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Death and Funeral of Col. Beauregard F. Moseley He was One of the Most Prominent and Leading Colored Republicans Throughout the State of Illinois; He Delivered Speeches for William McKinley in 1896; He was Presidential Elector on the Progressive or the Theodore Roosevelt Ticket in 1912 He Was a Writer of Much Force and Ability; He was Held in the Highest Esteem by United States Senator Hon. Medil McCormick, Who Called at the Fort Dearborn Hospital Just Before He Passed Away and Bid Him a Long Farewell, and by Many Other White Citizens of This City and State. VOL. XXV Death He was O Through McK He Was a Writer of Much Fo in the Highest Esteem b Medil McCormick, Who O capital Just Before He Pass Farewell, and by Many City and State. Monday evening at 7 o'clock, Beauregard F. Moseley, who was by far one of the best known colored men in this section of the country, closed his eyes in death at the Fort Dearborn Hospital. At the time of his death he was surrounded by his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Carrie Moseley, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, Edward H. Wright, Oscar De Priest and by several other friends, Aldeman John H. Lyle who presented the bereaved and sorrowing family with a very beautiful floral offering. Influenza was the leading or the contributing cause of his untimely death, which was a great shock to his thousands of friends in all walks of life. His life or career reads like a fairy tale; he was born in the little town of Lincolnton, Lincoln county, Ga., in 1868, where he spent his early days, receiving his scant education in its public schools of his county. For several years he very successfully taught in the county schools; as time went by he still had a burning desire to drink in more knowledge for he fully realized that knowledge is power the world over and in time he removed from his little country home to New Orleans, La., where he soon became a power in local and national politics. Shortly after landing in New Orleans he took up the study of law under the tutalage of the Hon. F. B. Earheart, at that time United States District Attorney. It was in that city where he was very happily united in marriage to Miss Carrie Hammond and two of their children were born there. Bertha and Burton Moseley. B. F. Moseley, Jr, being born here in Chicago. In the early part of 1891, he removed from New Orleans with his family and located at Montreal, Canada, but that climate being too cold and frigid for him, that same year he landed in Chicago with his family. Not long after locating in this city he started the Weekly Republic, which he successfully published until September 1, 1898, at which time he was admitted to the Illinois and the United States Federal Court Bars, he made money right from the start in the Law business, he opened his Law offices at 63rd and Halsted streets where he was located for many years and 90 per cent of his clients were composed of white people. He constructed a beautiful home for his family at 6248 south Sangamon street and he acquired other property in this city and at Idlewild, Michigan, the new Colored summer resort, of which he was elected its first mayor. He was the founder and the organizer of the famous Leland Giants Baseball team or club. He was one of the first promoters of the West COUNTRY CLUB TRIAL FOR MEMBER WHO RENTS BUILDING TO NEGROES. Whether it constitutes "conduct unbecoming a gentleman for a club member to rent his boulevard property to Negro tenants is a question the board of governors of the South Shore Country Club will be called upon to decide at their next meeting. Thirty members have filed such charges against William B. Austin, a wealthy attorney and realty dealer living at the Virginia Hotel, charging he sold property at 4404 Grand blvd, to Negroes and rented another apartment at 4807 Grand blvd. to another Negro family. Mr. Austin said he had not received official notification of the charges, but would fight them. Another angle of the war of the whites against the blacks was placing of a bomb Wednesday night at the home of Jesse Binga, colored banker. 5922 South Park ave. The missile exploded weakly and started a small fire which was extinguished quickly by the fire department. THE BROAD AX Michigan summer resort near Benton Harbor, Michigan, he served as president of the Appomattox Club for one term and during that time he advanced five hundred dollars of his own money and made it possible for the club to buy and own its present home at 3441 couth Wabash Ave. For the past three years he has successfully conducted the Idlewild Hotel, 33rd and south Wabash ave. where he made his home with his family Mrs. B. F. Moseley and her aged mother—grandma, Mrs. Jane Hammond. Thursday noon funeral services were held over his earthly remains in the parlors of the Idlewild Hotel. Rev. A. J. Carey was master of ceremonies and read the short statement of his career and death. Extended remarks by Rev. Moses M. Jackson; violin solo, Harrison Emanuel Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, who is an old friend of the family and Mr. George R. Garner also softly sang solos, at the conclusion of which W. T. Brown head of District Council No. 20, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows took charge of the remains and it and Englewood Lodge No. 4230, of the same order of which Mr. Moseley was an honored member also held services over their departed brother. The head officials of Great Lakes Lodge of Elks fittingly paid their respects to his memory. Mr. Julius N. Avendorph assisted Mrs. Clifford Johnson who was in charge of the funeral arrangements to see to it that everything in connection with it worked as easily as a well regulated clock. Resolutions were read from all the Lodges just mentioned deploring his death and from the Chicago Business League and by S. A. T. Watkins, President of the Appomattox Club. The floral offerings were many and very beautiful: his remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Moseley leaves to mourn his death his wife, Mrs. B. F. Moseley, one daughter, Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, his son-in-law, Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, four brothers and six sisters, namely, Mrs. Alice W. Jones, Mrs. Lizzie Thompson, Mrs. Pinkie Thompson, Mrs. Mamie Williams, Mrs. Lelia Andrews, Mrs. Lillie Irvin, Rev. G. P. Moseley, Rev. G. W. Moseley, Mr. Nathan Moseley, Mr. Albert Moseley. For over twenty years the writer and Beauregard F. Moseley were warm friends and that friendship extended to both families during all those years never one cross nor harsh word passed between them and we join with his bereaved family and hosts of friends and regret his passing on out of this world of so much pain and sorrow. WHITE MAN GFTS DEATH SEN TENCE ON RAPE CHARGE. Memphis.—The death sentence was passed on Allen McNamara (white), who was convicted on a charge of raping in Judge Richards' court here last week. Judge Richards fixed January 2, 1920, as the day of McNamara's execution. The case was one of the most horrible legal cuttlements in which an attack on a woman was the main issue that has ever been heard here. McNamara has appealed to the Supreme Court. MISSOURI DEMOCRATS TO START A NEGRO ORGANIZATION. Sedalia, Mo.,—An effort will be made by the Democratic State Committee in Sedalia, Dec. 17, to form a state-wide Democratic Negro organization with four representatives, two men and two women, from each of the 16 congressional districts. The meeting also will be attended by Gov. Gardner and other Democratic State officials. Frank Armstrong, executive secree THE LATE BEAUREGARD F. MOSELEY Former president of the Appomattox Club; successful business man; one of the colored leaders of the Republican Party in Illinois, who has gone west on a long journey. tary of the Democratic State Committee, in announcing plans for the organization said there were at least 15,000 Negro Democrats in Missouri. BOOKS TO TRAIN NEW CITIZEN SHIP THROUGHOUT STATE. Library Law Will Bring Good Reading To Every Corner of Illinois. Some Interesting Facts About Libraries Developed at Community Conference. "The new country library law that was passed by the legislature last June, means that better and bigger libraries can be established in Illinois; libraries from which all the people of the whole country may borrow books, men, women, and children, said Miss Anna M. Price secrtary Illinois library commission Saturday afternoon at the Better Community conference. "That is the idea of the country library—to place books within the easy reach of everybody. "The day is past when the library can be satisfied in circulating recreational reading. It must take its place as an educational institution. "The never was a time when America needed efficient workmen more than it does today. And not only keen minds but, as Mr. Schwab says the willingness to do a full day's work for a full day's pay. "Today, the