The Broad Ax

Not Many Years Ago Col. Robert S. Abbott Collected In Thousands of Dollars from the Sale of Stock in His Great Daily Newspaper Scheme Which Never Float ed to the Surface. Only a Few Years Ago He Branded Col. Roscoe C. Simmons as a Grand Rascal and Scoundrel, But To-day Col. Simmons is Held Up by Col. Abbott as the Greatest Negro in the World. Dr. J. Frank Armstrong Still Has His Libel Suit Pending Against Col. Abbott for Fifteen Thousand Dollars. There is an old saying that the man who lives in a glass house ought to be free from the habit of promiscuous throwing of stones. The failure to remember this homely old saying gives reason for the charming story which appeared in The Broad Ax last week about the doings of the Hon. Marcus Garvey and his now famous Black Star Line and its flagship the good steamer Fred Douglass and the divers damage suits by and against Col. Abbitt, editor and publisher of the World's Greatest Weekly. Your readers may wonder how the Rambling Man connects this lapse of memory with these recent red hot doings on newspaper page and in the courts. But to an old-time Chiegoan these things are as plain as the nose on a goat's face. The whole controversy between the ambitious and versatile Mr. Garvey and the Chicago Defender and its distinguished editor, Col. Robert S. Abbott, LL.B., and many other things lately, came out of the fact that Mr. Abbott in his 'later days seems to forget his own humble beginnings, not only, for he is to be credited for what ever rise he has made), but the remarkable similarity between his own history and its remarkable beginning and that of Mr. Garvey and his Black Star Steamship Line with its flagship and its fleet, to be, and its Commodore and even dry land Admirals if you please. There are old colored ladies living in back streets and unknown to the great world outside who remember when the Defender was not the World's Greatest Weekly. Some of them showed the Rambling Man some old copies of the Defender, powerful reminders of the days when in 1905 Col. Abbott printed in his then diminutive sheet a picture of the great perfecting press—to be—and its capacity to print five thousand copies an hour of the first Negro Daily that had up to that time been born in the imaginary world. The proof of the pudding is in the chewing of the bag in which it was boiled. The Daily was a certainty, for the picture of the press was right there, as big as life. And along with it was a glowing prospectus which was both a promise of heaven for those who bought stock in this great Daily (to be) and a threat to those who dallied with their money and did not leave shares to their children that they should not press in peace the dying pillow. Of course the offer of stock in an enterprise which existed only in the then unecultivated imagination of Col. Abbott was long before there was a a (Blue Sky Law) in Illinois or in any other state for that matter. One could sell stock in a plant to extract moonbeams from cumbers in those good old days when they say that Johnny Carter scheduled the Post Office on a bond for $10,000 and got a man out of the Cook County Jail on it. That was the time when it was considered more important to have a man who could sign a bond whether he owned a tax title to a foot of land in Lake Michigan or not, than to have skilled lawyers for one's defense. But to return to our mutton. Col. Abbott sold much stock in his "Daily Defender," according to common report of the time, and also used great diplomacy in explaining to the public how THE BROAD AX promising the Daily was, but also employed a man to explain why it did not appear. After the embryotic World's Greatest, got headway as a weekly there was a cessation of the wagging tongues; and it was explained that there were so many papers in Chicago that the Associated Press would not sell its service to another and especially as that other one was for the Race, and that was all good an alibi as the average stockholder wanted. The Daily paper was a possibility just as the Black Star Line is. That the weet tot of a supplicant for the support of the common people has become the World's Greatest. Weekly is no argument against Hon. Marcus Garvey and his Black Star Line. The sea is there; and also a thousand unused ships will be for sale by somebody soon. And why not to the Black Star Line? But the similarity in methods of the promoters of the Black Star Line and the Daily Defender were strikingly similar. Appeals was made to the inner consciousness of the RACE because of the fact that in its columns had been set forth exclusively the salacious story of the wrongs of a colored girl and her settlement of her case out of court with a man who was not a Race man, as the fashion then became. That one item was "played up" as the newspaper men say until it was worn to a frazzle. But that was not all. Col. Abbott appealed to the religious side. He visited the churches and made plaintive pleas for such coin of the realm as the faithful might turn loose, and he did not spurn the dollars or even lesser sums from hands that belonged to newcomers from the south whose recent presence on Grand boulevard appears so grievously to offend the nesthetic tastes of the distinguished Colonel. But this is no plea for the Black Star Line. That corporation is sufficiently strong to stand alone and sufficiently buoyant to float on any of the seven seas. The Rambling Man being an old timer and having Chicago's history at his fingers ends wishes only to tell some things that transpired some dozen years age or more, and incidentally to point out some interesting inconsistencies and some curious coneidenees in the recent history of the men who now in lime light pose as always wasers rather than the just arrived. But the writer can not help but repeat that it is a good adage that has been forgotten and this is simply to protect those who live in glass houses and to discourage the small boys as well as the grown up from chunking stones too promiscuously. Your paper may not be thanked for these good natured reflections which may ramble on into revelations out of the volumes whose contents are covered with dust and the reading of which would make many sit up and take notice. But the throwing of stones at Hon. Marcus Garvey is not the first time our distinguished brother of the press has been inconsistent in his dealings with matters and things. For example he has shrinked so loudly on the subject of the rights and wrongs of the colored man, that he has copyrighted the word Race and always uses it and is offended if any one uses less than a great big R in spelling it. On this CHICAGO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919. 78 <u>CPD</u> Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County; who was banqueted and presented with a beautiful silver loving cup. Wednesday evening at the Royal Gardens. score Mr. Garvey called attention to the fact that Mr. Abbott uses more space in advertising the things that will make the Race white and straight haired than he does in priding himself upon having the blood of Hannibal and even Caesar not to mention Simon who bore a heavy cross up Calvary. People wonder what will become of Mr. Abbott's stock in trade which is the RACE if the advertising columns shall turn all the swarthy cheeks white and red and the crinkled hair straight. What RACE will that be and where will Mr. Abbott be when there will be no more black people to whom he may point with such pride as he used to boast, but upon which he has been strangely silent in the recent months since he has seen what some are wicked enough to say is another light. But be that as it may. Col. Abbott is as consistent in his advertising and his editorials and news columns as a prohibition paper would be to advertise the output of the Old Taylor Distilling Company or the product of the Edel weiss concern before the day of one half of one per cent. But inconsistencies do not worry that gentleman. For example: Some years ago there was a young man named Rosebose Conkling Simmons, who made Chicago his headquarters, and being from Hampton, the alma mater of Col. Abbott, had instant entree to that gentleman's pocketbook and made frequent visits to that sacred fountain. That was in the days when HON. CHARLES KRUTCKOFF a ten dollar bill looked bigger than a liberty bond to Col. Abbott, but looked no larger than a two cent stamp to Col. Simmons. But on one occasion Col. Simmons permitted Col. Abbott to advance him a few simoleons and for security gave his sacred word that within the week, if he should live, that ten would be back safe in its proper place—and with it should come also other favors past. The money did not come and so great was Col. Abbott's incol. Col. Simmons, that he printed in his columns the solemn announcement that Col. Simmons was verily dead, for otherwise his word would not have failed. The press of the country took up the sad item and scattered it broadcast, but Col. Simmons did not choose to shake the cerements of the tomb from about him until he could emerge in shape. He finally declared in his own columns in a little paper down in Louisville, that the Defender had grossly exaggerated the story of his death. No one knows whether a libel suit was threatened or not, but true it is that the Defender instantly changed face. It then and thereupon set about making co-incidentally and contemporaneously two claims: one was that the Defender was the World's Greatest Newspaper and then that Col. Simmons was the Race's greatest orator, and then when that gentleman went to bleeding France in the wake of the war that paper dubbed him the World's Greatest Orator, and, like the monument at Bunker Hill, and Lexington, there stands Col. Simmons and there the Defender will have him stand forever. But this is not all. The Defender is accustomed to libel suits. There is one already pending against that paper for the alleged libel of Dr. J. Frank