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The City Council of Chicago Has Passed A Resolution Appropriating Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, to Be Expended by the Chief of Police in Detecting or Running Down the Gentlemen Who in the Past, Experienced Much Pleasure in Bombing the Homes of White and Colored People Residing in All Parts of This City SINGLE HANDED AND ALONE THE BROAD AX SCORED A GREAT VICTORY IN THAT DIRECTION, FOR IT WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THIS CITY TO STIR OR ROUSE UP THE CITY FATHERS TO THE POINT WHERE THEY WERE WILLING TO TAKE A BOLD STEP FORWARD IN THAT DIRECTION. ALDERMAN LOUIS B. ANDERSON AND ALDERMAN ROBERT R. JACKSON SECURED THE PASSAGE OF THE RESOLUTION, AND IN DUE TIME THE FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL HATCH UP THE TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. VOL. XXVI The Cit Appropriate Police SINGLE HANDED AND SCORED A GREAT VICTORY FOR IT WAS THE FIRST IN THIS CITY TO STIR FATHERS TO THE POINT WILLING TO TAKE A THAT DIRECTION. ALDERMAN LOUIS B. AND ROBERT R. JACKSON S. THE RESOLUTION, A FINANCE COMMITTEE, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND April 30, in commenting in these columns, on the bombing of the building at 3818 Grand Boulevard, which was used as the nurses quarters connected with the Fort Dearborn Hospital; it was suggested at that time among other things, that Alderman Louis B. Anderson, as the floor leader of Mayor Thompson in the City Council, should introduce and secure the passage of a resolution, calling for and setting aside, fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars, the money to be expended some way or other, in an attempt to apprehend the bombers in this city. Almost three weeks after that suggestion on our part, Alderman Anderson, and the city fathers, permitted themselves to be guided by our advice or wisdom and the following resolution was passed at its last regular meeting: "Whereas during the past year there have been committed a number of crimes which have taken the form of bombing residences and business places throughout the City of Chicago, and "Whereas the throwing of bombs have in many cases endangered the lives of occupants of the homes and business places affected, and in two instances caused the loss of lives of persons residing in the places bombed, and, "Whereas the efforts made to ferret out and apprehend the perpetrators of these crimes have necessarily been limited because of the fact that the Police Department is hampered by reason of lack of funds to make the proper investigation and to procure the necessary evidence in order to ascertain who the real culprits are, or who are responsible for the unlawful acts in question, and, "Whereas this heinous crime is to CONGRESSMAN MARTIN B. MADDEN DEFENDS THE PAST RECORD OF THE COLORED TROOPS IN THE WORLD WAR FOR DEMOCRACY. Washington, D. C.-Recently in the U. S. House of Representatives, Honorable Martin B. Madden of Illinois spoke with particular reference to certain statements which have been made derogatory to the services of colored troops abroad. Mr. Madden, through a sense of fair-play, insisted that certain correspondence he had received from Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary-Treasurer, Howard University, together with other letters and newspaper reports which clearly and definitely controverted the charges made against colored troops should be entered in the Congressional Record as an offset to the propaganda which has been under way for some months to discredit not only the record of colored American troops abroad but the record of French colonial troops in the occupied area as well. Dr. Scott assembled a formidable array of documents to controvert this German propaganda in America including a letter written by Ambassador Jusserand of the French Republic to Mr. Henry E. Parker, of the Howard Park Citizens' Association, Washington, D. C., in which M. Jusserand states that the allegations constantly and persistently spread by German propaganda against our colored troops are absolutely unfounded; that their behavior does not justify in the least the scurrilous accusations freely THE BROAD AX an alarming degree causing great apprehension for the lives and property of the citizens of Chicago thus rendering, especially in certain localities, the peaceful occupation of homes and business of the citizens residing therein hazardous and unsafe, and. "Whereas the apparent ease with which the culprits have been able to execute their criminal acts of bombing without detection or apprehension has caused them to feel a certain sense of security in the commission of these crimes. "Therefore be it resolved that the City Council Committee on Finance be and it is hereby directed to set up as a separate appropriation the sum of $25,000 to be expended by the General Superintendent of the Police in a thorough investigation of the crime of bombing throughout the City of Chicago. "Be it further resolved, that the General Superintendent of Police be and he is directed to use said appropriation in such manner as he may see fit in the end that the perpetrators of these crimes be located and apprehended and that the evidence thus obtained be delivered to the State's Attorney for prosecution of the guilty individuals, organizations, or societies, directly or indirectly found to be responsible for the cowardly crime of bombing." Each Saturday for three weeks prior to the passage of the above resolution we would deposit a copy of this paper in the mail box of each of the seventy aldermen containing our red hot articles against the bombers and all the city fathers had fully made up their minds to vote in favor of the resolution and we are beginning to feel that after all that something will be done to check bombing in Chicago. launched against them in sheets sent here from Germany, ready printed and in enormous quantities, for distribution all over the country. The correspondence also contained clippings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Associated Press dispatches, and correspondence between Senator Selden P. Spencer of Missouri, and former Secretary of State Colby. "Under all the circumstances," Dr Scott said in his letter to Congressman Madden, "it must be clearly evident that a grave injustice has been done these French colonial troops who fought so bravely against the Teutonic enemies during the world conflict. Their services were then regarded at face value. They helped to save the precious jewel of liberty for all the world. They proved to be troops not afraid of Germany's best and most seasoned veterans. It seems particularly malignant under the circumstances not to have in the Congressional Record the above statements, which correct the very unfair—to use no more vigorous language—propaganda which has been circulated against them in this country. I refer to the matter as a colored American, because propaganda reflections of the same character were quite generally circulated about colored American troops who served in France. The libels in that case were finally and effectively disposed of, as they have been in the case mentioned above." Congressman Madden has again won the whole-souled approval of colored Americans for his courageous action in combating prejudice against our colored troops. His remarks have been reprinted in pamphlet form and are being very widely distributed. CHICAGO, ILL., SAT URDAY, MAY 21, 1921 [Name] First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; the Thompson Republican Candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Whose Thousands of Loyal Friends Look Upon Him as a Dead Sure Winner, Monday, June 6. Hon. James W. Breen, the First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, the Thompson Republican candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County was born in this great city August 31, 1873, receiving his early education in its public schools from which he in time graduated with all the honors due him. At the end of that period he attended the Bryant & Stratton Business College and the old Chicago Athenaeum where he completed his commercial education. Later on in life he graduated with the highest honors from the Law Department of the Lake Forest University, and he was admitted to the Chicago Bar and the Illinois Bar in 1897, and a short time after that date he received his commission to practice in the United States Supreme Court at Washington, D. C. It must be said to the everlasting BILLS INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COLORED Representative Dyer 'Urges Federal Intervention Against "Mob Rule." Washington, D. C.