The Broad Ax

Some of the Gentlemanly Bombers, Who Have Been Engaged in Blowing Up Wet Wash Laundries and Destroying Other Property; Beating Up Or Murdering Any One, Who Opposed Their Onward March in Connection With the Labor Troubles Or Strikes in This City, Have Been Arrested, Indicted and Are Now Resting Up in the Cook County Jail AT THIS WRITING, HOWEVER, THE POLICE AUTHORITIES HAVE FAILED TO TURN OR SHOW UP ANY ONE WHO HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN THE PLEASANT PAST-TIME OF BOMBING THE HOMES OF COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING ON THE SOUTH SIDE. IN THE ARREST AND RUNNING DOWN OF THE BOMBERS, THE BROAD AX HAS SCORED, SO FAR, THE GREATEST VICTORY SCORED BY ANY OF THE GREATEST NEWSPAPERS IN CHICAGO. LET MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON SEND FOR L. M. SMITH, WHO IS IN THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS AT THIRTY-NINTH AND COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE, WHO IS ONE OF THE MOVING SPIRITS OF THE HYDE PARK AND KENWOOD PROPERTY OWNERS' ASSOCIATION AND LOCK HIM UP IN THE COOK COUNTY JAIL HOUSE, UNTIL HE IS WILLING TO STATE EVERYTHING HE KNOWS; IF HE KNOWS ANY THING; IN RELATION TO ATTEMPTING TO BOMB THE HOMES OF DECENT AND LAW-ABIDING COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THE KENWOOD AND HYDE PARK DISTRICT. It is Reported That Hon. Edward J. Brundage, Attorney-General of Illinois, May in the Near Future Swear In a Special Grand Jury for Cook County and Select a Special State's Attorney and Make a Thorough Investigation into the Bombing of the Homes of Colored People on the South Side. Hon. Medill McCormick, United States Senator from Illinois, Will on Monday Evening May 30, Deliver a Great Oration at Trinity M. E. Church, 30th Street and Prairie Avenue, on His Anti-Lynching Bill and Peonage in the Southern States. Judge George Kersten, Judge Kickham Scanlan, Hon. Charles S. Deneen, Rev. W. S. Braddan, Will Be Among the Other Speakers, Mrs. J. A. Weather, Will Sing "Folk Lore" Songs, Mrs. Blanche Gillmer Will Introduce Hon. Warren B. Douglas, Who Will Preside. Saturday, April 30, our first burning article appeared in these columns against the bombings of the homes of law abiding and highly respectable colored people residing in the Second Ward or on the South Side, and in one month's time our articles on that all-important subject, which is still uppermost in the minds of the vast majority of the people residing in all parts of this city, have been read by millions of people living in all parts of the wide world. Little did we dream at that time that in such a short length of time that we would be able almost single handed and alone with a thousand evil or dark forces plotting or working against us in an effort to steal some passing honor and glory which never did and never will belong to them, to shake or wake up every member in the City Council to such an extent that each and every member was in favor of voting to set aside twenty-f thousand dollars to be expended in hunting down the bombers. At the same time we requested Mayor William Hale Thompson to instruct or order his chief of police to send his best men out after the bombers and bring them to the bar of justice without further delay that the bombings of the homes of honest and peaceful white or colored people must come to an end in the great City of Chicago, which has within the past four or five years become the most lifeless or criminal city in the civilized world. Recent events seem to plainly indicate that Mayor Thompson and his head officials held a council of war and that they decided to accept our advice along that line, for they starred on the war path line, for the bombers and so far the result has been that eight or nine of the bombers have been arrested, landed in the Cook county jail, indicated by the grand jury and at the present time they have been unable to furnish bonds running up to forty-five thousand dollars. Some of the gentlemen rank among the head officials of the various labor unions and the confessions which some of them have made pertaining to the diabolical part which they played in bombing the wet wash laundries, slugging their engineers and the munition stationary engineers during strike was horrifying and revolting in the extreme. According to the confessions they were ready and willing to slug or murder anyone for ten, fifteen or fifty dollars and hurl the death dealing bombs at the building occupied by the various laundries in connection with the engineers' strike and bomb the homes of any citizen for fifty dollars on up to three hundred dollars. It all depending upon the amount of dynamite used on the job. With the arrest of these gentlemen the chief of police claims that the bombing situation has already been cleared up in this city. That may be true as far as the white citizens are concerned, but up to the press time no outward move has been made to arrest the gentlemen who have been engaged in the pleasant pastime of bombing the homes of law abiding colored people residing on the South Side. It may be possible that the high chief of police utterly failed to figure on that class of his fellow citizens. It remains to be seen just what the courts will finally do with the bombers who have so far been arrested. And if they easily regain their freedom through some book or crook or through some slight