Armstrong, a well known physician on the West Side, who has a suit which lays his damages in the modest sum in these days—only fifteen thousand dollars. That suit has been mentioned in the columns of the Defender and of course is public property. The Broad Ax has no wish, I know, to do more than give such facts as I may glean out of history's golden urn. And so I give en passant another little story: In the meantime Col. Abbott has shown other pictures in aid of the Defender, and some of the evil-minded claim to remember that about a year ago or such a matter, Brother Abbott printed a picture of a great big perfecting press with his good mother standing by it to touch the button to start in on its revolutions to print the World's Greatest Weekly. The dear good soul in the picture had on her face a beautiful angelic smile of admiration of her distinguished son, Col. Abbott, who stood at the other end of the press and enjoyed that moment of supreme triumps. The Colonel killed two birds with one stone. He showed how fond a son he is, and all men applauded that, and then he showed what The Women's Second Ward Republican Club Gave a Brilliant Reception and Banquet in Honor of Hon. Charles Krutckoff, Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County. The Pleasant Affair Was Held in the Gold Room of the Beautiful Royal Gardens, and Mine Host Virgil Williams Made Everybody feel at Home. It Was Attended by Many Prominent White Citizens, Both Ladies and Gentlemen. Hon. George F. Harding, Jr., City Comptroller of Chicago, Was Among the Speakers. Mrs. Bertha Montgomery Was Mistress of Ceremonies. Wednesday evening the Women's Second Ward Permanent Republican Club, Mrs. Bertha Montgomery, President, gave a very elasty and delightful banquet at the very beautiful Royal Gardens, 459 E. 31st street, in honor of Hon. Charles Krutekoff, the ever popular and highly honorable member of the Board of Assessors of Cook county, and in every way it was one of the most pleasant and remarkable affairs ever held in the Gold Room of the enchanting Royal Gardens, for white ladies and gentlemen of note freely mingled with the Colored men and women present, many of them representing the best class of Colored people in this city. The many ladies present both white and Colored, were costumed in the most type-date styles and they resembled real fair dolls in their many colored, rich and elegant gowns, and with their faces wreathed in smiles they presented a lovely scene or picture long to be remembered. The program of the evening began by everybody standing and singing America at the conclusion of which Mrs. Ida McKinley, Vice-President of the Women's Second Ward Permanent Republican Club, introduced Mrs. Bertha Montgomery as mistress of ceremonies who was right at home as such. Short happy talks were delivered by the following persons: Mrs. Nannie Reed, Hon. Edward D. Green, Hon. George F. Harding, Jr., City Controller of Chicago; Mr. B. W. Pitts, Mrs. Bertha Marshall, Hon. A. L. Williams, Mr. W. H. Montgomery, Mrs. M. O. Gainer, Mrs. Sarah C. Minor, Mr. Paul Wedell, Chief Clerk of the Board of Assessors; Mrs. James Groch in behalf of the ladies employed in the rooms of the Board of Assessors present the officers and members of the Second Ward Women's Permanent Republican Club with a beautiful basket of flowers which was the hit of the evening and in doing so Mrs. Groch delivered an oration worthy of the old-time politician of the Second Ward. The most pleasant surprise of it was the presentation to the honored guest of the evening, Hon. Charles Krutekoff, with a richly engraved large silver loving cup, a token of respect and high esteem he is held in by his white and colored fellow citizens residing in the Second Ward and in other parts of this city and country; Mr. Krutekoff was almost at a loss to find words to express his lasting appreciation to those who had assisted in any way to honor him in such a lavish and lasting manner and to the end of time he would always remember that long to be remembered occasion. The following were among the many ladies and gentlemen who occupied seats around the long banquet tables and mine host Virgil Williams and his splendid entertainers spared no pains in making everybody feel that they were right at home and the spring chicken repast was served to the queen's taste. Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs. Jessie L. Bond, Mrs. M. O. Gainer, George F. Hardling, Chas. Krutckoff, Bertha Montgomery, Mrs. Ada McKinley, Mollie L. Baruch, Bertha E. Marshall, W. H. Montgomery, Edw. D. Green, Louis B. Anderson, Geo. A. Turnbull, Robert F. Brooks, Willis V. Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Pitts, Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Anna Northington, Miss. Amanda Finch, Mrs. Fannie Madison, Lowell L. Weber, Chas. F. Schultz, Mrs. Grace L. Pearl, Mrs. Annie Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Mrs. Lettie B. Brown, Mrs. Adelaide E. Jennings, Mrs. Maude Lee, Madam Emith M. Scott, Louise Wolf, Mrs. Etta Charles, Anna R. Siman, A. L. Williams, Mrs. A. E. Taylor, Mrs. Mary Harsh, Miss Rosa A. Miller, Mrs. Ada V. Tucker, Mrs. Fannie Kennebrew, Mrs. Cordelia M. West, M. Smith, Mrs. Grace Collins, Mrs. Nannie Reed, Mrs. Sarah C. Minor, Mrs. Freda Albright, Evelyn Hoffifman, M. A. Lesser, Letta Stewart, Mrs. Beatrice Carring, Mrs. Grace Harris, A.G.F. Gurney, Mrs. Sarah C. Minor, Mrs. Freda E. D. Thomas, Sarah B. Shelby, B. J. Knox, E. V. Parris, Mrs. Ella Harvey, Mary Granger, Matter Collins, Mrs. Madah Petford, Master Chattes Pettford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, Mrs. M. A. Johnson, Miss Bessie McAfee, Mrs. Howley, Mrs. Emma Loving Henry W. Smith, Mrs. Josephine Puckett, Miss Dora Beard, Mr. Charence Williams, Robert Christain, Miss Jennie Anthony, A. H. Savage, Abner A. Hodges, Lt. Hary W. Jones, W. Lacy, Bernice Coleman, Lt. C. J. Waterfield, Isiah Wayte, M. J. Cleary, Otto Brockman, Thomas Morressey, Mrs. Jas. Glock, Clarence Finley, B. F. Witkin, Marie Coker, James G. Otter, Ruth Hagan, Mrs. Eva Freneh, Mrs. Morales, A. N. Fields Hugh Richardson, Kirby Ward, Major R. B. Jackson, Mrs. W. M. Brinkman William Brinkman, Jr., Mrs. Sadie Nelson King, Mrs. Hugh Butlin, H. P. Butlin, Paul H. Wiedel, Benj. H. Lucas Warren B. Douglas, Hugh Norris, Hatie Chavia, L. H. Preston, Julius F Taylor, H. A. Watkins. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxes, 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. XXV. October 11, 1919. No. 4. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago III. Under Act of March 3, 1879. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc, Required By the Act of Congress of August, 24, 1912, Of The Broad Ax, published weekly at Chicago, Ill, for October 1st, 1919 State of Illinois, County of Cook, ss Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid personally appeared Julius F. Taylor who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor, publisher, manager and owner of The Broad Ax, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owing or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None. 4 That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustees or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mail or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is ..... This information is required from daily publications only.) Julius F. Taylor: (Signature of editor, publisher business manager, or owner. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of October, 1919. (Seal) Violette N. Anderson. (My commission expires May 2, 1923.) M. COL. W. E. MOLLISON. Late of Vicksburg, Miss., who has forged the legal world in Chicago, who will represent York City in his setto with Col. Rob ert S. A. Late of Vicksburg, Miss., who has forged to the front at a rapid rate in the legal world in Chicago, who will represent Hon. Marcus Garvey of New York City in his setto with Col. Robert S. Abbott. Cols, Abbott and Garney are still fighting in the Heighest Courts in the Land. (Concluded from page 1.) a great press his paper owned. And then some of the waggling tonages were vicious enough to say that the picture was that of the Drovers' Journal, but no newspaper has ever been small enough to rob the Colonel of the glory that was his, and the plaudits that came from the thousand lips all over the country. And when all this hullaboo about the Black Star line was raised, the Colonel forgot the glass house that contained all these rare historical treasures and the fact that the Hon. Marcus Garvey, like David of old, might have in his simple bag the dangerous smooth stones. The Rambling Man knows a whole lot of other little treasures that he might mention in a later letter, but for the present he has only to say "every man for himself and (with regret) the devil take the hindmind." COL ABBOTT AND COL GARVEY ARE STILL FIGHTING IN THE COURTS. Now that the smoke of battle between the Hon. Marcus Garvey and the World's Greatest has died away the casualties appear to be about as first stated. There is a suit pending in the courts of New York for some two hundred thousand dollars against the Defender and Mr. Abbott. In Chicago there is one in which Hon. F. L. Barnett is attorney for two hundred thousand in the Superior Court. Then there is a suit on behalf of the Black Star Line against the Defender pending in the District Court of the United States assigned to Judge Carpenter for two hundred thousand dollars. In this suit Col. W. E. Mollison represents the plaintiff. Then there is a suit filed by Mr. Abbott against the Black Star 1910 ROY C. CHEVEN HON. ROBERT E. TURNEY Able lawyer; former Judge of the Superior Court would make a dandy Republican candidate for Ju in 1920. Able lawyer; former Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County; who would make a dandy Republican candidate for Judge of the County Court, in 1920. Able lawyer; former Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County; who