-Another far-reaching cry against the despicable lynching activities of the country was heard at the first session of the 67th Congress, when Representative Dyer introduced a bill "To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every state the equal protection of the laws and to punish the crime of lynching." The bill provides that every person participating in the mob by which another is put to death shall be guilty of murder and upon conviction be punished according to law. It also provides that any county or counties through which lynched man may have passed just prior to lynch-in shall be forced to pay jointly a forfeiture of $10,000 to the family of the deceased, or for the use of the United States. Any officer, having the prisoner in charge, who is found guilty of heglect in the discharge of his duty, shall be punished by imprisonment, not to exceed five years, or by a fine not over $5,000, or both. The bill was turned over to the Committee on the Judiciary. HON. JAMES W. BREEN credit of Mr. Breen that right from the very start he met with great success in the practice of his chosen profession and for many years he has been one of the popular members of the Chicago Bar Association. From 1907 to 1911 he served with honor to himself and to the citizens of Chicago as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, under the late Mayor Fred A. Busse. In 1915 Mayor William Hale Thompson selected Mr. Breen as Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, and near the first of the present year he was chosen First Assistant Corporation Counsel and he is more than making good in that responsible and important position and continues to reflect great credit upon himself and upon the administration of Mayor Thompson. Less than two years ago Mr. Breen who was always considered one o $5,000 FINE FOR ENFORCEMENT OF "JIM CROW" LAW IN SOUTH, AIM OF REP. MADDEN. Washington, D. C.-As a sign of the activities of the 67th Congress, Representative Martin B. Madden has introduced the following amendment to the act approved February 4, 1887, entitled "An Act to regulate commerce," by providing for equal and identical rights, accommodations and privileges for all persons applying for interstate transportation, and prohibiting discrimination on account of race, color or previous conditions of servitude, and for other purposes. This amendment, if adopted, will deal a death blow to the "Jim Crow" law as practiced in the southern states. The amendment is being given close attention and spirited action is looked for when the bill comes out. Violation of the act shall mean that the owner or owners of the line shall be subject to a fine of $5,000, to be recovered in a United States court, to the use of each person aggrieved by such violation, together with costs and reasonable counsel fees, and all other persons guilty of such violation shall be fined $1,000, or imprisoned in a Federal prison for one year, or both. The bill was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. the most handsome bachelors in this city was happily united in marriage to Miss May Lewis who is ever so loving and beautiful and Mr. and Mrs. Breen reside in a lovely home at 947 W. 54th place, and once each week The Broad Ax finds its way into their home as Mr. Breen who is one of the brainy and most popular public officials in the City Hall has for years been a strong supporter of this paper. In 1920, after a great fight with the aid of this paper, Mr. Breen was elected the Thompson Committeeman of the 30th Ward, and being well grounded in the law, his legal training pre-eminently fits him for the honored position which he is seeking and his hosts of steadfast friends feel confident that on Monday, June 6, that he will step up higher and that he will make an ideal Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. BILL TO HAVE COMMISSION INVESTIGATE CAUSE OF LYNCHINGS IS INTRODUCED. Washington, D. C.-In accordance with that part of President Harding's address to the joint session of Congress, a bill was introduced last Tuesday "To embrace representatives of the white and colored races to investigate the subject of lynching, and to report to Congress legislative measures intended and designed to prevent, discourage and to punish lynching." The bill provides that the commission be composed of five members, appointed by the President, whose duty it shall be to conduct a general inquiry into the subject of lynching in the United States, and the causes thereof. The commission shall also consider and report its conclusions with respect to the adequacy of the means now employed for the prevention of lynchings, the remedies available for their avoidance, and shall recommend to Congress legislative measures intended and designed to prevent and discourage lynching and to punish its commission. $100,000 is to be appropriated for the use of the commission to be used in gathering evidence and holding hearings. The bill introduced by representative Ansorge was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT, REPUBLICAN COMMITTEEMAN OF THE SECOND WARD, STEPS TO THE FRONT AND OFFERS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD — IN COLD CASH — FOR THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF ANY PERSON WHO DELIGHTS TO BOMB THE HOMES OF COLORED PEOPLE, RESIDING ON THE SOUTH SIDE. Chicago, Ill. May 19, 1921. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax, Dear Sir: out this heinous crime, because publicity given to the plans would operate to defeat the object sought to be obtained. Let me assure The Broad Ax and I have read the articles in which you address the so-called leaders of the colored people in which my name is mentioned as one of the number, with considerable interest and with some degree of indignation. Many people and some newspapers are apt to jump at conclusions without knowing the facts in the case, and in doing so work a serious injustice upon innocent persons. Your articles would make it appear that nothing has been done to take up the bombing outrages with the proper authorities of the city and county, and to that extent such leaders are deserving of public censure. I wish to assure you and the public that while I have made no great advertisement of the fact, I took up he question of the bombing outrages with Mayor Thompson, with Chief of Police Garrity, with Chief of Police Fitzmorris and with State's Attorney Crowe. Mayor Thompson and his Chief of Police received my suggestions with absolute fairness and took the necessary steps to give protection to the threatened localities or buildings by giving additional police details and by calling the attention of the commanding officers in the various precincts to the necessity of increased vigilance to the end that the perpetrators of the bombing outrages might be apprehended. State's Attorney Crowe also has given both public and private expression of his determination to use all means at his command to bring those responsible for these outrages to justice. I am not at liberty to state everything that has been proposed by the law enforcing agencies to stamp THE DEDICATION OF THE PLAT OF GROUND AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF FIFTY-SIXTH AND STATE STREETS, WHERE THE PRINCE HALL MASONIC TEMPLE WILL BE ERECTED, WILL OCCUR SUNDAY, JUNE 12TH. Sunday, June 12, at 1:30 P. M., the Masons in all parts of Chicago will assemble at the corner of Fifty-Sixth and State streets and take part in assisting to dedicate that plat of ground 100 by 161 feet on which will be erected the new Prince Hall Masonic Temple, which, when completed, will cost almost six-hundred thousand dollars, the ground alone costing twelve thousand dollars. The Prince Hall Masonic Temple Association, incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, which is composed of many subordinate lodges of Free and Accepted Masons of Chicago, are the moving spirits behind this vast project. This Temple will be a lasting monument not only to the Fraternity of Chicago, but to the entire Race all over the world. The Association has opened an office in charge of the Secretary at 3958 S. State street where information will be gladly furnished any one interested. The officers are Samuel Matthews, President, Robt. A. Jackson, 1st Vice-President, C. C. Granberry, 2nd Vice-President, W. C. Lee, Treasurer and M. H. Jackson, Secretary. BISHOP G. W. CLINTON DEAD Noted Prelate of A. M. E. Zion Church. Charlotte, N. C.