flaw in the indictments then those to blame for their escaping severe punishment for their past bloody misdeeds, should hung up to some of the lamp posts in this city by their necks for a short time. In the meantime let Mayor William Hale Thompson, as the high chief executive of this city, send for L. M. Smith, who is in the real estate business at 39th street and Cottage Grove avenue, who is one of the most bitter Negro haters in this city, and if Mr. Smith knows anything in relation to attempting to prevent colored people from moving into the Kenwood or the Hyde Park districts, or if he has ever heard anything about bombing the homes of colored people, or has ever expressed the fond hope that they should be driven out of their homes in that district some way or other, and if Mr. Smith re- 107 IPEV United States Senator from Illinois; Who Will Deliver His Master Oration Monday Evening May 30, at Trinity Church, 30th Street and Prairie Avenue, on His Anti-Lynching Bill, and Against the Beastelizing or Brutalizing Peonage System in the South. fuses to freely answer all of these questions, then Mayor Thompson should order him to be locked up in the Cook county jail house until he tells everything that he knows, that is if he knows anything in connection with the bombings of the homes of white and colored people residing on the South Side. As the bombing wave continues to sweep over this fair city, it is reported that in the near future that Hon. Edward J. Brundage, attorney general of Illinois, will soon start the ball rolling against it, and that he will select a special grand jury and appoint a special state's attorney who will leave no stone unturned in diving to the bottom of the bombing of the homes of the citizens of Chicago. This coming Monday evening, May 30, a great meeting will be held at Trinity Church, 30th and Prairie avenue in the interest of the Independent non-partisan judges. Hon. Medill McCormick, United States senator from Illinois, will be the leading orator of the evening. He will very plainly talk on his Anti-Lynching Bill which is now pending in the United States Senate and on the most damnable peonage system in the Southern states. Hon. George Kersten, Hon. Kickham Scanlan, Hon. Charles S. Deneen and Rev. W. S. Braddan will be the leading speakers. Mrs. J. A. Weathers will sweetly sing some folk-lore songs after a few short remarks by Mrs. Blanche Glinner. She will introduce Hon. Warren B. Douglas, who will preside over the great meeting. It was planned to hold the meeting at the Eighth Regiment Armory and Rev. Braddan had paid down one hundred and fifty dollars to secure it for that date, but for some cause or other the high city and state officials have become alarmed over the revolt of the colored people in the Second Ward, for the main reason that no outward attempt has been made to stop the bombings of their HON. MEDILL McCORMICK homes, and the check for one hundred and fifty dollars was returned to Rev. Braddan with the statement that some of the soldiers might want to drill in it on Monday evening. May 30. "BIRTH OF A NATION" FILM STOPPED IN BOSTON. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today published a statement giving in detail the events leading up to the prevention by Mayor Peters, of Boston, of the showing of David W. Griffith's film, "The Birth of a Nation." On May 16, the day on which the picture was to have been shown, Mayor Peters suspended the license of the Shubert theater, acting upon the recommendation of the Board of Censors which had received protests from the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Butler R. Wilson, secretary of the Boston branch, N. A. A. C. P., acted as attorney for the protestants against the film, among whom was a colored post of the American Legion, the Knights of Columbus, the Colored Veterans of All Wars, the National Colored Pythian organization, the National Equal Rights league, William H. Lewis, Rev M. A. M. Shaw of the Twelfth Baptist church, Rev Walter D. McLean and others. The protest submitted to the mayor of Boston by Mr. Wilson for the N. A. A. C. P. asked that the showing of the "Birth of a Nation" be prevented: 1. Because it is a malicious misrepresentation of the colored people, depleting them as moral perverts. 2. Because it glorifies the most abominable crime of the lynching of men, women and children by irresponsible mocha. 3. Because it arouses sharp race antagonisms that embitter citizens against each other. 4. Because it tends to a breach of the public peace. As a consequence of the protest a hearing was held on the very day on which the film was to be shown. After the hearing and the protest the theater license was suspended that very day, and it became impossible to show the picture in Boston. The fight made against the "Birth of a Nation" in New York city by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People did not succeed as in Boston because in New York there are no censors with the authority conferred on those in Boston. The mayor and police commissioner of New York, to whom protests were carried, declared their lack of legal authority to interfere with the showing. PERRY W. HOWARD MADE SPECIAL ASSISTANT IN DEPT. OF JUSTICE. Washington, D. C.