would make a dandy Republican candidate for Judge of the County Court, in 1920. Line and Hon. Mareus Garvey for some hundred thousand dollars. Mr. George represents Mr. Abbott both as prosecuting and defending counsel. The above is substantially correct. If there are errors it comes from the loose and reckless amounts alleged in the several declarations. It reminds one of the saying of some wit that Mr. MeAdo spoke of millions of dollars as though they had been cranberries. LOWDEN'S BOARD ORGANIZES TO STUDY RACE RIOT. The commission appointed by Gov. Lowden to get to the bottom of the Race problem and study the causes of the recent riots held its organization meeting Thursday. Sub-committees to work upon the selection of officers and a budget system were appointed and the general phases of the duties of the body were discussed. Those present were Victor F. Lawson, Edward Osgood Brown, Harry E. Kelly, W. C. Graves, Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Adelbert H. Roberts, Robert S. Abbott and George H. Jackson. Mrs. Eva Hooper, 5124 State street, who has been for some time the active president of the Baptist Women's Congress of Illinois, has tendered her resignation as president of the Congress in order that she may devote her time to a special study. Mrs. Hooper has done a great good as leader and her resignation is regretted. M. T. Bailey, 3638 State street, press. Bailey Realty Co., and mgr., Milton Mercantile Agency, has an estate consisting of a three-flat brick building five and six rooms, stove heat, lot 25 x 125, adjoining another lot 25 x 125 and two separate lots 25 x 125 to be sold at a great bargain. If you are thinking of buying, consult or write Mr. Bailey. 1920 Superior Court of Cook County; who didate for Judge of the County Court, THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 11, 1919. Charles E. Stump, the Kansas Farmer Newspaper Writer, Jumps from St. Louis, Mo., to Washington, D. C., in His Ramblings Over the Country. Chicago, Ill.—Where is it, and what is doing, and what is going to become of this country of ours? These questions are asked by an excited man, and believe me when I tell you he is some excited. It strikes me that this whole country is just over a powder keg, ready to be touched off at any moment, and just where the match is going to light is hard to tell. The world has never seen any times like those, and I believe it is taking a backward step. I do not like to abuse my country and I am not going to do so if the court knows itself, but believe me, this thing has just been to the place where the devil lives, and I do not need to tell you where that is because I believe you can guess it with your eyes closed, and then tell me to come on pony up your wisdom. You don't need to be a wise guy to get this into your thimble head or any other kind of head you may have on that shoulder pair of yours. I have been trying to learn how to "euss" without saying damn, and yet I fear that I will not succeed. • The Lord hath done things for us, and we are hakering ghd of it, and then the devil is getting in some work and I do hope he will go to h—where he belongs and stay there until time will send him some of these moss backs who are doing so much here to mar the happiness and bring disgrace to our civilization. If I knew just when my time was I would ask my religion to just rest upon the shelf for a little while while I pour out all the venum at my command, and then I think I would feel just a little better. I have heard Bishop H.Blanton Parks, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, do some real righteous "eussing" and I think I shall drop around with him and get a few lessons in the latest improved style, and until then I will just say that that man who hever is who stood up in the United States Senate and put his approval on lynching is not worthy of the seat he occupies, and if the people in his state have any respect for law and order, and want to let the world know that they are civilized, they would give him a rest and never allow him to represent them again in the senate. I do not need to tell you about the lynching in Omaha, Neb., for you have read it to your heart's disgust. The way up in civilization Omaha, coming down to breaking the law, to destroying the jail, and then attempting to lynch the Mayor of the city. This is telling America that it is going to reap its own harvest and perhaps a little earlier than was expected. This says to America, that the north has been still and allowed lynching to go on in the south, until it is no longer a cherished southern pastime but now, north east and west are getting a taste of it, and now the man who dares to speak out, is told to step to hell and take a dip of it himself. Such was the fate of Mayor Smith, and I tell you mayors and governors all over this country, until you take radical steps and take them right now, you are going to have your lives sniffed out if you try to uphold law and order. Now comes Senator Williams, of Mississippi, the man who is in the law-making body of our country, and condones, and even indores lynching. Do you think he is a good man to make laws to govern a civilized country? I will ask the question and leave it without comment, because I may want to see his face some day. I am sure that I do not want to follow in his footsteps. Now is the time for men to speak out and do it today. I had the pleasure of being in the North Missouri conference a few days ago, and Bishop H. Blanton Parks, one of our great leaders, certainly did speak right out in church. He is a conservative man, but the actions of a few days ago was enough to arouse the anger of the Prince of Peace if he had been down here on earth, and knew just how they treated the mayor of Omaha, how they destroyed that fine court house. God help men to get right and do so now. I am glad that there was one man who spoke right out in church, and did not bite his tongue. Dr. J. C. Caldwell, who has won a place in the hearts of his fellow men, presented a telegram which was sent to Mayor Smith of Omaha, extending sympathy and commending him for his manly stand for right and justice. Bishop Parks, declared that Germany had gone down, because of lawlessness of the Kaiser, and his disregard for the rights of others, and he called that man in the Senate the American Kaiser. I do not remember just what he said, hence I am not going to try to use his words, but they were the right words in the right place, and they were spoken by the right man. I have a high regard for Bishop Parks and his opinion. He is a thinker. I was delighted to be with him in conference in the West. I was in Kansas at the Kansas conference, and saw them elect as delegates to the general conference Revs. J. R. Ransom, J. T. Smith, J. C. C. Owens, W. H. King, and J. F. Griffin. These are the men selected to help to do things next May in St. Louis. Dr. Ransom, is slated by them for the episcopacy, and he is a good man. He comes from Tennessee, Dr. J. C. Caldwell, secretary of the Allen Christian Edeavor League, located in Nashville. Tom was right there, and he was on hand his conference, which is the North, Missouri conference. They elected for the general conference, Revs. N. C Buren, W. B. Brooks, S. E. Maloney and L. S. Brooks, all good men. Now this general conference business is getting interesting as the large conferences are being held. Many are the aspirants for the episcopacy. Dr. A. J. Carey, of Chicago, comes in this important class, and he is getting many of his friends and admirers in the harness. He is not himself, but it just seems that way, and I tell you Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, the giant of Baltimore, Md., in the swim, and you will all get to see him a bishop in 1920. But I am not to talk about bishop matters this time, but I thought it best to get into religious matters so as to give some ease to my soul. I see where some good man has gone from this earth, and left to Tuskegee Institute just $30,000. I offer congratulations. I think that I have said enough for this week. I have stepped over to St. Louis for a few hours and found that Poro College has commenced work on that new addition which is necessary. They have one more building. I shall have something to say about it in another letter. Until then look out for me. My letter next week will be from Washington and if you desire to write to me, send me a letter to 803 Ash street, Texarkana, Ark. CHARLES E. STUMP. ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. New York.—William Boyce Thompson, President of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, announced today that nineteen state executives have already become prominently identified with the membership campaign of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which takes place in the week of October 20-27. Sixteen former governors also are taking an active part in the memorial movement. These governors and former governors have taken up their work on a strictly non-partisan basis. Their sole desire is to bring about the success of a movement resulting in fitting memorials to "The Great American." Two of the State executives now active in the campaign are members of the National executive committee of the Association. These are R. Livingston Beckman, of Rhode Island, and James P. Goodrich, of Indiana. Other governors identified with State committees of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and active in the campaign include: John J. Cornwell of West Virginia, J. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma, Frederick E. D. Gardner of Missouri Charles H. Brough of Arkansas, Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, F. O. Lowden of Illinois, chairman of the state executive committee; Henry J. Allen of Kansas, Thomas E. Campbell of Arizona, William D. Stephens of California State campaign committee, Robert D. Carey of Wyoming, William C. Sproul, of Pennsylvania and honorary chairman for that state; Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, Charles J. McCarthy of Hawaii, Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, A. M. Roberts of Tennessee, Marcus Holecomb of Connecticut and J. A. A. Burnquist of Minnesota. As an evidence of the high esteem in which Theodore Roosevelt was held by state executives and the assurance they have in the success of the campaign, the following statement by Gov. Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, is quoted: "I feel certain that the campaign inaugurated for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, will meet with a hearty response. It will indeed be a sad day for our country when the people shall forget to honor their illustrious dead. And now is the time for making that campaign. The mere fact of calling attention in these trying times to Theodore Roosevelt, and the principles for which he stood, will itself help to improve the general situation. No one can ask for money for the Memorial Fund without pointing out the things associated with Roosevelt's name, and those are the things most needed now in our national life. No one can give to that fund without recalling to himself the sturdy Americanism, the doctrine of the square deal the simple, fundamental virtues which formed the very warp and woof of Roosevelt's daily life. "Let the campaign go on! It's important of course, to raise the fund. It is equally important that the number of contributors shall be as large as possible. The larger the number which shall become partners in this enterprise, the more hopeful will it be for the future of our land." .... Former governors actively interested in the campaign are : Frank R. Gooding and James H. Hawley of Idaho James H. Higgins and Aram J. Pothie of Rhode Island, John Franklin Fort and Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey William Spry and John C. Cutler of Utah; Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana Miles C. Moore of Washington, Phillips Lee Goldsborough of Delaware, Ashton C. Shallenberger of Nebraska, Emmet O'Neal of Alabama and Richard I Manning of South Carolina, an honorary member of the state committee COL. PRANKLIN A. DENISON Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, Ex-Colonel of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard, or the 370th U. S. Infantry; Republican candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Convention, from the first Senatorial district of Illinois. AMERICAN LEGION DISCUSSES representation in the National Convention. NEGRO QUESTION Ex-Colored Soldiers Entitled to Full Membership Plans Made Public. Henry D. Lindsley, Chairman National Headquarters of the American Legion, 19 W. 44th street, New York City, in order to make clear the policy of the Legion with respect to Negro veterans of the great war who are eligible to membership, issued the following instructions: "Requests for a statement of the methods by which colored men eligible for membership in the American Legion may be included therein are constantly coming to the National Executive Committee of the Legion. The National Executive Committee believes this matter will be finally determined at the National Convention in November, but that it is highly desirable, in the meantime, that the various state organizations determine that methods which will reflect the wishes of the membership of the American Legion in such states. The fight of Negroes to join the American Legion is clearly determined in the constitution adopted at St. Louis, and will be generally recognized as the fundamental right of all who served our country as defined by your constitution. The problem is to permit this membership within the several states in accordance with the legion in such states. On behalf of the National Executive Committee, I wish to bring to your attention, and to ask that you so inform the various posts within your state, the methods which may carry out the purpose desired: A local post may be composed exclusively of white men, or exclusively of colored men, or part white men and part colored men, as the local post may determine with the approval of the state organization. With the composition of the local post determined, in one of the ways stated, there are two methods of handling the next step, and it is the desire of the National Executive Committee that you ascertain and advise this committee that method which in your state will represent the wishes of the members of the Legión. Local posts composed exclusively of colored men may be under the one state organization, in which event such post would be represented in the convention of such state organization in accordance with the National and State Constitutions of the Legión. If this should not be desired by the members of the Legion in the state involved, then it would be necessary for the posts having colored membership to have a separate state organization and such separate state organizations would have M. E. H. MRS. BERTHA MONTGOMERY President of the Women's Second Ward Permanent Republican Club who able served as mistress of ceremonies at the banquet in the beautiful Gold Room of the Royal Gardens Wednesday evening. President of the Women's Second Ward Permanent Republican Club who able served as mistress of ceremonies at the banquet in the beautiful Gold Room of the Royal Gardens Wednesday evening. representation in the National Convention. It is the belief of the National Executive Committee that the first method proposed is best, but until action is taken otherwise at the National Convention in November, the second method may be followed where desired "— "C." GEORGE L. GILES' POST OF AMER ICAN LEGION TO HOLD MASS MEETING. Roosevelt, Francis and Adelbert H Roberts to Speak. A mammoth Mass Meeting in the interest of the George L. Giles' Post of the American Legion will be held at the 8th Regiment Armory, Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m., October 12. This is the first public demonstration of this kind held by a post in this city, composed largely of colored members. The meeting is one feature of the membership drive just preceding the first state convention to be held at Peoria beginning October 17. The purposes and plans of the American Legion will be stated and an effort made to recruit into its membership, every ex-soldier in the city. A sound program has been arranged. Roosevelt, Francis and Roberts to Speak A feature of the program will be the opportunity to hear some of the strongest figures in the American Legion. Interest in the expansion of this organization is so great and the necessity for enlisting the active support of all colored men of the states in this program is so great, that the Legion heads are providing for the occasion the best possible speakers. Veterans to Parade. Ex-soldiers of the Great War, the Spanish War, and Grand Army of the Republic, the Sanitary Drill Corps of the Red Cross, and various organizations will lead the parade which will precede the meeting. Composite Military Band A band composed of the best talents of the 365th Infantry Band, the 5th Regiment Band and the 803rd Pioneer Infantry Band will lead the parade and provide music for the entire occasion. Patriotic Service League girls will form a part of the parade and will act as recruiting aides at the meeting. Dr George C. Hall will preside. Other speakers will be heard on the program in addition to the three principal speakers. The meeting is not limited to ex-service men alone. Everybody is urged to attend and learn of the purposes and program of this organization that has recruited a million members since the close of the war and headed by men whose principles are so unquestioned as those of Roosevelt. J. B. HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON Valuable member of the City Council from the Second Ward; who on last Monday evening at a meeting of more than three hundred members of the Second Ward Republican organization, was highly commended for the past splendid services which he has rendered in the City Council to all the citizens residing in that ward and to all the citizens of Chicago and he was endorsed for re-election to the City Council in 1920. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS By Dr. M. A. Majors. The League of Nations, an organization of world forces implies more by far than the casual observer will understand, and especially to millions of people who are not competent to understand at all it may appear to them as some August human principle recently given bearth from the red hot crusibles of war.—Like some great Messiah come to earth clothed in the ornate robes of government. Some encouraging dispensation to bless all of mankind.—Some huge Christ Colossus with something to teach our lips better than the Golden Rule. The Peace League and the League of Nations are two different instruments of power. The one the gamble on the cheek board of political intrigue, the other, the agreeable pacification of a muddle brought on by the abriment of arms. They are separate and distinct, and there is a wonder at all that the United States senate foreign relations committee rejecting the League of Nations flying high over the humble understanding of the people with a tail hanging to it called the Peace League. We think it may be some cause of our president's illness that he is just now coming into the full knowledge of the cunning, and deplicity perpetuated by the great powers upon his helpless academic publicity in the light of maddening diplomacy such as the European powers have played for centuries.—Secenators Lodge, Johnson, Knox and Borah, all capable constitutional lawyers, Sec. of State Lansing, Ex-Senator Root, Judge Hughes and a host of the ablest men this side of the Atlantic saw the trick hurled at his maudlin self-conceit, and wondered if our great teacher-president would fall into the trap.