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UNITED STATES SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING FROM OHIO NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE TENTH BALLOT BY THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Governor Calvin Coolidge Of Massachusetts Selected As The Vice Presidential Candidate Mayor William Hale Thompson Would Not Permit Governor Frank O. Lowden to Buy His Way Into the White House Riding in a Pullman Car, and the Great and Memorable Fight Waged Upon the Chief Executive of This State by the Chief Executive of Chicago Snatched the Crown of Glory From His Head and Put Him Out of the Running for President of the United States. The Old Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News Waged a Terrific Fight for the Nomination of Governor Lowden, but Mayor Thompson, With the Chicago Republican, Stood Up and Fought a Hand to Hand Fight and Trampled the Whole Shooting Match and Sinster Combination Under His Feet. Major General Leonard Wood Was in the Lead Right Up to the Tenth and Last Ballot; At That Point His Forces Were Disrupted, But One Hundred and Fifty-seven Delegates Proudly Marched on Down to Defeat With Him. United States Senator William E. Borah, Who Is a Rank Negro Hater, Did Not Come Within Ten Thousand Miles in Securing the Nomination for Senator Hiram Johnson, Who Was Full of Wind and Bluster. WOOD CALLS DR. BUTLER LIAR AND A PAKER. The Republican party, "unity" got a bad jolt Tuesday night from Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, defeated candidate for the Presidential nomination. The soldier replied hotly to the charge, loosed in New York on his return by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, that "a group of stock gamblers, oil men and mining promoters, munition makers and other like persons seized upon, so good a man as Gen. Wood, and with reckless audacity started out to buy for him the Presidential nomination." "I have just read that statement," the major general said, "claiming that a motley group of stock gamblers tried to buy the nomination for me, and that the forces who were defeated in their 'insolent attempt to buy the nomination' represent all that is worst in There Was Great Rejoicing on the Part of the Colored People in All Parts of the United States When It Was Flashed to the World That Hon. Frank O. Lowden Utterly Failed to Connect Up With the Nomination for President of the United States. The Republican National Convention which was on the billboards at the Coliseum in this city for five days has passed into history and either for good or for bad its nets cannot be recalled or undone in the slightest degree, the steam roller which was well oiled all the time with the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge firmly gripping the throttle was from the very first day of the convention and for several days prior thereto was fully determined to successfully run the steam roller over General Leonard Wood and after it had succeeded in flattening him out and crushing out all the rest of the opposition to it, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge and his steam roller fully intended to smoothly roll up the Hon. Frank O. Lowden and nominate him for President of the United States. to permit the Hon. Frank O. Lowden to secure the nomination, for that would be playing into the hands of the Democrats too strongly and furnishing them with an issue to fight the would-be President Lowden during the presidential election, and as the fight had become so bitter between Messrs. Wood and Lowden, the only thing left for the steam roller to do was to nominate a dark horse, and on the tenth and last ballot Hon. Warren G. Harding, United States Senator from Ohio, was nominated for President and Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, was chosen for Vice-President. Each successful candidate received six hundred and seventy-four and a half votes. One hundred and fifty-seven delegates proudly marched on down to do or other the fates or the gods decreed it otherwise. On the surface of things it looked as though that some kind of a deal had been hatched up between Col. William Randolph Hearst and his two newspapers in this city with United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who is one of the rankest Negro haters in this country and who is one of its smallest pin-headed statesmen, to force Senator 'Hiram Johnson down the throats of the delegates attending the convention, but Senator Johnson, who was simply full of wind and bluster, utterly failed to come within ten thousand miles of the nomination, with the unspeakable Senator Borah, Col. William Randolph Hearst and his chain of powerful newspapers back of him. This newspaper was the only one Therefore it is just as plain as your nose on your face that the only thing that at last prevented the steam roller from rolling him in was the fact that he had boldly and blazenly admitted that he had spent more than $500,000 of his own money in his wild effort to buy his way into the White House; that two delegates from old Missouri received two thousand and five hundred dollars each to vote and shout for him; that forty thousand dollars scattered around among the other big Republicans in Missouri for the purpose of influencing their votes and actions at the Republican National Convention; that Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia, received nine thousand dollars in dead easy money for working and shouting for the Hon. Frank O. Lowden. These cold facts or statements completely staggered the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge and his high-powered steam roller to such an extent that finally he decided that it would not do MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD FEELS VERY GRATEFUL TO THE COLORED PEOPLE IN GENERAL AND TO THE COLORED DELEGATE ATTENDING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SPLENDED SUPPORT WHICH THEY RENDERED HIM. PLEASANT INTERVIEW WITH HIM MONDAY MORNING AT THE CONGRESS HOTEL BY JULIUS P. TAYLOR. Monday morning just as the writer was rushing into the Congress Hotel he ran right square into Major General Leonard Wood, and, having had the extreme pleasure of meeting him several times in the past, he very readily remembered our last name and, continually extended his hand, and while in conversation with him, General Wood declared, that he would feel very thankful to us if we would state in the columns of this paper, that he felt very grateful indeed to the Colored people in all parts of this country for so lovely supporting him in his race for President of the United States, and THE BROAD AX to permit the Hon. Frank O. Lowden to secure the nomination, for that would be playing into the hands of the Democrats too strongly and furnishing them with an issue to fight the would-be President Lowden during the presidential election, and as the fight had become so bitter between Messrs. Wood and Lowden, the only thing left for the steam roller to do was to nominate a dark horse, and on the tenth and last ballot Hon. Warren G. Harding, United States Senator from Ohio, was nominated for President and Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, was chosen for Vice-President. Each successful candidate received six hundred and seventy-four and a half votes. One hundred and fifty-seven delegates proudly marched on down to defeat with General Leonard Wood, who was in the lead right up to the last or final ballot. It is true that Mayor William Hale Thompson waged a great and a wonderful fight against Hom. Frank O. Lowden, the Pullman millions, the old Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and the sinister influence and forceful combinations behind him, and it must be admitted that Mayor Thompson with his Chicago Republican which he transformed into a daily paper during the convention, played his part well in assisting to snatch the crown of glory from the head of Hon. Frank O. Lowden. It was noised around the convention hall that Governor Lowden, through some of his political bosses, that "he did not want the votes of Mayor Thompson and his seventeen delegates; that he could be easily nominated without their aid," but for some cause to the Colored delegates who so manfully stood by him to the end in the Republican National Convention. In concluding our conversation with him, General Wood stated, that he desired to personally thank the editor of this paper for "its splendid and gallant support which he received through it scolums for the nomination for the highest office within the gift of the American people. PRIEST HALTS WEDDING; BRIDE'S DRESS IMMODEST New Orleans, La—When the bride approached the alter of the brilliantly lighted St. Louis Cathedral to be married Wednesday night, Father Antoine, a Catholic priest, having in mind the recent order of Archbishop Shaw of New Orleans, desired she was immodestly elad, and ordered the ceremony halted while the woman returned to her home and attired herself in a fashion that would not offend the dignity of the church. Father Antoine declared her clothing, or rather the lack of it, was "shocking and disgraceful," and ordered the sexton to extinguish the lights of the cathedral or other the fates or the gods decreed it otherwise. On the surface of things it looked as though that some kind of a deal had been hatched up between Col. William Randolph Hearst and his two newspapers in this city with United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who is one of the rankest Negro hatters in this country and who is one of its smallest pin-headed statesmen, to force Senator Hiram Johnson down the throats of the delegates attending the convention, but Senator Johnson, who was simply full of wind and bluster, utterly failed to come within ten thousand miles of the nomination, with the unspeakable Senator Borah, Col. William Randolph Hearst and his chain of powerful newspapers back of him. This newspaper was the only one published in the interest of the colored people in this city that had the courage and the manhood to manfully