occurs: "What is laughter? It is a succession of pulmonary spasms accompanied by a peculiar facial expression which is so familiar that I need not describe it and by a pleasurable sensation around the chest. "This physical state arises from a sudden inspiration to compare our own worth with someone else's and resulting in a verdict favorable to ourselves. Laughter thus arises from the sudden recognition of our own superiority." Keep Mind Free From Rust. A rusty tool of any sort is a poor recommendation for the owner. It is doubly condemning when that tool is the master key of life. The weather and the carelessness of others may rust tools of steel. Only the indolence of the man himself can allow the mind to get rusty. It's a mark of senility or premature mental weakness when the mind that ought to be vigorous shows signs of rust. No man of good sense has a right to think he has reached his limit of usefulness. Each step upward should become the incentive to a higher step. As higher ground extends the vision so mental attainment should extend the scope of a man's influence—Pennsylvania Grit. GREAT LAW MUST BE OBEYED Mankind Helpless Before the Irresistible March of Progress Known as Evolution. The old sailing packet crawled along, tacking and trimming, that its yards of unfurred canvas might catch the freshening winds. The skipper, his leathern face seamed with the heavy lines put there by years of buffeting struggle with wind and wave, watched the great engine-driven liner race past him. A dark bitterness welled up in the old sailing skipper's heart. For that engine-driven liner represented a relentless progress that would not be stayed or denied. It had driven most of his kind from the face of the waters; it had made cargoes for the few of his kind remaining difficult to obtain and obtainable only at rates that meant at best only a pittance. On the bridge of the steam-driven liner the captain, as he gazed at the crawling old sailing packet, caught the bum of a mighty motor overhead. His glance turned from the miserable old packet to the swiftly approaching outlines of a giant aircraft. It came from behind and it passed the racing liner even as the liner had passed the packet. And in the heart of the liner's captain welled a dark bitterness. For be understood. The workings of the Great Law were written clearly in the air and sea before him. Even as the day of the skipper of the sailing packet had ended so his own day was pearing its end. A progress that would not be stayed or denied was overtaking him and his kind. There is a sadness like unto no other for they who watch and give way before the changing eras, for they represent life's heeble discard. PUZZLE FOR LEARNED MEN Figures of White Horses, Cut in English Cliffs, Have Never Been Satisfactorily Explained. Every now and then, naturally enough, a little wave of popular interest eddies around the mysterious white horses cut in the hillsides in various parts of southern England. Sometimes, owing to the encroaching habits of the brush, the chalk which constitutes the lines of the animals fades from view and almost from memory. This process had well-night happened to the Westbury White Horse at Bratton, Wiltshire, when the clearing of the bushes laid it bare, and revived inquiries as to its origin, and solicitude for its preservation, as well as for the upkeep of its various counterparts elsewhere. Well-known authorities have it that the horse was cut out to commemorate the victory of King Alfred over the Danes at Ethandune, the site of which is not far distant. Uffington, however, has a better specimen as white horses go, though abnormally lean and scrimgy in proportions. In size it is nearly 350 feet in length and the same in breadth. It is mentioned in the records of 1571 and was long the scene of annual festivities known as the "souring" festival. The existence of these and the other white horses with which may be included the Corne Abbas Giant and the Long Man at Wilmington, have been the object of much learned and largely unfruitful discussion. Proof That Seeds Breathe It is easy to demonstrate that germinating seeds take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide, according to the following experiment described in the Scientific American: A score or so of peas are placed in a close-fitting jar with a small amount of moisture. After a while the peas start to germinate, but soon they cease all development, because the oxygen in the jar is exhausted. A single pea in a jar of the same size, however, will develop and grow up into a little plant. There is evidently oxygen enough for the needs of the single specimen. To prove conclusively that there is no oxygen left in the jar in which the number of seeds germinated it is only needful to plunge in a burning match. This instantly goes out. The presence of carbon dioxide in this jar is clearly shown by pouring into it lime water, and then shaking. The lime water becomes milky in appearance. This would not happen in a jar in which there had been no germinating seeds. Sought to End Civil War On the 18th of July, in 1864, Horace Greeley, one of the most famous of the Abolitionists, received a letter from George Saunders of Kentucky, suggesting that Clay of Alabama and Holcombe of Virginia, would, with himself, meet Greeley and negotiate peace terms for the ending of the Civil war. Greeley was commissioned by Lincoln to take the matter up, but the negotiations came to nothing, as the Confederate delegates did not have the full backing of their government, and the war lasted nine months longer. Greeley was a rabid anti-slavery leader, but he was not in accord with Lincoln. He was always of the opinion that the slaves could be liberated by reimbursing the southern states for their value. The Main Thing. "My poor man," said the sympathetic prison visitor. "Do let me send you some cake." "Thank you, mum. Dat would suit me fine." "What kind would you prefer?" "Any kind, mum," said the prisoner, lowering his voice to a whisper, "just so it's got a file in it"—Birmingham Ann Horned. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 USED DIAMONDS AS COUNTERS Miners Who Found Them in Brazil in 1726 Considered Them as Merely Pretty Pebbles. The news from Brazil that a large company has been formed to work the diamond mines of that country on a more scientific scale in an effort to make Brazil once more an important factor in supplying the world's most popular gem, recalls one of history's richest jokes. Diamonds were first discovered in Brazil in 1725. But with their pockets full of diamonds, the discoverers were unaware for two years that they had made a discovery. Miners washing for gold in the Minas Geraes district picked up pretty pebbles from time to time. They thought them worthless and used them for counters in their card games. If they had no money they gambled for the pebbles, winning or losing, in blissful ignorance, a king's ransom in diamonds on the turn of a card. A penniless adventurer drifted into the gold fields in 1727. Some of the miners staked him one evening to a handful of pebbles that he might sit in at a card game. The others played with listless interest, but the newcomer played with care and skill. He had seen rough diamonds in India and knew what the pebbles were. As a result he won all the pebbles around the table. He did not remain in the fields to wash for gold, but next day hurried to Rio Janeiro and took ship for Lisbon, where he sold his pebbles for a fortune and lived happily ever after. The rush of diamond hunters to Brazil which followed carried back to the miners in Minas Geraes the first intimation that they had been rich for two years without knowing it. NO REFUGE IN BANKRUFTCY In Olden Times Severe Penalties Were Meted Out to Men Unable to Pay Their Debts. A curious custom was prevalent in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Anyone who found it necessary to liquidate his affairs was obliged to wear a green cap—a humility to himself and a warning to others. Those who made a hobby of getting rfd of their indebtedness by way of the bankruptcy court should at all costs steer clear of China. Bankruptcies are almost unknown in that country, as they entail immediate execution. A similar drastic punishment used to be meted out to delinquent in Japan. To come nearer home, one need only go back to a little before the Act of Union to find that debtors in Scotland were obliged to wear garments of diverse colors, a suit of gray and yellow being the most common. In Siam, a man unable to meet his liabilities was put in chains and compelled to work as a slave for his creator. Should he escape, his wife, children, father or other relative were seized in his stead. At one time bankrupts, were considered criminal offenders even in England. As a matter of fact, certain cases of fraudulent bankruptcy have incurred the death penalty in this country. Any concealment of books or the secreting of property by a debtor was so punished. Under this law a man called John Perrot was hanged in 1761—London Tit-Bits. Tailoring Ancient Art. The art of tailoring, in the western hemisphere, appears to have originated in connection with skin garments rather than those of cloth. In the North, throughout the reindeer and caribou area, well-tailored skin garments were worn, completely covering the body. The Eskimos and the caribou-hunting Indians cut out pieces of skin and fitted them together in intricate pattern like a modern tailor. The tailoring art probably began in China, whence it spread to Europe, thence to the reindeer hunters in Siberia and across from Asia into the new world. Along the Pacific coast the aboriginal Indians were but scantily clad and the natives of Patagonia usually wore only a breechcloth, although sometimes a capellike robe hanging from the shoulders was used. In Mexico and the Andes region where the art of weaving reached its height, garments retained the angular form in which they came from the loom. Lord John Russell. During the years of my uncle's retirement I was much more in his company than had been possible when I was a schoolboy and he was foreign secretary or prime minister. Pembroke lodge became to me a second home; and I have no happier memory than of hours spent there by the side of one who had played bat, trap and ball with Charles Fox; had been traveling companion of Lord Holland; had corresponded with Tom Moore, debated with Francis Jeffrey, and dined with Doctor Parr; had visited Melrose abbey in the company of Sir Walter Scott, and criticized the acting of Mrs. Siddons; had conversed with Napoleon in his seclusion at Elba, and had ridden with the duke of Wellington along the lines of Torres Vedras.