—Japan and Italy have wrecked the hopes and nims of our innocent president, and the honor wrought by the senatorial committee all have united to break the heart of Mr. Wilson instead of "the heart of the world," and to hurl his fourteen points into the discard. Why should their be a League of Nations based upon the principle that congress shall no more control the army and the navy? Why should there be a League of Nations with power to humiliate our great nation by giving Great Britain the power to outvote the United States six to one? and lastly why should we entangle our ourselves in the affairs of nations remote to us and wholly objectionable as to assimilation? Somebody has been tempted, somebody has been ambitions.—Somebody has been allured to fainceal expectations impossible of fulfilment. The United States can never become the catawp of Europe. * OUR PROGRESS IS POSITIVE Much credit these days is to be given the Negro thinker, writer and speaker. Today our newspapers and magazines are filled with genuine sensible arguments against any form of discrimination.—This shows that the race is on the up-grade. Thinking the noblest things for our race progress and promotion.—Contending and protesting for every inch of the ground where a freeman may put his feet and not conceding anything but what is just, holding firmly to everything attained in the years of our freedom. We need more men of the sober thought, of persistent action, of insistent protest against the cruelty of the times. Give us men who will not bow, and shamefully lay down to the oppressor.—The days of tyranny is over. The Negro will fight and die if seed DISSILLJSIONED AND DIS APPOINTED. By Dr. M. A. Majora He went across the water, altho he hadn't orter To sit with men who knew a certain game Sat there men of rank and station acredited by their nation In matters diplomatic kin to fame. But selfish greed and power were in his heart a tower He thought himself the chief, in fact the cheese. So hel ft out men of learning in whose hearts our cause was burning To float our glory flag high in the breeze Great Britain had no reason, and would not commit treason, King George himself stayed home round his camp fires. But Wilson was ambitious to mix in things suspicious With fourteen points and a heart full of desires. The Japanese and Frenchmen had there their well drilled henchmen And Italy played a slick hand in the game There never was a minute that America was in it. Their treaties had been signed before they came. Mr Root with legal knowledge was the man for that was college. His able reach of things was better far than academic notions, and phraseology lotions Of a man who was ignorant of war. The President's awaken, he finds he was mistaken Our senators say the League isn't good enough We are a peaceful nation void of complication, And will not be entangled by such stuff. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE NOTES. The Black Community meeting held last Tuesday evening on La Salle St. between 32nd and 33rd, was larger in attendance and in increased interest than the one given the previous week between 31st and 32nd. Prof. Mundy led the Community singing in which every man, woman and child took part. Dr. Harris talked to the men on health. Dr. Fannie B. Williams talked to the women on Sanitation, care of garbage can table manners etc. Mrs. Garrett and Mrs. E L Davis talked on canning fruit and vegetable jelly, grape juice etc., distributed receipts and exhibited samples of fruit. These Community meetings will be held each week as long as the weather permits. Miss H. G. White recently returned from teaching in Texas, gave the girls of the Douglass Center Unit a very interesting talk Saturday afternoon. The 7th Ward Sophomore and Juniors will gave a play, "The Mystic Seven" Friday night, at Ogden Park Park. The Wendell Phillips. Sophomores are sewing rug balls for the Clipped Soldiers to use in making rugs. Girls from 10 years old and over are invited to join the P. S. L. Unit most convenient for them. Mme. Ezelia Mathis Carter, president of the Carter System of Hairdressing will occupy her recently purchased three-flat building, 4509 Prairie avenue where she will maintain headquarters for the Carter System. ARRIVALS AT BEAUTIFUL IDLE WILD. 50 E. 33rd St., Chicago, Ill. J. Wallace and wife, Cleveland, O. Samuel A. Wright, Philadelphia, Pa. Mable Williams, Detroit, Mich. Earl Stevens, Springfield, III. J. Richards, Springfield, III. Wm. P. Sears, Detroit, Mich. J. Jones, Detroit, Mich. H. W. Winlock, Detroit, Mich. R. B. Montgomery, Milwaukee, Wis. H. C. Sykes, Chicago, Ill. W. H. Godman, Kansas City. J. W. Richardson, Springfield, O. Henry Morris, Springfield, O. Daisy Carwell, Montgomery, Ala. F. S. Walker, Denver, Colo. J. Jackson, Lexington, Ky. W. O. Wiley, St. Louis. Marguerite Cooper, St. Louis. Lawrence Hunt, Chicago, Ill. Henry Butler, St. Louis. A. B. Allen, Chicago, Ill. Arthur Curtis and wife, St. Louis. J. T. Brown, Cineinnati, O. Joseph S. Manning, Norfolk, Va. Charles Bibbins, Norfolk, Va. W. C. Wiley and wife, St. Louis. Wm. E. Carter and wife, Norfolk, Vt. Thomas Jackson, Norfolk, Va. John M. Owens, Cineinnati, O. F. H. Payne, Kansas City. Byrd Wade, Baonoke, Va. J. B. Elliott, Minneapolis, Minn. Edw. Coleman, Grand Rapids, Mich. J. N. Avery, New York. W. B. Brown, Denver Colo. A. E. Patterson, Cleveland, O. Claude Clark, Detroit, Mich. S. W. Brooks, Los Angeles, Cal. Josiah Biley, Norfolk, Va. IDLEWILD NOTES The decorator and Artist Mr. Delbert Lee, is now putting the finishing touches upon the ceiling and walls of the first floor of the Idlewild, and has transformed it into a place of beauty. The Dining Room is Superb, take your Dinner there Sunday and inspect it. You are welcome. Mr. Beauregard F. Moseley, of the Idlewild was called to Springfield early in the week on business and reports things in the Capital City all set for sending some good man like Treasurer Sterling or Col. Bundage away from Sangamon County with a solid backing for Governor, while everyone concedes Governor Lowden the choice of Illinois for President. The Idlewild is beginning to fill up for the winter, warm comfortable rooms will be at a premium this winter. Get one Quick. Mr. Felix Payne and a bunch of live ones, from Kansas City way blew into Town early in the week to help trim the White Sox on the theory that Trainer Buckner was their one best bet all the time and when they lost the World's Championship. The Bunch is still at the Idlewild. Hon. J. Silas Harris Clerk Senatorial Claim Committee, Washington, D. C. dropped into the Idlewild enroute home (K. C., Mo.) Friday last. He reports favorable progress for the National Industrial Commission. Bill now Pending in Congress and that Senators Spencer of Missouri and Medli M.Cormick of Illinois are certainly of Presidential size and calibre, but fear Gov. Lowden has the call. Right you are Bro. Harris all three are fit and worthy to succeed Lincoln, but only one can win and that one seems to be Gov. Lowden, says the Sage of the Idlewild. BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY Bethel Literary Society opened last Monday evening and a large audience was present and after the closing mingled with their friends and officers of the society and highly commended the excellent program. The Debate the feature number of the program, the subject, Resolved: That labor unionism will conserve the best financial and industrial interests of the Race, was won by J. T. Woods and M. L. Benson, akarmative. J. W. Ward who was picked by Geo. T. Kersey, negative as his associate, with Mr. Kersey, made able talks for first honors. Prof. E. Goundy presented Miss Zoe Harris, Miss J. M. McKay and H. L. Boswell as soloists, each received repeated applause as did Mrs. May E. Motley who read a poem, one of her latest compositions and Mrs. W. A. Jackson, eritic. Watch this paper for the announcement of the program of their next meeting. Rev. W. D. Cook, Pastor, Sandy W. Trice, Pres. J. W. Bell, See'y. SOME PASSING EVENTS OF THE WEEK. A unique entertainment was given under the direction of Miss Marie Burgett at the Sailors and Soldiers Club last Saturday evening. A talk was given by Dr. Harris procuring membership for the American Legion. Miss Thelma Burton very skillfully executed a dance originated by Miss Marie Burgett called the Dance of Flame. Miss Lillian Speed impersonated a Jackie in uniform, eang "'When Johnnie Comes Home.' Miss Marie Burgett read A Gypsy Flower Girl, holding the audible spell bound with her masterful expressions of pathos, love, hate, anger. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 11, 1919 Original and Selected Fashions for Women Readers despair and grief. When the rendition ceased the applause was very heavy. A Dramatic Club was organized Tuesday day evening by Miss Marie Burgett at the Sailors and Soldiers Club. The officers were as follows: President, Miss Violet Anderson; 1st vice-president, Miss Ruth Arnett; recording secretary, Miss Irene Wilson; corresponding secretry, Miss Ruth Hansbrough; treasurer, Miss Grace Johnson; chairman of committees: Membership, Miss Crowder; Entertainment, Mme. B. L. Hensley; Publicity, Miss Lillian Graham. Miss Eudora Allen is enroute to Galveston, Texas, to attend the funeral of her brother, Mr. William P. Allen, who died suddenly at his home 3510 Avenue L Galveston, Texas. CHIPS. Mrs. Lillian Champion, Rome, Ga., is in the city to spend some time with her sister, Mme. Ezella Mathis Carter. Mrs. Maggie French, 3407 Forest avenue, spent the first part of this week in visiting with friends at E. Harvey, Ill. Mr. John C. Davis, 1940 Walnut street, who has ben very ill, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Delaware, for years residents of the West Side, have moved into their beautiful South Side home, 4219 Prairie avenue. Mrs. Josephine Wilson, Burlington, Ia., has returned to her home after spending several weeks in the city as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Lewis, 2037 Walnut strc Mrs. Nioma Jackson Slaughter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Jackson, 3366 South Park avenue, is still confined to her home with a severe spell of sickness. Mrs. Emma Loving, of Bowling Green, Ky., who has been visiting Mrs. Mary Harsh, 2963 Federal street, returns to her Kentucky home this evening. Mrs. Chas. H. Pickett Jr., with her two-year-old son, LaFayette, La., are visiting in the city. During their stay they will stop with Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Lewis, 2037 Walnut St. Ruth Temple No. 72, of which Mrs. Bettie A. Givens is Worthy Princess, will give an entertainment at Elks' Rest Friday evening, Oct. 31. Otis S. Giddens, postal clerk, 3614 Calumet avenue, while on his vacation will spend some time visiting relatives and friends at Atlanta and Columbus, Ga., also Ophelia and other points in Alabama. NOTICE OF REMOVAL Attorney W. L. Jackson, graduate of the Illinois College of Law, class 1904, and who has been in continuous practice of law since, announces the removal of his office from 24th and State streets to 33rd and Wabash Ave., where he will hereafter be associated with Colonel Beauregard F. Moseley, proprietor of Englewood Law and Collection Agency. Mr. Jackson will have charge of the Law Department. Mr. Jackson and W. L. Moseley have fitted up an elaborate suits of offices in the southwest corner of the Idlewild Hotel, where they can be of service to the public. Call or address W. L. Jackson, 50 East 33rd St., phone Douglas 752.—Adv. Laissez-Faire. Laissez-faire means letting alone; a general noninterference with individual freedom of action; the let-alone principle of policy of the government and political economy. The term was first used in France to designate the principle of political economy which would leave industry and trade absolutely free from taxation and restriction by government except so far as required by public peace and order. It has since been extended to include noninterference with any gullittess exercise of the individual will. Find Date Valuable Food Dates form the staple food of the Arabs in a large part of Arabia and are served in some form at every meal. Sirup and vinegar are made from old dates, and by those who disregard the teachings of the Koran a kind of brandy is distilled from them. The date pit is ground and fed to the cows and sheep, so that nothing of the precious fruit may be lost. Whole pits are used as beads and counters for the Arab children in their games on the desert sand. To Remove Ink Stains Ink stains on white fabrics can be removed with peroxide of hydrogen. Drop it on the stain with a medicine dropper or, if it is a large spot, pour it on slowly from a spoon. As this preparation has a bleaching effect, great care must be exercised if used on colored materials. TOGS FOR KIDDIES Ready-to-Wear Clothes Have Many Advantages. Mothers Prefer to Rely on Garment Which They Believe Look Better Than Those They Make. Each season, assert the shopkeepers, there is more and more demand for ready-made clothes for children. Not that there are more children, but that more mothers are relying on the ready-to-wear garments, which are really so much better looking than anything they can fashion at home without spending a good deal of precious time in the process. Even if the modern mother is a good needlewoman she finds that fine sewing is the least requirement. Styles in children's clothes change rapidly nowadays; the same models are not worn year after year as they used to be. One does not recall these frantic style changes in one's own childhood. There was the long-waisted frock with a sash or a low-pleated leather belt. And there was the plaited skirt with a sailor blouse. And there was the guipme dress. Almost all frocks for little girls kept to these fundamental principles. It is interesting to watch the style developments in raiment for small girls. Features that are the fads of one season usually appear the next season as salient points of juvenile garb. Why this is, no one quite knows; but it is so. Frocks for little girls this autumn show over-the-waist bodices, tied at the back in a sash. They show long over-blouses with fringe at the edge. They show straight lines and loose belts and sashes and round necks edged with plaited frills. Everyday frocks are of serge, of wool jersey, of tricotine, and the favored trimmings are buttons, braid, angora wool, silk embroidery and loop fringe. Taffeta and even satin dresses are shown for girls from seven to twelve years old; and the taffeta frots, particularly, are quaint and charming in their soft, bright colors and childish style. One blue poplin model is an excellent choice for autumn school days. It is a little more substantial in weight than a tub frock, yet it is not so heavy and warm as an all-wool costume. It fills in the gap between summer and winter admirably—though, of course, it must be supplemented by several tub dresses for wear on those suitry days that always come. This blue poplin model might be developed successfully in taffetts, with lace or hand-embroidered collar and cuffs for formal occasions; the blue poplin, with its collar and cuffs of the material and neat white lawn vestee, is an ideal school frock. Accordion pleated, begins at the bust line and is nipped at the waist by a crushed moire girdle, then three tiers ripple at will from hip to ankle. All this is in striking contrast to the very transparent bodice of chiffon and lace. Mending Lace. Small breaks in lace can be very perfectly mended with a little care and patience. Place a tiny knot at the end of your thread and draw the thread through the place where the lace is broken, joining the broken thread to the lace proper. Then draw a succession of loop knots over the floating thread very tightly close to the base. Now follow with the new thread the course that the old thread had taken and do the same with the other loose end, knotting it securely close to the body lace. Cut away the loose ends and the break is no longer perceptible. Colors for Autumn. Navy, brown and gray are much discussed as the most fashionable colors for autumn blouses—these trimmed with touches of brilliant or lighter colors, but with distinctive care, for there must be, according to mission's decree, no garishness about any colorful trimming. HANDY BAG FOR WAIST BELT Made of Watered Silk, Lined With Sateen; Cut in Two Pieces as Shown in Diagram. The sketch shows a handy little bag for fastening upon the left-hand side of a waist belt. It is made of watered silk and pieces of the shapes given in diagrams A and B, on the right of the illustration. The bag is edged with silk cord, the ends of which are knotted together at the bottom of the bag and frayed out into a tassel. The fold-over flap is bound at the edge, and fastens down with two push buttons. Small hooks are sewn on either side at the top of the bag in the positions indicated by the crosses, and eyes are sewn on to the lower edge of the waist belt in corresponding positions, so that the bag can be fast- A B Waist Belt Bag ened in its place in a moment on going out, and as easily removed upon the return home. This little bag will be found very useful for holding tickets, etc., and just the few pence required for fares each day. Made in a larger size, with a cord handle attached, it forms a neat type of wrist bag, and if made for that purpose, the back should be stiffened with a piece of card cut to fit and sewn in between the silk and the lining. NEW SILK SHADES FOR LAMPS Designers Are Introducing Winsome Fabrics for Use in Furnishings of Bedrooms. Shades for the bedroom lamps are getting more lovely each day this fall and the designers are introducing a number of new fabrics that make a new note in the furnishings of the room. Of course the silk shade never goes out of favor, especially if it is of a pink or manve color. One of these is of thin rose-colored rose crepe, shirred over a metal frame and lined with a thin silk. It has a new touch in the silk embroidery decoration which comes to light in a heavy and close button-hole stitch worked around the edge of the shade and encircling the flowers which form the decorative motif. For the yellow bedroom, the linen shade was designed, but it gives a fresh, cool look to any room when it is matched by table scarfs and dresser mats. Some are of ecru linen and are trimmed with wool button-holling and conventional wool embroideries in two-tone effects. A distinctive shade is of all colors of linen from pale canary to golden brown. The body is of pale yellow, but the design of love birds perched on a bough is of a darker shade, outlined in black. TULLE TURBAN IS BECOMING Headgear That Is Pretty and Easily Fashioned; Brown Shades Are Popular. The tulle turban is on the top wave of popularity just now; and no wonder, for it is so pretty and so easily fashioned, and the softness of the tulle makes it very becoming. Among the prettiest of these turbans are those in brown shades. Usually brown satin is used for the entire hat, though now and then georgette is employed. The tulle of the exact shade as the hat material is swathed around the crown in Turkish fashion, several thicknesses being rolled into a sort of scarf and drawn around the crown. A variation treatment is seen in the close-fitting turban with a soft crown and no brim. At the sides a circle of the tulle has been wired and left outstanding to give a wide flare around the hat. FASHIONS IN BRIEF Black chantilly is among the old laces revived. New glove colors for fall are very soft and rich. Printed georgette is now being used for separate blouses. Tiny curled feathers are used as trimming on fabric hats. Many of the extremely low necks are now being velled with tulle. Broadcloth jackets with wool embroidery are worn with taffeta skirts. Redingote styles are made in strictly tailored effects in