oneidea seems to be to do as little as possible, work fewer hours and demand the highest wage. Yet everyone is complaining of the high cost of living. Give People Understanding. "The only way to make people do differently is to give them a better understanding of the industrial situation. This can be done through books and periodicals." "The state has adopted two methods whereby citizens can get an education, the public school and library." "The men in the camps learned the value of books. As one soldier said to the camp librarian, 'I want to keep CHICAGO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919. up in my work, for when I go back I want to break even with the fellow who has been at work all the time I have been here.' "Why the county library rather than the city, village or township library? It reaches more people. We now have 207 public libraries which would equal two to each county if so distributed, to be sure they are not, as there are 17 counties with no library whatsoever. We are not reaching one-third the population or two-thirds of the population have no access to libraries." "The county library is the most economical. It means one large adequate collection of books, not five or six duplexifications of small collections. It means a better trained library staff. The county library means a better distribution of books. There is one central library, reading rooms and branch libraries in all small towns, collections of books in all the villages and rural schools. Individuals in rural districts receive even better services than people living near the central library. Requests for books are made by letter or telephone and the book is delivered to the very door by parcel post. The book auto also makes stated trips, stopping at farm houses and schools. Gives Better Service. "Miss Titeomb, from Hagerstown, Maryland, writes, "We are more and more discontinuing the deposit collections as our book wagon gives so much better service. New routes are being added and the house to house visits of the wagon naturally do establish a much more direct connection with the patrons and the larger resources of the library can so much more easily be brought to their attention. "Indiana, which obtained its county law only two years ago, now has seven county libraries. County libraries are no more an experiment but a definite successful, experience, as is shown in libraries from California to Maryland. Our neighboring states find them especially adapted to this part of the country. "Illinois is not so very different Indiana. The greatest difference seems to be in the willingness to give a thing a trial. Consolidated schools were established in Indiana before they were in Illinois; also good roads also county libraries. Though we be gan campaigning our Illinois legislature at the same time it was done in Indiana, we had to educate three different sessions before we could pass our bill. "Champaign county has now only two libraries, serving only the citizens of Champaign and Urbana. There are over 30,000 people in the county that have no access to a library. There are 244 schools in the county. Some have collections of books it is true but even the best of them have nothing like an adequate library. Why should not these people and these school children have the use of a good general library? Why should Champaign county not have a book wagon going from house to house. "To establish county libraries in Illinois requires a referendum vote. This may be done at either the regular county election or at a special election. Brown county is to be the first to take advantage of the law. Jasper, Effingham, Scott, and Cumberland counties are planning to hold elections." DR. H. FRANKLIN BRAY "ROCKY MOUNTAIN". EVANGELIST BACK FROM SPRINGFIELD. After six weeks of strenuous revival campaign where a union meeting of all the churches was conducted by him, Dr. H. Franklin Bray the "Rocky Mountain" evangelist returned to the city Wednesday morning. There were THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE conversions and more than Two Thousand Dollars raised to pay the expense of erecting and operating the great tabernacle where the meetings were held. Charles E. Stump, the Kansas Newspaper Writer, Continues to Cut a Wide Swath Throughout the Southland—For Several Days He Found Much Pleasure in Hanging Around Hot Springs, Ark. Hot Springs, Ark.—Have you ever been to Hot Springs? If you have not, well I don't know what to say to you, for I am frightened almost out of my shoes and boots too, and my heart is about to jump out of my mouth, and you would be the same way if you could see the water boiling up out of the ground, or coming out of the hills hot. I think it must be nearing hell, and as soon as I can get myself together I am going to get away. I look every minute to see the devil pop up out of these mountains and contend for his own. I am feeling real good as I wrote to you this week, for I have seen a few things to make me feel like just putting out my Old Baptist arm and taking in the whole world, and I come to you this week with words of praise for Governor Charles H. Brough, Dr. E. C. Morris, and Bishop J. M. Connor, and to say the Lord hath done great things for us, where we are glad. for Governor Brough, although he has declared that he did not want outside advice, but would rely upon the Arkansas people for his information and his advice, and he even urged our people to boycott some paper published by members of our race. I think he called the name of the paper, but I do not remember just what one it was. But he had the courage to call a conference of the two races. As a rule when the white man calls a meeting to discuss the problems he calls a meeting of white men, and we are left out of to hear their verdict, and then we can take it or lump it. It is like playing Richard III with Richard left out, and only the third put put in. But this I am talking about now as real, and I was there and saw it for myself. It was an open free speech meeting. There was not a muzzle put on the Negro, and he was permitted to speak right out in church, and he did speak out. He said what was in his I have been way up yonder in Virginia and I told you about it in my last letter. I told you about Dr. Woods and the great school over which he presides as president and then I told you about that wonderful speech which Dr. Robert R. Moton made, and now I am way down here in this place almost to the devil's home and it must be for the water is heated there. I am in good company as long as I am around anything that has Poro connected with it, for you know that it was Poro which has made the world know Mrs. Annie M. Malone, and her husband Aaron E. Malone. Mrs. Malone is that wonderful woman in St. Louis who has put brains into hair and Prof. Aaron E. Malone is the man who put pep into it, and between the two you have something on which you can go and something on which you may depend. God help us to get right. Now let me tell you in this city there is Mrs. E, C. Clardy, who came into this world, just how many years I do not know, but it was by the way of Columbus, Miss, and when she had gotten here, she went to school and graduated and became a successful teacher in Oklahoma, and later she decided to do two things, marry, and take a course at Poro college, and in both she has been successful.' She is a brave woman, for it takes a brave woman or man to locate in this hot place, but she is here, and I wish you could just step in and see her parors, where she puts the poro on to the queen's taste, and if you are not a queen when she gets through you will look like one. She is up in the business. I have been in the Poro flats, and they have fine rooms and then I have seen her work, and honey I tell you she is just one more busy woman and I say this from A to Z, and she made me real proud of her, and I want to congratulate the Poro college on turning out such an able woman. Now let me step back to my starting point. I went to Little Rock to be there with the brethren to hear what they had to say and what they were doing. God bless them all for I was delighted to be in their company. On one corner was the session of the Arkansas Annual African Methodist conference, and just across the street in the Mossie Temple was the Baptist State convention, and believe me they had some people there from all parts of the state and visitors from other states. But I am not going to tell you much about that, except to say that Rev. V. M. Townsend the man who is pushed to succeed Dr. B. F. Watson in the A. M. E. Church Extension Society, was elected a delegate to the general conference, and he is a popular man in this section of the country among his people. He is a fine man and well trained. Now let me step back to where I was, and if you will go with me you will say with me that the day is breaking, and perhaps will also thank God for Governor Brough, although he has declared that he did not want outside advice, but would rely upon