—G. W. E. Russell. The Right Way to Reckon The Right Way to Reckon. Matt—How does Skidley manage to stage so many successful auto accidents? Patt—He says he always omits tire chains as a prewreckquisite—Cartoons. LIKE THE BOOK OF GENESIS Description of Flood of Time of Noah Found Among Ancient Records of Chaldea. Perhaps the tearing of the story of the book of Genesis is the true fascination that Mesopotamia has for those who have time to read. The great bouts of the Euphrates have the identical lines of the toy ark that can be bought in London. Where a pent roof has been added for our purposes the two are one in shape. A Euphrates "bellum" arranged as a sick barge is the toy ark of childhood. Is that toy ark an authentic tradition in its shape? It is almost certain to be. The Euphrates boats are plated inside and out with pitch, as was that ark. In these same bellums, some as large as 70 tons, we may find British batteries sailing the Euphrates and a modified memorial could easily walk on board. One more suggestion of the toy shop tradition strikes the usual observer. The tribe people from the hills who work on the Tigris and Euphrates wear high black felt hats, a topper without a brim. Are Mr. and Mrs. Neah really correctly dressed? Then on top of the discovery of the ark comes the more serious reading of a parallel version of the Bible story of the flood found in the uncoeliform in Layard's tablets from the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, copied or collected possibly from Sarreguin's Library at Acude or Erech, older than Ashurbanipal by perhaps 1,200 years. With the town of Genesis the Layard's states of Chaldea 4,900 years ago. It would seem so, when from Babylon is uncarved a seal with the presentation of the temination. Adam and Eve, the serpent and the mule tree. HAVE TO SEARCH FOR POET Great Mind by No Means Easy to Find, and Some Can Never Dis- There was once a small but mighty nation, now numerous as the sands of the senshore, and no longer so interesting. To this nation was born a poet, and they made him the poet of 80 time. They took him and taught him all they knew—and they had great things to teach; and when, at their command, he made great dramas, they stood at his elbow; and everything they gave him he gave back to them tenfold. England was then Shakespeare's land. The poet is always amongst us; the difficulty is how to find him; he is like the proverbial needle in a bundle of hair. But one thing is certain—logicians without love will not find him; they leave a desolation, and call it peace—my, they call it culture. Critics of this sort will allow nothing to exist except themselves. No; I am wrong. There is one thing they admire more even than themselves—the fait accompli a mundane success. —John latter Yeats. Health in Trapshooting. The great and popular detective of fiction, Sherlock Holmes, once admitted that a man's knees were the seat of great enlightenment and from this source he drew many of his deductions. He may, therefore, scrutinize with interest a trapshooter's knees while he is in action. Do they wabble not? He is a seasoned shooter in good physical condition. Do they wabble? He is anxious, perhaps a little new at the game but so happy and willing to get that next target he cares little whether the sun shines or the equinoctial is on. It is a fascinating sport without placing any strain on the nervous system, in fact, trapshooting strengthens the nerves. It combines sport with fresh air and sunshine and saves many doctors' bills. Physicians and nurses recommend the sport as a health tonic, and if the patients follow the advice given there will not be much need for the physician and the nurse.--Forest and Stream. Homer Homer is an epic poet and not a historian, so it is quite natural that he should have exaggerated everything with poetic license. Moreover, the events which he describes are so marvelous that many scholars have long doubted the very existence of Troy and have considered the city to be a mere invention of the poet's fancy. I venture to hope that the civilized world will not only not be disappointed that the city of Priam has shown itself to be scarcely a twentieth part as large as was to be expected from the statements of the Iliad, but that on the contrary, it will accept with delight and enthusiasm the certainty that Illum did really exist, that a large portion of it has now been brought to light and that Homer, even although he exaggerates, nevertheless sings of events that actually happened. —Robertson. You May Bet on It When you see a young man sitting in the parlor with the ugliest four-year-old boy that ever frightened himself in a mirror clambering over his knees, jerking his necktie out of place, ruffling his shirt-front, pulling his hair, kicking his shins, feeling in all his pockets for coppers, while the unresting victim smiles all the time like the cover of a comic paper, you may safely say that the howling boy has a sister who is in a room not 20 feet away, and that the young man doesn't go there just for the fun of playing with her brother. FEAST FOLLOWS AND FEAST As the Mohammedan year is a lunar one, the months rotate through the different seasons, and the fast of Ramadan becomes a severe affliction upon the faithful when the month happens to fall in the hot days of