The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Segregation in the Public Schools RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS; PUBLLC PARKS; BATHING BEACHES; DISFRANCHISEMENT: ON STREET CARS; STEAM CARS; IN ALL PLACES OF PUBLIC AMUSEMENT AND A LONG CHAIN OF OTHER EVILS AND UNSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE MAY FINALLY FOLLOW IN THE WAKE OF THE ILLINOIS RACE COMMISSION. The Colored Race throughout Illinois is upon the eve of facing the most serious and the gravest situation that has so far confronted the Colored race since it emerged from the house of bondage and since the infamous "Black Laws" of this state were set at naught some fifty years ago and from all indications it looks as though the Colored people in this state which gave to the world the immortal Abraham Lincoln and many other able and noble sons and daughters of the Democracy will be forced to renew the long fight again for absolute freedom and full American citizenship and assist to repel or drive those back who are endeavoring in any way to curtail those inalienable rights which have been guaranteed to the Colored race, by the Constitution of the United States, after the shedding of rivers of human blood, the loss of more than a million lives, for we honestly believe that there is a silent and a well laid plan or scheme or movement on in this city and throughout this grand old state of Illinois, to seperate the White and the Colored race every way that it will be possible to do so. That some form of segregation in the public parks, public schools, public bathing beaches, residential districts; disfranchisement, "Jim Crowism" on the street and steam cars; that the members of the Colored race will be made to feel the sting of the color of their skin in all places of public amusement and just as sure as the light always follows a long spell of darkness, a long chain of other evils and almost unsurmountable obstacles are more than likely to follow in the deadly wake of the Illinois Race Commission. For last week Governor Frank O. Lowden appointed the following White and Colored men as honorable members of his race commission: Chairman Edgar A. Bancroft, Julius Rosenwald, Edward Osgood Brown, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, Attorney Harry Eugene Keeley, William Scott Bond, Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Attorney Edward H. Morris, Victor Lawson, Robert S. Abbott, George H. Jackson, Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, and Adelbert H. Roberts, sponsor in the fifty-first general assembly of a bill advocating the appointment of an inter-social commission. It is understated that Hon. Adelbert H. Roberts who stands very close to Gov. Lowden and to Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, director of the Illinois department of registration and education, whom they claim believed in some form of segregation or seperation of the races along certain well defined directions or lines; had the honor of naming the Colored members of the Race Commission; that one of the Colored commissioners who arrived in this city less than two years ago from away down South believes in seperate schools for the white and colored races. The first part of 1918, one the other Colored commissioners who is interested some way or other in the real estate business had a long interview in the Chicago Tribune, wherein he went on to state that the Colored people would rather reside in restricted districts to themselves; that they never desired to come in close contact with the whites. When many Colored people demonstrated with this distinguished Race Commissioner for giving expression to such monstrous views he claimed that the Chicago Tribune had misquoted him which was all tommy rot for he never demanded nor commanded the Tribune to retract the statements which it had published in reference to his views on segregation or on the separation of the White and Colored races, if a little Colored newspaper would have published the same statements about this Colored Race Commissioner and would have refused to retract them he would have sent the Colored editor to jail for one year for criminal libel. It is very funny how some things happen to turn out the way they do, but after all there must be some truth in that good old saying that "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, that He plants His footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm"; for it will be recalled that one of the real Colored Race commissioners who has worked overtime for years to set the Colored people against the white people in this city and in other parts of this country and who has made more money out of his preachment of race hatred than any other human being in the wide world was unwilling to trust his money-mad God, for when race riots swamped down upon this city he tore out for his home at break-neck speed and remained hid away in it until it was all over, not sticking his great intellectual head outside of his door once to see how it was getting on. There is no question in our mind but what Hon. Edward Osgood Brown Hon. Julius Rosenwald, whose race of people have always been treated almost as bad as the Colored people; Col for the Colored people, as Mr. Roberts for everything that is fair and square has stated more than a thousand times that "no power on earth nor in heaven could or would force him to turn his back on his people, that he firmly believes in social equality, and so on," even though it is claimed that he had the naming of all the other Colored men for the Race Commission, and in our humble opinion he used very poor or short-sighted judgment, for there is no logical reason on earth why anyone who has resided in this city less than two years, and who hails from away down South behind the sun should be selected and permitted to sit in judgment on the progressive Colored people in this city and state, and that one act on the part of Mr. Roberts in connection with his Race Commission will greatly tend to lower him in the estimation of the best thinking Colored people for many years to come. It may not be true, but it has been intimated to us that "one hundred thousand dollars will be expended some way or other to induce three or four members of the Race Commission to hatch up a strong minority report of the findings of the Race Commission in time for the meeting of delegates of the constitutional convention, in which it would be recommended that the Colored race should be stripped of its manhood rights in this state, that segregation or "Jim Crowism" in some form or other must prevail. In conclusion, if anyone of the Colored commissioners joins in such a cold blooded and darstarly or cowardly scheme, then that Colored Race commissioner should be promptly hung in effigy from a million lamp posts in this city and state and be forever branded as a rank enemy and a traitor to all the Colored people throughout the United States. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919 NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS | MACLAY HOYNE "Suffrage Session55 Called for October 7th to Be Best of the Series—Able Speakers of Three Continents Expected to be Present—Emergency Defense Fund Growing. (Special to THE BROADAX) WASHINGTON, D. C.