—Attorney General Daugherty announced last Thursday the appointment of Attorney Perry W. Howard of Jackson, Miss., as special assistant to the attorney general in the claims division of the Department of Justice. He will have charge of fraudulent claims against the government. The salary is $5,000 a year. Hon. George E. irennan, who has become the head leader of the democratic party in this city and throughout the State of Illinois, is working mighty hard for the election of every candidate on the independent judicial ticket that "justice knows no politics" and Mr. Brennan is willing to lay down a little something on the table that all the candidates on the non-partisan judicial ticket will be elected on Monday, June 6. Mrs. Frank Meredith, mother of the late Mrs. Mamie Odom, 3733 Forest avenue; also mother of Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper of East Orange, N. J., returned to her home in New York City on Tuesday. Mrs. Geneva Smith and her husband, Mrs. Charles Smith, have removed from 423 E. 45th place to 4714 Champlain avenue, where they are at home to their many friends. CHARLES E. STUMP, TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, AFTER VISITING LOUISVILLE, KY., RECENTLY—HE BEAT IT TO WASHINGTON, D. C.; NEW YORK CITY, AND HE IS NOW ON HIS WAY TO OKLAHOMA AND THE FAR SOUTH-WEST. Louisville, Kentucky.—When the disease germs attack you, the fellow must keep at it all the time or they will just send you right on to your long eternal home. As I take up my pen to say a few words to you this week, I am reminded that Bishop G. W. Clinton is no more, and in his death we have lost one more great man. The large and the small, the great and the ungreat one by one must leave this world. In these deaths we are reminded that the line is never drawn by our heavenly father, but He handles us all alike. Dr. Woods is an advanced thinker, and a man of real standing. I wish you could just see and hear one of his speeches. The National Race Congress of America has held its annual session, and they outlined a great program for the advancement of our people. I am real proud of the work Dr. W. H. Jernagin is doing. He is just a leader of men. I am sure that you have heard of the appointment of Hon. P. W. Howard. He has gotten hold of one of the good plums to be given out by I am sure that you will remember Bishop Clinton, for he was one of the real men of our race. He was a man who believed in his people and spent his life for them. He was the senior Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, and indeed a loving and devoted husband. I have had the pleasure of being in his home and I am very well acquainted with his widow, Mrs. Marie Louise Clay-Clinton, the mocking bird of our race and country. When I took my pen in hand to write to you last-week, or the week before, for I did not write last week, I had been wrestling with the germs, and they were about to get the better of me. I have been ordered by the doctor to go to bed and remain there. This I must do, and my friends have urged me to listen to the doctors. I had the pleasure of leaving New York in company with that great educator, Dr. Robert R. Moton. He is doing a great work for our people although here and there you will find some fellow who will try to say things which are not in keeping with Sunday school ethics about the man who is rendering service. A few weeks ago Dr. Moton made a tour through North Carolina and he said some real helpful things about us and for us. He pleaded our cause in places where we could not get ourselves and it is necessary for us to get from time to time. Well he was there and he had the say. He told the Lord about us, and then he told the young white man about his short-comings, about his uprisings and down goings. He told him of his meanness and then of his goodness, and the fellow overlooked all he said about the meanness of the white man, about his short-comings, and tried to fly into him for the good things. If you would tell a man about his mean things, then you must find some good things in him and tell him about them also. Make them even just like we would like to have them made for us. Time is not going to tell you all. Dr. Moton is doing good things at Tuskegee Institute, and I am real proud of him. I made it into Washington, and you know I saw a few things there. You were not there, but the Virginia Baptist State Convention met in Washington, and I went down to see what they were going to do and how they were going to do the things I saw the people place on the table about $30,000 out of their own pockets and from our own people. That's going some, and that is saying to the world that we are doing things for ourselves. The convention was presided over by the Rev. Dr. T. J. King, of Richmond, Va., a great leader of men, and a man of rare ability. The people were there in large numbers and there were some speeches made, believe me, honey. I talked with them all. I met that great educational leader of my race, Dr. R. C. Woods, president of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, the institution which is doing so much for us, and about which I am going to talk in another letter. Dr. Woods is an advanced thinker, and a man of real standing. I wish you could just see and hear one of his speeches. The National Race Congress of America has held its annual session, and they outlined a great program for the advancement of our people. I am real proud of the work Dr. W. H. Jernagin is doing. He is just a leader of men. I am sure that you have