the, Arkansas people for his information and his advice, and he even urged our people to boycott some paper published by members of our race. I think he called the name of the paper, but I do not remember just what one it was. But he had the courage to call a conference of the two races. As a rule when the white man calls a meeting to discuss the problems he calls a meeting of white men, and we are left out only to hear their verdict, and then we can take it or lump it. It is like playing Richard III with Richard left out, and only the third put put in. But this I am talking about now as real, and I was there and saw it for myself. It was an open free speech meeting. There was not a muzzle put on the Negro, and he was permitted to speak right out in church, and he did speak out. He said what was in his heart to his black brother, and in return the white brother said what was in his heart to his black brother, and no one got angry. The Governor has the right idea of things. He spoke in terms of praise of Dr. E. C. Morris, Dr. Joseph A. Booker, and Bishop J. M. Connor. They were termed sane and safe leaders of their race, and he was familiar with them, and knew much about them. I was proud of this They met, they prayed, they then listened to the Governor and all he had to say. They heard him carefully and I think prayerfully, for I tell you while he was talking I was in touch with God, and I believe he heard me. The Governor told all about his experience in the Elaine trouble, and how he had saved many lives by going at the head of the federal troops to the scene, although it came near costing him his own life, and he evinced a little nervousness at the time he was talking. Yet in the face of that, he wanted to be fair, he wanted to save human life, and both races would have been heavy loosers if it had not been stopped. I do not question this at all, and when he had told the story in a way which would cause men to think, he then called upon Dr. Morris, an honored citizen of Phillips County where the tragedy was enacted. Now fully five hundred pair eyes were turned on Dr. Morris, but he was as cool as a cucumber, and as deliberaire as a deliberator. He told them that he had lived in the state 43 years, and all of that time had been right in Helena, but had never in these years been to Elaine. He spoke of a friendly relation between the two races, and declared that there had never been a lynching in that section. He was sorry to say that he had also received threatening letters, and some declared that he was unfit to lead the people, because he had not rushed into print with an opinion on the Elaine trouble. He did not consider the newspaper the best place to settle differences. He said that he was not afraid of anything or anybody, and stood ready to speak the truth at all times as he saw it and understood it. He declared that he was too old to run, and no one could run him out of Helena, that they might kill him, but run, never, he was going to obey the law, do right, and for his rights as a man he stood that footed. He told all he knew about the Elaine trouble which was not much. He thought in some respects there was a spirit of fairness, and there were some things that could have been done, and he considered that the men condemned had been misled and because of their ignorance deserved sympathy. "But these men even fired on the Governor," suggested some one on the white side of the house, "which showed they had murder in their hearts." I don't believe that they knew the Governor was in that car. My race has never assaulted a Governor nor even attempted to take the life of one (Continued on Page 2.) THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 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. XXV. December 6, 1919. No. 12 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879. CHARLES STUMP. (Concluded from Page 1.) of the Presidents of the United States, but we stand ready to die for the protection of both." At this point, Governor Brough, put some questions to Dr. Morris, concerning himself and his position, of the questions all were answered in a manly way. The Governor then took a lick at Jim Crowism as practiced and as a part of the laws of Arkansas, and asked Dr. Morris if there was any complaint about it among the colored people. To this question, he replied that the Jim Crow laws were disgraceful to the south, and should be repealed. He said that it was a backward step in civilization. He said that his people were not anxious to sit down with white people, and if the laws were repealed they would be found seeking their own people, but they did not like proscription. No one expected such an answer from a Negro to the Governor, but it was given in a spirit of love and frankness. Judge Toney, declared that the state of Arkansas would never repeal the law, and some one suggested that it was a difference of opinions. Then followed the man who was in the car where the Johnston's lives were sniffed out, the man from Phillips County, who had been through it all and who related the story in a dramatic style. He swayed his audience at will and only broke down when some one asked him about the Johnstons and then it was too tender to talk about, because his dear friend had been killed. He could not stand to talk about it. He said that he did not know who killed the boys, because after one of the Johnston boys had taken the gun from his friend and killed him, the shooting became general and who shot the fatal shots he could not tell. But I must not go into the discussion of all this, for it would take a 1914 [Name] Successful business men, one of the directors, Higgins Co., wholesale grocers, who would make Democratic candidate for Trustee and Presiden- tary District in 1920. Successful business men, one of the directors of McNeil & Higgins Co., wholesale grocers, who would make a splendid Democratic candidate for Trustee and President of the Sanitary District in 1920. 72 whole paper. In the afternoon, looking forward to getting together, and the readjustment of affairs down here a committee of seventeen was appointed, and they are to report to another meeting. I think I will have to bring my letter to a stop for this week. It would take a whole paper to tell what I have in my frightened mind. CHILDREN'S BUREAU U. S. Department of Labor Washington. "Is your child getting a square deal? If not, what are you going to do about it?" In these words the dodger, "What Do Growing Children Need?" just issued by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor challenges every parent. In simple, concise language the essential requirements for the normal growth and development of the child are listed under the headings, Shelter, Food, Clothing, Health and Personal Habits, Play, Education and Work, Religion and Moral Training. These simple standards include nothing that is not fundamental. It would be easy for the parent to check each item and discover in what respects, if any, his child is not getting what is absolutely necessary for his proper development. While the average, well-to-do, intel ligent parent could probably rate him self 100 per cent in maintaining such standards as these for his child ren, it would be a fortunate community in which every child had correct weight for height; a safe, clean, roomy place for outdoor and indoor play; and schooling for at least nine months a year from 7 to 16 years of age; or even clean, whole garments and three square meals a day. These dodgers can serve the community, as well as the parent, as the basis for a survey of its children. "Has you child these?" is a question not only for parents, but also for cities, towns, and villages. The children's rights, in a democracy, are without exception, all children's rights. 