—The official call for the fourth annual session of the National Race Congress of America, to be held in this city October 7th has been issued by the President, Rev Dr. W. H. Jernagin, and is being widely circulated through the press of the country. This Congress is to be known as the "Suffrage Session," and the clans from every section of the land are getting ready to gather at the nation's capital to emphasize the importance of the ballot as a solvent for many of the ills that beset America's 12,000,000 Negro citizens. The call states the case with clearness and force and Dr. Jernagin and his coworkers are urging that large delegations be sent here from the various sections to consider ways and means for the betterment of the civic and economic status of our people. Able speakers will present the issues and the discussions will be broad and thorough, and the steps to be taken to crystallize thought into action will be prompt and vigorous. All phases of the intricate "race problem" will be treated. Hon. F. M. Hercules, secretary of the Society of the Peoples of Africa, with headquarters at London, England, has accepted an invitation to address the Congress, and Congressman Matthew Agady, of Liberia, is also expected to speak. Invitations have been extended to the Hon. C. D. King, president of the Republic of Liberia; Hon. Blaise Diagne, a member of the House of Deputies of the Republic of France, who has had charge of the colonial troops, who fought so valiantly for liberty and democracy throughout the world war. M. Diagne presided over the deliberations of the recent Pan-African Congress in Paris. The Abyssinian government has promised, through its envoys, to send a message of cheer. Rev. A. C. Garner, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, this city, has accepted the post of Field Agent for the Congress, and will travel extensively in the next few weeks to place before the country the plans and purposes of the Congress. He will be assisted by Rev. Daniel L. Reed, the well-know lecturer and author; Rev. A. A. Graham, of Phoebus, Va., Rev. J. N. C. Coggins, and a number of others yet to be named. Local units of the Congress now in existence will be stimulated and many new ones will be instituted. It is regarded as especially important that units be established in every locality where colored people are found. Prof. John R. Hawkins, executive secretary of the Emergency Defense Fund, under the auspices of the National Race Congress, is actively pushing the collection of the $250,000 fund authorized by the organization for the protection of Colored Americans, and encouraging progress is being made. The Congress is also co-operating with the citizens of Washington in defending innocent colored men who were arrested during the recent riot for no other reason that that they dared to protect their lives and their homes from the violence of the mob, when the authorities of the law failed to do so. Arrangements have been made by Prof. Hawkins with the Bar Association to provide every colored man with able counsel and no worthy case will go undefended when brought before the courts. Contributions in behalf of this cause and for the $250,000 general Defense Fund may be sent to Prof. Hawkins at 1541 Fourteenth street, northwest. Any sum, however small, will be welcomed and accounted for. Correspondence relative to the October "Suffrage Session" of the National Race Congress, is invited by President Jernigan, who can be reached at 901 Third street N. W., Washington, D. C. The forthcoming meetings promise to be the very best of the series, and that much good will be accomplished for all the people by this frank exchange of counsel is already assured. Miss Mary E. Branch, teacher at the V. N. and I. I. Petersburg, Va., who is attending the summer normal at the University of Chicago, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Frank, 35 Illinois Ave., Lake Forest, Ill., Sunday afternoon at luncheon. Miss Branch visited many points of interest in Lake Forest accompanied by the Baxter sisters. It is not supposed that our State's Attorney is so perfect that he cannot make mistakes, or that his authority should not be discredited because he is the state's attorney. We have read time and again statements after statements made by him condemning the mayor, individuals of our race and his charges against the police of Chicago. In his better moments he is no doubt possessed of a kindiness of heart that oftimes saves him from his peculiar outbursts of wrath. Of course a man's position has something to do with his disposition. The state's attorney's office brings a man of a kindly nature to look upon everyone as a person of mistrust, because the criminals are brought into his presence to prosecute, and it makes a man fretful to handle the big criminals of a big city. That position occupied by Hon. Maclay Hoyne caused John E. W. Weyman to lose his mind and kill himself. Men frequently lose their heads and occasionally their mental balance, when they become vested with authority, that makes a man feel that he has the right to break into the mayor's office, consignate his books, and brand the mayor of a great city as a producer of riots, and helter skelter array one class against another class. Of course to all appearances it looks fine to the great host of people who cannot think for themselves, but to the more sensible folks it takes the cheap and spectacular aspect as the action of a man suffering from overweight egism. Mr. Hoyne seldom if ever makes such glamorous spotlight stuff work his charm. We cannot believe in his magic act, because so often it has failed him when he would prosecute and convict. Now, the dear long oppressed Negro has given him cause to hope for a lot of hoodlum votes of the white race, because he, Mr. Hoyne, our great state's attorney can raid the black belt and possible find a few more Negro rioters, a few guns and razors. Why bless your soul, the same amount of trailing could be done in any other part of the city for guns and razors outside of the black belt. Why don't the astute state's attorney get busy with his cases of arson, and prosecute the white thugs, pick-pockets, car bandits, and incidentally bring to justice those house burners on Wells and Princeton streets? We are not opposed to the prosecution of the law. We have some ideas that somebody who is guilty of the spectacular, now sees an opportunity to make a display of something he can use to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the public. Certainly his chance is that old shop-worn theme, prosecution of the Negro. Most of the world is with him in his new fortune. Prosecute Negroes because white men were killed. Soft pedal the prosecution of white men because many Negroes were killed. We hope Mr. Hoyne will be as industrious in bringing to justice the "white rowdies" as he call them, as he is in prosecuting "black thugs" as he designates for Negroes. But calling people names does not show the gentlest nature of Mr. Hoyne, who is now qualifying himself for general race hatred and for a generous defeat at the polls if he ever runs again for public office. Somebody should whisper a little common sense into the ear of the gentleman who calls us "black thugs", a nice distinction from "white rowdy", but the man is not himself, he is more like an archangel than he is a devil from whatever view you take of him. Mrs. Millie Carter, of Indianapolis, Ind., has for the past three weeks been visiting with her son, Mr. Edward Carter, and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Lottie Carter, 5423 S. Wabash Ave. She will