fight Governor Frank O. Lowden to the last ditch, for the other Colored editors in this city, like some few would-be leaders of the race in this city, were standing around waiting and looking for the crumbs which might possibly fall from the golden table of the present chief executive of the great State of Illinois. It can be truthfully stated that there was great rejoicing on the part of the Colored people throughout the United States when it was flashed to the world that Governor Frank O. Lowden was laid out stiff and cold in his great ambition to secure the nomination for President of the United States. The wisest Republican politicians all claim that Hon. Warren G. Harding and Hon. Calvin Coolidge will be elected President and Vice-President of this great and mighty nation. until the bride had retired "to properly clothe herself." The marriage ceremony was performed several hours later, when the bride returned more modestly garbed. BINGA BOMBED FOR FITH TIME IN SIX MONTHS. For the fifth time in six months a bomb Thursday night was thrown at the $30,000 home of Jesse Binga, real estate dealer and banker, at 5922 South Park avenue. Neighbors observed a black car pass up the street shortly after midnight and saw a man alight, toss the bomb on the porch, and rejoin his companion in the machine. The explosion hurled pipillars of the two story brick residence into the street and broke windows for a block around. No one was hurt. Major General Morris Lewis, of the Uniform Rank of the Grand, United Order of Odd Fellows, spent several days this week in Kansas City, Mo., where he was royally banqueted by the members of that order in that city. D. W. H. Hon. Warren G. Harding, United States Senator from Ohio, and Republican candidate for President of the United States, was born on his grandfather's farm, just outside the village of Blooming Grove, in Morrow County, Ohio, November 2, 1865, the son of George Tyron and Phoebe Elizabeth Harding. He was the eldest of eight children. Senator Harding has always been a resident of Ohio, his birth state. In private life he is a newspaper publisher, being the owner and editor of the Marion, Ohio, Star, which he purchased when it could hardly, even by a generous stretch of a kindly imagination, have been called a newspaper, on November 26, 1884. The senator's father was a country doctor, all the Harding family coming from old colonial stock, migrating originally from Scotland, settling first in Connecticut and then moving to Pennsylvania. Warrun's mother was desseeded from an old time Holland Dutch family, the Van-Kirks. Lived Like Average Boy. The boyhood of Warmn Harding differs little from that of the average boy raised in the averag rural community. He chopped wood, did the chores, painted the woodshed and similar tasks, and took his amusement in the old swimming pool. Until he was 14 years of age he attended the village school, when he entered the Ohio Central College at Iberia, from which institution he was graduated with high honors. He got his first taste of newspaper life and his longing for the editorial game at college, where he was editor of the college paper. HON. WARREN G. HARDING. First Job at $9 Weekly. The Republican candidate's first newspaper job was on the Marion Mirror. He earned $0 a week—until he was fired because he was an ardent Blaine partisan and sported the high hat of the Maine statesman's campaign. When the elder Harding moved his family to Marion, the town had 4,000 inhabitants. The Star was on the verge of bankruptcy. Young Warren craved to possess the paper, chiefly because it was the only publication that was attainable with the means he had at command. His father lent him his credit and the Star was formally taken over by Mr. Harding. The consideration was a simple one. No money was passed. Harding merely agreed to assume the newspaper's indebtedness. During Mr. Harding's control of the Star, Marion has grown to a population of 30,000. His enthusiastic support of every industry brought to the city is credited as a large element in Marion's development. Although he is by preference and profession a newspaper publisher, Senator Harding is identified with a number of other enterprises in Marion and other parts of the state. He is a director in a bank and several large business enterprises and is a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church. During the last twenty years Senator Harding has been abroad three times, each time to study other systems of government. Gained Fame as Orator. Harding's first political speech was made at a Republican county committee meeting in a little country school louse to an audience of about twenty five persons. So successful was he in holding the ear of his audience that he attracted the notice of older politicians, who immediately utilized his services in making speeches all over the state. It was not long before he was billed for speeches with McKinley, Former and others of equal prominence. In 1898 he was nominated for state senator from the district composed of Hardin, Logan, Marion and Union Counties and was elected by an overwhelming majority. Served as Lieut Governor. At the expiration of his second term as state senator he was nominated for lieutenant governor on the ticket with Myron T. Herrick as the gubernatorial candidate. He served with Governor Herrick during his first administration, but declined to be a candidate for reelection, retiring to private life to devote his attention to business interests. In 1910 he was nominated for governor of his state, but was defeated. In 1914 he became a candidate for the United States senatorship from Ohio and won the election by more than 102,000 votes. As a public speaker he is calm, yet at all times forceful. It will be remembered that he made the speech nominating William Howard Taft for the Presidency at the Republican convention in Chicago. On July 8, 1891, he married Florence Kling, daughter of Amos King, now deceased, who, during his life, was one of the leading business men of the City of Marion. The couple has no children. ELECTED. Mrs. Eva C. Hooper, 5214 State St., past president of the Baptist Women's Congress of Chicago, an active worker in Baptist fraternities, was elected president of the women's department of the General Association of Illinois which met at Murphysboro, Ill., a few days ago. WOOD CALLS DR. BUTLER LIAR AND A FAKER. The Republican party, "unity" got a bad jolt Tuesday night from Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, defeated candidate for the Presidential nomination. The soldier replied hotly to the charge, loosed in New York on his return by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, that "a group of stock gamblers, oil men and mining promoters, muntion makers and other like persons seized upon so good a man as Gen. Wood, and with reckless audacity started out to buy for him the Presidential nomination." "I have just read that statement," the major general said, "claiming that a motley group of stock gamblers tried to buy the nomination for me, and that the forces who were defeated in their 'insolent attempt to buy the nomination' represent all that is worst in American business and political life. That statement is a vicious and malicious false school. I would ignore it were it directed at me alone, but I cannot remain silent when my loyal friends and supporters are vilified. Procter Highly Honest. "Col. William Cooper Procter, who was chairman of my campaign committee, is a man of extraordinarily high character. He is known for his absolute integrity and honesty. His associates were men of like character, most of whom responded to their country's call during the war. They typify a group of progressive Americans. The attack upon them is infamous. "The forcees which brought me before the convention with preponderant force were hundreds of thousands of patriotic men and women in every walk of life, who have indorsed me at nation-wide state conventions, at nation-wide primaries and in a nation-wide poll of unprecedented size. "Doc" Curries Favor. "This action of Nicholas Murray Butler is an attempt to ingratiate himself with certain elements which exercised a determining influence at the convention, and possibly to explain his own political weakness. "It is a self-seeking cowardly attack, made under the cloak of an alleged public service, which was never intended or rendered. I regret to make a statement of this kind, but it is necessary in this instance to brand a faker and to denounce a lie." "I guess that will hold 'Doc' Butter for a while," hotly said one of the general's foremost campaign advisers, "and I don't give a hang what it does to party harmony." Procter Wires Butler Cincinnati—Col. William Cooper Proter, manager of Gen. Leonard Wood's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination, on his arrival home from Chicago sent a telegram to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler saying that his statement given out Tuesday relates to Gen. Wood's support was wholly false and was given out with malicious disregard for the truth. The telegram reads: "Statement credited to you, relating to Gen. Wood's support is wholly false and made with malicious disregard for the truth." Dr. Butler, in his statement, is quoted as saying that stock gamblers, oil and mining promoters, munition makers and other like persons sought to buy for Gen. Wood the Presidential nomination. "The senatorial influence, the same element that has prevented a ratification of the pene treaty, was responsible for Gen. Wood's failure to obtain the nomination," said Col. Proter." ATTENDS GRADUATION. R. W. Wells, 3710 Indiana Ave., left the city for Oberlin, Ohio, where he will attend the graduation exercises of Oberlin College, where his daughter, Hazel, will be graduated. Before returning, Mr. Wells in company with his daughter will visit Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Washington and Richmond, Va., the home of his mother THE BROAD AX In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrata, Catholic, 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 6000 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2507 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol. XXV June 19, 1920. No. 39 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, 14. Under Act of March 3, 1879. SMITH-HUGHES ACT HELPS COLORED YOUTH. Teacher-Trainers from Ten Southern States Gather at Tunkegee Institute—Leading White Officials Cooperate—How Can a Rural Civilization Be Developed? By Wm. Anthony Aery. (Special to The Broad Ax.) Tuskegee, Ala.