summer. The sick, travelers and soldiers in time of war are temporarily released from this duty, as well as nursing women and others to whom it might prove injurious. The fast is followed by the feast of Beiram, which was established by Mohammed, who seems to have been guided by the Christian institution of Lent, which in the early church varied from four to six weeks. On this day every family of the true believers offers a sheep to God, and the streets of the cities are filled with men carrying the destined victims on their backs. Among the Arabs the festival begins at four in the morning, when great crowds collect at the residence of the nearest pasha or bey, awaiting his appearance in the court of the palace. At five o'clock his highness enters, accompanied by members of his family and his staff; cannon are fired, the peculiar bands of the East play suitable airs, and the chief captain announces that the hour of sacrifice has arrived, and that his highness, after prayer, will be present at this act. All then adjourn to the mosque, and when the sacrifice is over the pasha re-centers the court, and those of high rank kiss his hand; the inferior slightly touching it with their lips. This occupies about an hour, when all retire to take coffee, the cremation thanking the crowd for their presence as a mark of attachment to their ruler. FOUGHT THE FLOWING BOWL Eastern Monarchs and Religious Leaders Long Age Lifted Their Voices Against Drunkenness. Temperance movements and prohibition crusades date back at least 3,000 years. It was China that first tried to be bone-dry. Early reforms along temperance lines are attributed to the priests of India and Persia. But the Chinese claim that in the eleventh century before Christ their emperor, so disgusted over the prevalence of drunkenness, ordered all the grapevines in the kingdom unrooted. A hundred years before this boney dry effort, in the twelfth century before Christ, King Wen tried partial reform in China. Wen, founder of the Chon dynasty, promulgated an "Announcement Against Drunkenness," according to ancient Chinese documents handed down by Confucius. King Wen declared "drinking has long been a national vice." He ordered that wine be used only in connection with sacrifices—and even then drunkenness was not to be tolerated. The temperance reforms also existed in Egypt centuries before Christ. Here's what a teacher said to a youth who had been looking upon the flowing bowl too freely: "Drink not beer to excess. The words that come out of thy mouth thou canst not recall. Thou dost fall and break thy limbs and no one reaches out a hand to thee. Thy comrades go on drinking; they stand up and say: 'Away with this fellow who is drunk.' If anyone should then seek thee to ask counsel of thee, thou wouldst be found lying in the dust like a little child." Life's Master-Key Life's master-key is a personal possession. It's yours to use. It's your estimate of yourself plus sufficient initiative to bring ideals to pass. You're bound to be questioned and discounted at every turn. Others have the same mental concept of their worth as you do. It's your job to show them who is most fit. No, you don't begin that old quarrel about the survival of the fittest. Life knows mercy as literature more than it does of conduct. Nature's laws are just, impartial and irrevocable. They know neither sex nor social position. He who by instinct works with them wins, he who does the opposite falls. When opportunity steps into view you must grasp the forelock or join the great army of those who spend the time in regrets and those who sigh. "if I had only known." Power of Imagination. A doctor, treating an old woman for typhoid fever, took her temperature on each visit by putting a thermometer under her tongue. One day, when she was nearly well, the doctor did not take her temperature. He had scarcely got 100 yards from the house when her son called him back. "Mother is worse," said the young man. "Come back at once!" The doctor returned. As he went into the sick room the old woman looked up at him reproachfully. "Doctor," she said, "why didn't you give me that tube under my tongue today? That always did me more good than all the rest of your trash." Something Saved! A music teacher, giving a lesson to a careless pupil, was becoming impatient with her. Finally, at a most complicated part of a difficult piece, the pupil lifted her hands from the pano and searched for her handkerchief. It was the last straw. "Oh," exclaimed the teacher, "was there ever such a girl? You lose your position, you lose your fingering, you lose your handkerchief—you lose everything!" "Oh, no," responded the pupil, with a twinkle in her eyes, "not everything! I haven't lost my temper!" Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, Collection of Ruins of Which Even the Incas Knew Nothing. One of the numerous cities claiming the title "oldest city in the world" is Tiahuanaco, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. A thousand years ago, say the scientists, Tiahuanaco was as dead as it is today, and that is practically all that anybody knows of its history. Even the Incas, who hold a record for antiquity in South America, admitted to their first Spanish visitors that they knew nothing about Tiahuanaco, except that it was very probable that the stone images scattered over the ruins were the people of the city united into stone by some angry soldier. There would be nearly as much of the old city visible today as there was in the time of the Incas, had not the stones been so attractive to the dians of nearby villages. As it beautifully carved idols have zoned decorate the door fronts of humble tages, and polished stones to prop chimneys and pave floors. The little modern village of Tiahuanaco, near the ruins, is full of stolen conveniences. White houses and churches are built. After several centuries of this plunder the government of Bolivia put a ban on removing stones from the ruins, but there was then little left of old Tiahuanaco. A few stone gods are huge and angular as any deities of Egypt, the sites of a fortress, a palace and meny tombs, all vaguely marked by worn carved stones are scattered over a great desolate plain. Yet four these buttered rolls with their cryptic carvings the archaeologists have some day to reconstitute the story of a mysterious people. SURELY HAD GREAT FATH Or Else It Was First Time This Man Had Ever Gone Again Forgotten Unimmutable. Oh, yeah of little fall in them, for I would be tale in trouble. A person is climbing down the street of the other side, the book-like like Aes, with the world around him shoulders. The second hurt me, going somewhere and writing them quickly. A friend met him and said "Why this has happened? There must have been a still alarm — I didn't hear any whistle. Where are they?" The Martython postscript said: "Yes, I am in a little hurry. I was done street, hoping a couple of days ago and went into a department store, and when I got home I found I had left my umbrella. I know just where I left it. The south side of the store, standing up against the curler. I thought I would run down and get it before another shower came on." Just think of it. Why if I had that man's faith I could not only turn a mode bill into a mountain and sell the gravel to the government to make concrete shores, but I could move the mountain with a broken handle. After parting with that old rock shovel he had blind faith that he would feast his eyes on it again. For forty-hours of golden moments had filled by, and he had the idea that all he had to do was to stand in front of the store and whistle, and that umbrellas would come to meet him, bringing a flock of little molecules with it. I doubt wonder the gold brick factories are running overtime. Why that insect mortal must have at this writing enough nice, shiny bricks on hand to top out a chimney. Kemmebo Journal. The Lucky Horsehoe It was about the middle of the seventeenth century that the successors use of horseshoes as enforcers of good luck originated in England. The way at first deemed a protection against witches and evil spirits, and were nailed on doors of houses, with the curve uppermost. It was the belief that no witch or evil spirit could enter a house thus guarded. The custom of nailing horseshoes to ships and otherailing craft is still in vogue in all English-speaking countries. To find a horseshoe with an odd number of nails attached to it is considered the forerunner of good luck, and the more nails the greater the good fortune that is likely to attend the finder. A person about to be married who finds a horseshoe believes that a happy matrimonial career awaits him. Joy in Conquest. Life's master-key does for its possessor what is impossible to those who do not have it. No future is too forbidding for men of the right mental fiber to fear. Weaklings falter and turn back. Men of talent turned to right channels delight in meeting what has brought failure to the many. It offers to them a chance to try the really hard things. They alone test the skill and prove the mettle. Such men bring wealth out of defeat, and rejoice in the struggle. It's no wonder they step forward and try what has brought failure to others. It's the mental sense of conquest that crowns effort with success and makes manking in the world. It's your right.—Exchange. --- Rapid Heat Changes in Leaves Some recent investigations of the temperature of leaves made in the deserts and mountains of Arizona and in the Santa Lucia mountains of California have resulted in the discovery that leaves show a very rapid change of temperature at times. These fluctuations are almost constantly going on. 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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, 1932, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879 THE GOLDEN RULE IS FOR EVERY RACE. unholy intrigues practiced and fettered by the white race to believe By Dr. M. A. Majors At last the good white people of Chicago have reached the conclusion that they have neglected to make some kind of arrangement for the entertainment, amusement and housing the big influx of colored people during the war. Kind and precious world controllers were awfully glad to get these poor colored people up here to work in their factories while the white and colored soldiers went to France to keep Germany out of New York, off the Atlantic coast and the rest of it, but they had not thought that the dear colored workers needed good housing conditions such as most of them left in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas. The white people of Chicago ought to be glad of the influx of the Negro race because