broadcloths and twilled fabrics. Kolkata sky squirrel "tubing" trims tricolette wraps which may be worn at any time of the year. --- IN PRINCESS GOWN Favored Frock Not Affected by Downfall of Royalty. Women Cling to Some Version of This Type of Dress—New Eve- ning Style. The general downfall of royalty seems to have affected not one whit the princess frock. Always there are women of fashion who cling to some version of this type of dress. This year there are quite a few New York THE FASHION White Taffeta Evening Gown. designers who are adopting the princess frock, states a fashion writer. Of course, the princess of this year is a very different affair from that tightly molded dress which policed the figure some years ago. Very often the distinctive touch is confined to one side and draping is arranged so skillfully that the line is becoming to both slim and not so. A new evening frock is of white taffeta embroidered in silver and combined with silver lace, which gives an echo of the princess mode on one side only. Like so many of the evening frocks at present, an ostrich plume is employed as the climax of trimming. Both are as familiar in dress scenery as they are in desert scenery. LONGER AND WIDER SKIRTS Conservative Styles Are Predicted by the Fashion Art League at Chicago Convention. Feminine styles the coming fall are to be much different from those now prevailing—much different. Skirts will be longer—much wider—more conservative. And in this connection there is a war just starting—a war by American women to make the style more conservative. This was the news coming from within the Fashion Art league, in convention recently in Chicago. The donghoy is at the bottom of the whole thing. In France the Parisienne beauties wear extreme styles. When the donghoy struck that country he was dazzled. Styles became more and more extreme, and when he started home he was full of new ideas of styles, but the American girls rebelled—they went on a fashion strike, demanding new styles. The correct skirt length, according to Madame Alla Ripley, president of the league, should be six to eight inches above the ground. Of course, the width will be built around the person, but generosity will be plentiful among the designers, it was pointed out. Forty-seven inches was agreed on as the average width for the slender person. FASHION BREVITIES Stop Thief! THE "Jumbo" gas burner shown here at the right, (actual size) is a robber on any gas lighting fixture in Chicago. If you have one, get rid of it! It makes high gas bills and causes a great many of the complaints that come to us. Claims that a "Jumbo" will give more light without using more gas are false. Use mantle burners to get more light with less gas. Burning five hours a day for a month, the "Jumbo" consumes $2.30 worth of gas; a "Junior" mantle burner, in the same time, consumes only 39 cents worth, or $1.91 less, and gives much more light. This is the "JUNIOR MANTLE" Mose Dixie Land Par 33rd Street and NOW Moseley's Land Park and Sta 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue NOW OPEN 7 to 11:45 P. M. Daily Sundays and Holidays 2 Dancing to the best Jazz mu concessions. Show your Race pride and own and are welcome. Fun amusement for your own. and Holidays 2 to 12 P. M. Bar the best Jazz music. Shows and your Race pride and spend your mon e welcome. Furnish employment for your own. 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. Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWA CHICAGO'S REP SEY, McGOWAN AND MOR CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. S. GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Proprietors 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. --- TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1 GEORGE F. H GE F. HARDING REAL ESTATE Up-to-Date or Moderate and Store 3101 COTTAGEN Corner 31st S Black's Blue B The colored people's business Chicago and vicinity is just out- tion and is being distributed at 2 stores. By mail 35 cents. Date or Modern Houses, Ap- and Stores to Rent COTTAGE GROVE Corner 31st Street, Chicago s Blue Book Out and people's business and professional vicinity is just out. It is full of val- ing distributed at 25 cents at newsst ail 35 cents. Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago Black's Blue Book Out Again The colored people's business and professional directory of Chicago and vicinity is just out. It is full of valuable information and is being distributed at 25 cents at newsstands and book stores. By mail 35 cents. FORD S. BLACK Ed St., Ch 50 E. 33rd St., Jade Favorite.Gem in China. Light green jade is the favorite gem of China, and it is difficult to get the stone in uncut form even in that country. Sometimes a rich Chinaman's estate will consist in part of a lump of jade. Sometimes it can be obtained in pounds. But even the leading jewelers of Hongkong usually obtain it in cut form. ```markdown ``` We sell "Junior Mantle" lights complete for only fifteen cents, (which is less than "Jumbos" usually cost) or give one free, in exchange for a "Jumbo," at our main office or any of these stores: West Side 3843 Irving Park Blvd. 2342 West Madison St. 408 West North Ave. 1708 West 12th St. 1661 Milwaukee Ave. South Side 3221 Opus Ave. 731 West 60th St. 4090 Madison St. 3478 Archer Ave. North Side 9051 Concord St. 3071 Lincoln Ave. 11025 Michigan Ave. The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. Michigan Avenue at Adams Street Telephone Wabash 6000 oseley's Park and Stadium t and Wabash Avenue W OPEN days 2 to 12 P. M. Band Concerts; jazz music. Shows and all kinds of side and spend your money with your Furnish employment as well as phone: Douglas 8285 GOWAN AND MORSELL S REPRESENTATIVE HONE DOUGLAS 1 T. HARDING, JR. Modern Houses, Apartments Stores to Rent AGE GROVE AVE. 1st Street, Chicago The Book Out Again business and professional directory of out. It is full of valuable informa- ed at 25 cents at newsstands and book For These With Gout. Carrots are good for those having a tendency to gout. Course in Athletics. In answer to the question: "What are the five great races of mankind?" a Chinese student replied: "The 100 yards, the hurdles, the quarter-mile, the mile and the three mila." This Is the "Jumbo" Gas Burner CHICAGO, ILL. Chicago, Ill. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 11, 1919. DENISON. WATKINS ATTORNEYS AT LAW 36 West Randolph Street Franklin A. Denison, S. A. T. Watkins, James E. White Telephone Central 3142 CHICAGO PHONE MAIN 2214 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Tel. Central 6583 Residence 3646 Grand Boulevard Phone Douglas 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street Corner Dearborn St. Suite 402 Delaware Building F. Dunn, J. B. McCahey, Trustees Tel: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN Established 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLK. Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO Residence, 4533 Prairie Avenue Phone Kenwood 8520 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 708 Office Telephone: Main 4153 CHICAGO Residence 3419 South Park Ave. Phone Douglas 9354 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Phone: Calumet 875 2 EAST THIRTY-FIRST ST. Suite 7 CHICAGO Residence 3855 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 9133 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bulding 84 W. Washington Street CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 246 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 5057 South State Street Near 51st St. Not On the Corner CHICAGO EXELETO FOR KINKY HAIR "Every woman can have nice, long hair," says May Gilbert. "My hair is that gorgeous 12 inches long by using your wonderful EXELETO QUIMINE POMADE Don't be fooled by Alice Kinky Beauty. You can't strenghen your hair until it's long long. Our pomade removes dandruff, gives long and silky. We make Exeleto Skin Beautifier, an ointment for dry skin. Used in treatment of skin troubles. PRICE OF EACH 2c IN STAMPS Q4 COIN ADVERTISING EVERYWHERE WITH THIS EXELETO MEDICINE CO., Attica, Ga. --- RNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER PHONE: KENWOOD 455 Officer-5098-Solo S. State Street The Cunningham Car "Zouave" From Algiers. "Zouave" is the French name taken from that of a tribe in Algiers and this kind of light infantry was first employed in that country in 1831, the members being Algerians and dressing in semi-Moorish uniforms. Other countries, including the United States, have adopted the Zouave system, since. In the Civil war, and the Italian assault upon Rome in 1870, they were conspicuous, in the latter case defending the papal supremacy. In the Days of Beaver Hats In the Days of Beaver Hats. In the olden days in the United States soon after the Revolutionary war, a good beaver hat became a kind of family heirloom, and was handed down from father to son. For some strange reason it was considered to be rather frivolous and extravagant to be seen wearing a new beaver hat, and it was' the custom when a man bought one to leave it out in stormy weather before wearing it, to "take the newness off." The Planet Carnegie Mr. Carnegie shared an almost unique honor with the Empress Eugenie in having a planet named after him during his lifetime. Two of the remarkable family of minor planets situated between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars were named Carnegie and Eugenia.—Westminster Gazette. Scripture Modified If your enemy smite you on the right cheek, advises the Osborne Village Deacon, gently back away and retire to quiet shades for a spell and keep a close mouth, and not more than three or four people in town will ever know you were smashed.