-H. O. Sargent Washington, D.C., Federal Agent for Agricultural Education in the Southern Region, recently held a one-week course of instruction for colored teacher-trainers, of ten Southern states, who work under the Smith-Hughes Act. The aims of the course, according to Director Sargent, were "to emphasize the importance of getting more students to take vocational agriculture and to help the men who are engaged in teacher-training work to organize, along the best possible lines, work in the field." A. E. Holder, Washington, D.C., who represents the labor group on the Federal Board for Vocational Education, declared that "the Negro will be given fair consideration in the administration of all the vocational work which is done under the Smith-Hughes Act." L. S. Hawkins, Washington, D. C. chief of the Division for Vocational Education, emphasized the necessity of developing modern scientific agriculture, so as to strengthen the United States and the nations of the world during the present unsettled period. He also discussed the relation of well-trained, self-sustaining citizens to a prosperous, efficient democracy. Faith in Tuskegee The State teacher-trainers expressed their faith in Tuskegee Institute "which has made possible for many agriculturalists the larger experience which they now possess." They also expressed to Federal and State officials, "who are helping in every possible way to encourage agriculture among colored people," the increasing interest among colored people for agricultural matters. They pointed with pride to the increasing land holdings of colored people, who now own, control, and operate 24,000,000 acres of land, an acreage equal to the State of South Carolina. They declared that in many vocational schools there are not enough instructors to give vocational agriculture to all the students who wish it. They expressed their hearty thanks to the Regional Director, H. O. Sargent, for his "faithful service, unselfish devotion, timely instruction, friendly advice, and deep personal interest." They added: "We feel that Mr. Sargent's long experience and thorough understanding of the principles and methods involved in this form of agricultural instruction fit him pre-eminently for leadership in this great forward movement." Teacher-Trainers Organize. They recommended for future places of meeting, uskeegue Institute, Hanpton Institute and the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. They agreed that the one-week session is desirable. Permanent officers of the Colored Association of State Teacher-Trainers were elected: G. W. Owens, Petersburg, Va., president; F. H. Cardozo, Albany, Ga., vice-president; R. E. Malone, Greensboro, N. C., secretary; and S. B. Simmons, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., treasurer. State teacher-trainers, other than the Association officers, who were present follow B. F. Hubert, Orange- --- X Hon. Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts and Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. burg, S. C.; B. F. Bullock, Prairie View, Tex.; P. S. Bolles, Alcorn, Miss.; W. H. Crutcher, Tallahassee, Fla.; W. H. Woodard, Pine Bluff, Ark.; E. C. Yates, Nashville, Tenn. H. O. Sargent, in addition to presiding, spoke on "Project Agreements," "Organization of Colored Colleges," "Necessity of Rigid Standards," "Summer Projects," and "The Importance of Teacher-Training Work." E. H. Shinn, Washington, D.C., States Relation Service, gave courses in "Materials and Methods of Vocational Agriculture," T. M. Campbell of Tuskegee Institute spoke on "Negro Extension Work." Harry Simms, Tuskegee Institute, "Removable School," and Charles S. Parker, Tuskegee Institute, "Horticulture." Leo M. Favrot, State agent for colored schools in Louisiana, said: "Teacher-trainers and other rural workers must show men and women who live in the country, the spiritual, as well as the economic values of farm life." Building Up Rural Life. Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va. field agent of the General Education Board, spoke on "Building Up a Rural Civilization." He said: "Men in the country must be taught, not only how to make a living, but how to use their minds and their hands. They must be taught how to develop a community spirit. People in the country have not had their full share of our civilization—and they are realizing it. Farmers would produce more goods, if they felt they could dispose of these goods to advantage. We must educate people so as to make more promising than the development of the county training school work, and the vocational work which is being done in them is very important." Among the topics for discussion were: "The Use of Fairs for Exhibiting Project Work;" Equipment for Vocational and Teacher-training Classrooms;" "The Improvement of Teachers in Service;" "Topical Arrangement of Subject Matter with Reference to Seasonal Sequence;" "The Use of Stereoptic Lectures;" "Making Teacher-trainer Reports;" "Relation of Vocational Agriculture Teachers to other Officials;" "Practice-teaching for Teacher-trainer groups;" "The Use of School Grounds as a Laboratory;" Arrangements of Schedules for Vocational Teachers;" and "Projects for Boarding Students." The members of the conference were welcomed to Tuskegee Institute by Dr. Robert R. Moton. PROF. KELLY MILLER'S EIGHT THOUSAND MILE LECTURE TOUR. (Washington D. C. Special to The Broad Ax.) Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University will start upon a lecture tour about the middle of June. He will lecture in the principal cities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. This itinerary covers eight thousand miles and will consume more than two months. Educational and socialological topics will be discussed, and the Professor will make a careful observation of racial conditions, especially in the far west. Madam A. V. Musgrove, the theatrical costumer, suite 602-184 W. Washington street, has been doing a rushing business all this season, and she is taxed to her utmost to fill all orders for up-to-date costumes for her many customers. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JUNE 19. 1920 BLACKS TO FIGHT AGAINST WHITES. The New Book by a White Author Shows Rising Tide of Color Against Oppression. Latest Statistics Show Twice as Many Colored People in the World as White. New York City—"The Rising Tide of Color" by Dr. Lothrop Stoddard is just off the press of Chas. Scribbler Sons and has created a sensation among the colored and white reading public. In a well written book of some 300 pages, the author boldly asserts that the colored races of the world are tired of race domination and are preparing for the greatest war of all those which have in the past been inflicted upon mankind. According to Dr. Stoddard, the world war, which cost three hundred ninety-billion dollars and thirty-three million casualties, will be a small conflict in comparison with this great war which is to come. Here is the way forces will line up: 500,000,000 yellow people. 450,000,000 brown people. These so-called colored races from Asia, Africa and America will attack the 550,000,000 whites, and with terrible results. "Not only do the colored races outnumber the white races, two to one," says Dr. Stoddard, "but from statistics it is shown that it takes white people eighty years to increase one hundred per cent, while yellow and brown people increase one hundred per cent in sixty years, and black people breed fastest of all, increasing one hundred per cent in forty years. APPOMATTOX CLUB NOTES By Othello W. Collins. The grand opening of our handsome new club house, will take place Monday evening, June 21st, 8:30 to 12:30. This affair will be strictly formal. Immediately following the opening event, all social affairs, dancing, whist, etc., will be resumed. Our club has entertained many notable visitors during the convention week, all of whom expressed themselves amazed at the beauty of our club-building. TWO HELD FOR WHISKY THEFT. Rap Epperson of 3705 Vincenna Ave., and Joseph Hopson of 357 E. 29th place, two Chicago colored men were held to the grand jury when they were arranged before Justice Lewis of Oak Park on a charge of burglary. Tuesday. The men were arrested in connection with the burglary of Leon E. Gibb's drug store, 331 South blvd., Oak Park, where a quantity of whisky was stolen. NEGRO HELD FOR SLAYING Henry Williams, colored, who shot and killed Hartan Branch at W. Lake St. and 23rd Ave., Melrose Park, was ordered held for murder by a coroner's jury Monday. Attorney Warren B. Douglas has removed his law offices from 3613 S. State street, to 3504 S. State street. [Name] HON. ROBERT E. TURNEY. Eminent and successful lawyer, who would make an ideal Republican candidate to succeed the late M. W. Pinckney as Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. In this article I shall not attempt to give a complete treatise on that most wonderful of all human performances nor shall I be able to discuss in detail that peer of instruments, the human voice for time and space will not permit. So I shall simply give a few facts as laid down by a noted vocal teacher and an authority on things pertaining to singing. Singing is a natural impulse in mankind and has become an adjunct of all that is best in modern life, religion, patriotism, education, social intercourse, and the home circle. Spontaneous, untaught singing, especially by companies of people moved by some common sentiment, is often a joy and an inspiration. But a fair flower of civilization is the cultured singing of an intelligent gifted individual. A