heard of the appointment of Hon. P. W. Howard. He has gotten hold of one of the good plums to be given out by President Warren G. Harding. He is now in the Department of Justice, holding an important post therein. We congratulate him on his success in this line. I could just tell you all and all about Washington, and about the big position which is now being held by Hon. Phil. Brown, the newspaper man, but this will not do, and I have so many other things to call attention to this week. Dr. Walter H. Brooks toted me around a little in his car and I enjoyed the ride, and I enjoyed all that I saw in Washington, D.C. I did not get to go to see President Harding, but had to just wish him well and hope to go to see him the next time I go to Washington. Of course, I said so many things about him and for him before the election, until I am now watching to see what he is going to do for the nation. What he is going to do for those who united and placed him in the White House. He can make a place for his party and himself if he will, and I hope that he will. Let us watch for developments. From Washington I made it to Clarksburg, W. Va., and this trip I shall never forget. It was a real fine ride, and I was delighted to have the pleasure of meeting so many strong people there in that town. I was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is the man who knows how to do things. He is the plumber of the town and a real busy man at that. He has a wife and two daughters and one son. I had the pleasure of spending two or three days in the town and met many people there, but time will not permit to discuss all I met. They have a lovely school there. Prof. E. B. Saunders is principal of the Kelly Miller school. They are now fitting up for a real up-to-date high school in the town. We will all be proud of the faculty of the school is made up from graduates from Howard University, Fisk University, The West Virginia College Institute, Wilberforce University, Knoxville College, Ohio State University, and other schools. They are well trained and fitted for their work. I had the pleasure of meeting the president of the Board of Education. He is a man among men, and a man who is not afraid to mingle with the people. I saw him at a lecture delivered by one of our men, and I was proud to see how well he remained through the lecture. I join with the people in congratulating the board on doing the fair and the right thing for the people. We need such men in position. I have made it from there to Institute, West Virginia, where is located the state school, Prof. John W. Davis, president, and Prof. Carter Woodson, dean. This is a great team and they have some teachers here, believe me, honey. I just felt educated when President Davis extended me his hand, and made me welcome to his home. I was his guest while there and his wife who is the daughter of Hon. H. A. Rucker, of Atlanta, Ga., and she is well educated. From there I made it to Frankfurt, Ky., where I spent one night, the guest of Miss Martha E. Williams, and visited the Capital City In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxes, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to THE BROAD AX 206 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 Druxel 1416 MAY 28, 1921 VOL. XXVI. No. 36 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago. III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. HON. JAMES W. BREEN, THE THOMPSON REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT. 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 hotors 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 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 1 1930 First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago Republican Candidate for Judge of the Circu County, Whose Thousands of Loyal Friends L a Dead Sure Winner, Monday, June 6. 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. 10 The Highly Honored Dean of County, Who Will Receive the His Race for Re-election to His of the Best and Fairest Circ County. The Highly Honored Dean of the Circuit Court Bench 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. Hon. Thomas G. Windes is so well and favorably known to the electorate of this city and Cook county that he needs no long introduction to the many readers of this paper. He has, in the past, honorably served as Master-in-Chancery of the Circuit court of this county, from 1880 to 1892, at which time he was elected judge of the Circuit court. From that time to the present he has been one of its beacon lights and one of the most honorable and conspicuous jurists, or expounder of the fundamental principle of the laws governing all the citizens, residing in this community. State and Chicago Bar associations. For many years Judge Windes has resided in a beautiful home at Winnetka, Ill., and recently, his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Windes, very peacefully closed her eyes in death in their home and that is the main reason why Judge Windes is refraining from making any speeches and taking an active part in the present judicial contest and he feels confident that his vast army of warm friends in all parts of this city and county deeply sympathize with him over the loss of his dearly beloved wife and that they will do everything within their power to aid him in his re- Judge Winder is the dean of the Circuit court bench, being