leave for her home, Monday evening. * * * The returning soldiers of Ebernerze Baptist church were given a warm welcome last Wednesday evening by the church through arrangements made by a special committee of which Mrs. Eva Hooper, president Baptist Women's Convention, was chairman. Some of Chicago's most able speakers were present and addressed the audience. Among them were Hon. Oscar DePriest, ex-alderman of the 2nd ward; Rev. Geo. H. HcDaniel, president Enterprise Institute; Hon. Arthur Burrage Farwell, president Chicago Law and Order League; Rev. A. J. Carey, presiding elder of Chicago district and Rev. John F. Thomas, veteran pastor of the church. High class and influential business man; loyal and steadfast friend of the Colored race; Republican candidate for delegate to the Constitution al Convention from the sixth senatorial district. Every Colored man residing in Evanston and there about, should on Wednesday, September 10, record his vote in favor of nominating Mr. Glenn. The Fourth Constitutional Convention for the State of Illinois will be held in Springfield beginning January 6th next. At this convention the Constitution—the basic law of the state—will be re-written. Delegates to this convention, two from each senatorial district of the state, will be nominated by the different political parties on September 10th. The election will be held on November 4th. These conventions have been momentous affairs in the history of Illinois and have been made up of men skilled in statemanship and in the knowledge of the interests of the state. It is important that able men be sent from the Sixth District as delegates. Hon. John M. Glenn of Evanton is a candidate on the Republican ticket for the nomination. Mr. Glenn is eminently qualified to be one of the delegates from this district. He has lived in the district more than twenty years and has lived in Illinois more than fifty years and for thirty-five years has been actively identified with the affairs of the state as a newspaper writer and as secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers" WHITE-BRADSHAW WEDDING Thursday evening, Miss Laura Mae White became the bride of Mr. Cortey L. Bradshaw at the home of the bride's uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Cook, 3356 Rhodes Ave. The wedding was one of the prettiest of the season. The bridal dress was an imported model of white beaded georgette crepe, a veil of white tulle was worn with cap effect with wreath of orange blossoms. The Misses Adina and Edythella Adams, daughters of J. Q. Adams of St. Paul, and cousins of the bride were maids of honor and bridesmaids respectively, the former in pink tulle with touches of lavender and the latter pale blue taffeta, made sheered fashion with garlands of pink roses. The bride carried a shower boquet of brides roses and the bridesmaids old-fashioned boquets of variegated blossoms. Francis and Henry Cook attired in white suits stretched ribbons followed by the small twins, Clarence and Calrissa Cook, carrying baskets of roses, little Monie Penn, neice of the bride was flower girl, and brother Julius Penn carried the ring on silver tray. Dr. Braxton was best man and Mr. George Bazell groomman. Rev. W. S. Braddan officiated and David B. Hawley uncle of the bride was master of ceremonies. A short musical program was rendered before the cere- Association. He was reared in Monmouth, Illinois, where his father, the late Judge John J. Glenn, was Judge of the Circuit Court in the Monmouth District for twenty-six years. Mr. Glenn was active throughout the war in behalf of the government. He was a member of the Evanston War Council and was a member of several committees operating under the State Council of Defense and through the Illinois Manufacturers' Association was the means of bringing considerable business to the state. Perhaps no candidate in the District has had so much experience in state affairs as has Mr. Glenn. He is secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, president of Glenn and Company, publishers of Manufacturers' News, secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers' Casualty Association, secretary of the National Conference of State Manufacturers' Association; member of the executive committee of the Art Alliance of America and also of the Chicago Athletic Association, Union League and other clubs. Mr. Glenn is intensely interested in the coming Constitutional Convention, expressing himself as follows: "It has been about fifty years since mony by Miss Nannie Mae Strayham pianiste, Miss Edna Penn, sister of the bride mezzo-soprano and Mr. Bazell baritone, Misses Nellie Byron and Estelle C. Bonds accompanist. Just before the ceremony Madam M. Byron sang "Oh Promise Me." Miss White is the descendant of pioneer Chicagoans, her maternal grandfather is Mr. Allen Hawley, one of Chicago's oldest citizens, and her paternal grandfather was the late Rev. H. H. White, known as the Historian of the Baptist denomination and at one time pastor of Olivet Baptist church. The bride has for several years been superintendent of the primary department of Berean Sunday School, and the groom has been for the same length of time superintendent of the adult department of the same Sunday School. The presents were many and costly and the Berean church and Chicago Post Office sent several gifts from the department with which the happy pair had been identified. The most noticed and admired gift was a quilt made by the maternal great-grandmother of the bride and an heirloom in the Hawley family for years, presented to the bride by Mrs. Susan Hawley. Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw left for Detroit, Mich. amid a shower of rice, and will be at home to their many friends at 4608 Evans Ave. the present Constitution was adopted and the one to be written next year will so doubt live as long if not longer. At least every effort should be made to write one that will fulfill the needs of the state for many years to come. With this end in view it is highly important that much study and thought be given by the chosen delegates to the forming of this new Basic Law. "It is my opinion that a practical constitution should be written, short and easily understood. This will avoid much litigation as future legislatures will have for their gidance in the making of statute laws, simple and plain basic principles. "I believe that it is especially important that the antiquated tax laws should be revised with a view to not only simplifying these laws but to lowering taxes. "Taking it all in all this is the most important work to be undertaken by the state during the past half century and if nominated and elected I shall devote much time and thought to the forming of a constitution that will be to the best interest of all the people of the state." Mrs. Jennie Collins, 5423 S. Wabash Ave. has returned home from a pleasant visit at Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Lucy Edmonson, Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting friends in the city and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest Ave. Mrs. Luella Wallace, 3808 Dearborn St., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Tiny Campbell, Brab Orchard, Ky. Enroute home, Mrs. Wallace will visit other relatives at Louisville, Dansville and Henderson, Ky. Miss Loyola Yonkins, 3615 Vincennes Ave., spent some time at Detroit, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio, where