from it it may learn some very simple lessons on humility, human sympathy, sincerity and ape the Negro's religious simplicity. There are a great number of things the white race would do itself proud to learn by having the Negroes for their neighbor.. The Negro loves to meet his obligations, he dresses and takes his wife and children to church Sunday morning instead of making Sunday a day of American sport. He educates his sons and daughters beyond the high school course and although the white race does not know it, the result is we are rapidly forging ahead of them in a multiplicity of things that call for scholarship and scientific aptitude. They all should be proud to be our neighbors. Now a great thought, like a night owl, has perched upon their mind reservoir and nerve tank and they see stars in the daylight because a good house is not too good for a decent Negro to live in. Isn't it strange that the rules of the world are so blamed ignorant and have. to ever and anon make apologies to themselves? What is all the rattle and nonsense about, anyway? Colored people have the same notions, customs, religion, habits and frailties just like the rest of mankind. They are church people, serve and praise God, buy property that is for sale and don't grumble about their taxes. They behave as well or better than those who complain about their presence, and dress quite as well. They have their organizations, educate their children, and spend all their money in the city where they live. They are not indolent, lazy and shiftless, but on the contrary are capable and willing to work in any capacity allowed by the overlord. Suppose, for instance, the Negroes of Chicago should by getting excited at the holacust of outlawry committed by the white bandits, auto thieves, holdup men, murderers, and because of such monstrous human degradation and outrage on the part of that low element of white people, flee from neighborhoods where any white people live, they would only be doing what a lot of foolish white people are doing. They had better move into decent colored neighborohods if they wish to get away from the filth and thieves and bandits and car thieves and murderers of their white race. Colored people care nothing for the cheapness of that vain notion of superiority based upon a white skin. They think more of being somebody, having something and doing something; doing good even to returning a kind word for wrath, and sometimes imitate the fool to carry a point. Do not be deceived. Every Negro mother's son and daughter is a philosopher; they smile through it all and live. The trouble is to be found in the ignorance and prejudices of the white people and not in the Negro. What the white people have got to learn is the determining factor of peace to their troubled conscience. If they will not learn the Golden Rule, God have mercy on them. If for the reason colored people were greater thieves, bandits and prostitutes and have the entire gamut of general cussness there would be some sanity for the display of frantic actions on the part of the white race. As the conditions do not prove that the colored people outrank the white people in the horrible degradation of the species, night orgies, banditry, holdups, thieves, thugs, etc., it might appear that the hand should not say to the foot, I have no need of thee, or mimic a damnable roll of "bette. than thou," when on the very face of things it is one great human lie taking a guilty refuge behind a transparent complexion. Of course the word is generally used to express the meaning of a backslider of some professed religion. This is the survey and premises ascribed to the fickle simpletons who, being misled by preaching, have attempted to do the impossible. In this sense the entire world is a perverse generation of hypocrites and Christ Nobody believes such nonsense, tempted to never did and never will. There has sense the been too much harlotry, murder and generation ```markdown ``` PAGE EIGHT VOL. XXIV. unholy intrigues practiced and fostered by the white race to believe for a moment they monopolize all that is true, pure, and of good report. And, judging from their history for over a thousand years, trailing a constant stream of human blood, affrighted nature surfeited with every ugly condemnation takes alarm at the approach of a harmless people who only do harm to their own kind. HYPOCRICY Dr. M. A. Majors Most people do not know what a hypocrit is. He need not be a pretender of Christianity. He could just as well be a bolter of a political party or a pretender to your friendship; he might be a defaulter, a robber, a murderer or any or all of them. No.48 THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1919 EDITORIAL PAGE Coal Miners and Loaders FOR KENTUCKY Average Wages, $5.00 to $8.00 a day. (All piece work) Board (Maximum), $40.00 a month. NEW CAMP New Modern Buildings, With All Conveniences. Commissary the Best. Prices Reasonable. BUREAU FOR SOLDIERS, SAILORS & MARINES 120 W. ADAMS ST. CHICAGO, ILL. TO COLORED LABOR SEEKING HOMES This is to advice that at a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Coahoma County, a body representing the County of Coahoma and State of Mississippi, a committee was duly appointed to notify all colored people regardless of where they may live that Coahoma County offers a home and great opportunities to those who care to come. For further information address Chamber of Commerce, Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Miss., or call and see A. S. Terrill & Co., 832-30 N. La Salle St., Chicago.