elected every six years, from 1892 to 1915, and as he always receives the unstinted support and the votes of Democrats and Republicans, as well as the independent voter, his re-election is assured on Monday, June 6. He has the distinction of serving as chief justice of the Circuit court; he is an honored and prominent member of the American, Illinois 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 of 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 Committee- 1930 insel of Chicago; the Thompson age of the Circuit Court of Cook Loyal Friends Look Upon Him as June 6. HON. THOMAS G. WINDES State and Chicago Bar associations For many years Judge Windes has resided in a beautiful home at Winnetka, Ill., and recently, his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Windes, very peacefully closed her eyes in death in their home and that is the main reason why Judge Windes is refraining from making any speeches and taking an active part in the present judicial contest and he feels confident that his vast army of warm friends in all parts of this city and county deeply sympathize with him over the loss of his dearly beloved wife and that he will do everything within their power to aid him in his reelection Monday, June 6. The Colored Cook County Bar association, which is composed of well onto sixty of the leading colored lawyers in this city, has highly endorsed Judge Windes and its members claim that he is devoid of race prejudice; that he knows no "color line" in dispensing even handed justice and that thousands of colored men and women will vote for his reelection Monday, June 6. man 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. MANY PROMINENT LADIES ARE WORKING HARD FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE COALITION NON-PARTISAN JUDICIAL TICKET. Women, republicans and democrats, of Chicago and Cook county have joined hands to defeat the City Hall candidates for judges. They are getting workers in every precinct to canvass for the ten republicans and ten democrats whose names are in the democratic column of the official ballot. Women particularly are interested in this election because it involves the courts which administer the laws concerning mothers and children. The Circuit Court judges assign the Juvenile Court judge from their own membership. He appoints a woman assistant and 107 probation officers. It is pointed out that the present Juvenile Court organization under Judge Arnold is one which cannot be jeopardized by placing it in the hands of political spoilsmen. This organization administers the Mother's Pension Fund of about $50,000 a year, every dollar of which, under Judge Arnold, has been turned over to the mothers, with no deductions for salaries or operating expense. It is further pointed out that the Circuit Court judges appoint the South Park Board, which has in its employ about 1,600 persons and expends in the maintenance of the South Side system of boulevards, parks, recreation centers and bathing beaches upwards of two and one-half million dollars a year. The expenditure of twenty million dollars already voted in bonds for improvements undertaken will also be in its hands. Mothers are interested in the proper expenditure of these funds that their children may enjoy the health and pleasures they will provide. Women's clubs and other organizations, therefore, are urging voters to put a cross in the square in front of the name of every candidate on the coalition non-partisan ticket appearing in the democratic column.—"C" CHICAGO, ILL.; SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 No one need be seized by a jealous rage because we were not all born up here in the free north. Customs and mannerisms of the south will, of course, have to be overcome, and if these simple, honest people are industrious and frugal, some tomorrow will find them vastly improved over their present condition. A hostile environment has played havoc with many of them but what has the northern freedom done for a great many we might name? Unfortunately a host of them have made but little, if any, progress at all in twenty years. We insist that jealousy is an ugly form of some kind of craziness. HOWARD UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR COMMENCEMENTS Prominent Men Are to Make Addresses at the University Exercises—Interesting Features. Washington, D. C.—The Howard University is preparing for its Fifty-second Annual Commencement exercises. The central features will be the Baccalaureate Sermon by President J. Stanley Durkee, in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Sunday, June 5, at 4 P. M.; the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, Tuesday, June 7, at 10 A. M.; ground breaking for the new Home Economics and Dining Hall building which is to cost when completed with furnishings, approximately $200,000. The annual meeting of the Howard Alumni association, Friday, June 10, at 9 A. M., at which time an address is to be made by W. Ashbie Hawkins, Esq, Baltimore, Maryland, of the Class of 1892. Mr. Hawkins is one of Howard's most successful graduates. The Theological Alumni association will hold its annual meeting, Friday, June 10, at 12 o'clock, noon. This year's alumni events will be notable by reason of the attendance of members who are coming from all parts of the country to help celebrate the Greater Howard movement. Another feature of