-Bishop G. W. Clinton died at his home here at 12 o'clock Wednesday night. Bishop Clinton was one of the leading lights of the A. M. E. Zion Church and was active in all race matters. No. 35 out this heinous crime, because publicity given to the plans would operate to defeat the object sought to be obtained. Let me assure The Broad Ax and the people of Chicago that it will not be necessary to prod me into doing my duty. I have always been ready to do the thing that I thought was required to be done for the interest and protection of my people without waiting for committees or mass meetings, and have proceeded upon the theory that each man and woman should do his or her duty, and I have tried to do mine. Very respectfully yours, Edward H. Wright Republican committeeman of the second ward. Aside from the above communication Mr. Wright states that he stands ready and willing to dig up one thousand dollars which he will willingly give to anyone as a reward for the arrest and the conviction of anyone apprehended in tossing bombs at the homes of colored people residing in the second ward or in any section of Chicago, and as Mr. Wright means business in that direction, Hon. Louis B. Anderson, Hon. Oscar DePriest, Hon. Robert R. Jackson and Hon. James A. Scott, should each come to the front and lay down one thousand dollars each, which would make five thousand dollars to be expended in that direction. Without waiting for anyone else to lead off, and with five thousand dollars a big showing could be made in the way of running down at least some of the bombers. The writer is pleased to note that in the past Mr. Wright has been doing some work under cover in an effort to bring the bombers to the bars of justice. Let the good work go on. THE COLORED COOK COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION HAS EN- DORSED THE FOLLOWING JUDICIAL CANDIDATES. On last Saturday evening, the Cook County Bar Association, at a special meeting held at the Appomattox Club, endorsed in their Bar Primary, the following Judges and Judicial candidates for the coming election: Circuit Court. Anton T. Zeman, Jesse Holdom, Bernard P. Barasa, George Kersten, Kickham Scanlan, Donald L. Morrill, Charles M. Thompson, George F. Rush, Francis S. Wilson, Thomas G. Winds, Jesse A. Baldwin, John Richardson, Edward S. Day, David Matchett, Hugo M. Friend, David M. Brothers, Thomas Taylor, Jr., Frank Johnston, Jr., Oscar M. Torrison, John A. Swanson. Superior Court. It is said upon good authority that the lawyers present indulged in many heated arguments, and at times the discussion became exceedingly lively. MR. AND MRS. FRANK PEER HAVE COME TO THE PARTING OF THE WAY Wednesday morning Mr. Frank Peer, who is in business at 3503 S. State Street and his talented and beautiful wife, Mrs. Evelyn Peer, who is a moving picture star or actress. Judge Harry A. Lewis of the Superior Court, untied their unhappy wedding knot for them. Hon. Edward H. Morris, represented Mrs. Peer, and Attorney Robert E. Cantwell, looked after the interests of Mr. Peer. The court awarded Mrs. Peer, $1,900, $350 cash, and the remainder to be paid in at the rate of $15 per week until the whole amount is paid. 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. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wenworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS 4700 South State Street Phone Draxel 1416 MAY 21, 1921. VOL. XXVI. No. 35. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. FORTIETH ANNUAL COM MENCEMENT EXERCISES OF TUSKEGEE INSTI- TUTE TO BE HELD. Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-May 22 marks the beginning of the Fortieth Annual Commencement Exercises of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute which will be brought to a close Thursday afternoon, May 26. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal, announces the following program for the week: Commencement Sunday, May 22 at 2:00 p. m., the Annual Commencement Sermon will be delivered by Dr. C. W. Crisler, of Jackson, Mississippi. Monday, May 23 at 7:30 p. m., the Annual Exercises of the Phelps Hall Bible Training School. Tuesday, May 24 at 2:00 p. m., Annual Competitive Drill of Companies of R. O. T. C. Unit. Tuesday, May 24 at 7:30 p. m., the Trinity Church Boston Prize Oratorical Contest. Wednesday, May 25 at 4:00 p.m., Annual Exhibition, of the young women in physical culture. Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 p.m., Senior Class Day Exercises. Thursday, May 26, 10:00 a.m., Annual Demonstration of the Industrial Departments. Thursday, May 26, 2:00 p.m., Annual Commencement Exercises, at which time the Annual Commencement Address will be delivered by Dr. P. James Bryant, Pastor, The Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. An added feature of the Exercises will be the observance of the tenth and twentieth reunions of the Classes of 1911 and 1901 respectively. A large number of the members of these classes have already signified their in- PE PEW The Highly Honored Dean of the Circuit Court County, Who Will Receive the Votes of Many C His Race for Re-election to His Honored Position of the Best and Fairest Circuit Court Judges County. The Highly Honored Dean of the Circuit Court Banch of Cook County, Who Will Receive the Votes of Many Colored People in His Race for Re-election to His Honored Position; for He Is One of the Best and Fairest Circuit Court Judges in this City or County. M. B. President of the Liberty Life Inst Duly Incorporated, Under the Gillespie Is One of the Best Chicago. President of the Liberty Life Insurance Company, Which Has Been Duly Incorporated, Under the Laws of the State of Illinois. Mr. Gillespie is One of the Best Posted Men on Life Insurance in Chicago. tention of attending the reunion and the Commencement Exercises and notices to this effect are being received daily. Principal Moton is extending to the friends of the Institute a cordial invitation to be present at the Fortieth Annual Commencement Exercises. All visitors will be guests of the Institute. I gave the girls—my daughter, Emma, is with her sister—the family residence, worth $40,000, and other real estate on which they cleared more than $100,000. After a few months they drove me from the home. Now they are not on speaking terms with me. "I'm still ready to help my girls if they'll let me, but I fear they CLAIMS HUSBAND SHE EDUC CATED STOLE $18,000. Father She "Drove from Home" Offers Her Aid. Dr. Maurice A. Spaulding of 2224 North Kedzie boulevard was arrested Wednesday at the home of his mother in Vincennes, Ind, on a warrant charging larceny, sworn out by his wife, Mrs. Dora Roos Spaulding. Mrs. Spaulding said Dr. Spaulding left Chicago a few days ago after removing from her safety deposit box $18,000 in Liberty bonds, which had been given to her by her father. She is the daughter of Henry R. Roos, wealthy retired founder of the Roos Foundries, Inc., 1749 Ballou street, a pioneer Chicagoan. Thus Mrs. Spaulding's romance of little more than a year has ended. Her story is one of a girl's infatuation for a dashing young medical student. She married him against her father's wishes and then paid his debts and his expenses while completing his college course. Father Gave Girls $100,000. "When my daughter, Dora, married this man a year ago, I warned her against it," said Mr. Roos, who is 67 years old, and lives with his son, Henry W. Roos, 3052 Palmer square. "He didn't look right to me. But she persisted, and they were married. [Image of a man's face, showing his ear and hair.] The Circuit Court Bench of Cook Votes of Many Colored People in Honored Position; for He Is One at Court Judges in this City or MR. FRANK L. GILLESPIE I gave the girls—my daughter Emma, is with her sister—the family residence, worth $40,000, and other real estate on which they cleared more than $100,000. After a few months they drove me from the home. Now they are not on speaking terms with me. "I'm still ready to help my girls if they'll let me, but I fear they won't." The Spauldings were married in March, 1920. According to Mrs. Spauldings, she met Dr. Spauldings while he was still in army uniform. He told her of his love, but said sorrowfully that he couldn't marry. Spent $10,000 on Husband "He said he had debts of $3,000, and if these were lifted he could marry," said Mrs. Spaulding. "I paid the debts, and we were married. Then I paid his way through medical school. Besides the original $3,000, I have spent $7,000 on him. We even went on a honeymoon with my money." After the father left the Spaulding home Mrs. Spaulding's sister, Emma Roos, and Dr. Spaulding's brother, Jack, remained. "It's a common misconception," said Attorney England, "that a wife cannot have her husband arrested for larceny. We're going to show Dr. Spaulding that it can be done." Young ladies should not marry husbands and educate them at the same time. STILLMAN NOW UNDER FIRE IN "BATTLE OF INK." Forgave, Then Accused Her, Fifi'i Aids Say. New York-Awaiting the next hearing of witnesses May 25, the Stillman divorce case is being fought with ink. Aroused by the publication of James A. Stillman's divorce charges, lawyers of Mrs. "Fifi" Stillman gave definite information as to the evidence they will offer to sustain the claim that Stillman had disqualified himself as a divorce claimant. Doctor's Story a Feature. The