— only could possibly be considered an exception to this rule. A deceiver is a hypocrite, a man or woman knowing nothing whatsoever about gospel service or religion is just as much in the category of defilement as if he or she broke every one of the ten commandments; but breaking the commandments these days seem not to make people hypocrites, for if it did there would be very few of the very elect who would escape this notable pastime. Hypocrisy is chiefly the trouble in all man's inhumanity to man. Honesty is always the best policy, but it is not convenient. Gain enters into the proposition largely and we do what we do because it is more profitable to carry our point than it is to be true. Philosophy has built up a high wall and burned the gates to truth, and language has distorted many principles that hedge for selfish aggrandizement. It has had to do with making white better than black in every case where skin is to be considered and hypocrisy is the devil's handmaiden to subjugate a race of millions. The church endorses the very thing it would impeach. It makes a very large percentage of its members a despicable, inferior lot. It professes to foster every good and yet, because of a skin complexion, it damns an entire race, and this is called civilization, which we choose to call hypocrisy. MAKING ONE'S SELF IMPORTANT AND FOR WHAT? Dr. M. A. Majors There be insipid souls in these degenerate days of turmoil. Little would be big folks cursed with the fool's ambition to be magnified and anxious for a spotlight. It is a wicked folly, and sickening. A grim determination to impersonate a worthiness for which they are unfitted by the nervy trick of mocking deviltry. Would shine with the illumination of unfortunate incidents, and then flicker and go out. A sorry plight, this pseudo egoist, the little momentary greatness shuffles on the stage to be seen and heard; it is to laugh. Who of the loudest mouthing and vainest great could rant and rage with impotence while thoughtful men are dumb and still thru hours of strife. We had not thought it possible that such a vanity could persist with such impelling show. There was a work for greater hands with willing hearts and abler minds, but sounding brass found bedlam sweet, and ugly discord stole into ears untrained for frightful sounds. The dominant note was wrath. The quiet ones had naught in common with the coarser shouts of noisy ones. And yet, we need not laugh. The ablest saint, the crudest knave, the deepest philosopher could not grow to fame when terror dooms our peace, when hell burns up our heaven. And so the strong foe combat the weak for wailing. Then after a while the discord died away. The noisy tumult stilled, the would-be brave steals away into silence and leaves the wreckage wrought for enlightened minds to clear away for peace. REMOVE THE CAUSE How to stop crime should engage the astute intellects of many of our citizens who prefer, it seems, to solve the race question. The race question is merely incidental. The riot culminated it seems as a result of a crime having been committed. If no crime had been committed there would have been no race riot. Now how far will we get in discussing this interminable subject of the equation of the chief point? Tell people to analyze the Golden Rule and study the constitution, to cease being defiant to God's great law, and a host of all nations will be greatly benefited, and the Negro will not be complained of. A prejudiced person cannot suggest any satisfactory rule by which the person hated is to be governed. Stop stoning the Negro. M. A. MAJORS M. D SOUTHERN FAKIRS It is claimed that the Y. M. C. A. cantonments in France were fake organizations controlled by southern men and used chiefly as a means of humiliating our brave Negro soldiers. The south, they tell us, was in the saddle, and signs were placed here and there, "For White Troops Only." What do you think of that? Caesar's ghost! The southern white man is afraid of the Negro in any part of the world. And fearful of what? He is afraid that the Negro, if given an equal break, will outstrip him and destroy his devilish hallucinations and hysteria. The damn fool can never be happy anyhow. Two Classes of Snobs You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. —Thackeray. The Trouble With Them, "Some families," said Uncle Eben, "would be a whole lot happier if dey didn't keep tryin' to put too much jazz in 'Home, Sweet Home.'" Optimistic Thought. We have many days for thanksgiving in our pilgrimage. Really No Problem at All. The question of the weight of a fish in water was settled over 250 years. It is said that Charles II of England once asked for a solution of the problem as to why a pail of water should weigh no more after a live fish was placed in it / before. The reasons ascribed by scientists were many, but no definite conclusions were reached. Finally one man, more practiced than the others, tried the experiment and discovered that the weight was increased just as much as the fish weighed. Lily Leaves as Rafts Down in the Mudbas district of India there are lilies that grow leaves of *onononon* size. Indeed, these leaves are several feet in diameter and have turned-up edges to form a shallow bowl which floats on the water. The ornament of these leaves is such that they will readily carry the weight of a small child, as shown in the accompanying illustration. This variety of lily is known as the Victoria Regia.