—Kansas City Star. Only One. A little girl had a twin brother and sister. Now, she was used to the cat having kittens and only one of the kitten family being kept. So when her father brought the twins down to show her she gazed at them earnestly for a small space of time, then said, "Daddy, I think we'd better keep that one!" Pointing, as she thought, to the prettier one! Finland. Finland occupies about 144,000 square miles of territory, of which 125,680 square miles are land. This territory, which is slightly larger than Norway, has a population of only 3,084,000 people. It is said that illiteracy is almost unknown. Remarkable Change Newspaper. Article. "He allowed himself to be drawn, as if by some supernatural centrifugal force, toward the center. . . . " Centrifugal force acted in just the opposite manner when we were studying—but, of course, everything is upset nowadays. "Boston Transcript. Bees Distinguish Colors. Experiments have shown that bees distinguish different colors, but different colors acquire significance for bees when the insects have learned that certain colors are associated with certain nutritive advantages. The bees are not "reflex-machines"—they are not compelled by any organic chromotropism to prefer certain colors to others. They accumulate experience and remember that certain colors are associated with certain nutritive benefits. Uncle Eben Says "Chillun must be a heap smarter dan dey once was. It's puffyly beautiful de way dey makes deir parents obey." Much Gold in Wedding Rings. More than 7,000 pounds of pure gold are required each year to supply the wedding rings for English brides. Deadly Arabian Sirocco Deadly Arabian Sirocco. The sirrocco or sand storm of the Arabian desert is exceedingly treacherous. It often dips pits two hundred feet deep, scattering the sand for miles around. Ineffective Hollering "De man dat holters about his belf jes' as good as any other man," said Ubcle Eunce, "mos' generally ain' doln' enough useful work to prove his argu- ment." The Linen Sheet. It was in the reign of King John that linen sheets for beds began to be used. The sheriff of Southampton, on his receiving the honor of knighthood, was ordered to deliver to the king's valet a couch, a bed and a pair of linen sheets. See's Death Told by Bomb. For measuring sea depths a Massachusetts doctor has invented a dynamite bomb which explodes on striking the bottom, the distance being estimated by measuring the time it takes the sound to reach the surface of the water. Few May See Her Face. The Mohammedan woman may show her face only to men whom she may not marry. This means that a man may see the face of his mother, wife, sisters, daughters, aunts, and none other of the women of his class. New Way of Tinting Glass may be tinted permanently by immersion in the medicinal water of Bath, England, and this recent discovery is to be made use of in the establishment of a stained glass industry. "Good Night" Is Too Long The countryman's "How do?" or "How be?" is outclassed by the London printing trade's "Good" or "Good, George"—omitting the "night" and the "morning."—London Chronicle. That's the Question. "I bought one of those fountain pens I was telling you about today. The price has come down." "But will the ink come down?"—Boston Transcript. The banana is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing from year to year from an underground root stock with a stem or stalk from 10 to 15 feet high above the ground. The plant has drooping leaves, but no branches like fruit trees of the north countries. Each stalk produces one large cluster of fruit. After fruiting, the stalk is cut down to the surface of the ground and grows up again from the root. Colorado's Wonderland The Garden of the Gods is a tract of land, about 500 acres in extent, near Colorado Springs, Colo. It abounds in weird and fantastic pinnacles of red and white sandstone, some of them more than 300 feet high. Among the chief features are the Cathedral spires, the Balanced rock, etc. The gateway of the garden consists of two enormous masses of red sandstone, 830 feet high, sufficiently far apart for the roadway to pass between them. Garden of Eden in Mexico? Garden of Mexico. A prehistoric race that lived in Mexico centuries before Cortez ever arrived there to crush the power of the Aztec kingdom, was a civilized people who were flooded out of existence by a deluge that awept the valley of Mexico, as relics picked up near the capital city prove, and some writers assert that Mexico was the site of the beginning of man and that it was in this valley that Noah set forth for his 40-day tour of the flooded world. Red Tape Citadel "Circumlocution office" is a description used by the great novelist, Charles Dickens, in his book, "Little Dorrix, to ridicule official delays and indirectness. It is described as the chief of "public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it." The name has come into popular use as a synonym for governmental routine, "red tape," procrastination and delay in transacting public business. Our Different Worlds I once stood in a dome with different colored glass in each window. Thus four men touching each other might each see a different scene; a red ocean, a green city, blue fields, and yellow mountains. A rare man might climb to the top of the dome and see the whole circle of the landscape under the white light of a pure atmosphere. But most of us look through one window, each upon a different world, each world colored by our own individuality.—Robert S. Barrett. Proof of Biblical Truth Perhaps the most impressive fact of record concerning disease in ancient times is found in the Bible, in the First Book of Samuel, where we are told that the land where the Philistines were was overrun with a plague of rats or mice and that thereupon the people were smitten with bubonic plague to punish them for their seizure of the Ark of the Covenant. Thousands of years later our modern science discovered that rats are the chief disseminators of that pestilence —New York Herald. ARNEST H. WILSON UNDERST PHONE - 3028-3020 S. The Cunningham Car --- Bananas. Linen From Nettle Fibre. Linen From Pine Pine A company has been formed in Denmark for the manufacture of linen from the fibre of nettles. At a recent exhibition every one was struck by the whiteness and suppleness of the table cloths and napkins made of this nettle fibre. Bobby's Suggestion. Bob was out visiting his aunt at a lake with his grandma. One evening he suddenly decided that he wanted to go home to mother. His grandma told him there were no trains and he couldn't possibly go that night. He said: "Well, grandma, can't you put me in a box and send me相帖 post?" When Holland Banned Orange. When Hollie Babbitt Orange. There was a time when Holland forbade the sale of oranges and carrots. Orange was the color of the stadtholder's family, and when the democratic feeling against this family was at its height the fruit or orange color was taboo. Medicine From Horna In China a large trade exists in deer, reindeer and wild sheep horns for use in medicines, and Hongkong, as the chief center of trade in Chinese medicines in south China, imports a considerable quantity of such goods annually. "Stay in School" Does it pay to continue your studies? Education means a successful and useful life; it pays the individual. Education means efficient workers; it pays the nation. Show this to your parents and ask them what they think about it. Stay in school.—Colorado Agricultural College News Notes. Chicago Title and Trust Company OUR BUSINESS S that of showing the c 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 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. Wise men judge future action by past behavior. CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY 69 W. Washington Street The Cranford A 3600 WABA The finest building ever opened Steam heat, electric lights Phone Main 263 J. W. Cas WILLIAMSON TAKER 000455 State Street THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance --- go Title and Trust Co STATED BRIEFLY: RER BUSINESS SINCE 1847 has been of showing the condition of real or the millions upon millions require and rebuild Chicago have been and relying on the accuracy of our ACTS AND TITLE POLICIES. A man has lost a dollar by so re this is our past. These men judge future action by superior. CAGO TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY 69 W. Washington Street Assets exceed $12,000,000.00 No deposits or demand liabilities. Life Not Merely Lapse of Years. The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat and drink and sleep; to be exposed to the darkness and the light; to pass round in the mill of habit; and turn the wheel of wealth; to make reason our bookkeeper and turn thought into an implement of trade—this is not life. In all this, but a poor fraction of the consciousness of humanity is awakened; and the sanctities still slumber which make it most worth while to be—James Martinean. Some Pitchers Do Swear "They learned by watching Uble whether he was going to throw a curse or a fast one."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Industrious Artist. It has been estimated that the artist, Turner, left as many as 21,000 pictures, oils, water colors and sketches. World's First Olive Oil The olive oil produced in the region of Bordeaux, France, has a lightness, a perfume, and a particularly delicate savor which have given it a worldwide reputation and made it an important article of export and a source of wealth for its producers. Most popular is the oil from Nice imported under the Bordeaux trade-mark. Close Relationship. One day when our insurance man came in he asked how old the dog was, and when he was told he turned around to ask how old my little sister was, and before my brother had a chance to answer him my sister said, "The dog is as old as me. Me and him is twins."—Exchange. Bludgeons for Blockheads. A word to the wise—a club to the otherwise.—Boston Transcript. SINCE 1847 has been condition of real estate millions required to Chicago have been fur- accuracy of our AB- E POLICIES. dollar by so relying. future action by past D TRUST COMPANY Bington Street ---