evidence of Dr. Hugh Russell of Buffalo, stating that Mrs. Stillman revealed guilt to him and sent for Stillman, with whom she had consultations, and the introduction of the "hysterical letter" produced by Stillman as a confession of guilt, are assumed by the defense as proof that Stillman's information, such as it was, was complete in the late fall of 1917. To show that Stillman did forgive his wife after these events, her attorneys have the register of the St. Regis hotel in February, 1918, which shows that Mr. and Mrs. Stillman, their daughter Anne and their two sons—Guy was not yet born—were guests at the hotel together. Clerk's Story As Evidence. The register is impounded, as are the bills rendered by the hotel. Photo-static copies are in the hands of counsel. Amplifying these is an affidavit by the clerk of the hotel who assigned the Stillmans to rooms, in which he swears they occupied four rooms—a bedroom and sitting room for Mrs. and Mrs. Stillman, a bedroom for Miss Anne Stillman, a bedroom for James and Alexander Stillman. A bedroom for the nurse was provided in another part of the hotel. Furthermore checks show that meals \for Mr. and Mrs. Stillman were furnished in the rooms occupied by them, according to the lawyers. The lawyers regard this as proof that if Stillman had the reasons for CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921 THE LIBERTY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY HAS MOVED INTO ITS ELABORATELY FURNISHED QUARTERS, ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE ROOSEVELT STATE BANK BUILDING, CORNER OF GRAND BOULEVARD AND THIRTY-FIFTH STREET. The Liberty Life Insurance Company which was duly incorporated under the Laws of Illinois, June 30 1919, has the great honor or distinction of being the first Old Line or Legal Reserve life insurance company in this state to be fully or completely owned and controlled and officered from head to foot by colored men from its first inception. Until the first of May past, the Liberty Life Insurance Company occupied offices at 3515 Indiana Ave., and on the first of the present month the company moved into its new general offices on the second floor of the Roosevelt State Bank building, corner of Grand Boulevard and 35th Street. The Liberty Life Insurance Company occupying all of the space on the 35th Street side of the building, the fact the building was constructed according to the plans or the ideas of the head officials of the Liberty Life Insurance Company. The main or the general office is 35x60 in size and it is equipped with specially designed elegant mahogany desks, tables, stands and furniture in quiet tone to augment the scheme for highest efficiency. All the offices are richly and heavily carpeted with a light brown shade of Wilton, all of the other furnishings and trappings are the most elegant or elaborate in every detail. There is a large cheerful reception room, and it and all of the other smaller offices are always just as light as the brightest sunshine day. The office of Mr. Frank L. Gillespie, the founder and president of the Liberty Life Insurance Company who was for some years a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Life Insurance Co., is a real dream and his office being located in the east end of the offices which extend west 90 feet. At all times he has a commanding view of his entire office force while sitting at his desk. Near the first of June the Liberty Life Insurance Company expects to be running at full blast and then fifty young colored women and ten to fifteen young colored men will be constantly employed in the home office without saying anything about the large army of colored men and women who will be employed in all parts of the country, collecting and writing insurance policies. Right here it might be said that the Liberty Life Insurance Company still has a limited number of shares of its capital stock for sale which can be bought on easy terms by paying ten dollars down and ten dollars per month per share, shares thirty dollars. Why? Large profit is assured this company because of the large volume of business available the moment the organization is completed. There are no Negro legal reserve companies doing business in the North. Many companies that have a capital of a million dollars or more today started with one hundred thousand dollars and increase their capital by stock dividends so that the original investors are now earning as much as one hundred per cent per annum on their original investment. Of all business organizations a life insurance company based on scientific principles is the safest. This is because its obligations mature in accordance with the Law of Mortality which is uniform and deliberate in its workings and does not vary with the fluctuations of the money market or the rise and fall of stocks and bonds. Safety is doubly certain in the Liberty Life by reason of conservative management at the hands of experienced insurance men and because of the safeguards which the laws suspecting Beauvais and Mrs. Stillman which he now asserts, the presence of Beauvais as a guest at the expense of Stillman under the same roof is ample proof of condonation and forgiveness. SHELBURN OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE TO COACH LINCOLN FOOT BALL TEAM Lincoln University, Pa. A new and progressive athletic policy was inaugurated at Lincoln today. At a mass meeting of the entire student body held on the campus, there was given a very positive evidence of the reviving and recharging of the "Old Lincoln Spirit." Stirring college songs, particularly, "Alma Mater," and the "Good Old Lincoln Spirit," were sung. Short addresses were made by Dr. W. G. Alexander, Orange, N. J., Dr. George E. Cannon, Jersey City, N. J., Dr. T. S. Burwell and Dr. N. N. Pannell of Philadelphia, Pa., Prof. George Johnson, Prof. W. L. Wright, A. D. Williams and M. W. Boyd, President of the Athletic Association. The Athletic Council announced the selection of the following persons to act in the capacities designated for the coming year: Graduate Manager, W. G. Alexander, M. D. Orange, N. J. Student Manager, A. D. Williams, Lincoln University, Pa. of the nation and state throw around the insurance investments both during and after organization. We Can Succeed The success of Standard Life of Atlanta, Ga., The North Carolina Mutual of Durham, N. C., The Mississippi Life of Memphis, Tenn., and The National Benefit Life of Washington, D. C., is proof that Negroes are capable of managing the affairs of large financial institutions of this kind. Millions to Insurance Companies Millions to Insurance Companies In Chicago alone, we are paying over a million dollars a year into companies that have repeatedly refused employment to any of our most competent young men and women in any capacity whatever. The Liberty Life will be able to give employment to a large number of our competent men and women. Through its accumulations it will be able, under the laws of Illinois to finance through mortgage loans, colored business enterprises, assist the farmers and churches at rates of interest less than are now being paid. In fact, our company will be to our people what other companies are to white people—a medium through which they can secure cheap money on approved securities. Without an available supply of cheap interest money there is little hope for our financial development as a race. It has been well said by President Gillespie, "We can do little alone—with your help we can do anything." INSURANCE COMPANY Lincoln State Bank of Chicago George F. Leibrandt, President Charles A. White, Vice President February 1st, 1921 Liberty Life Insurance Company, 3515 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Attention Mr. Frank L. Gillespie Dear Sirs: After careful investigation of your organization, I am herewith making application for two hundred (200) shares of the capital stock of your company at $30.00 per share. Enclosed find check for $3,000.00 to apply on same. The Liberty Life Insurance Company is an institution that has long been needed in Chicago and I am glad to be able to become a stockholder in it. I have known a majority of the officers of your company for a number of years and have the utmost confidence in their ability to manage successfully the affairs of the organization. Yours very truly, George F. Leibrandt. The officers of the Liberty Life Insurance Company are as follows: President Frank L. Gillespie. Vice-Presidents, Walter H. Lee. R. L. Bradby, D. D., J. L. Slaughter. V. L. Williams, David Manson. Treasurer, Geo. W. Holt. Secretary, W. Ellis Stewart Assistant Secretary and Cashier James H. Jones. Chairman of Medical Board, M. O. Bousfield. General Counsel, Earl B. Dickerson. Consulting Counsel, John Weaver, Actuary, Marcus Gunn. Board of Directors, Frank L. Gillespie, David Manson, J. L. Slaughter, Geo. W. Holt, M. O. Bousfield. M. D., R. L. Bradby, D. D., V. L. Williams, Earl B. Dickerson, Walter H. Lee, W. Ellis Stewart, E. A. Carter, M. D., J. W. Ames, M. D., E. N. Winborn, Henry Cole, L. E. Bailer, M. D. Coach, John A. Shelburn, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. Ex-Captain, Henry C. Collins, New Jersey. This announcement was received by the "Rabble" with great satisfaction, and there was a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm when Mr. Shelburn was introduced. He outlined his policy for the football season, and indicated that he expected to restore Lincoln to the position of her former prestige. The football squad was directed to report for training September 12, 1921. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday, May 22, will be known as young people's day. Dr. Stewart will preach at 10:45 A. M. and deliver sermonette at the evening service. The young people have arranged a splendid program. Bishop L. J. Coppin, D. D. will deliver an address to all the African Methodist Churches of Chicago at Quinn Chapel Tuesday, night, May the 24th. Dr. H. E. Stewart will talk to adults only Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The church has served the unemployed for over ten weeks more than 12 thousand meals given to the unemployed. HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN Non-Partisan, or the People's Caucit Court Bench. He Has Bee Cook County Bar Association Friends in This City and Coun Re-election. Non-Partisan, or the People's Candidate for Re-election to the Circuit Court Bench. He Has Been Highly Endorsed by the Colored Cook County Bar Association and His Thousands of Loyal Friends in This City and County Are Working Very Hard for His Re-election. The Following Questions Were Proposed to Judge Kickham Scanlan, by the Illinois Race Commission Appointed by Governor Frank O. Lowden and His Response or Answers to the Same: Shortly after the bloody and horrible race riots in this city in 1919 Governor Frank O. Lowden appointed his Illinois Race commission, whose duty it has been to make an exhaustive report in relation to everything in connection with the friction between the whites and the colored people leading up to the race riots the latter part of July and the first of August of that year. hundreds of homicide cases awaiting trial; these cases were nearly all ones in which gangs of young white men confederated together to go out and hold up places, and they made a business of it, and some of these gangs had committed any number of hold-ups, and one member of one of the gangs explained that his gang had killed as many as 20 victims. The evidence in these cases showed that they killed recklessly and wantonly. In none of the cases of the character I have referred to, were there any colored defendants; all white men; and the cases were of the most vicious type I have known in my The commission consisted of six colored men and six white men and its final report will show, which consists of more than eight hundred pages, which will soon be ready for distribution, contains the views or the opinions of many prominent white and colored men respecting the two races residing side by side in Chicago. Hon. Kickham Scanlan, who has for the past 12 years been one of the most honorable Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook county, was requested to appear before the commission and set forth his views on that important subject and the following honest and frank expressions on his part which have become a part of the eight hundred page report of the Illinois Race commission are well worth anyone's time to carefully read what he has to say touching upon the white and colored people residing in this great city of the middle west. "The Negro and Organized or Professional Crime?" "May 1 last I was assigned to the North Side to try unbailable murder cases. It was found that there were 1920 Deguerral Clip HON. HUGO M. FRIEND Non-Partisan Candidate for Election as Judge of He Has Been Highly Endorsed by the Colored Association and His Election on Monday, June for He Is Paintstaking and Uses the Greatest Passing Final Judgment on All Cases Brought Non-Partisan Candidate for Election as Judge of the Circuit Court. He Has Been Highly Endorsed by the Colored Cook County Bar Association and His Election on Monday, June 6th, Is Assured, for He Is Paintstaking and Uses the Greatest Consideration in Passing Final Judgment on All Cases Brought Before Him. Non-Partisan Candidate for Election as Judge of the Circuit Court. He Has Been Highly Endorsed by the Colored Cook County Bar Association and His Election on Monday, June 6th, Is Assured, for He Is Paintstaking and Uses the Greatest Consideration in Passing Final Judgment on All Cases Brought Before Him. Candidate for Re-election to the Citizen Highly Endorsed by the Colored Man and His Thousands of Loyal City Are Working Very Hard for His hundreds of homicide cases awaiting trial; these cases were nearly all ones in which gangs of young white men confederated together to go out and hold up places, and they made a business of it, and some of these gangs had committed any number of hold-ups, and one member of one of the gangs explained that his gang had killed as many as 20 victims. The evidence in these cases showed that they killed recklessly and wantonly. In none of the cases of the character I have referred to, were there any colored defendants; all white men; and the cases were of the most vicious type I have known in my 34 years of experience in the Criminal Court. "I just want to make that one point to this commission; that never in the history of this community has there been so many vicious crimes committed by white men as at the present time. Young white men banded together in gangs go out and hold up people right and left and shoot them down. I notice that there are a few colored imitators of the white men, but the real bad gun men of the City of Chicago at the present time are mostly young white men. "I do not think Negroes are more liable to commit sex crimes than whites. I tried a colored man about six or eight years ago for rape. He founded an alleged orphan asylum. The evidence showed that he had raped a number of young children in that place. He was prosecuted by colored people and he got life in the penitentiary. He was the only colored man that was ever tried before me charged with any offense of that character. The children in that case were colored. I have tried Daguere Chap on as Judge of the Circuit Court. by the Colored Cook County Bar Monday, June 6th, Is Assured, is the Greatest Consideration in cases Brought Before Him. Sex Crimes? [Name] HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT Republican Committeeman of the Second Ward, Who Stands Ready and Willing to Turn Over to Any.One, $1,000.00, for the Arrest and Conviction of Any Person, Charged With Bombing the Homes of Any Colored People in Chicago. Susceptibility of the Negro to Arrest? "Negroes are more likely to be arrested on suspicion than white persons. If you will tell me why race prejudice exists in this world, I will tell you why this is so. I don't think all the police are quite as careful in arresting colored men as they are in arresting white men. I think they are apt to hesitate a little longer when a white man is involved. Discrimination in Court "There is another thing concerning the colored man on trial in the Criminal Court that has to be kept in mind. It is a peculiar thing about human nature, that no man wants to admit that he has prejudices. A man will say on the outside that he doesn't like the Negro, or doesn't like this person or that person, but you get him under oath in the jury box and in my twelve years on the bench I have never known a juror to admit that he was prejudiced against any race or creed. It goes without saying that under such a state of affairs you will probably get men on the juries that try colored men that have a leaning against them. I would say that where there is a colored defendant and a white prosecuting witness that there would be a grave danger that the jury might unconsciously favor the white side of the case. I will say that some juries will convict a colored man with less hesitation than they will convict a white man on the same kind of evidence. For that reason in the cases in which a colored man is involved, I watch the evidence like a hawk. Legal Representation for Negro De fendant "The Negro usually hasn't the money to employ proper attorneys—competent attorneys. In two out of three cases tried before me in which there were colored defendants, I had to appoint attorneys to defend them. I appointed white attorneys because when I asked them whom they wanted they told me and I appointed the one they asked and made him serve. Economic and