1910 of the directors of McNeil & who would make a splendid tree and President of the Sani- HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON CHARLES E. STUMP DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF CENSUS Washington. Census "Fillers." The Fourteenth Decennial Census is to be taken during the month of January, 1920. The first census of the United States was taken in 1790, during the administration of George Washington. It related solely to population. The Constitution of the United States requires that a census of the United States be taken every ten years. It is by this means that the apportionment of members of the House of Representatives is made as to states. The Bureau of the Census is a part of the Department of Commerce. It was established as a permanent Bureau in 1902. Prior to that time the census work was done by a temporary organization known as the Census Office. A census of the country's manufactures was made for the first time in 1810. Under the present law a manufactures census is to be taken in connection with the Fourteenth Decennial Census and every two years thereafter. An enumeration of the mines and quarries of the United States was made for the first time in 1840. The Sixteenth Decennial Census, taken in 1840, was the first one to cover agriculture statistics, now one of the most important parts of the entire census. The Department of Agriculture assisted the Bureau in preparing the list of questions to be asked of every farmer at the coming census. United States marshals acted as enumerators at the first nine decennial census. Each marshal had as many assistants as were necessary to properly cover his allotted territory. About 650 people were engaged in taking the first census of the United States. The 1920 census will require the services of 90,000. The statistics of the first census of the United States were published in one small volume consisting of 56 pages. The statistics of the 1910 census required 12 volumes having an aggregate of more than 40,000 pages. There were 6,361,502 farms reported at the last decennial census, valued at more than 40 billions of dollars. The 1920 census is expected to show more than 7,000,000 frams. The Census Bureau prints a special supplement for each State in the Union containing all the census figures relating to the State in question. Congress extended the scope of the approaching 1920 census by providing that a census of forestry and forest products should be taken. These subjects were never specifically covered by any past census act. It required 18 months to complete the enumeration work for the first decennial census in 1790. In 1920 the Census Bureau plans to complete the enumeration work for the entire country in two to four weeks and announce the population figures in less than three months from the date the enumeration work is completed. A heavy concentration on ages ending in five and zero are always reported at a census. The Census Bureau has made many efforts to overcome this inaccurate tendency on the part of the people when stating ages. Every census has disclosed the fact there are more men in the United States than women. In 1914, the year the last manufacturers census was taken, there were 275,000 manufacturing establishments reported. The Census Bureau expects about 300,000 establishments to be listed in 1920. The statistics gathered by the Census Bureau in regard to farms are used quite extensively by the Department of Agriculture in its work of aiding farmers. The ingenious machines used by the Census Bureau to count, sort and tabulate the information gathered by the census enumerators are the product of THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 6, 1919 the Bureau's own laboratory. The sorting machines will take care of 300 cards per minute, the counting machine can do 500 cards a minute and the tabulating machine is capable of handling 400 cards each minute. CRAB REC The present energy for costs a good turn FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE. If you cannot bring yourself up to the peculiarity of the present day spirit you belong in an age that is dead. This does not mean that you should discredit all the excellent graces of decency and respectability. These make you stronger in the matter of resistance to all forms of frivolous conduct. The principles of proper deportment are to stand. Nothing of good in respect to right living is to be exchanged for that which is unrighteous. We are embracing a new order, and of readjustment. The truth is the embodiment of all wisdom and learning in so far as it acts as a vehicle, conveying to our intelligence what is noble and good, the opposing forces always to the contrary. The civilization is supplying us an easier and nearer ear to the heart of things. People are growing more to divest themselves of a hypocritical desposition in their manner of dealing with their fellowmen just in that measure as they become secure in their nature and of themselves. People are more positive, and more determined, and a bit less polite. Much of what used to be regarded as a deep rooted respect for others has come to be understood as some kind of pretense, or false flattery. Self preservation is the individuals first concern always. And albo we squirm and twist the action and the word to camouflage our selfish interests behind our smiling providence we hide a frowning face. The New Negro is asserting the consciousness of the race, and teaching the world some very sober lessons on a man's courage to die nobly fighting for the principles dear to life rather than harping on the promises of all those richer treasures we suffer a dozen torments to enjoy, but which he cannot attain without fighting for them. TIS CAMOUFLAGE AND TYRANNY The Jim Crow bill brought up some very acute situations. Politics hypocrisy bristled for an hour or two in the congress of the United States. The Negro seems to be the ugly child in the family of nations. The North called the South names, and the South said you are another. They really made faces at each other for a moment because of this said black child. Finally they shook hands and agreed that the Jim Crow law was a panacea that would save the nation of great racial disturbances. It does not matter a whit if there be thousands of ladies and gentlemen among the colored people whose refinement and university training outranks a hundred thousand southern hoodlums who cannot read and write and whose greatest pleasure is felt when a Negro is being roasted alive, they may ride any where, any old waiting room for white people at southern railroad stations is none too good for the hell bent white monster, the color of man's skin is more harmful than boshevism anarchy, moboeracy and the rest of the inhuman devilty of which the white south is capable. Why is all the noise put upon a difference of color of skin? It is a wholesale camouflage, that's all. There isn't any such thing as a superiority of color of skin. The difference is not in question. It is a hell born prejudice that the white race has got to forget before it can stand before the white robed Jesus of Nazareth. If there was such a thing as a color prejudice the Negro race in Amer would not have in its veins the best Paritan blood of the white race. The whole show is tyranny and oppression of a helpless race. FINAL STATEMENT OF HARRI SON FERREL FUND. The Officers and Directors of the Chicago Music Association thank the donors to the Harrison Ferrel Testimonial Fund for $643.27, said amount on deposit in the Binga Bank, to be given Mr Ferrel in payments of $50 each month until the full amount is expended. Subscriptions last week were $5.00 by Ludwig Becker, violin teacher of the young man, and $2.00 by Miss Alpha Bratton. The association extends their grateful appreciation to all who so graciously helped and generously subscribed. Grace Presbyterian Church cut the expense of their church from $25 to $10 which made expenditures $15 less. A full measure of thanks goes to the press, including the Chicago Defender and The Broad Ax, for contributing space in their columns gratis. The Subscription Fund is still open at Binga's Bank, 36th and State, and public notice will be made of each contribution. MRS. GEO. W. HOLT. Capt. James S.Nelson, who has been for some time one of the wheel horses of the people's movement in the second ward has succeeded the late George W. Ellis as assistant corporation counsel of Chicago and the many friends of Capt. Nelson are very happy over the fact that he landed in the position. CRAB RECKLESS PRODIGALITY. The present era calls for more of our energy for self maintenance and it costs a good deal more than formerly at every turn one makes. It may require a little while for the race to shape itself to meet the new and trying conditions, and yet when one makes the money commensurate to the exigencies of the times, one may determine how one shall live. Fortunately foRa larger element in our group who by environment and taste are competent to do their own drudgery rather than having to hire some one, this era offers a bit of opportunity in which they may lay up a few dollars for a ninety day. The times that call for frugality and easy life among a few of us can also apply with equal fitness that knowledge won and wrong from the trying ordeals when we were not se favored by plenty of occupation at better living wages. The supercilious and fanciful will never provide for any kind of future. They are happy for today and will not heed the pressing needs of tomorrow. Their cares are of today and they dress and eat, and will be satisfied with little knowing that God will ever send Sunday for them which they look upon as a day of show and gandy glass. The economic problems will be regarded seriously by those who use their intelligence intelligently. The fnetuating market will appeal to them as any sober problem, that may arise, and the art of avoiding extravagant indulgences will naturally suggest many of the things one could just as well do without. Anyhow we are undergoing changes in the evolution of the times that eventually will make us accustomed to looking beyond the today. DEATH AND FUNERAL OF HON GEO. W. ELLIS. The funeral services were held