interest will be the presentation of "The Canterbury Pilgrims," a play by Percy Mackaye, on the Howard University campus, Thursday, June 9, at 8 P. M. The University R. O. T. C. band will render concerts daily from Monday to Friday, inclusive, during Commencement week. The annual commencement address will be delivered by the Honorable William H. Lewis, of Boston, Massachusetts, formerly Assistant Attorney General of the United States. The week promises to be a complete one, crowded with events of interest to officers, teachers, students, alumni and friends. The grounds will be elaborately decorated during commencement week. The annual alumni luncheon will be served in Miner hall, Friday, June 10, at 1:30 P. M. President Charles Dunbar Bradley King and the Liberian Plenary commission now in this country have been invited to be present at the various commencement exercises. CARRAWAY'S LITTLE JOKE. One Carraway, a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas, one of the states in the Southern murder tier, unconsciously perpetrated a little joke when he introduced a bill to prohibit enlistment of colored men in the army or navy. Of course Carraway did not mean to be funny—he put the bill in to please the red necks of "Rackensack." He knows it can not pass. But the joke is there just the same, because colored Americans are already barred from 50th army and navy except on a jimcrow basis. Although a resident of one of the states, a colored man can not enter the militia of that state on the same basis as other citizens. He must get into a segregated unit and then into the U. S. Army through the jimcrow division of the Federalized National Guard. If he wishes to enter the regular army he must go into a segregated regiment. If a young colored man happens to read one of the lying advertisements published by the parvy, calling attention to the enlistment "to travel and see the world," or "honorable advancement," or "chance for a great career," and with loyalty and patriotism in his breast he endeavors to enlist, he is informed by the not invariably polite enlistment officer that his only chance is as a mess attendant, which translated means a servant. This is the way loyal colored citizens are treated by a lying nation which boasts of its democracy, humanity and Christianity—The Appeal, St. Paul, Minn., May 21, 1921. Attorney Harris F. Williams has removed from the Harris Trust building to the Majestic building, where he occupies an extensive suite of law offices on the twelfth floor. By Dr. M. A. Majors Jealousy is one of the positive symptoms of insanity. Of course, it is generally known that no one's mental pabulum is quite perfect. Of course Thomas A. Edison and old Prof. Elliott, of Harvard, regard themselves absolutely sound mentally while all the rest of us are out of institutions for the insane because there isn't any room there for us. We were speaking of jealousy being a symptom of craziness. It is, and everyone afflicted with jealousy is tendered mentally imperfect. It is inspired by the most foolish and the most outrageous things. A great many people we know are very jealous and sometimes they are very crazy. They are entirely oblivious of there being the slightest thing the matter with them. Edison thinks college men are failures; of course, if Edison was a college man this form of jealous rage would have never been shown. Prof. Elliott is jealous of the big men in the legal profession because many of the ablest men in America today came from some little college, or just simply some high school. Prof. Elliott believes a man can only become great by a man can only through Harvard college. Lincoln and Douglass didn't go through any college at all. Some of the overrated little folks, mistaken for big folks, show a certain cunning and bravado and yet the very mainsprings of their lives is the busy occupation of piling up blocks and obstructions in the path of some real man or woman. Doing their dodgasted to wreak vengeance, or bring into disrepute, those who show by their every action that they are all but Godsent. We were over thirty years of age before we consistently appreciate and believe there was a hell. We firmly believe there is such a place and we have located in the heart, brain, and backbone and, sometimes it is found in the heel of some contemptible individual who is suffering a seizure of convulsive jealousy of the life and the good deeds of others. Great nature intended that they should thrive on far less than a gluttonous appetite shall crave and by hook and crook they have camouflaged themselves into certain questionable phases of prosperity by stooping to things out of the common road to destiny. There the king of jealousy sits upon his infamous throne and hoards of people who do not know the "cheap guy" attributes of his devilship. There is a bunch of satelites of this barbaric group, who, because they have lived in Chicago all or most of their lives, that everybody coming into great Chicago to take up their abode should be disregarded, hindered, obstructed or given a bad name if they do not join the crazy and jealous enraged high-brow group, which is composed of seductionists, pimps, jailbirds, a few prostitutes, gamblers, women sustained by the destruction of others, and a great number of pretty yellow bastards and other very good folk; some well to do, and others to do well only by