she visited relatives, and has returned to her duty as clerk at the Wallace Bakery Co., 3600 State St. M. T. Bailey 3630 State St., will endeavor to give the people an opportunity to purchase homes in Chicago and suburban towns on easy terms through the Bailey Realty Co., of which he is president. Mr. Bailey has been located at the above address for more than twelve years and has given much valuable legal advice. He is also a director and appraiser for the Pyramid Building & Loan Association. ```markdown ``` HON. SHEADRICK B. TURNER Member of the Legislature of Illinois, from the first senatorial district; who stands ace high in the estimation of the leading Republicans and Democrats throughout this state; who assisted in defeating the Race Commission Bill, in the fifty-first General Assembly. THE RACE COMMISSION By Dr. M. A. Majors. The Governor has appointed the race commission. Since we have it let us see if we can find a use for it. The unsettled condition of the people just coming out of a great war has been the cause of much of the chaos that now exists. Hundreds of thousands of black men who went to war, went to fight and die for a cause outside of their environment, and for a country that lynches, burns, and murders them at will and for which they are without redress. They carried the flag, and then brought it back with honor, but they met dishonor on their return. In the battle zones the only humiliation they suffered was from white American soldiers and officers. The question of race prejudice has been an incubus. A people long wronged by the tyranny and oppression and borne brutal useage almost without complaint will in the final analysis have an awakening if they possess a spirit and a conscience. The recent war put all the races on edge. The oppressed will no longer be oppressed. What they fought for they insist that it shall not be denied them. The old time darkey is dead and sleeps his peaceful sleep in the grave. The new order of world Democracy tells the black soldier and the black citizen, that to be respected, he must respect himself, and to do that his house must be protected from the mob and the bomb. This high regard for self demands that he must die fighting a man's fight, asking no quarter and giving none. Peaceable and just, not seeking trouble, nor giving other trouble. Industrious, economic and a proud people, fearing no one but demanding what belongs to all people. He should not bededen of the right to buy property wherever it looks like a good bargain, and where he wishes to bring up his children. He should not be denied the right nor blamed for doing the noblest thing a man can do for his family, buying for them a home. He should be protected in all his rights as much by a healthy public opinion as by the law. People that hold prejudice against a race, merely upon color, cannot very satisfactorily determine what is best for that people. We will not be interested in any proposition that advocates segregation either in city or public schools, nor anything that means Jim Crow law in the great state of Illinois. THOUGHTS OF THE HOUR By Dr. M. A. Majors. We may not boast of a nickel worth of powder To shoot or to color a woman's face But there are thoughts we'd like to express louder Than white dailies print for our race. The press will never print for us our matter Only in a half-hearted measly way It always front-pages what is only clatter It never prints for public what we say. Oh! we could cut a mighty needed caper If we would stand united as a race, Could print a million dollar daily paper, With what we've got and take our rightful place. The day is being misled by false lead- ers Who fattened on the pie of politics Has long since passed our public can- are readers, Defy them now with all their wily tricks. Oh! for a man who has sufficient vision, To stand in front of politics and pew, A man too great for cheap derision A man of action with a thought that's Oh! let us find the man who stands for "we must!" The clock is striking, it is almost noon Let's name him, back him, without any mistrust We cannot do the noblest thing too soon. We've passed the line of easy satisfaction, We cannot hope for much with the old way, We've got to get behind the men of action, We've got to get the things for which we pray. Let's be a race that isn't imitation, Let's set up rules forgetting how to shirk, Let's do the things that's worthy emulation, Adding our full quota to the world's great work. F R E E S I X NEGROES FROM STOCKADE AT GRANT CAMP GRANT, ILL.—Half a dozen of the colored soldiers court martialed recently at Camp Grant upon charges of complicity in connection with an attack upon a Bloomington, Ill., woman here in May, 1918, have been liberated from the military stockade, it became known today. While camp authorities made no official announcement that the six Negro soldiers had been found not guilty of the charges preferred against them, it was unofficially admitted that the men are now attached to the Negro casual detachment at 518 South, under command of Lieut. Charles Dickerson. Army court martial procedure provides that following an acquittal, the accused men shall be restored to duty with their old organizations. Although given their freedom from the stockade where they have spent more than a year, the Negroes will not be officially returned to duty until announcement of the general courts martial findings is made in Washington by President Wilson. The Negro soldiers who were defendants in the case and who are now released from the guard house are: Privates Elizar Chapman, Andrew Fields, Iron Townsend, James Reel, Clemmie Johnson, Colonel Jackson Cheeks. With the exception of Chapman, who was brought back from France, this Spring to face trial all of the sexette were tried and convicted at the first general court marital held at Camp Grant in August, 1918. Army law provides that conviction upon either of the first two crimes may be punished by death, or by such a penalty as the military court may provide. Should capital punishment be inflicted upon any of the six men alleged to have been convicted, the sentence will be executed here. A transcript of the record trial is now in Washington where it is awaiting final review by President Wilson. If he approves the sentence of the Camp Grant court the verdict will be published there by the judge advocate general. BETWEEN TWO FIRES The senatorial foreign relations committee has the eye of the world turned to Washington. The Peace League of Nations carries not enough "self-determination" of small nations and races, and the U. S. senate is bent upon burnishing up the Golden Rule for all of mankind. It appears somebody has been trying to write *Mohammed* down in history without the consent of Senator Lodge, Knox, Borah and Johnson, and without the erudition and statemanship of ex-Senator Eilhu Root. Anyhow we shall see if the South takes back-water—"Lay on MacDuff and damned be he who first cries, hold he enough!" THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 30, 1919 Hon. Lee O'Neil Browne, and Other Leading Democratic Members of the 51st General Assembly Assisted Sheadrick B. Turner and Hon. Warren B. Douglas to Defeat "The Race Commission Bill THE LIBERTY LOVING DEMOCRATS CLAIMING THAT THEY DID NOT WANT THE SOUTHERN IDEAS ON HOW TO HANDLE THE NEGRO GRAFTED UPON THE SOIL OF ILLINOIS. The following highly logical article contributed by Hon. Warren B. Douglas, member