—Scientific American. Bird Rehuked Marguerite was accustomed to being told by her mother to keep still when her grown-up son present was sleeping. One day her mother was telling something interesting when a quarry in the room commenced singing at its loudest. Marguerite climbed upon a chair to the edge and shaken her finger at the bird said in a commending tone: "You keeo still! Don't you hear my mamma talking?" Ingenious Excuse Billy's mother was particular that he should say his prayers upon bended knee before retiring, and one cold night she was surprised to find him already in bed when she stepped in his room to hear him repeat his prayer. "Why, son, you haven't said your prayers," she began, but he interrupted her: "Oh, yes, mother, I have; I said them in bed, but I got in just as uncomfortable position as I could." Laddie's Form of Exercise. I was making a house-to-house canvass recently and as I turned in at one house I noticed a small boy and his dog, but the dog no sooner noticed me than he came bounding towards me, barking loudly. "Don't be afraid," called the lnd. "Laddle won't bite; he is just exercising his bark"—Chicago Tribune. No Difference in Degree Dorothy was very much interested in watching twin boys who sat across from her in the street car. They were peculiar-looking children, but also much alike in feature. At dinner that night she said, "Daddy, you ought to have seen those boys on the car today. One looked just exactly as bad as the other." Ice Cream for Choice. Arthur attended a children's party at which the refreshments served were lemonade and cookies. The hostess saw that Arthur was not drinking his lemonade, so asked him if he didn't care for it. "O, yes," he answered. "Lemonade is all right, but ice cream is my favorite." Japanese Use of Seaweed JERSEY CITY, NJ It is estimated that 67,000 Japanese are employed in the seaweed industry, using the wood in the manufacture of such diverse objects as police men's books, picture frames, marbled doors, and electric switchboards. They have even found a substitute for cotton in a seaweed called "Sugimara." Danger in Empty Gas Tank Gas, when in liquid form, will not explode. A tank which is practically empty and is full of air will be mixed with a certain amount of gas vapor, so contains a very explosive mixture. It is the empty gas tank that Is always dangerous. The Greater Misfortune For ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accomplished by a bed training, are a much greater misfortune.—Plato. Dark Hour for the Editor Dark Hour for the Editor. Every girl named Kate has a different way of spelling Catherine, and it's a dreadful thing if the newspaper doesn't happen to spell a girl's name her way—Jewell Republican. First Woman Printers The first woman printers are said to have been nuns of the Dominican order, who ran a printing press in the convent at Mount Ripoll, Italy, as early as 1476. Woman Rules Bhona! Bhopal, the second greatest Mohammedan state in India, has been ruled over by a woman for several generations. Cc It is when the late Dr. graduate began comparing notes with the men who have been taking a 25 or 40-year post-graduate course in the College of Hard Knocks that he is likely to be told that there is still something to be done in the way of recording more wisdom — Boston Translator. "Philadelphia Measure" When old Philadelphia was held out a defective chain was used in the survey. This chain made each hundred feet three inches longer than it should have been. Property in much of Philadelphia is still defined in this incorrect measure. Hence the term "Philadelphia measure." Wanted One of Them Edith, three, was watching a circus parade. She stood in speeches amusement till the camels came in view, their riders swaying badly, then turning to her mother she cried: "mother, buy me a rockingchair cow, please buy me a rockingchair cow." Who Claimed the Flowers? The minister who made the following announcement seems to have been prepared for untoward results from his preaching. "There are some flowers here," he said. "for those who are slick at the close of this service." Youth's Companion. What More Could She Want? "I don't believe you love me," poured the pretty maiden. "I anticipated that remark," commented the methodical youth, as he reached into a porch et. "Here is an affidavit, duly sworn to, which deposes that I do love you." —Judge. Counting the Cost Prospective Bridegroom (in furniture shop)—These prices make me give up all thoughts of marriage. I now realize it'll be cheaper to let her sue me for breach of promise.—London Opinion. Timothy. Timothy bay was first grown in the New England states and was taken from there to the Carolinas in 1720 by Timothy Hansen, from whom it derived its name. FROM THIS DATE ONWARD THE BROAD AX CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Mrs. L. Graves, The Provident Candy Shop, Notion Store and News Stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State George I. 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