good song given forth in correct style, with pure tone and kindled imagination is a mirror of the worthiest attributes of humanity, elevated thought, refined sentiment, a harmony of physical action, poise, grace, vigor and control. Universal appreciation of these values in song is shown by the high esteem in which good singers are held by the public and also by the widespread desire to learn to sing. A good speaking voice is attractive and useful; and when a fine organism is associated with a musical mentality resulting in a singing voice, the possessor has a gift of great value. But why cultivate this gift? If singing be natural, why not sing as the birds sing, without thought of the process? Theoretically, that would be the best way to do it; and if mankind ever reaches a state of perfection, singing will be thus entirely free from self-consciousness. But under the present conditions, if one sings without guidance, unless he be the exceptional one in a thousand he will either be very limited in power, compass, and other requirements of current song, or he will have trouble with his throat, or he will just sing badly, in a manner offensive to good taste. Some of the more commonly observed items of bad singing are: Singing out of tune, which may not be the fault of the ear, but of method; shortness of breath, giving the impression of effort or struggle; foreing of some notes and a straining for others; an unnatural or indistinct utterance of words; distortions of the face, forehead, nostrils, lips, etc., a slipping or sliding of the voice in the attack of tones or the progression from note to note; and in addition to all this, a poor quality of tone and an entire lack of the expressive element—by which is meant not slow and fast, soft and loud, as is often supposed, but the freedom and sincerity of utterance which makes the hearer forget the mechanism of singing and feel the spirit or mood of the song. To sing a tone is not a single act but a combination of several acts; and if the different bodily parts do not perform their functions correctly, or if there is action of some bodily parts which should nor enter into the process, the tone thus produced is said to be impure. Impurity of tone, incompatible with natural or expressive utterance of song, may take many phases. The most frequently observed are Nasal tone, pinched (throny) tone, hollow tone, breathy tone, shrill (twangy) tone, strained tone (as the speaking voice sounds uttered while lifting a heavy weight), hard tone (uttered with the tongue drawn back in the mouth), etc. To guard against, or correct such faults, is the desire of all right-minded singers and that is why voice culture, training for singing, is desirable. There is a specific, a mode of correction for every one of these faults among resources of voice teaching. Such specific treatment is necessary in the case of one who undertakes voice culture after having formed bad habits by singing without proper guidance on models. But the beginner may be insured against falling into these faults by training his thoughts to conceive correctly the process of singing; and the most important mental prerequisite to a proper-use of the voice is the ability to think music. Berean Baptist Choir is to present Gaul's Holy City and Hiwatha's Wedding Feast by Coleridge Taylor on Tuesday evening, June 22, at Lincoln Center. Olva Jordan, pupil of Mme. Martha B. Anderson, will give a recital at the Wabash Ave. Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon, June 27, at 3 o'clock p. m. DR. J. S. DORSEY HAS MOVED HIS DRUG STORE FROM 27th AND SOUTH DEARBORN STS. to 434 EAST 31st ST. Eight or ten years ago, Dr. J. S. Dorsey started a small drug store on 1st Street near State Street and he has the honor and the distinction of being the first colored druggist in this city to employ a bright young colored woman as a clerk in his drug store which he successfully conducted at that location for some time. Later he sold his drug store and finally bought or started a new store at 27th and South Dearborn Streets, where by close attention to business and by working very hard early and late he succeeded in forcing himself to the front in his line of business. His store was located right across from the Old Olivet Baptist Church, of which he is an active member and one of its leading officers and he made and saved money right off the reel. Several years ago Dr. Dorsey opened a branch drug store on East 31st Street near Vernon Ave., not far away from the Olivet Baptist Church, 31st and South Park Ave., and shortly after the first of May past he closed up his old drug store at 27th and Dearborn Streets and moved his new drug store on 31st Street right on the corner of 31st Street and Vernon Ave, or No. 434 East 31st Street. See ad in another column of this paper, and at the present time Dr. Dorsey has one of the best and most up-to-date drug stores on the South Side and it is doing a rushing business day and night. Lately Dr. Dorsey and his good wife, Mrs. Dorsey, who has been a great help to him during his struggle upward and onward bought a lively home at 3359 Forest Ave. For many years Dr. Dorsey has been a firm or a steadfast supporter of this paper and no one is more over his wonderful success in the drug business than the writer. BACK Mrs. Corn Franks of Lake Forest Ill., is back from a tour of the south where she went to witness the graduating exercises of the schools where her three daughters were attending Alpha Baxter will graduate from Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn., and Laura will finish at Linecoln Institute Kentucky, this month. Alice received the degree of A. B. from Shaw University at Raleigh, N. C., last month. Master Theodore Franks accompanied his mother on the trip. 1 LEGION ASSAILS JUDGE STELE AS NEGRO SHIELDER Judge John Stelk of the Municipal Court was made the target of charges preferred by Woodlawn Post of the American Legion. The post accuses him of "unfairness" in connection with the trial before him of Wiley Gresham, a Negro, charged with annoying women by writing obscene notes. It is urged that he be transferred to some other branch of the court. Chief Justice Harry Olson received the charges. He said he would confer with Judge Stelk, but as the "unfairness" complained of consists of Judge Stelk's exercising his judicial discretion in refusing comparison of handwriting to prove the guilt of Gresham, he doesn't see what he can do about it. In Wrangles Before Judge Stelk during the war clashed with Red Cross drivers, Miss Elizabeth Channon and Mrs. Mary Springer. When the case of the Negro policeman, Dorsey Chambliss, was before him he said he had organized the Pyramid Building and Loan Association for Negroes, and that he had had business dealings with Chambliss, so he asked that the trial be taken to another court. In the complaint filed Capt. Wilbur Rogera of the army quartermaster's depot, Thirty-ninth and Iron streets; R. C. Yardiff, and Merrill Wolf, composing a committee named by Woodlawn post, presented affidavits. Story of Case. Gresham, a soldier who went overseas and won the Croix de Guercre, was employed in the warehouses. When indecent writing and notes to white women appeared, Capt. Rogers called in several persons and got samples of their, writing. Comparison of the samples led him to believe Gresham was guilty and he had him arrested. At the trial Judge Stelk refused to admit the handwriting of Gresham to be compared with that in the notes. He also criticized Capt. Rogers for statements he made to Gresham. Judge Assails Legion. "I don't care. what Judge Olson does about it," Judge Stelk said. "This just shows what the Legion is getting to be. It is trying to dictate to the judges and everybody else. "In this case, when Gresham heard he was under suspicion he asked Capt. Rogers about it and told the captain he wanted to face his accuser. Capt. Rogers told him to 'Get the h—1 out of here,' and also said: 'If you made a request down south to face a white woman who accused you you would be burned at the stake.' "After the jury was discharged at the trial I told Capt. Rogers it was not becoming of him to make such statements as he made to the Negro—a soldier who had been decorated for heroism overseas. The captain came to the bench and apologized for the statement, and said he should not have made it. He went away in a good humor and therefore this action surprises me." DR. H. FRANKLIN BRAY, THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN EVANGELIST. Returned Friday from Springfield, Missouri where he closed a revival meeting last Sunday with two hundred twenty concersions. This marks the closing of this season's work and Dr. Bray will go immediately to his summer cottage at Idlewild, Michigan where he will rest and prepare for the coming season which opens in September. All employees of a certain eastern corporation in its service are examined for physical defects of the lungs, heart, nose and throat, hearing and sight and for hernia, varicose veins, flat feet, kidney and venereal disease. Employees whose defects are slight and in the incipient stage are placed in positions where these conditions will not trouble them or become aggrivated. Those with defects too serious to permit of employment are aided in securing correction of their handicaps, such as the removal of nose and throat obstructions, properly fitted glasses, trusses for hernia and properly made shoes for flat feet, etc. So soon as such defects are corrected, the employees are permitted to start to work; and only those are refused employment who are in such physical condition as to make it impossible for them to be employed without harm to themselves and danger to others. Once an employee is taken on, his health is looked after by the company physician who conducts a health clinic daily to which any employee is entitled to go for consultation and medicine without cost. And in addition, at any time of day men and women trained in first aid work are on duty to give their services when needed. Periodic medical examinations of all