at the Institutional Church, Dr. Henderson the pastor, acting as Master of ceremonies. It was the special request of Mr. Ellis that his staunch friend and former pastor, Dr. A. J. Carey should preach the funeral sermon. Dr. Carey used as a text the 8th Psalm, "What is man that Thou are mindful of him, etc." The sermon dealt with man's tripartite nature of body, soul and spirit; declared "the body the lowest, aprt akin to dust, the mind the middle part and nearer to God in its constitution than the body, but the spirit as the biggest part and nearest akin to earth. George Ellis excelled in soul and spirit." Dr. Carey dwelt upon Mr. Ellis's strong and brilliant mind, his true and beautiful spirit and paid highest tribute to his splendid character and sterling worth. Other speakers were Sen. S. A. Ettleson, Alderman R. R. Jackson, Alderman L. B. Anderson, Hon. A. H. Roberts and Mr. E. H. Wright. The singing of George Garner was especially sweet and appropriate. The church was filled and on the platform were many distinguished friends of the deceased among whom were Sen. G. F. Harding, Asst. Corp. Counsel Gaskill. His remains were laid to rest in Oakwood Cemetery. Kersey, McGowan and Morsell, funeral directors in charge. GREAT LAKES TRUST CO. EM PLOYES TO HOLD PARTY. The employees of the Great Lakes Trust Company held their first party Friday evening at the Auditorium Hotel. This is the first of a series of parties which the employees will give through the Winter, and there will be dancing and other entertainments. Harry H. Merrick, president of the company, and Mrs. Merrick, and James C. Johnson, senior vice president, and Mrs. Johnson, with other officers and their wives were the guests of the employees. The party is to be managed by a committee composed of Miss Irene Williams, Frank H. Boardman and Ralph E. Zuck. It can be stated with pleasure that the Great Lakes Trust Company, which is highly deserving of the hearty support of the Colored people, and it must be remembered that during the race riots in this city last summer, that its President, Hon. Harry H. Merrick, came out flatfooted in the daily newspapers in favor of law and order and in favor of permitting the Colored people to enjoy their rights like other American citizens. RETURNS MUCH PLEASED. Judge John Stelk, Attorney for the Pyramid Building and Loan Association has returned to the City from the South where he spent some little time on his 3000 acre ranch, looking the picture of health and saying that he is much pleased with his visit to Foley, Ala. A number of changes were made in Ruth Temple No. 72 on the officers board. The Temple met last Monday evening, Dec. 1st, at which time the changes took place During the week many persons of Harvey, Lake Forest, Waukegan and Glencoe, Ill. were seen in the city, spending Thanksgiving with friends and relatives. [Name] COL. EDWARD H. WRIGHT Assistant Corporation Counleaders of the Republican part the toastmaster at the great R at the beautiful Royal Gardens Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; one of the big leaders of the Republican party in the Second Ward, who was the toastmaster at the great Republican harmony dinner held at the beautiful Royal Gardens Thursday evening. SURPRISED Several friends met at the residence of Mrs. Lonelle Young, 3556 Forest avenue, last Saturday and gave a surprise on her, it being her birthday. Refreshments, money and presents were all brought. On Sunday, Mr. Young invited a number of friends to luncheon and made her a gift of $25.00. Each one wished Mrs. Young many more happy and prosperous birthdays. BETHEL LTERARY SOCIETL On next Monday evening Dec. 8, at 8 o'clock Bethel Literary presents a debate. Subject, Resolved: That the U. S. should become a member of the League of Nations with or without the Covenant, Affirmative, J. T. H. Wood, and Hon. Geo. H. Jackson, Negative. Jas. C. Freemont and Hon. Warren Douglas, Judges, Attys, Alva L. Bates and S. B. Turner. Good music admission free. Sandy W. Trice, Press, J. W. Bell, See y'. SPEAKS WELL OF ORDER Being so well pleased with his visiting the Ancient Knights and Daughters of Africa, Egypt Council No. 112, on Nov. 22nd, Rev. John F. Thomas, pastor of Ebeneze Baptist Church paid a visit of tribute to them, for which they were all pleased. WILL GO WEST Rev. T. L. Scott, Pastor of Grant's Memorial A. M. E. Church, has been forced to cancel his trip for the present, owing to some urgent church matter that he wishes to straighten out before leaving. [Name] [Name] HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL One of the greatest fighting Irish-Americans in and Republican candidate for State's Attorney of y in 1920. One of the greatest fighting Irish-Americans in this country and Republican candidate for State's Attorney of Cook County in 1920. One of the greatest fighting Irish-Americans in this country and Republican candidate for State's Attorney of Cook County in 1920. insel of Chicago; one of the bigy in the Second Ward, who was Republican harmony dinner held Thursday evening. CELEBRATES On Saturday evening, Nov. 22, the Egypt Council, No. 112, Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa hold their anniversary at Harmony hall State and 39th streets. There were 136 members present and many note-visitors, among whom there was, N. G. Master, Wm. H. Fields, N. G. Dept Master, Ernest Patillo, N. G. See. & Trens, Dr. C. M. Catherell, Rev. John F. Thomas, Pastor Ebenzeer Baptist Church and M. T. Bailey, President the Bailey Realty Co. Mrs. Elizabeth Jaekson, N. Deputy U. S. A. is M. E. Q. and Mrs. Henriet Dean, Seey, of the council. JUSTICE REFUSE TO MARRY ITALIAN TO COLONIZE WOMAN Detroit, Mich.—Rose White, Coloreh and Chrispeni Liberato, Italian, were granted a license to marry. With a Colored bride's maid, the couple searched through the floors of the county building for a justice to perform the ceremony. After refusal of the justices they left the building in search of a clergyman. Liberato is a returned soldier. He and Miss White each gave their ages as 25 years. MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, MOTHER OF T. THEODORE TAYLOR, HAS PASSED AWAY. Tuesday Mrs. Anna Taylor passed away at the home of her son, T. Theodore Taylor, 3806 Calumet avenue. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Muse and Mrs. Drowns and many friends to mourn her loss. Funeral services she held over her remains at her late home Thursday evening at 6 o'clock and later on that same evening they were shipped to Cairo, her old home, for burial. ```markdown ``` ish-Americans in this country state's Attorney of Cook Coun- [Name] ALDERMAN ROBERT R. JACKSON Long the tried and true friend of the late George W. Ellis EULOGY BY MAJOR R. R. JACK SON. As the sun began its journey Wednesday morning, Nov 26, George W Ellis, citizen, scholar, writer and diplomat, stepped into the great beyond The search light of the angels beamed forth in all its brilliance. All the sunshine which through him illumored the lives of others, gathered itself together into one great hale and lit his pathway to God. Just before high noon was his hour and it had come. Nine o'clock was the beacon signalling victory from the heavens and promoting him to the staff of the Commander of the Universe, and he obeyed the call. The busy wheels of progress without, nor the silent grief within disturbed him. So long through varying fortune, mid the strife a successful life quest waged, mid pleasure and pain, had he DEATH OF MRS. DESDENOMIA WARREN. Sunday, November 30, after a long spell of sickness Mrs. Desdenomia Warren, 3118 south Wabash avenue, passed on into the next world. She was well known in the City Hall and many of her friends in it sent beautiful floral offerings. Funeral services were held over her remains Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 3, at the undertaking rooms of Kersey, Mecowan and Morsell, 3515 Indiana avenue, interment at Oakwood cemetery. HARVEY A. WATKINS WITH- DRAWS FROM THE HOT POL- ITICAL FIGHT IN THE SEC- OND WARD. The white-winged political dove of peace, the first of this week, settled down for good all over the second ward and the result is that Col. Harvey Watkins will not enter the race for committeeman of the second ward 1200 COLORED PEOPLE CELE BRATE ANNIVERARY AT CHURCH. Last Sunday afternoon almost two thousand Colored people from all parts of the city assembled in the Colored Methodist Church at Park avenue and Robey street and joined in celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Colored race in America. Former United States Senator James Hamilton The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. HON. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS Former United States Senator from Illinois, who delivered an eloquent oration before a most concourse of colored people on the West Sire Sunday afternoon. striven to be one among the chosen who would realize the blessings of the great promise, and now that this hour of his triumphant entry into the circle of the chosen had come, he would not flinch. He left behind him an army of grateful friends. In their hearts he built a monument immutable. The ravages of time will not affect it. Each heart throb of this "grateful circle will strengthen and renew it and until the last friend receives his certain summons, and with an unaltering trust, lies down to pleasant dreams, this monument of love and duty, anchored in their hearts, will stand. "Death is the port where all may refuge find. The end of labor: entry unto rest; Death hath the bounds of misery confined. Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best." mC:CORMICK APPOINTED TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE Washington,—Senator Medill McCormick, Republican, of Illinois, has been appointed a member of the board or register of the Smithsonian Institute by Vice President Marshall Major Arthur Williams of Canada is spending a few days in the City. Mrs. L. Wallace, 3808 So Dearborn street has recovered and is able to be out again. Attorney Walter M. Farmer and M. T. Bailey were in Evanston last week on business. Mrs Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain ave., the sweet voiced soprano song bird was the first part of the present week confined to her home with a severe cold. The National Grand Master of The Lewis, eloquently spoke on the many problems now confronting the American people; his talk was well received by those who sat under the sound of his voice. William Henry Harrison formerly of Oklahoma followed Senator Lewis, Prof. J. Wesley Jones, conducted the Progressive Choir of more than three hundred voices which rendered many patriotic selections. Alderman Joseph H. Smith and Alderman George M. Maypole were present and freely mingled with the Colored people CHIPS THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 6, 1919 Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Afrien, Mr. Wm. H. Fields, left the city during the week for Indinaapolis, Ind. Negotiations have been started by M. P. Bailey, Pres. the Bailey Realty Co. 3638 So. State street, for a large number of lots in Morgan Park, Ill. Mr. Bailey hopes to have all matters cleared up in the course of a couple of weeks, at which time the lots will be put on the mraket. LATE STYLES IN GOWNS AND HATS Pannier Returns and Hoops About Hips May Be Seen— Sleeves at Vanishing Point. Colors Form Favorite Combination at French Resorts—Stripes in Narrow and Wide Arrangements—Skirts Are Very Short. From all signs this will be a decisive season in Paris in so far as fashion creation is concerned. The designers seem to have taken on their old accustomed stride. They have turned their efforts unreservedly to leadership in the world of style. To aid them in this crucial moment there are arriving from the United States, from South America, and from England hosts of buyers and fashion experts to watch the latest developments. This is almost a new experience. At least it is a revived experience, for through the last five years only the most favored of buyers have been allowed to cross the water and only a few of the dressmakers have kept up their work with anything like pre-war vigor. American women during the war have developed a style all their own. They are dressing now as suits the climate and their life and their pursuits, which are quite different from the French woman's. And one sympathizes with the buyers, who wonder whether their clients at home will refuse to accept the wonderful things brought over from France. If their eyes are trained only for beauty they will be dazzled into letting all their accumulated notions of dress go by the board and the conservatives at home will not be suited. At this time of the year all of France, as all of the rest of the world, seeks a cool spot; and so it is at Deauville and the other resorts by the seaside that one looks upon the fashionably arrayed crowd of women and is able to gain some idea of the trend of the times as regards dress. They are wearing the very latest things from a French point of view, and, of course, the majority of the fall fashions will follow in some respects the lines favored just now. Skirts Are Very Short. Well, the tendency is all in the direction of the skirts that are shorter than anything America has ever worn or even dreamed about. You hear it said that the Parisians are wearing their skirts very long, but when you see them with their skirts actually extending just below their knees, so that when their arms are raised the skirt pulls above the knee, you know what a short skirt really is. It is easy on material and is extremely good looking when the figure of the wearer can stand the strain. The skirts are tight, too, but what matters that when their length is what it is? No trouble about taking a good, long step in a dress of this character. Then the coats, when it is a suit, reach almost to the bottom of the skirts, leaving, in fact, only about two or three inches of the skirt to be seen. The coats are either strictly tailored or they show a little fullness about the hips. That tells a story of forthcoming fullnesses of even greater volume. It is so with the dresses. Always there is a slight gathering of extra material where the hips join the waist. It is the pannier that is greeting us on the broad highway of fashion. As yet it is not large enough nor full enough to be alarming, though there are rumors of hoops about the hips and even about the bottoms of the skirts. The sleeves now in vogue can hardly be called sleeves. They actually are just a little strip of material over the top of the shoulder. In most instances that is all, and the Parisians wear them fearlessly for morning and afternoon. In the evening there is no sign to be seen of sleeves. Even the blouses for wear with tailored suits are scantily equipped as to sleeves. They will be quite high at the neck, buttoning up under the chin most uncomfortable on a hot day, and then they will have these little, inadequate sleeves—that is, they are inadequate for anything except setting off a good-looking arm. Indeed, a Frenchwoman's dress of the present mode is little more than two strips of material sewed together and cut kimono fashion, though the lines of her frock are not flowing; they follow the outline of her figure. Evening gowns, far from being an exception to this rule, carry things to an exaggerated degree. The economical use of material there extends to the neckline, which not only opens at back to the waist, but sometimes below that point. These gowns are low in front also. All that is used for the bodices are two pointed strips of material on either side of the front. In order to keep this on there are strings of jewels or beads attached to the points strung around the neck, and from the back of the neck strung to the waistline again. It is the fabric of the evening gown that counts for everything and its draping. 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 X X 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 mauve 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-holing 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 blouse. Tiny curled feathers are used as trimming on fabric hats. Many of the extremely low necks are now being veiled 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 skyr squirrel "tubing" trims tricolette wraps which may be worn at any time of the year. 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. 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 OF THE 1920S White Taffeta Evening Gown. designers who are adopting the princess frock, states a fashion writer. cess frock, stitches 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. 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." "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. 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. Medicine From Horns In China a large trade exists in deer, reindeer and wild sheep Borns 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. Some Pitchers Do Swear "They learned by watching Uble whether he was going to throw a curse or a fast one."