Industrial Aspects of Negro Crime "At one time that I sat in the Criminal Court there were 150 old bail cases, of them 8 or 9 years of age, pending on the docket. I have no recollection that any of these cases involved colored people. Now there is a reason HON. DAVID F. MATCHETT Independent Non-Partisan Candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. "Justice Knows No Politics," and Judge Matchett Is Bound to be Re-elected to the Circuit Court Bench, Monday, June 6. for that: the colored defendant as a rule is unable to give bail. These 150 cases were old bail cases, and therefore it was natural enough that you would not find colored defendants even in this large number of cases. My experience in the Criminal Court is that the colored defendant is usually unable to give bail. He has to stay in jail and therefore his case is very quickly disposed of by the prosecutor. (Defendants locked up are usually tried first.) The colored man, having less opportunities, is more apt to be out of work than the white man and that is one possible reason for the large number of arrests of colored men. I would say that the colored man is necessarily more apt to be out of work than the white man. His sphere is very limited." In passing it might not be out of place to state that for more than 12 years or before he was first elected to the Circuit Court bench Judge Scanlan has been a constant subscriber to this paper and he is one of our very warmest friends in Chicago. The writer has nothing whatever to do with any of those big leaders of the Republican party who for one reason or another feel that it is their duty to wage a fight against Judge Scanlan; that is their business and not ours. As this newspaper is strictly independent in politics it has friends on the Thompson judicial ticket and on the Independent judges ticket which it will loyally support and as Judge Scanlan always tempers justice with mercy he will march on to victory for the third time at the judicial election Monday, June 6. Louisiana Supreme Court Decides Heir of Oil and Mineral Land is Colored Child of Original Owner. New Orleans.—Lillie Taylor, a Negro woman, was awarded oil and mineral rights in property in Claiborne parish said to amount to $20,000,000, in a decision by the state Supreme court. This decision was rendered in a suit against Angeline Allen and George West, claimants to the property. According to the evidence offered in the case, the plaintiff's father, of whom she was alleged to have been an illegitimate child, sold the property to Angeline Allen and George West, but did not give them a claim. The parentage of Lillie Taylor was the chief issue in the trial of the case. The court decision confirms her claim that she is the child of the original owner of the property in question. CHICAGO, ILL. SAT AGED AND ADULT CHARITIES. BAIL Fifth Annual Tag Day, May 23, 1921 Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes Avenue. Monday, May 23, is the regular tag day for the Aged and Adult Charities in this city and the following ladies will on that day tag for the benefit of the Phyllis Wheatley Home: Special Committee Mrs. Corinne Eggleston, Mrs. Roberta-Creditt-Ole, Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, Mrs. Marie Johnson, Mrs. Myrrene Hall, Mrs. L. M. Abell, Mrs. Nellie Jones, Mrs. Naomi Ruth Smith, Mrs. Eliza Holliday, Mrs. Minnie Collins, Mrs. Louise Rainey, Mrs. Sylvia Mills, L. E. McGowan, Mrs. Margaret Minnigan, Mrs. J. B. Threakill, Mrs. Irene M. Gaines, Miss Beatrice Mitchell, Miss Catherine Hill. Mme. Bertha L. Hensley, Chr. Tag Day Committee, 3528 Vernon Ave. Phone Douglas 4147 The Phyllis Wheatley home is highly deserving of the support of all the people residing in this city and we again take much pleasure in commending it to the public in general. Mrs. Gertrude Moore is its president and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Davis, Chr. Bd. of Directors. PRENTISS NORMAL AND IN DUSTRIAL INSTITUTE CLOSES 14TH SESSION. Exercises Attended by Many White and Colored People of this Section The week just closed marked a great event in the history of the Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute of Prentiss, Miss., being Commencement week and the close of the 14th year's work of the Institution. Despite the handicap of shortage of funds the session just closed has been a decided improvement on the work of any previous year. Mrs. Sarah Bell, 45 E. Oak Ave., who has been quite ill for several weeks, is improving at her home. Mrs. Bell is well known in the fraternal circles. de I+ny f2 onst eer o; eell ne [Name not visible] SHERIDAN A. BRUSEAUX General Manager of the Keystone National Detect E. 31st Street. It is the Only National Detect ducted by Colored Men in the United States. General Manager of the Keystone National Detective Agency, 129 E. 31st Street. It is the Only National Detective Agency Conducted by Colored Men in the United States. MRS. JACKSON ON VISIT Mrs. Eliza Jackson, 3739 Elmwood Ave., state grand queen of Illinois and jurisdiction, of A. U. K. & D. of A, left the city Sunday evening on her annual visit to the various lodges in southern Illinois. Leaving southern Illinois, Mrs. Jackson will attend the executive board meeting to be held at St. Louis, Mo., over which Wm. H. Fields, national grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A. will preside. BAPTIST IN CONFERENCE The state baptist convention and missionary workers convened during the week at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Evanston, of which Rev. E. P. Jones is pastor. The reports read showed great accomplishments made by this body during the past year. MRS. FARMER LOSES FATHER George Johnson of Kansas City Mo., the father of Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4751 Champlain Ave., and Mrs. Theresa Johnson, 4932 Indiana Ave., died at his home last week and the remains were brought to the city for burial. Short funeral services were held on Tuesday from Charlie Jackson's undertaking parlors, Rev. W. D. Cook, pastor of Metropolitan Community Center Church, officiating. RETURN FROM LONG TRIP Mr. and Mrs. John C. Davis, 1940 Walnut St., who have spent several months visiting relatives and friends in Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D. C., have returned to the city much pleased with their stay. Considerable time was spent at Kenbridge, Va., with the brother of Mrs. Davis, H. R. Jackson, who is there in search of his health. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were highly entertained at the V. N. & I. I., Petersburg, Va., by the Misses Branch and Whiting, teachers at the school. IMPROVING BAILEY MEETING WITH SUCCESS M. T. Bailey, pres., The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 State St., who is bending every effort in the developing of Morgan Park by finding suitable locations for members of the race who are anxious to move from the congested city, is meeting with much success and during the past week closed several deals. Mr. Bailey is always pleased to talk concerning this suburb. MADAM ANTOINETTE C. CONE WILL CONDUCT A CANTATA AT THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN CENTER. Wednesday evening, June 1, Madam Antoinette C. Cone, assisted by the following artists, Mr. Lawrence Lomax, tenor, and Mrs. Ollie Robinson, dramatic director, will present the Salem Baptist Church Choir in a Cantata Belshazzar, at the Abraham Lincoln Center, Oakwood Boulevard and Langley avenue. Admission 50 cents. RECEPTION IN HONOR OF ADELBERT H. ROBERTS. Last evening the Women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club, Mrs. Bertha Montgomery, President; Mrs. Lottie Stewart, Secretary, gave a delightful reception at 3441 South Wabash avenue, in honor of Adelbert H. Roberts, member of the legislature of Illinois from the Third Senatorial district of Illinois. The pleasant affair was largely attended. MRS. WILLIAMS PASSES AWAY After a long illness, Mrs. Cleaver Williams, wife of W. A. Williams, 1619 N. California Ave., passed away on Sunday and was buried Wednesday from Johnson's undertaking parlors. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lively, 4344 Evans Ave. 1911 BRIDGE COUNTY The National Detective Agency, 129 by National Detective Agency Con- United States. MRS. ANDERSON RETURNS Mrs. Nettie Anderson, 3236 Vernon Ave., who attended the Kentucky derby and afterwards visited friends at Winchester, Ky., has returned to the city much pleased with her trip. PRIZES GIVEN Prizes were given to thirty-eight members of Silver Shower Club last Friday evening at Bailey's hall for efficient work done in the building up of the club. This club is an auxiliary of Silver Shower Council, A, U. K. & D. of A. Mrs. G. A. Pressley, 1810 Darrow Ave., Evanston, Ill., was in the city during the week on business. Mrs. Pressley was formerly stenographer to Atty. Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington St. MRS. YOUNG SURPRISED Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 3556 Giles Ave., was surprised on Friday evening, May 13, by a number of members of The Women Patriarchy of G. U. O. of O., and was presented with a beautiful georgette crepe waist. Among those present were Inmates Margaret Harris, Mattie Alford and Nannie Mills. The trustees of the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, have forwarded to the writer an invitation to attend the fortieth annual commencement exercises at the institute, beginning Sunday, May 22, and concluding Sunday, May 26. We regret very much our inability to be present at Tuskegee Institute at that time. Dr. and Mrs. George A. Lewis and their family have removed from 608 E. 42nd Street to 6544 St. Lawrence Avenue. URDAY, MAY 21. 1921 active Agency, 129 active Agency Con- IN CITY --- Spencer Watts has removed his tailoring establishment from 1224 Indiana Avenue to 63 E. 13th Street, where he will be pleased to meet his many friends and patrons. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Clark have removed from 3217 South Park Avenue to 3226 Ellis Avenue, where they will be pleased to see their many friends. Dr. A. Walker Bibb, physician and surgeon, has opened his new offices at 358 E. 35th Street, opposite Grand Boulevard, where he will be delighted to receive his many friends and patients. Captain Nicholas Hunt, head of the Shippy-Hunt International Detective Agency, has for a long time occupied extensive and elaborate quarters on the thirteenth floor of the City Hall Square Building, and Captain Hunt is up to his neck in business all the time. When they gave you to your mother for your first feed of breast milk, they said you were pretty. All who came to see you said you were pretty. Nature had expressed her blessing on your head, and you were commissioned to go forth with a beautiful force, a meteoric illumination of angel smiles concentrated. When you were growing up they said you were the prettiest girl (or somewhere near it) in the city, and everyone commented on your ringlets of curls, and dimpled cheeks, and happy smile. Gee, you were happy then. Everybody was making a fuss over your beauty. THE BROAD AX wants you to join the Beauty Contest. If you do not live in Chicago you are just as welcome and just as beautiful as your friends have claimed you were. The conditions: A splendid picture of yourself and $5.00, which will guarantee a uniformity in our pictures. All cuts will cost the same, and help harmonize arrangements. With your application write or have written 100 words of yourself. Come now, do not be slow to grasp the opportunity to help The Broad Ax show to the world that we have the most beautiful women on earth. The big white morning papers are running their Beauty Prize Contests and you are shut out. Forget all about what people think, how your friends feel, even make a sacrifice of your own feelings in the matter, in order that The Broad Ax may succeed in showing to the world what race has the most beautiful women. Of course we already know, and it is doubly enjoined upon us to give publication to what we know—that's why we publish our paper. How would you like to receive the check for $250, a trip to Europe or a two-years' scholarship? You may be the type of beauty that will win the beauty prize. Apply at once. Send photo and $5.00 and have a place in the world's best Beauty Book. Address Dr. J. S. Dorsey's Drug Store, 434 E 31st Street, corner Vernon Avenue. The Porter-White Drug Co. Store, southwest corner 4700 S. State St. Turner Williams' barber shop and laundry office, 4803 S. State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stands, 3002 S. Dearborn St. Thomas Bell, news stand, ice cream parlor and laundry office, 17 W. 53rd St., near State. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St., near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. Dodson's shoe shining parlor and news stand, southwest corner 35th and State St. Mr. Moses Ratcliff, president of the Willing Workers' Club of St. Catherine A. M. E. Zion Church, 3739 Elmwood Ave. - Adv. Mrs. Corneine Eggleston has removed from 3553 Grand Boulevard to 4752 Champlain Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Hale G. Parker and their family have removed from 5442 Ellis Avenue to 5423 Ridgewood Avenue. 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The man with the dollars is the master of the man without the dollar. The real estate mortgage and bond corporation is paying eight per cent a year on every dollar invested to its stockholders who are investing thousand of dollars. The money invested in the REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE AND BOND CORPORATION is loaned out on IMPROVED CHICAGO REAL ESTATE, the title of each piece of property being guaranteed by the FIRST MORTGAGE CORPORATION. YOUR MONEY IS SECURED BY THE FIRST MORTGAGE CORPORATION PROPERTY — THE MOST NECESSARY THING IN CHICAGO TO-DAY. This company is organized for the purpose of saving the hundreds of homes that will be lost in Chicago by the foreclosure of mortgages in the next five years if there is nothing done to relieve the situation. Assure yourself of a life income; $100 invested to-day will possibly mean $1,600 to you ten years from now, and backed by the safest investment in the World—THE EARTH ITSELF. 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He held office only 16 months, but in that time he displayed such courage and strength of character as to endear himself to the people. He came to the office practically unknown and unknowing. His victories in the Mexican war had made him famous, but he was not known to the politicians, nor did he know any of them. He had been called "Old Bough and Ready," but he was not such a blustering, uncoath man as people had thought. --- Farm Machinery Imperative Farm Machinery Imperative. While it is impossible to determine the extent that modern farm implements have increased the production per acre, it is certain that it is only through their use that the large increase in population has been supported and sufficient labor liberated to permit of the present manufacturing and commercial activities in our towns and cities, and yet provide sufficient food with which to sustain the race. With the implements in use 60 or 70 years ago, no such condition of development as maintained today is thinkable. Idea of Canal Is Old. The project of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama is about four hundred years old. Balboa and other Spanish explorers urged such construction before the emperor of Spain, and made surveys in search of a feasible line as early as 1525. Jud Tunkins Jud Tunkins says that in calling on a sick friend you have to be a little factful to avoid looking surprised because he is still alive. Tribute to Good Heart Tributes to Good Heart. A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly.—Shakespeare. Fox Eats Entrapped Foot. When caught in a trap by one of its feet, a fox has actually been known to bite off and swallow the entrapped foot in order to free itself. If He Could Charge Them Off. The man who has a wife and two or three daughters is lucky if he can get himself judged by their clothes. UNIVERSITY BUTTON, D. C. A. M., Ph. D., President , LL. D., Secretary-Treasurer Schman and Sophomore years, and schools of Liberal Arts, Education, Finance, granting respectively the B. S. in Education; B. S. in Jour- clear course, giving degree, B. S. in M. E., B. S. in Architecture; B. S. household Economics. giving degree of Mus. B. age, giving degree of B. D. (Also Di- courses.) course, giving degree of LLB. medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Col- dential and Dental Students; three students. Following degrees given: Work at the beginning of any letter. September 27 to 30, 1929 January 8, 1921 March 19 and 21, 1921 Write HOLMES, Registrar Washington, D. C. Jones Bred 1899 ER IN and Meats AGE A SPECIALTY FRUITS IN SEASON telephone, and all calls re- levard 1812 Fox Climbs Tree. Another of the red forx's accomplishments is his ability to climb certain trees, where the inclination of the trunk and the accessibility of the lower limbs admit of it, says the American Forestry Magazine. His being able to perform this feat often saves his life, as does also his knowing how to swim. The Mark Shows. "You can often mend broken bonds and broken friendships, nend 'em pretty good," said a wise woman; "but they're never just the same again— the place where the break was is sure to show. Anybody that cares as much for chiny and friendships as I do, will be careful in handl' both of 'em." Had No Rights at All. Paul and Anthony own a wagon in partnership. Sometimes Paul exerts a little more authority than is pleasing to Anthony. On one of these occasions Anthony sought his mother and, after yelling his troubles, added: "Mother, Paul treats me like the ugly sisters treated Cinderella." Safeguarding the Miner. To protect the miner against his ancient enemy, inflammable gas a mining engineer has improved the standard type of miner's lamp. He has added a device which causes the lamp to emit a loud singing note as soon as the atmosphere becomes charged with inflammable gas. Thinness of Spider's Thread A scientist once compared a hair of his beard with a spider's thread under a microscope and estimated that it would take 10,000 threads to equal one hair in substance. CHICAGO PRESENT MAIN 2024 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Residence Telephone 3342 Galumet Ave. Douglas 1275 JAMES G. COTTER ATTORNEY AT LAW 145 NORTH CLARK STREET SUITE 407 Telephone Central 8364 CHICAGO Formerly Assistant Attorney General State of Illinois Res. 3646 Grand Boul. Doug. 