of the Illinois Legislature from the 3rd Senatorial District. Gov. Lowden apparently feeling that his opinion outweighed the collective judgment of the members in the last session of the legislature, in the matter of the advisability of having a "Race Commission", has proceeded to appoint such a body himself. Leb me call to your mind what I know to be the sentiment and true feeling of the vast majority of the people of this community toward this much talked of "Race Commission" whose duty it will be to find a panes for our so-called raicial ills; it might be well for me to hark back to the busy days of the fifty-first General Assembly in which I had the honor of representing the Third Senatorial District. During the session, House Bill No. 155 provided for a board of Race Commissioners was introduced in the House, by my colleague, Honorable Adelbert H. Roberts, referred to the committee on Efficiency and Economy and reached second reading in the House; this bill was afterwards withdrawn from the calendar; while it was on the calendar, Senator Wheeler introduced the same bill with a few minor changes, in the Senate known as Senate Bill 357, which passed the Senate, reached the House in due course, but did not pass, having failed to receive the required number of votes. It was a common understanding at that time that Gov. Lowen was anxious, in fact extremely solicitious that it should become a law. I take pleasure in reporting to the constituents of my district and the State of Illinois that I opposed the measure and I further point out with some pride the fact that some of the best minds in the legislature opposed and voted against this measure on the ground that the bill if enacted into a law would not only be unpatriotic, un-American and unfair to 12,000,000 loyal souls, but it would ultimately lead to such laws as would bring about segregation and disfranchisement which is in open violation of the Constitution of our country. Among the many able legislators who opposed this measure in the House, allow me to name just a few of them: [Image of a man with a mustache and a bow tie]. J. H. HON. JOHN E. TRAEGER Vice President, of the Stocksville Trust and the Collector for the Town of Lake, as Coroner City Collector, City Comptroller, as City Treas- of Cook County, he was always on the job in of the people, and as he will be nominated and the delegates to the Constitutional Convention senatorial district, he will assist in formulating in the interests of all the people of Illinois. Vice-President of the Stockton County Trust and Savings Bank, and as Collector on the Town of Lake, as Coroner of Cook County, as City Collector, City Comptroller, as City Treasurer and as Sheriff of Cook County, he was always on the job in the interests of all of the people, and as he will be nominated and elected as one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention from the fourth senatorial district, he will assist in formulating a new Constitution in the interests of all the people of Illinois. Sheadrick B. Turner, serving his second term in the legislature, strenuously opposed this bill and was more than instrumental in conducting a successful campaign that lead to the defeat of the bill. Among the salient points brought out by Mr. Turner on the floor, was this, "there are no commissions formed for the Poles, Serbians, Croatians, or any of the other nationalities that dwells beneath the Stars and Stripes and why therefore should there be one for the Negro when even handed justice and fair play is the one and only solution for the racial troubles of our country." Mr. Turner's record on race matters has always been four square and had this bill any merit whatsoever, I am sure none would have rallied to its cause any sooner or more earnestly than the "Wizard of the First District"; Lee O'Neil Browne, Judge William H. Dietheric, Lawrence C. O'Brien and many others of the leading Democrats and Republicans opposed this measure because they felt that it was unjust in its application to the Negro. Some very strong speeches were made against the bill by leading men of both parties whose terms of service in the legislature stretch over a span of years. In the Herald-Examiner of the first of August, there appeared an article headed "Lowden Plans Adjustment of Race issue," stating that he would appoint these commissioners who would work out a solution for the race problem. To be more specific allow me to quote verbatim from that article: "I want to have a commission," said the Governor, "composed of four or five colored men who have nothing to do with politics but who have the confidence of all the colored people and an equal number of white men of the same caliber. They would be men who could through the creation of public sentiment, create among their people an understanding that would soften the feeling between the races. There would be a tacit understanding that the colored race should occupy certain areas for residences, certain beaches and parks for amusement and so on. By the same understanding THE NEW YORK TIMES Trust and Savings Bank, and as Coroner of Cook County, as City Treasurer and as Sheriff in the job in the interests of all nominated and elected as one of Local Convention from the fourth formulating a new Constitution of Illinois. certain similar areas and facilities would be reserved for the white race. This news article among some other things further stated that he was favorably impressed by reports of a similar commission working on a similar plan at Atlanta, Georgia and that he had sent for a report of that body." I opposed the commission bill in the General Assembly, and am more bitter than ever against it now, for it is quite obvious now as it was then that this board of Race Commissioners would have for its ultimate purpose the bringing of segregation, jim crow cars, in fact to change the fair state of Lincoln, as far as the Negro is concerned, into a Hell Hole like unto the State of Mississippi. The Governor says that there shall be a tacit understanding among the commissioners that they shall try to bring about segregation with all its degrading influences. The Atlanta commissioners from whom the Governor seeks advice, besides in the state that gave to the world Hoke Smith, it would seem therefore that the commissioners are to bring about conditions to make it possible to mistreat the Negro in Illinois as he is mistreated in Georgia: Jim Crow, taxation without the right to vote, poor schools, lynch law, murder and ravishing of our women is what the commissioners have tolerated and counted in Georgia. It is inconceivable that the white man, in spite of his farsightedness and superior intelligence, fails to appreciate the folly of alienating the good will and loyalty of the Negro who has proved himself to be a potent factor in the economic and industrial life of this country. And further, has stood and ever been faithful to the Star and Stripes, and has never been found wanting when the Nation has called upon him in the hour of need. The Negro needs no greater proof of his loyalty than that shown by his willingness to sacrifice his life upon the battle fields in every war in which this country has been a party during its entire history and when the Negro went to France that democracy and liberty might rule the world it was with the hope that the war's setting sun would be followed by the dawning of a new day of hope for him and his. And above all