employees are made and anyone found suffering from any occupational cause is at once changed to another department where such conditions do not exist. Sickness from such causes is cared for without cost to the employee for a certain time, dependent on the length of service. The assistance given is, aid in admission to a hospital, sanitarium, health resort or any other place advised by the physician; and the payment of a sum of money equal to but not exceeding the average weekly earnings for the six months preceding the sickness. It is of interest to note that the company does not regard this as either charity or welfare work, but simply sound business policy. It has been demonstrated since the plan has been in force that it repays many times the cost of operation, as it keeps men on the job who are trained and efficient and whose services otherwise would be lost. ```markdown ``` Have you encouraged the children about having a little flower garden along with the one you are having for table vegetables? Help them to have a few flowers to tend and care for; they will be healtheir and happier. Try it. Nature is busy just now making the world bright, beautiful and attractive. Clean up your premises, paint up and brighten up and help old nature to beautify the community in which you live. In many industrial plants and work shops the dirty air hazard is far greater than the fire hazard; and work people should not be exposed to either. If human beings lived out of doors all the time, there would be no such thing as problems of ventilation. For under such conditions there would always be a plentiful and unfailing supply of good, fresh air. RETURNS. After attending the National Republi can Convention held in the city during the past week, Atty. Giles R. Jackson of Richmond, Va., has returned to his home pleased with the nomination. M. Able and popular lawyer, who would make an ideal Republican candidate for one of the judges of the Municipal Courts of Chicago. Clothing is needed for the suffering orphans in Armenia, where the people shiver six months in the year. These homeless children want food and medicine, which are being supplied to them by the Near East Relief, through the generosity of the American people, but a special appeal is made at this time for the mobilization of clothing by the people of Illinois through P. J. Byrne, Executive Secretary of the Illinois Near East Relief organization. Mr. Byrne said: "Colonel Jackson, who was with General Harbord on the Military Mission that went to Armenia, said that when he was in the Near East a year ago he was none too warm in his regulation army uniform, with great coat and leather boots, and yet he saw women and girls of delicate breeding in the scantiest of clothing, many of them in rags. This was where the winter climate is as rigorous as that of the American Rockies. "The Near East Relief is one of the two agencies incorporated by act of Congress to conduct relief work in Armenia, Cilicia, Syria and Persia. During June and July the Near East Relief will collect clothing for the thousands of poor, ragged and almost naked refugees in the Near East, who look solely to this organization for the necessities of life. The poor and the formerly well-to-do will have no clothing, unless the American people come to the rescue with what they can spare. The following are wanted by the needy over there: coats, dresses, sweaters, skirts, blankets, petticoats, overcoats, woolen shirts, and scarfs, heavy hose, underwear, wrappers, woolen gloves and mittens, boots, shoes, slippers and children's clothes of every sort. "It is requested that bundles of such clothing be delivered to the minister, a neighborhood church, or the county chairman of the Near East Relief. If sent direct to Chicago, these bundles should be prepaid to the Near East Relief office, 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois." HON. NEWSOME LEAVES. Hon. J. Thomas Newsome of Newport News, Va., left the city for his home after attending the National Republican Convention. Dr. D. A. Ferguson of Richmond, Va., left in company with Hon. Newsome. EN ROUTE TO BOSTON Rev. I. M. Mackey of Jacksonville Ill., will spend the summer in the city with relatives and then go to Boston, Mass., where he will take up his ministerial work. PASSES THROUGH CITY. En route from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Lake Forest, Ill., where she will spend some time with relatives, Mrs. Ida Warren passed through the city during the week. Mrs. Bertha Hensley, $528 Vernon avenue, left Tuesday evening for Joliet, Ill., where she spent several days in attending the sessions of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's auxiliaries connected with it. She served as the State musician for both GEORGE W. BOYD, 3620 S. STATE STREET, STILL LEADS IN SELL- ING THE BROAD AX. For some time past it has been a real live contest between Mr. Dodson, who conducts the shoe shining parlor at the southwest corner of Thirty-fifth and State streets, and George W. Boyd, who runs the news stand and notion store at 3620 S. State street, as to which one sells the largest number of copies of The Broad'Ax each week. But for the past two or three weeks Mr. Boyd has ran clear over every- body in town in selling The Broad Ax, and each Saturday evening he flashes in hurry-up calls for more extra copies of The Broad Ax. VISITORS ENTERTAINED Many out-of-town visitors in the city during convention week were entertained Friday ceevning, June 11, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hooper, 5214 State St., by the E. C. Hooper Waitress Training Club. Interesting remarks were made by Mr. Edw. L Walker of New York, brother of Mrs. Hooper, Mrs. Willa Layton of Philadelphia, president, Women's Department of the National Baptist Convention in., Mr. Edw. Yancy, Miss Allie Schaffer, Mr. M. T. Montgomery of New York; Mrs. Nellie Jones of Arkansas, and Mrs. William H. Harri- "Picture Bride?" The manner of "picture bride" marriages in California is this: A Japanese sends his picture to his relatives in Japan who select a suitable maiden and in turn forward her photograph to the waiting suitor in America. If satisfactory, the relatives on both sides meet, hold a banquet and the marriage is considered a fact. The wife then joins her husband in this country. His Idea of Train's Action. His idea of Train's Action. There is a story of a Suffolk (England) yokel who, having lived some distance from a railway station, and being content with the society around him, had never had need of a train, and, being brought into contact with a railway, stood watching this new wonder not far from a tunnel. His description of it afterward was that a train was more or less like a rabbit—"he ran up to the hole, let off an awful screech and boiled into it." When Man Weighs Nothing When Man Weighs Nothing. Prof. Edward V. Huntington of Harvard university showed by an elaborate mass of figures printed in Science that a man on a train moving along the equator westward at 18,700 miles an hour, or eastward at 18,700 miles an hour would weigh nothing, as measured by an observer on the train. Italian "City of Crime." The only town in the world which can boast of possessing more criminals than law-abiding folk is the Italian city of Artena, which is known as the City of Crime. For several hundred years nearly every criminal who has escaped prison or done time in Italy has emigrated to Artena, and today practically every inhabitant of the place is a criminal or the child of a criminal. Still Hope. Betty was talking with her mother about her little brother, and her mother said: "Betty, isn't it funny, Stuart and daddy have blue dyes, while you and I have green eyes?" Betty, thinking deeply, finally said: "Never mind, mother owl will get ripe some time." THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JUNE 19. 1920. Alwaye the Silver Lining. We'll admit that the future of the so-called civilized world unfolds no radiant prospect to the vision of the student. Still, the sky can never become so black, but that a 60-pound watermelon will spray the frowning archway with rainbows and spangle the horizons with flashes of gold—Houston Post. Trees Valuable to Farmer The value of trees on a farm can hardly be overestimated. A principle laid down by wise observers is that 5 per cent of all areas of plains and prairie states should be put into trees. The forest waters the farm. This is a patent fact in all regions where irrigation is practiced; it is not less true in all the rest of the country. Fans In History. In India the fan is most common and there are servants that do nothing else but follow their masters about with a punkah, a kind of large screen, with which they attempt to cool the atmosphere. In the early ages there were 'ecclesiastical fans, used to keep the files from the sacred bread and wine and when the pope of Rome goes forth in state large feather fans are carried, but are not used in the mass as they were in the Middle ages. Dreaming of Old Age To dream of old age is a sign of coming good news. To see an old man is a sign of love for the young dreamer, a sign of success for the mature person. To see an old woman in one's dream foretells an immediate pleasant surprise.—Chicago Herald and Examiner. Alfalfa. Alfalfa receives its name from an old Arab word which means in English "the best kind of fodder." The plant looks something like clover and grows very rapidly. In fact it grows so quickly that three or four crops can be harvested during the summer. Taking Chinese Census. The inhabitants of China are counted every year in a curious manner. The eldest master of every ten houses has to count the families and make a list, which is sent to the imperial taxhouse. Actions That Count Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air until it eclipses the sun and the moon.—Emerson. Incas' Marvelous Dye Garments of the Incas, dyed with indigo before Columbus discovered America, have been found in ancient tombs in Peru, according to Doctors M. A. Wesquez and A. Maldonado of Lima. The blue dye has not even begun to fade. Muff and Mutt Of course there are others, but one kind of a simp is the girl who carries a muff in the summer and marries a muff in the winter.