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Delaware a tide(y) state. John Randolph once described Delaware as "a state having four counties at low tide and three at high tide." To Take Baby's Picture Anyone who has tried it knows it is a difficult task to take an indoor picture of an active child. By placing the subject near a sunny window, but not in the direct sunlight, and with a sheet fixed at one side, high enough so that it reaches above the subject's head, good results may be obtained. If the child sits on the floor, the sheet will be high enough thrown over two chairs. SATIN GOWN, BEADED BODICE Indian and Hindu This is a charming creation in black satin with black-beaded chiffon bodice over lade blue silk. REVIVAL OF SEPARATE SKIRT Garment for Dressy Wear Promises to Hold Favor According to Fashion Correspondent. The season is marked by the revival of the separate skirt for dressy wear. Some novel forms of drapery and looped panels promise to play a prominent part in the autumn skirts, observes a prominent fashion writer. Lines of distinction characterize the models of recent importation, and the soft silks and satins lend themselves gracefully to the voluminous drapery. The newest skirts are long enough to cover the boot tops and quite wide enough for comfort. The widths at the bottom will vary from a yard and a quarter to a yard and three-quarters, with all widths between. Silk and satin models are inclined to be a bit wider. One smart skirt interpreting the autumn vogue was shown in supply black satin and pale gray crepe. It was draped low about the hips, but in great cascades at the sides. These drapes were turned inside out and faced with the gray crepe. A wide crushed girdle of the material wrapped itself snugly about the waist. To complete this skirt, one wears a lovely blouse of pale gray georgette embroidered with sparkling jet beads. For a pleasing change one might also choose a bodice of black satin with gray trimmings, to harmonize with the skirt. FASHION CALL FOR PAJAMAS Garment Gaining Favor for House Wear Instead of Room Robes; Got Over Footlights. The French fashion for wearing orate and brilliantly-colored pajamas in the house instead of room robes has been taken up in America. The fashion was exploited by the stage and got over the footlights to the public. American women, however, are adopting the Chinese costume, which they call by the name of pajamas. The loose trousers are laced in to fit the ankles, and the feet are slipped into gay Chinese slippers. There is a short tunic, in the Chinese manner, worn over the full trousers and often there is a sash in brilliantly-colored Chinese crepe. There's not a gulf of difference fixed between the modern skirt, with its wide hips and tight hem, and the pajamas with their fullness at the hips and their laced ankles. These costumes are made in taffeta, crepe georgette, and heavy white Chinese silk. FASHION NOTES Many little children appear charming in pure yellow frocks. An oilcloth motor coat in white and red has three buckled belts. Long-haired furs, like monkey and gray hare, are preferred for trimming. This trimming is usually applied to wide-brimmed hats and no other ornament is employed. Bead frogs are a novelty that forms an interesting trimming for chiffon and other sheer fabrics. They are frogs of the regulation shape, formed of beads strung and sewed into place. More and more use of lace, both as trimming and in combination as a fabric, is noted. The all-lace dress, blouse and hat are here, but the biggest acceptance is of models of lace and geogrette, or of lace and net or lace and volle. Evening Blouses Blouses specially designed for evening wear are in pastel colorings of georgette and chiffon, and hair nail lace is an effect form of trimming. 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 lending jewelers of Hongkong usually obtain it in cut form. THAT NEW SUIT FOR WINTER Advantages and Disadvantages in Having It Ready-Made or Made to Order. There are possible advantages in going to a tailor and having your suit made to order and just as many possible advantages in buying it ready made. With the ready-made suit there is always this: You can see the finished garment. There is never the possibility that you won't like it after it is finished, for it is finished to begin with. Moreover, if you are a person whose time is precious, the ready-made suit has advantages in that way. Even if it needs rather elaborate alterations you will need far less fitting than if you are having it made entirely to order. And of course, the ready-made suit, if you buy a good one from a smart shop, has probably been made according to the design of a very skilled and highly paid person, whereas your tailor may or may not have the eye of a real designer and he may or may not follow skillfully the lines of the design you select for him. However, if you are blessed with a good figure the tailor will reveal the fact as the ready-made suit cannot possibly do, even if it is altered, for it is necessary to make ready-mades according to designs that do not as a rule play up the figure. They must be built for the average figure and built according to lines that require the least possible fitting If you do go to the tailor bear this in mind: That for this winter suits made of heavy men's suit fabrics are going to be extremely smart. Select such a fabric that shows a decided stripe—one that would probably not be the one you would choose for your husband or son, because the stripes should be quite far apart and quite noticeable. A suiting of dark slate gray with a lighter gray stripe is a splendid selection. Now have the bodice pieces of the pattern cut lengthwise of the stripe with a tunic on the jacket cut the other way of the material. Or in some such way as this make-use of the striping to give the suit its only trimming. TO MAKE NEWSPAPER HOLDER Remnant of Narrow Stair Carpet May Be Easily Made Into Decora- tion. The sketch shows a good use to which a remnant of narrow stair-carpet may be put, in the way of making a newspaper holder with it for hanging upon the wall. If possible, the carpet should be selected of a color to match or harmonize with the wallpaper upon which it is to hang. The edges where the carpet has been cut are bound with colored braid. An Easily-Made Newspaper Holder, and at each corner a ring is sewn on in the manner shown in sketch B. Then nails are driven into the wall at a distance apart corresponding with the width of the carpet, and they should slant slightly upwards in the way illustrated in diagram A. The rings are placed upon the nails so that the carpet hangs downwards and forms a large loop, into which the papers may be slipped from either side. All tidy housewives like a place to keep papers in, so that they do not litter the room, and this is just the thing needed, as it is strong and practical. DRESSES NOW MADE OF KID Whole Sport Outfits Made of the Material and Some Have Leather Ornamentation. The increase use of kid and other soft leathers for the making and trimming of women's garments is bringing up the question here as to what effect it will have on other lines. Latest fashion reports from Deauville say that whole sport dresses made of colored kid were worn at the recent races there, and the Paris cables tell of leather dewdabs on many of the new frocks, says the New York Times. In view of the reported general scarcity of kid, which there is no reason to doubt, the question has arisen as to just what effect this vogue will have on the supply available for the glove and shoe trades. It is also asked if the use of colored outer garments of kid will bring about a revival of the vari-colored kid shoes; that were so much in vogue here a few years ago, and also serve to increase the color ranges of kid glove offerings in the near future. Coats for Fall. Some Paris-designed models of fall and winter coats for 1919 and 1920 are in the showrooms of American manufacturers and tailors. The indications are that plaids will be very much featured. Double-faced fabrics, plain on one side and plaid on the other, like golf cloths of several seasons ago, are used to develop some very modish coats. Fear in the Child. "There is a world of truth in Prof. Angelo Moso's emphatic declaration: "Every ugly thing told to the child, every shock, every fright given him, will remain like minute splinters in the flesh, to torture him all his life long." — "Psychology and Parenthood," by H. Addington Bruce. R. W. Hunter & Company, Bankers CHICAGO With whom do you do your Banking? Colored American Citizens, there is a great difference between doing your banking business with a bank that employees young Colored American Citizens as Clerks, Tellers, Cashiers and Investors, and one that does not. Do you know that there is some prejudice shown by white banks and bankers in Chicago that employ every other nationality in their banks but Colored American Citizens? We have young Colored men and women who have graduated from some of the best schools and colleges in this country, and are as efficient as any other nationality? R. W. Hunter & Company, Bankers, employ sixty-two of the most efficient employees of any bank in the world. We do general banking the same as any other bank in America, and have Savings Accounts and Checking Accounts. Checks drawn on our banks are honored all over the United States and our drafts are honored in all parts of Europe. Every Colored American Citizen in the United States should be a booster for such a business enterprise as the R. W. Hunter & Company, Bankers, Chicago. THE RIOT HAS TAUGHT THE RACE A LESSON Never before in the history of the Race has an incident displayed our business faults as did the recent riot in Chicago. Ninety per cent of the business houses in the Black Belt are owned by white people, and when they closed their doors the entire Colored population was nearly on the verge of hunger and had these conditions prevailed just one week longer, some of our people would have suffered from starvation, regardless of whether they had funds to purchase food or not. The most of our people had their money in white banks in the Loop District and other sections of the city, where our people could not get to the money. Let us get wise in this country like the white races and bank our money with our Colored banks and do business with one another, the same as the white races do. Let us boost our own business enterprises. R. W. Hunter & Co., Bankers, have handled over three million dollars of the people's money without a complaint or a lawsuit from a single depositor or investor. R. W. Hunter & Co., Bankers, have leases on property in Chicago that are worth over two million dollars, located in some of the best sections of Chicago, and these leases are netting the firm good profits. ATTORNEY J. P. HARDEN, General Manager R. W. HUNTER & COMPANY, BANKERS 4757 State St. 1801 W. Lake St. 3003 S. State St. Out-of:Town Banks: 1828 BROADWAY, GARY, IND. 801 WILEY AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. 