that since he had made Europe a fit place to live in he has returned determined that America shall be a fit place for him to live in, and no longer will the Negro be contented to be treated as the Nation's ward or to accept of any cajoling or humoring you might say in lieu of those rights that are guarantees to all citizens by the constitution of the United States. This is the thought advanced by the young Negro of today who is teaching his people and giving them a new form of intelligent and constructive leadership, and the sooner the federal, state and city officials, and the business men realize this fact and enforce the law and give every man a square deal the better it will be for the entire country. The Negro in this country is purely an American product, is a poor socialist, and no bolshevik at all. He has no fatherland to which he feels and gives a large part of his allegiance, while at the same time claiming American citizenship, and if America would give better facilities and opportunities for the Negro to develop in the principles of manhood and citizenship, it would prove a better investment than throwing our doors open to the hot-headed, disgruntled and ARRIVALS AT BEAUTIFUL IDLEWILD 94 HON. WARREN B. DOUGLAS The new gladiator of the Colore led the fight against the Race General Assembly of Illinois. The new gladiator of the Colored race in the Middle West; who led the fight against the RaceCommission Bill, in the fifty-first General Assembly of Illinois. lawless elements of Europe, whom we foolishly believe can be made into first-water Americans by having them go through the prescribed form of naturalization but who in fact, while filling their pockets with American gold, form plots and put forth propaganda that is inimical to American institutions and is eating like a cancer into the very heart of our national existence. first to feel its prick. Careful reflection has shown this to be a question that will not yield to legislation or mob regulation, for you only have to glance at Georgia, Alabama, Texas and other states south of the Mason and Dixon line where segregation brought about by legislation or otherwise, only tends to make matters No permanent good can result from segregation of the races such as being suggested by some at this time. What is needed is a better understanding between the races, and that, cannot be gotten by making a wider gull between them. Segregation will only emphasize racial differences and keep alive prejudices that should have no place in the life of America today. Setting territorial limitations for the races will act as a two-edged sword and the white man will be among the Mr. Edd. Bradley, Gary, Ind. Mr. Jack Wells, Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Jenkins, Aurora, Ill. Mrs. R. K. Clark, New York City. Mr. Jas. E. Simpson, New York City. Mr. S. T. Cuthbert, City. Mr. C. M. Edwards, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. John Wagstepp, Cattle, Wyo. Mr. Roy Williams, Portland, Ore. Mr. Loyd Griffith, Portland, Ore. Mr. S. J. Carr, Chicago. IDLEWILD NOTES Hon. Beauregard F. Moseley, proprietor of Moseley's Stadium and Recreation Park and Idlewild Hotel, left Monday night for a short visit to his family now at his summer home, Idlewild, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bolden. accompanied by Mr. William H. Cis'v of Cleveland, Ohio, were dinner guests at the Idlewild, Sunday. Something new in the hotel line will soon be given to the public. Watch these columns for same. Don't fail to visit Moseley's Stadium and Recreation Park and enjoy a good cool ride before returning. Open each evening, 7 to 11:30. We believe the exhibition of great wealth on display of diamonds, expensive gold, luxury and the lazy idleness of the rich has caused much crime in the great cities. If it was possible to restrain the gorgeous display of luxury, and people were encouraged to go neatly and cleanly without extravagant show, there would be vastly less crime in the cities. first to feel its prick. Careful reflection has shown this to be a question that will not yield to legislation or mob regulation, for you only have to glance at Georgia, Alabama, Texas and other states south of the Mason and Dixon line where segregation brought about by legislation or otherwise, only tends to make matters worse. The Negro is here whether by accident or design and here he intends to remain; all he asks is that justice be given him, seeking no special favor, asking no special law, but demands the right to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness as guaranteed by the charter of Human Rights, the right of an equal chance, an equal opportunity to work and develop himself, as that given the foreigners, who are attracted to America because of the American Dollar, only. SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION 2830 S. State St. Rev. H. Franklin Bray, D. D., Supt. SERVICE EVERY NIGHT IN THE YEAR "Surely the Lord is in this place." Thus spoke a goodly number who worshipped at the altars here during the past week. Eternity alone will reveal the tremendous good being done here night after night by reason of the faithful service of a few of God's spirit baptized souls who give of their time and strength in an earnest effort to win men to Him. The Sunshine Rescue Mission expects to have a big bunch in heaven. The second anniversary of the Mission will begin on the 25th of next month and continue one week. Speakers of national reputation will have part in these anniversary services, a program of which will appear very soon. The riot period excepted, there has not been a single night but that a service has been held in this place. The Sunerintendent will conduct a children's meeting at 2 o'clock and a meeting for everybody at 8 o'clock Sunday. Hearty welcome to strangers and the poor. WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? This is a cruel world we live in. The trials, sins and miseries of our times seem multiplied and friend and foe all suffer alike their woes. The reconstruction day is here, and besides the greatest war of the world to give us horror, a busy-being democratic administration of public affairs has added to our common ills. The High Cost of Washington and national [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL The greatest fighting Irish-American in Chicago, with legal guns against Hon. Maclay Hoyne, State's Attle County at two great meetings at Bethel Church evening and Quinn Chapel on Thursday evening; he ably defended the law abiding Colored people attacks or the assaults of the flighty-brained gentle the State's Attorney of this cit and county. ighting Irish-American in Chicago, wv inst Hon. Maclay Hoyne, State's Att to great meetings at Bethel Church Quinn Chapel on Thursday evening; ded the law abiding Colored people a assaults of the flighty-brained gentle torney of this cit and county. The greatest fighting Irish-American in Chicago, who trained his legal guns against Hon. Maclay Hoyne, State's Attorney of Cook County at two great meetings at Bethel Church on Tuesday evening and Quinn Chapel on Thursday evening; at which time he ably defended the law abiding Colored people against the attacks or the assaults of the flighty-brained gentleman posing as the State's Attorney of this cit and county. Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman, 6142 S. Elizabeth St., are among the best and most highly respected Colored people in Englewood. They occupy a lovely little home of their own and Mr. Chapman holds a good position with the Garrick Theatre. They are both admirers of this paper. Mrs. Pearl M. Warner, 5225 S Dearborn St., organist of the Eberne Dearborn church, 35th and Dearborn Sts., left Sunday evening for Ben Torbion Harbor, Mich. and Hartford, Mich. where she will spend her vacation She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs Willis Russell. The United Civic League will hold a meeting Sunday afternoon at Odd Fellows' hall, $335 State St., Mr. Charles H. Dickerson, a graduate of Yale University will deliver the principle address. Mrs. Annus Broadus White will render a solo. The public is urged to attend. Mrs. Loy Ella Young, 3556 Forest Ave., matron, Elector Chapter No. 1 who attended the grand chapter at Peoria and state grand lodge at Mound City has returned to her home much pleased with her trip. Mrs. Young was elected a state officer in each meeting. Major Arthur Williams, former captain of Co. M 8th Ill., has returned to his old home town, Metropolis, Ill., after eighteen months service overseas. Major Williams is not certain as to the location of his future home. 1930 1910 M. HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY Prominent member of the Rep one of the Honorable Trustees of who has greater political honors member of the Republican Party on the Honorable Trustees of the Sanitary District for political honors in store in the near Prominent member of the Republican Party on the West Side, one of the Honorable Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago who has greater political honors in store in the near future. --- --- * * * --- rican in Chicago, who trained his Hoyne, State's Attorney of Cook at Bethel Church on Tuesday thursday evening; at which time Colored people against the at-hty-brained gentleman posing as and county. Mrs. Ella L. Holmes left the city for Atlantic City to attend the grand lodge of Independent Elks during the week and will return in time to join the delegation which leaves for Indianapolis, Ind. Sunday afternoon. Special trains filled with officers and members of the national grand council of A. U. K. D. oA. will leave Sunday afternoon for Indianapolis, Ind., where they will attend the grand lodge which convened Monday, Sept. 1. Mr. Lee Fite, of Nashville, Tenn., is visiting his cousin, Mrs. W. A. Buckner, 3704 Prairie Ave. Mr. Fite is connected with the Branfort Realty Co., which is the largest concern of its kind in his home town and he has greatly enjoyed his vacation trip and visit to Chicago. APPLICATION FOR PARDON Chicago, Aug. 27, 1919. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that the undersigned will at the next meeting of the Board of Pardons, to be held in Springfield, Ill., apply for a commutation of the sentence rendered against William Jackson, who was on January 28th, 1915 sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of John Walker. By S. B. TURNER. Publican Party on the West Side, in the Sanitary District of Chicago in store in the near future. --- WILLIAM JACKSON THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 30, 1919 Big Meeting of the Knights of Pythias At Atlantic City, N.J. By CHARLES E. STUMP ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. I have again applied my little knowledge of the Knights of Pythias, and believe me when I tell you it worked like a charm and I have been able to get into the supreme lodge and learn a few things. Have you ever been there? It is based on brotherly love, or on friendship or something like that, but I saw there men united to kill their brother, and did succeed in doing so. I wonder at times if we really know the value of an obligation. If we would warn a brother of approaching danger, or would we rather let him make a mistake if there is one to be made, and then air it above other. This happened upstairs among the big folks, and us little fellows must not have anything to say. You will recall when I wrote my last letter I was around and about the city of St. Louis attending the National Negro Business League. and other places worth while, and when I got through with there I then turned my attention to leaving. It was a great session of the League, and I am proud that Dr. Robert R. Moton was made the president. He is getting ready to put into it some of the Booker T. Washington pep, and I believe that the next session to be held in Philadelphia will be like one of those old time sessions, and I hope to be there, and I am going to be there if I can just get money enough together. It would be impossible for me to tell you all the big folks I met while there, for that is out of the question. I have just met them, talked with them and when I was ready to leave for this part of the world, I received an invitation from Dr. Robert R. Moton to join him in a bed car going East. He had secured a little room in that bed car, hence there was room enough for me, for Major Allen Washington and Dr. Moton. I wish you could have seen Hon. Berry O'Kelly, postmaster at Nethod, N. C., and one of the wealthiest men of our race in that section of the country, and who has used his wealth in trying to help others, and Mrs. Wilhelmina Webster, an elocutionist and dramatic reader of St. Louis, helping to get me ready for the bed car. They packed my trunks, fixed my money in my pocket, and arranged things in good shape, and then Mr. O'Kelly went with me to the bed car in one of those horseless carriages. Well, we got in, and I regretted to see Mr. O'Kelly go, but had to bid him farewell, and tell him I expected to meet him again, if not in this world in the world to come, for I am going to heaven and I think a man who will take his money and erect a school building for the people should have a place there also. Well, we got together, and the thing started out about noon, for New York. We talked, and then I went back in another bed car and talked to many of our people there. It was to me a source of pleasure to be able to talk to them. They were from Arkansas, I enjoyed talking with them. Getting back to the bed car, I found a note from Dr. Motron telling me to come up in the eating car, but Mrs. A. M. Malone, of Poro college had caused to be fixed for me, some real chicken, and I got on the outside of some of that and when I passed through Indianapolis, Miss Sayde Mays, of the public school brought me a few more lines of chicken and other good things, hence I did not put my little feet in the eating car until Sunday morning, and it was almost noon then, because there were so many who had got in ahead of us. We got there and did clean up. I got to know Dr. Motron as never before, and he is a man who is truly interested in his people. He thinks much of his people. I am proud of him. I reached Philadelphia, when I got Chicago Title and STATED IN OUR BUSINESS SAY that of showing the co titles. The millions upon build and rebuild Ch nished relying on the STRACTS AND TITLE No man has lost a This is our past. Wise men judge behavior. CHICAGO TITLE AND 69 W. Wash Chicago Title and Trust Company OUR BUSINESS SINCE 1847 has been that of showing the condition of real estate titles. The millions upon millions required to build and rebuild Chicago have been furnished relying on the accuracy of our ABSTRACTS AND TITLE POLICIES. Assets exceed $12,000,000.00 No deposits or demand liabilities. off and went to the city where I remained over night, but the next day found me moying another way. Bright and early I got up and beat it for Atlantic City and believe me they have some people there who know how to charge without rendering the service. The first thing to attract my attention was that is decreed that Joseph L. Jones, a high Pythian, at the head of the Calanthe must die, because he did not agree with Smith W. Green, the supreme chancellor. When I asked one or two men about it, they said that it was true, and that they could not do anything. Dr. C. M. Wade, said that it was an order from the administration, and he did not want to dig his own grave, hence he could not do anything for General Jones. I got the same thing from Dr. Mason, then from others, whose names I do not recall. "It was the administration against Jones" and I do not know whether or not the Supreme Chancellor has decreed what those who did not vote against Jones should do but seem to be understood. The result was the same. That was all you could hear on the street and we are going to get him. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, said "I regret it very much, but Joe has dug his grave by disagreeing with the Supreme Chancellor, and he must be buried in it." I have been told that there were other reasons. The time came, the administration beat General Jones by six votes, and then Dr. Stoney from Georgia, who was not present when the votes were taken lost his position, because they declared that he went out to duck the vote. I don't know what you mean by that, but I do know that he was defeated. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the best all around speakers in the Supreme Lodge, Hon. Chas. N. Cottrill, "Real Estate—Collections—Notary Public, Toledo, Ohio." He is a man every inch a man. I shall never forget him and his kindness. He was just a kind man, and he made some speech. We shall watch the future. I wish you could have seen that parade. The people all declare that it was the finest parade ever held in Atlantic City. They were there from everywhere, and those folks did put on some stunt, believe me. General Robert R. Jackson covered himself with glory. He was not the same Jackson he used to be. He is getting away out of my reach. Such is life. I said a few minutes ago that the people know how to charge and they do. I paid one dollar and fifty cents for sleeping, and my bed mate was Rev. Henry Allen Boyd, and got only one clean towel after I used the one which was in the room. Wonderful prices. I saw that there was nothing else to do but pay it, and I got some laundry work done, and must have it done over again before I could use it. Have you ever met Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle? She is one of the most remarkable women of the age, and I am proud to know her. Right by her side is Mrs. Fannie M. Cosby-Blevins. She is some woman. Mrs. Tuggle has so lived as to have the esteem and respect of all the women. The call her the supreme court of Calanthe "Ma Tuggle." What she says is to be done or they will die trying to do it. It is great to so live in the hearts of people. She is a woman who believes in doing things, and her work in Alabama will testify to this. Go bless her and her work. I think I have said enough for this time. I am now headed for New York, and will have something to tell you about New York in a few days. Look out for all my letters. You can't afford to miss any of them these days. --- THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 19th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol XXIV. August 30, 1919. No. 50 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879 Sir William Tyrrrell Volunteers as Secretary to British Envoy. New York—An unusual story of friendship between two men in high office was told here today by Lieut-Col. Thwaites, British assistant provost marshal, following the announcement that Sir William Tyrell would accompany Viscount Grey as his private secretary when the peer arrives as British ambassador to Washington. Sir William was private secretary to Lord Grey, then Sir Edward Grey, at the outbreak of the war when the new ambassador was British secretary for foreign affairs. When Sir Edward retired Sir William was made undersecretary of foreign affairs and held that important office for the greater part of the war. When his old chief decided to go to the United States as ambassador, Sir William volunteer to accept the comparatively humble position of private secretary. Ambassador Grey's sight has almost failed, and it was this fact Col. Twaites said, which determined Sir William to make the sacrifice in position in the name of friendship. QUINN CHAPEL, A. M. E. CHURCH 24th and Wabash Ave. Next Sunday, Sept. 7th, will be known as Membership Reunion Day. Special sermon by the pastor. Subject: "The Great Reunion." Following the sermon and just before the close of the service a short address will be delivered on the subject: "A Tribute to the Men and Women of Quinn Chapel Who Have Joined the Church Triumphant." A big platform service in the afternoon, at which time all old members and any who may desire will take part in the platform meeting. 8:00 p. m. Will be a special feature. Sermonettes by several wide awake evangelists, Testimonies. Come and be inspired. EASTMAN, Ga.—The charred body of Eli Cooper, a Negro, was found today in the ashes of a Negro church, burned by incendiaries this week. Three other Negro churches and a Negro lodge in this section were burned Tuesday night. The acts of violence followed reports that the Negroes planned to "rise up and wipe out the white people," and that Cooper remarked the Negroes had been "run over for fifty years, but this will all change in thirty days." The burned churches and lodge rooms were said to have been the scenes of mass meetings recently during which the uprising of Negroes was discussed. KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Boston, Mass. O. Gustenmann. My picture shows you what your face EXELENTO QUININE POMADE has done for up that makes a smile it, my hair was it, my hair was it, my hair was and now it is 18 hours old and silky that growth and silky that growth and silky that LANTI RAND. Don't let some fake Kink Bumpers fool you. Kink Bumpers your until it's a price and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE dose, remove Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. 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Michigan Avenue at Adams Street Telephone Wabash 6000 seley's Park and Stadium and Wabash Avenue V OPEN Moseley's Dixie Land Park and Sta 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue NOW OPEN Moseley's Dixie Land Park and Stadium 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue NOW OPEN 7 to 11:45 P. M. Daily Sundays and Holidays 2 to 12 P. M. Bar Dancing to the best Jazz music. Shows and concessions. Show your Race pride and spend your mon own and are welcome. Furnish employment amusement for your own. y 2 to 12 P. M. Band Concerts; music. Shows and all kinds of le and spend your money with your Furnish employment as well as Sundays and Holidays 2 to 12 P. M. Band Concerts; Dancing to the best Jazz music. Shows and all kinds of concessions. Show your Race pride and spend your money with your own and are welcome. Furnish employment as well as amusement for your own. The Elite Cafe 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. 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