—Dallas News. Avoid Collisions. Don't collide with anything. The man at the helm must know how to steer away from obstructions and avoid shoals if he would successfully make the ports and havens adown the streamway of life.—Humphrey J. Desmond. Hanged for Not Drinking. An old English story tells of "the saddler of Bawtry who was hanged for leaving his ale." It arises from the story that on the way to the gibbet where Bawtry malefactors explated their crimes it was the custom to halt the procession at one spot, and give the criminal a farewell drink of beer. A saddler, marked for death, contemptuously refused the proffered draught and was promptly hanged. By just as many minutes later as he had declined to daily a breathless horseman arrived with a reprieve! · Blight Mistake. Absent minded professor (halfway through the service)—I thought there was something wrong. This is not the girl I want to marry.—From "Karkaturen," Christiana, Norway. Curious Sea Charts A sea chart made of sticks and shells forms one of the curious exhibits to be seen in the South Sea Island hall of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. They were formerly used as guides by the skillful and daring navigators of the Marshal islands. Quite Sure of It. "Do you believe that the thoughts of a husband and wife become identical?" asked Bounder, "I do." answered Jaggaby. "For example, my wife is waiting for me now, and she knows just what she is going to say to me, and so do I."—Brooklyn Citizen. Spencer Popular in America. Herbert Spencer, the great philosopher, was more popular in America during his life than in England. When Spencer visited the United States, in 1882, his fame and influence were so securely established that one admirer offered to pay all the expenses incurred by the philosopher on his trip, and heads of railways offered him the most luxurious traveling facilities, while other friends vied with one another to make the tour comfortable, interesting and instructing. Formatting Enlitrated seasoning Passionate Makes a great dress for two boards at a table or a dance and clinched into the second board by an English teacher's hormonal machine. The Earth's Crust. Interesting facts concerning the earth's crust were disclosed by Col. Sir Sidney Burrard recently, "Isostasy" is the particular science which deals with the structure of the earth, and Sir Sidney told how all mountains and heights standing above the sea level are compensated by deficiencies of matter underlying them below sea level, and that all oceans and surface hollows dipping below sea level are compensated by excesses of matter underlying them in the crust. Naturalists employ an ingenious method in order to preserve the web of the spider. The webs are first sprayed with a thin solution of artists' shellac and then, if of the ordinary geometric form, they are pressed carefully against a glass plate, the supporting threads of the web being severed. After the shellac solution has dried the plates carrying the webs are stored in a cabinet for later use in scientific work. The Continents. Modern usage recognizes four continents—Eurasia, Africa, North America and South America—and is divided as regards Australia, which is variously styled a continent and a continental island. The title, Antarctic continent, is sometimes given to a great body of land supposed to occupy the south polar region. Formerly Europe and Asia were accounted as two continents. Something Like Cold! A commercial traveler gives a terrible account of the intense cold in Sweden: "In Haparanda, the day before I left, I attended a performance at the theater. It was a tragedy. Everybody wept; but it was so cold that the tears of the spectators in the gallery fell like halistone among the occupants of the stalls." Precursor of the Piano. The harpsichord, comparatively modern, represented an attempt to construct a horizontal harp that was played upon by means of oblong wooden keys called "jacks." Our piano is a modified and improved harpsichord, invented in 1711 by Bartolomeo Cristofalo of Padua. Ancient Musical Instrument It seems not unlikely that the earliest form of the harp was the instrument we call a lyre. The latter was possibly the first of all stringed instruments. One finds it represented on the monuments of ancient Egypt and, though so long obsolete, it often appears in modern architecture as a decoration. "The Three Kings of Cologne." This refers to the three wise men of the East who followed the star to the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Their names are usually given as Malthazar, Gaspar and Melichor. Their bones are supposed to be preserved in the cathedral of Colgate. Admiration Goes Out to Him We may say a fellow shows bad taste in devoting his life to painting or sculptoring, but at the same time most of us have a sneaking admiration for the one who can naturally do things we can't. Don't Be Too Curious. A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity—Pope. Leading Question: "My wife is practicing with dumb-bells," proudly exclaimed a would-be athlete. "Do you find them any softer than the flatirons?" queried a wag who overheard the remark. Where Women Equal Men. In Italy women teachers, school inspectors and employees in the administration of antiquities and fine arts receive the same pay as their male colleagues. "Safety First" Better Known Today "safety first" is one of the most common expressions in the English language. Every one knows what it means and the principles it stands for. Daily Thought As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.—Hosea Balfour. When Swallows Fly Low It is a sign of rain when swallows fly low. When the atmosphere gets surcharged with moisture all insects make for shelter and come to earth. As the swallow hawks for insects on the wing it naturally files low in search of its prey. When Sleep Will Not Come. Don't hate the world and kick all night because you don't happen to go to sleep. It damages your own nervous system, and any tender regard in which your roommate may have held you. Anger eats up energy and is responsible for next morning's very unpleasant day-after feeling. The lack of sleep mattered not at all. If instead of thrashing about viciously you had curled up cozily and day-dreamed, your night might have been salvaged, all might have been well. Exchange. Many reasons for insomnia. Whenever sleep becomes coy and must be wooed it is a sign that something has gone amiss and must be remedied. To obtain sleep then becomes a search for a complex mental, emotional or physical thorn in the side. Loss of sleep may be due to some physical thorn such as an overburdened intestine or stomach, an abscessed tooth root, thickened tonsil, a skin irritated or cold, or an infection in some hidden, walled-off area of the anatomy. Equally as often some unconscious memory or financial reverses or difficulties, domestic complications or some other work banishes sleep. Carlshad Always in Danger. Carlshad, the famous health resort, is built on a crust, underneath which is a subterranean lake of boiling water, and all the hot sulphur springs have to be ceaselessly watched and the pressure kept down lest the town be destroyed. ARMY MAN FACES CHARGES FOR HIS ATTACK ON STELK. Negro and Obscene Notes in Case. Charges of conduct unbecoming to an officer and a gentleman against Capt. Wilbur Rogers, Q. M. C., U. S. A., have been forwarded to Washington, D. C., by Louis E. Johnson, an attorney. Capt. Rogers, in behalf of Woodlawn post of the American legion, recently demanded an investigation of Judge John Stelk of the Municipal Court after the judge had refused to admit handwriting as evidence against Wiley Gresham, colored, who was charged with writing obscene notes to white women. Attorney Johnson represented the Negro at the hearing. A Question of Law. According to Johnson, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that handwriting cannot be introduced in a trial for the purpose of comparison. In this instance, Johnson says, samples of handwriting were taken of all men, white and colored, employed in the warehouse, by order of Capt. Rogers, in an effort to fix the blame. "The court ruled correctly," Johnson declared. "It stated at the time that if Capt. Rogers brought a specimen of Gresham's writing into court he should also have brought those of the other men examined." Informed of the charges, Capt. Roggers made the following statement: "If the war department pays any attention to them I will be notified officially in due time." The Modern Mra. Malaprop. A Washington newspaper correspondent tells of a Mrs. Malaprop who once amused the capital with her mistakes. She went around asking people to sign a "red robin" (meaning a round robin); spoke of her trip through the "Valley of Gethsemane" when she meant the Yosemite; and said, "Tve been in the mountains, and, do you know; I jumped from rock to rock just like a shamrock!"—From the Outlook. Hair For the Bald. A French surgeon of the Pasteur Institute claims to have discovered a process by which he can graft hair to the scalp and so make the heads of the bald to blossom like the Seven Sutherland Sisters. He declares that he has already positively and permanently cured six bachelors of baldness through a slight surgical operation which is painless and leaves no ill effects. Greenland Source of Icebergs The source of practically all the icebergs of the arctic and sub-arctic regions is Greenland. Owing to the northward set of the West Greenland current the bergs of this side are carried first to the north and it is only at about the seventy-fourth or seventy-fifth parallel of latitude that they begin to make their way westward to come down on the American side. Had Many Sleeping Places The average man probably sleeps in 100 beds or so during a long lifetime. A veteran commercial traveler whose home is in New York, can afford to smile at this record, for, he says, "I calculate that I have slept in at least 8,000 beds during my forty-odd years on the road, and I have slept well in them all." Human Stepping Stones There are said to be many "Haleighs" in China. When a Chinese lady comes to a muddy place in the road she usually gets over it by employing a human stepping Stone. Beckoning a boy she gives him a small coin, in return for which he drops on his hands and knees in the mud for her to step over. Beetles' Blood for Warts Dr. E. Escomel describes in Anales de la Facultad de Medicina (Lima, Peru) certain psuedo beetles the blood of which has from time immemorial been used by the natives for curing warts. Under it these growths turn white, as if cauterized by an acid. Daily Thought Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.