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Phone: Douglas 6381 CHICAGO CHICAGO F. Dunn, J. R. McCahay, Trustees Tel: Oakland 1868, 1861, 1869 JOHN J. DUNN Established 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO English Titles of Nobility. The rank of earl was introduced into England at the time of the Conquest and succeeded the Saxon earldom. It continued the highest rank in England until Edward III created dukes in 1337 and Richard II created marquesses in 1885, both being superior to earls. Smelle Like Onion. The kulim of the Philippines and Malay Peninsula gives forth a strong aroma of onions, says the American Forestry Magazine, while the pas d'aloof of Brazil is properly known as garlic wood. Mistake Made by Many. Too many people take themselves too seriously, and can't understand why their estimates of themselves are not accepted by others. Consequently they "take it out" on others when they might do much better by taking some things out of themselves. There's too much personal "inflation." Wedding Ring Finger. Whatever the fashion may be about wedding rings, the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer says: "The priest, taking the ring, shall deliver it to the man to put on the fourth finger of the woman's left hand." Notice! Hat pins are used by the American customs authorities to prod parcels for hidden jewelry. We hasten to inform our fair fellow subway travelers that we never hide jewels behind our eyeballs—London Opinion. Raleigh's Great Work H. G. Welts wasn't the first to write a world history of his own conception. Sir Walter Raleigh antedated him by several hundred years. Raleigh's "History of the World" was a voluminous and painstaking work, showing evidences of profound scholarship and research. It was composed while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London, and it was one of the marvels of the time that a man, under such circumstances, and so far removed from sources of research, could have been able to undertake and carry through such a task. Sleeping Sickness Medical experts disagree in their conclusions as to the exact nature of sleeping sickness. Some forms of "sleeping sickness" are not unlike brain fever, while others indicate symptoms much similar to spinal meningitis. Physicians advise caution against undue exposure to the disease until more exact knowledge of its cause is ascertained. Why Ball "Bounces." A ball bounces because it possesses a quality known as elasticity. When a ball is thrown against the floor the ball becomes flat where it strikes the floor; because of its elasticity the ball immediately returns to its natural shape and in doing so forces itself back into the air—and that's the "bounce." A baseball files away from the bat for the same reason. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921 Comparative Statement of Deposits November 18, 1912, $836,605.23 November 17, 1914, $912,005.69 November 17, 1916, $1,132,750.72 November 18, 1918, $1,284,084.24 November 17, 1919, $2,359,636.62 November 15, 1920, $3,224,633.09 OFFICERS JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant ARTHUR C. UTESCH, A N. President AEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant ARTHUR C. UTESCH, A JOHN BAIN. President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant Cashier ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. Squeaking Shoes a Good Omen. Theatrical people have many stititions and they cling to the profession closely, one being if an actor's shoes squeak, ever so little, as he makes the first entrance, he is assured of a welcome from the audience. TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1 GEORGE F. H RGE F. HARDING REAL ESTATE Up-to-Date or Moder and Store 3101 COTTAGE Corner 31st S Date or Modern Houses, Ap and Stores to Rent COTTAGE GROVE Corner 31st Street, Chicago Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. S. GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Preprietors 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence 4731 Champlain Avenue. Phone Kenwood 3611 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUN- SELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Confidence 8096 Prestole Ave. Phone Dungsten 9188 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 82-896 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Fireman Building 84 W. Washington Street CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 346 E. K. CALDWELL Suspect to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 8097 South State Street Near 51st St. Not On the Corner CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 246 E. K. CALDWELL Succeaser to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 607 South State Street Near Six St. Not On the Corner CHECAGO Residence, 1968 MoonLiter Pines Tel. 312-211-4111 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 815-820 REAPER BLEK. Chark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 818-820 REAPER BLK. Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1820 CHICAGO Phones Douglas 6302 and Douglas 653 Nights call Douglas 7078 J. S. DORSEY Reliable Druggist Full Line of Fresh Drugs and Tolles Articles Prescriptions Filled With Accuracy. 496 East 31st Street Chicago, Ill. DORSEY reliable buggist British Drugs and Toilet Descriptions Filled Accuracy. St 31st Street age, Ill. Erne Day L I am a immat 5121 & 8 NCERS Prince President J. Cashier FISHER, Assistant Cashier R C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. The Magic Square. The origin of the magic square is usually ascribed to the Chinese as the Tih King, an early classic, describes it. The magic square was known to the Hindoos and to the Arabian astrologer. HIARDING, JR. RESTATE Own Houses, Apartments to Rent E GROVE AVE. Street, Chicago PHONE KENWOOD 455 FUNERAL DIRECTORS ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE, OIL OPEN BAY & NIGHT Day Light Chapel, capacity 200, Outside Ventilation—Organ and Organist Free—I am as near as your Telephone—I give service at a reasonable price—Distance immaterial, consult me—I save you wor y, time and money. 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLIN OFFICERS Chicago CHICAGO, ILL Phones; Victory 7897, Beverly 2873 James A. DEALER WALL P Decorator Hous mes A. East DEALER IN WALL PAPER Decorator House Painter Street James A. Easton DEALER IN WALL PAPER Decorator House Painter 2619 State Street Phone Douglas 8620 The Miss Billiard Ho GEO. W. HOLT, Pro The Mission Billiard Hall GEO. W. HOLT, Propr. 3504 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Dependability a Great Asset. "Make yourself dependable and you can come as near being indispensable as any one can be. You will be the last one your employer will wish to part with and the first that he will promote to greater responsibilities."—J. Ogden Armour Stanford Apartments 600 WABASH AVENUE holding over opened to Colored tanning, electric lights, tile baths, mar- J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W NEW HOME L DIRECTORS FREE MILITIAKER UNDERTAKER PRIVATE ANNOUNCEMENT AUTOS AT ALL HOURS ALL MONTHS 459 HAMSON UNDERTAKER VENTILATION-Organ and Organist service at a reasonable price-I for y, time and money. FEET CHICAGO, Mission ard Hall HOLT, Propr. Baware of Apologizing Apologizing—a very desperate habit —one that is rarely cured. Apologizing is only egotism wrong side up. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his short comings is from his apology—Oliver Wendell Holmes. Apartment Bldg. BASH AVENUE owned to Colored tenants in Chicago data, tile beds, marble entrance Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington St. ME CTORS UNDERTAK GARAGE GASOLINE OIL OPEN BAY & BIKING UNDERTAKER Organ and Organist Free—reasonable price—Distance money. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS CHICAGO