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" TELE GEORGE I TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1 GEORGE F. HARDING, JR REAL ESTATE 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. 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 3643 Irving Park Blvd. 2142 West Madison St. 408 West North Ava. 1709 West 12th St. 1641 Milwaukee Ave. 1641 Ogden Ave. 731 West 63rd St. 3221 Ogden Ave. 3478 Archer Ave. 4033 West Madison St. 103-5 East 35th St. North Side 9051 Commercial St. 3071 Lincoln Ave. 11025 Michigan Ave. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Michigan Avenue at Adams Street Telephone Wabash 6000 HARDING, JR. This Is the "Jumbo" Gas Burner DENISON. WATKINS ATTORNEYS AT LAW 36 West Randolph Street Franklin A. Denison, S. A. T. Watkins, James E. White Telephone Central 3142 CHICAGO 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. Randelph 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 Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 818-320 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 Building 84 W. Washington Street CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 246 E. K. KALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 5057 South State Street Near 51st St. Not On the Corner CHICAGO "Exelento will Main Your Hair Long, Too" EXELENTO FOR KINKY HAIR "Every woman can have nice, long hair." "My May Gilbert. 'My hair' has grown 25 inches long by using your wonderful" EXELENTO QUININE "Every woman can have nice, long hair! long hair can grow up! Up hair has grown 28 inches by using your wonderful EXELENTO QUININE POMADE Don't be fooled by fake Kink Remover. You can't mistake your hair until it's soft and clean. Kink remover, from the root of the hair and made in growers, and we make EXELENTO Skin Beauty POMADE, elastin for dark, shallow skin. Used for treating acne, sunburn. LOT OF EACH STAMP OR COIN AGENTS WANTED FOR POWDER WHO FOR PARTICIPANTS EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, ga. UPPERHEIGHTS THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 6, 1919 e phone, verizon "Sunny room, five rooms. Can be seen by phone after p. m. Buy 3101-L.-Vancouver (B. C.) Province. Measure of Greatness Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness. -Principal Shairp. 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. 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. 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. Evil Always to Be Foughe Evil Always to Be Fought. There can be no compromise with evil. It never is right to license wrong, whatever golden returns it may offer or however difficult it may be to get rid of it. In our social life and in our personal life, wherever evil shows its hand there must be battle, not compromise.—Exchange. To Prevent Fire. Paint paper lamp shades with solution of alum. They will not catch fire so easily. Four Into One. "A monthly holiday, closed all day every Wednesday is also to be observed from April to September."—Glasgow Evening Times. The freight train caused the explosion by hitting a truck loaded with acetylene tanks. The truck and driver was killed.—Buffalo News. Deadly Arabian Sirocco. The sirocco or sand storm of the Arabian desert is exceedingly treacherous. It often digs pits two hundred feet deep, scattering the sand for miles around. 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 Philis times 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. Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN CHICAGO'S REPR KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDER TAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. S. GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Proprietors 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, IL. R KING WILLIAM Our Representa tionable price Can be near to you ARNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER PHONE - KENWOOD 455. Office-5028-5080 S. State Street. Karen Sawyer & Associated Firm Township Thirty-You Be Your Telephone Directions International Cause of the Town Vaccination Time & Date A recording meter has been invented to measure the amount of steam used in an industrial plant and check wrist. What a glorious creature was he who first discovered ta-tao—Fielding. 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. 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 Good Night! You 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. 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 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 swept 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 Dorrik," 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. When Holland Banned Orang When Holland Banned 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. "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. N AND MORSELL PRESENTATIVE NEST H. WILLI UNDERT PHONE - KENWOOD Office 5028-5030 S. S. --- Optimistic Thought New Way of Tinting Bananas CHICAGO, ILL. The Cunningham Car Long before tobacco was known or smoked, sweet lavender was a favorite smoking mixture. Pipes have been dug up in Roman settlements, adorned with base-relief pictures of the lavender plant. From which it is surmised that the Romans smoked lavender, which, according to writings of the time, is said to produce a feeling "active, ardent, and vigorous." People are often more concerned about creating a favorable impression than about the kind of person they wish to be considered. It is like demanding a beautiful photograph without regard to the features of the original. What period do you think I recall most frequently and most willingly in my dreams? At the pleasures of my youth; they are rare, too much mingled with bitterness and mow too distant. I recall a period of my seclusion, of my so many walks, of the fleeting but delicious days that I have passed entirely by myself, with my beloved dog, my old cat, with the birds of the field, the birds of the forest, with all nature and her inconceivable Author—Housseau. Life Not Merely Lanse of 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 Martineau. Chicago Title and STATED BY OUR BUSINESS SINCE that of showing the con- titles. The millions upon m build and rebuild Chic nished relying on the a STRACTS AND TITLE L No man has lost a d This is our past. Wise men judge futu behavior. CHICAGO TITLE AND 69 W. Washing Chicago Title and Trust Company The Cranford Apartment 3600 WABASH the finest building ever opened to Steam heat, electric lights, tile phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, A LIAMSON TAKER D 455 State Street. 100 The Cranford Apartment Bldg. 3600 WABASH AVENUE The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J.W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington St. --- Lavender Smokers. Have Wrong Idea. 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. Finland occupies about 144,000 square miles of territory, of which 125,889 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 literacy is almost unknown. World's Finest 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 world wide 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. Linen From Nettle Fibre 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. If mirrors be very dull and speckled the following method is excellent: Take a small portion of whiting and add sufficient cold tea to make a paste; rub the glass with warm tea, dry with a soft cloth; rub a little of the paste well on the mirror and polish dry with tissue paper. 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相伴 next?" D Trust Company RIEFLY: NCE 1847 has been edition of real estate millions required to mago have been fur- accuracy of our AB- POLICIES. dollar by so relying. ure action by past TRUST CGMPANY Borton Street --- Finland. For Dull Mirrors Bobby's Suggestion