-Emerson. About Ideal Small Boy. There is something that always makes me feel good—that is a red-haired, freckle-faced little boy that can whip all in his gang and at the same time is not a bully—Exchange. High-Sounding Titles Chinese emperors are never mentioned by name from the moment of their accession, and are generally alluded to by some such title as "Lord of a Myriad Years," or "The Son of Heaven." Picturesquely Put Disgusted cop (at crossing)—Some chauffer, you are! Say, If you were crossing the Sahara desert you'd run into a hydrant—Boston Transcript. Queer Old-Time Signals. Queer Old-Time Signals. On the first railways a candle stuck in a station window meant "stop"; its absence was a signal to go on. Signs of Consumption. What are the early symptoms? The patient may have neither cough nor expectoration. He feels tired in the afternoon, and wakes tired in the morning. His appetite is poor, and he begins to lose weight or to stop growing. He is easily exhausted after exercise. Anyone who notices these symptoms in himself should consult a doctor. In any family, rich or poor, in which one member is known to have consumption, all the others should be examined by specialists. [Name] MR. WILLIAM G. ANDERSON. Prominent member of the Odd Fellows, Knight and the Elks, who was lately elected one of the Great Lake Lodge No. 43, and who will attend of the Elks at Kansas City, Mo., in August. Prominent member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Elks, who was lately elected one of the trustees of Great Lake Lodge No. 43, and who will attend the meeting of the Elks at Kansas City, Mo., in August. Remember the Small Things. It is easy to talk glibly of serving humanity and to forget to pass the salt to the man who sits next us at table, to think of placing our lives at a world's disposal and neglect the small attentions which mean so much to our own home.—Henry Sloane Coffin. Atmosphere Above Earth's Surface. The atmosphere is believed to extend much more than 100 miles above the earth's surface. Its density decreases rapidly for the first few miles of ascent, then much more gradually. From the phenomena of twilight, due to refraction of light, it may be demonstrated that the air extends To Restore Faded Ink When the ink of old documents has faded and it is desired to restore it, this can be done by washing with any of the substances that blacken on mixing with iron—infusion of nutgalls, sodium-sulphide, or acetic ferro-cyanide of potassium, for instance. Why She Would Change Faith. Mary Jane is a member of the Episcopal Sunday school. One Sunday when she came home she told her mother she thought she'd like to change churches, as their's was so hard on white stockings. How to Test Set Diamond. A set diamond may be tested by placing wax on its back. The luster of a true gem will not be affected by this operation, while the spurious brilliancy of paste imitations will be totally destroyed by it. S-ah! Keep It Dark! At a recent bar examination a candidate defined law as follows: "Law is the means by which we acquire legal possession of property belonging to another."-Boston Transcript. Vain Acquisition. "Some men gets a heap of education." remarked an old colored philosopher, "just as some people gets a whole lot of bait without ketchin" any fish-"Boston Transcript. The Worthy Citizen. He who possesses worth and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.—Dhama-mapada. "Mapping" the Air. The greatest discovery yet made in exploring the air is that the atmosphere consists of two layers, the lower extending from sea level up to 10,000 meters, in which there is a steady fall of temperature with elevation. This is called the troposphere. Above this there is no fall, and up to 20,000 meters a slight rise. The upper layer is known as the stratosphere. It is actually possible today for an airplane to rise from the ground to the bottom of the stratosphere, say about six miles, in one hour. If we want to explore somewhat higher, say 20 miles, we install light instruments on a sounding balloon. Queen Little Isle The smallest dependency of France is the Ile d'Hoedcle, situated at the east of Bella Isle. Its population is 288. They do not speak French, but Celtic. They are provided with food at an inn managed by the women. The town has no streets. Counting Has a Limit in China. Ten thousand is the largest number in the Chinese language. Therefore all large sums must be stated in multiples of this figure—the population of the country is four times 10,000 times 10,000, or 400 million.—Asia Magazine. Economy. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow—has anybody ever seen it? Will anybody ever return with it? Economy may mean the difference between living in a poor house and supporting one. New Use for Airplane Engine A London factory owner believes himself the first to use an airplane engine as an ordinary power unit. Only a small part of the rated horse power is used. Added Percentages Added Percentages. A 50 per cent increase for an article that costs $1 would make it cost $1.50. But for the article that has doubled in price the new price is 200 per cent of the old. Giving Her Fair Warning. John had just been reprimanded by his mother for something he had done, when he went into the bedroom where his new little baby sister was lying in her crib. His mother overheard him say: "Sister, you ought to go back where you came from; you can't do anything you want to do here." Economy. odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias elected one of the trustees of who will attend the meeting , in August. Atmosphere Above Earth's Surface. The atmosphere is believed to extend much more than 100 miles above the earth's surface. Its density decreases rapidly for the first few miles of ascent, then much more gradually. From the phenomena of twilight, due to refraction of light, it may be demonstrated that the air extends up to a height of 45 miles; but other phenomena, such as the behavior of meteors and the aurora, show that rare air exists at a much greater height. The time seems to be coming when those who indulge in luxury and show will be regarded with quite as much suspicion and contempt as was formerly directed toward those who haunted the doors of chicken coops after dark.—Utica Observer. You should get the new songs Composed by Marion Reeder Adams. "Love's Waiting," a beautiful, pathetic ballad, and "Only One Word" (Love), a brilliant waltz song. ASK YOUR MUSIC DEALER. No Chances at All for Joy. Junior had spent several weeks one summer visiting a favorite aunt who lived in the suburbs, and he was reminiscent of those happy weeks when he again paid her a visit. However, she had moved, and now lives in a flat. When junior came home he voiced his grievance to his father, saying: "There wasn't no room to move around in; why, they didn't even have any kids in that building to fight with!" Let's All Be Thrifty! We can all put a little of our idle money into a Savings Account each pay day, where it will work for us while it grows to a large sum by our habit of thrift in depositing a given sum regularly. Let the Illinois Trust be your selection. BANKING HOURS FOR SAVINGS DEPOSITS. 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Saturdays 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BAN" La Salle & Jackson ... Chicago Life's Real Meaning. As the sun rises every soul is born again, and the new day gives us a chance to begin all over again. We can do and be what we will to do and be for the entire day. We can make it a red-letter day if we try hard enough. This is the way of growth. And if life does not mean growth, enlargement to us, then we have missed its higher meaning—Orison Swett Marden in Chicago Daily News. On the Way. “ “FOR SALE ae ie Pa eit Houses, Apartments, Buildings and Stores’ For Rent and For Sale pple a a i see | Wf Were is anything you need in the Real Estate line on the South “Side, call or consult Mr. Binga for Real Bargains. Southeast Corer 36th Place and State Street, Chicago The Gas Company’s Ranges arg all,ceetully elected sad adnan for nse with CMeago > ~ Ranges Water Heaters Room Heaters é Washers and Ironers Large variety of styles and sizes to meet all requirements. Seen apetilly pitced ie cats semaee? sale = Deeeas Pay ments. % - rave overput » Aluminum ‘Cooking Utensile . and’ “Pyrex” Redes Fics weunie tarkawote oe tach. beste special purpose. ‘This means kitchen comfort, economy. and cooking success. . | NEIGHBORHOOD STORES: nr'w Serene st wert Lente Renew. eae ee ee ee | a eee Exhibition Hall and Rest Room Sxi=.'Szat TELEPHONE WABASH 6000 ‘GEORGE F. HARDING, JR. REAL ESTATE! — Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments Se ee . ‘8101 COTTAGE GROVE ,AVE. ‘~~ Corner 31st Street, Chicago a ‘Central S8sz Restbence Douglas 2sit Mrs. Warner _ Painless*Chiropody 15 Years’ Experiesive Opposite Palmer House 120 So, State Street. CHICAGO a SR EE Phones Douglas 6302 and Dougias 653 Nights call Douglas 7078 J. S: DORSEY Reliable Pull: Line of Fresh Drugs and Toilet ‘ ‘With Accuracy. 434 East Sist Street Chicago, TL Grades of Witches. In the olden times there were three classes of witches. The biack witch | ‘was a barmfu! affair,.and the white Witch was a helpful spirit. Then there was the-gray witch who was some. times harmfui and sometimes helpful. Indictments. against persons accused of witcheraft had to state the com- ‘Dlexion of the spirit that hewitrhad ‘Valuable Fat in Alligator Pear. Among the fruits used for food, the ese a] high ax 20 per cent, or about the same | 2s that of common cream, states an ' articie-im- Popular Mechanics Maga- 1 mine. . It has been found that the hu- man system assimilates this fat very | Teadily up to as great a quantity as . four and # half ounces 2 day. \ TELEPHONE | GEORGE F. H. Up-to-Date or Modern : and Stores (3101 COTTAGE “~~ Corner 31st Str FROM THIS DATE ONWARD, | ‘THE BROAD AK CAN ALWAYS| Ci BE POUND ON SALE AT THE| E: RPOLLOWING NEWS STANDS:| Edward Felix, Notions, Cigars and| < News Stand,.3002 S. Dearborn street. Se George Ws. Boyd, “News Stand,| © Landry “ Office and Shoe Shining} ‘Parlors, 3620S. State treet —__ Mra L Myers, Notion Store Laundry Office and News Stand, $012] — S State stmet Ee ee Ee Sap eter so ey | pe ee » hear Si er eF eS Same ee ES lie Mane eT, oe Willing Wi ole Serene io ee pein OS Aaa 5, pie ee ee eS pinot eos se ‘Spider's Sitk. y Experiments are in progress In Mad- agascar as a result of which it % hoped that a fine silk may be pro- ‘@uced from spiders’ webs. According to recent reports, excellent progress has been made by those In charge of the tests. The thread produced by spiders is declared to be finer in qual- ity, stronger, and more beautifully col- red than that obtained from silk worms, 3 Loss by Storing Pulpwood. It has been found by observations made at a sulphate pulp mill that Pulpwood kept in storage from two to three years yields, on the average, 28 er cent Jess pulp than wood used when it Is green, says Popular Me- chanics Magazine. Pulpwood stored even one year loses 14 per cent of Mts value in pulp production. Deuble Affection Hisie was proud and much excite: over a. pair of new shoes and while calling pn @ friend could think aad talk of nothing else. To get her in- terested in something else, the wom- an at whose home she was visiting tried to take her up to an elephant made of teakwood, about 2 foot high, looking rather real. Baby was much ‘afraid at first, but went nearer trem- ‘bling as she went along, Finally she ut ber little hand on his head and, finding him harmless, put both arms around him and cried out in astonish- ment and Joy: “He lores me—be loves ‘my shoes” Be Music of the Shepherds. , ‘In the stillness of the night, what ‘more besutiful or soul-elevating than the, mournful music of a flute? It was. this instrament which the shep- herds.of Bethlehem were playing that. memorable night, when the angels in- terrupted.to announce to them the: Dirth of the Savior. / ‘A. D. Hayes. Cigars, Tobacco, No- 56M S. Siste street £ — “ ~Dodsoa's Shoe Shining Parlors and| ‘News Stand | sprmer 35th’ Fath ose ae qo Meme felt with asty of the]! EMR rd oi 8: Sher oes irs ee ee A. D. GASE- ATTORNDY aT Law 118} N. La Salle Street CHICAGO 5029 Wabash Ave, Soulovard 152 JAMES G. COTTER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 46 NORTH CLARK STREET . surre <7 Telephone Central 5284 ‘CHICAGO Formerty Assistant Attomey Genera! State of Mtinete a Res. 3646 Grand Boul, Doug. 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 6-17 Phone: Douglas 6351 CHICAGO | F. Duna, J. B. MeCahey, ‘Trustess ‘Tel: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1580 JOHN J. DUNN Batablished 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL Fifty-First and Federal Strests CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macalister Places Tel. Menree 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 818-320 REAPER BLE ‘Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4751 Champlain Avenue. MPs Keerecd seit Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUN- SELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St CHICAGO Residence 2419 South Park Ave. Phone Douglas 9354 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW (Ofice Phone: Calumet 875 2 RAST THIRTY.FIRST ST. Suite 7 CHICAGO Aesidence 3855 Prairie Ave. Phone Dougias 9153 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 22-295 A. L.-WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSBLOR' AT LAW Baite 706 Firmenich Baliding vot W. Washington Strect caIcaco ee | E, K. CALDWELL ‘Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST $051 Bouth State Strest Near Fist St ‘Net On the Corner. CHICAGO a ee EXELENTO an | esas — THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 18, 1920. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $300,000.00 1610 West 63rd Street Chicago COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS FOR LAST SEVEN YEARS November 18, 1912.......$ 836,605.23 November 17, 1913....... 988,386.38 November 17, 1914....... 912,005.69 November 17, 1915....... 1,059,400.64 November 17, 1916....... 1,132,750.71 November 17, 1917....... 979,377.47 November 18, 1919....... 1,284,084.24 November 17, 1919....... 2,359,636.62 OFFICERS JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant Cashier - ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. | oe || Largest Labor Organization of Negroes in the World “Every Craft of Raiiroed Work Represeated OVER 20,000 MEMBERS OVER 150 LOCALS OVER SIX YEARS OLD This association has done more for the railroad man of color than alll other labor agencies combined. ASK THE MEN WHO KNOW ‘Now housed in the magnificent home formerly used by the Appomattox Club—recently ‘purchased as our headquar- Railway Men’s International Benevolent. Industrial Association General Headquarters, 3441 (Wabash Ave. - Appemattor Clab CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. 8. GEO.T.KERSEY D.A.McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. F awe ~ meee | Sal ba Pa Sl ce re ee ean ie : eee | —_ Eee Woe ba oma Eee bees ret —— Ps cae \ a a > ted [See > tr See oa) - ey! : “ aa CD f a fs gees = Ls em} 2 cA ‘ar ‘ gee es ee 7 ee ee SSS SS tac racemes RgeeteaG adds at te cing) Olek tne-ally bog ose haen es bo - ave Ve = a} Litetime in Weaving 2 Shawt. ‘The Metropolitan museum of New York has a rare Persian shawl sald to de 165 yenrs old. ‘The shaw! ig 11 feet by 4 feet, worked in long flowing de signs of the palm leat and the River of Life, with the stories of the ‘mosques, ‘The predominating colors ‘tre mellowed garnets and brown, with sitervating sheens of steel gray and Tusty brown. .An expert to whom the shawl was shown said Its makeup prob- ably represented the lifetime of the weavers. “Brisk Water When Tired, Dr. Eliza B, Mosher of ‘Brooklyn ‘Urged the members of the Women's ‘Medical society of New York state to ‘@rink 2 glass of water at 10 a. m. and others at 8 4 and 5 p.m. This, sbe told them, would dilute the products of fatigue which were entering the dlood and causing that tired feeling. Jn np ete feet Gant pion Cpe s carlier in Norway than In the south of Borope, an advantage due to the long days and short nights of the summer 1m the north. Moon's Time for Sitep. A little girl of three, seeing a cloud of smoke enveloping the moon, sald, “auntie, the moon is going to sleep Bow ; see ‘em pulling the sheet up over wr ' ‘To Enlighten the Passenger. A coln in a slot machine has been Invented by an Englishman to enable “a passenger to learn at what speed he is traveling in a train, Napoleon's Marshals Napoleon bed ten marshals. They were Ney, Massena, Bernadotte, Mar mont, Murat, Davout, Soult, Bessiever, Angercan and Lanoes. Ss. ~ Phone Douglas 8629 The Mission Billiard hall GEO. W. HOLT, Propr. — $804 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. iJAMES H. RYAN & CO. WReal Estate, Renting Loans, Insurance 244 SO. ASHLAND AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. Cut out this Subscription Blank and Mail it to « THE BROAD Ax $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS. 6206 S. Elizabeth St, Chicago, Il. $200 PER YEAR JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD AX. I enclose herewith Two Dollars, the annual subscription to same, or One Dollar for six months. a F a | The Cranford Apartment Bldg. 3600 WABASH AVENUE The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. “: Steam heat, electric lights, tile beths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington Si. New Zealand. Discovery of the island of New Zea- | land is attributed to Tasman in 1642, but exploration did not take place un- til the time of Capt. James Cook, 150 years later, while colonization was delayed until 20 years before the Amer- jean Civil war. Colonization resem- bled the settlement of the Amer- fean colonies in that settlements were ‘made in half a dozen places instead of ‘being promoted from a central base, According to the usual British method, After Studying the Sparrow. We spend considerable time observ tng the English sparrows and study- ing their character and have ‘about reached. the conclusion that,. even if that well meaning but misguided Brit- ish cousin had had sense enough not to bring them over, they would have got here somehow anyway—Ohio State Journal: ! ee Harvesting by Machinery. ‘The beginning of practical methods in the direction of harvesting by ma- chinery was not made until 1881, Nature’s Busy Workers, In the great office of nature there are innumerable departments with endless work going on, and the fine flower that you behold there, gaudiiy attired and scented like a dandy, is by ‘no means what It appears to be. but rather is like a laborer toiling in the ‘sun and shower, who has to submit 4 clear account of bis work and has no breathing space to enjoy himseit ioe Playful frotic. Powerful Home Influen-. ‘The blessed influences that radiate from a home well ordered and happy are countless and far-reaching: the wm. selfish love there kindled. and nour. shed shines forth as n beacon light to encourage the world's hopes and faith in humanity.—Madem Willant. —$$__ 2 a | ‘The phrase originated at the time when people ate thelr food off trench. ers. These were usually clean white wood, probably maple, and were often hollow on both sides, so that meat could be served on one side and pud- ing on the other.