crookedness. This bunch of society bugs would sworn down the greatness of Dunbar. Of Dunbar they were jealous, besides, God neglected to make Dunbar a yellow bastard, and so our greatest poet almost died in obscurity. Some of the aristocratic gentry can well recall the days of the nickel glass of beer and a free lunch. Some of them are not so insanely jealous to remember some very good looking people who used to feed them when they were trying to get a professional education. This writer has also the pedigree of a disciple of Blackstone, whose fancy smile and black locks would almost bespeak for him the gentleman that he is not. He is one of the whitewashed gang whose record of seduction among servant girls at one time alarmed the community. The outcast makes no pretention and you need not be mistaken. But here we have in Chicago a bunch of damnable neophytes cutting up, and slashing the names of obscurity, who are no cheap spot light flashers. For race development, race strength, culture, religion and intelligence the Negro from the south who has chosen Chicago to live in within the last fifteen years are our sole dependence. Here and there is a gleam and a spark and a sprig of gentility and for wealth the people from the south. Of course, if the Negro of the north came from the south he would not be jealous and he would think differently of the south. We long for the formation and the perpetuation of society among us. Some day we will attain it. You may then be assured that accidents, human misfits, and orphans will not be credited with the honor of the race. The group of jealous biggots need not grow jealous of the Negro from the south, but one thing they had better do. The southern Negro is in dead earnest and if they don't get a "busy spell" on themselves and keep a humping and a jumping they will be run over, obliterated, or put to rout. Doguel Objp HON. HUGO M. FRIEND Non-Partisan Candidate for Elect He Has Been Highly Endorsed Association and His Election for He Is Paintaking and U Passing Final Judgment on All 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 Awarded for He Is Paintstaking and Uses the Greatest Consideration in Passing Final Judgment on All Cases Brought Before Him. Hon. Hugo M. Friend, non-partisan candidate for judge of the Circuit Court, was ushered into this world at Prague, Bohemia, July 21, 1882, being the son of Marcus and Emilie (Straschnow) Friend. At the age of two years he accompanied his parents to this country and to the great city of Chicago, where in time he blossomed into a full-fledged American citizen. record running broad jump in 1903, 1904, 1905; member of American Olympic team at Athens, Greece, in 1906. Prior to being elevated to the Circuit Court bench he honorably served as master in chancery of the Superior Court, being appointed by Judge Albert C. Barnes. Judge Friend is president of the Chicago Law School Alumni Association. He received his early education at the Doolittle Grammar School; the South Division High School honors being bestowed upon him in those schools at that time, later on attending the Chicago University, receiving his Ph. B. in 1905 and his J. D. in 1908, and he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1908 and from that time he met with extraordinary success in the practice of law until he was elevated to the Circuit Court bench, some seven or eight months ago. Judge Friend has always greatly enjoyed athletic sports. He served as a captain of the track team of the University of Chicago in 1905, and he was a holder of the intercollegiate SAVED FROM THE SOUTH. John Reese, 3132 South Park avenue, a Pullman car porter running from here to Grenada, Miss., was discharged from custody by Judge Hugo Friend of the Criminal Court on a writ of habeas corpus presented by Attorney J. Gray Lucas. The sheriff of Grenada was here to carry Reese back to Mississippi on a charge of stealing a $2,000 brooch from a white passenger on his train. Reese ```markdown ``` M. B. Ex-Governor of Illinois; Popular Citizen and Eminent Will Be One of the Orators or Spellbinders at the Judges' Meeting at Trinity Church, 30th Street a nue, Monday Evening, May 30th. Ex-Governor of Illinois; Popular Citizen and Eminent Lawyer, Who Will Be One of the Orators or Spellbinders at the Non-Partisan Judges' Meeting at Trinity Church, 30th Street and Prairie Avenue, Monday Evening, May 30th. ion as Judge of the Circuit Court by the Colored Cook County Bar on Monday, June 6th, in Assured, sees the Greatest Consideration in Cases Brought Before Him. record running broad jump in 1908, 1904, 1905; member of American Olympic team at Athens, Greece, in 1906. Prior to being elevated to the Circuit Court bench he honorably served as master in chancery of the Superior Court, being appointed by Judge Albert C. Barnes. Judge Friend is president of the Chicago Law School Alumni Association Chicago University. He served as one of the members of the First Cavalry, Illinois National Guard from 1909 to 1912. He has always been actively interested in charity. He was the creator and founder of the Maxwell Settlement, Wimfred Tuberculosis Sanitarium. He is a prominent member of the Chicago City Club, Chicago, Ill., American Bar and the Lawyers' Association of Illinois Aside from sitting in civil cases, he has at various times sat in the Juvenile and Criminal Courts. The judge and his good wife, Mrs. Friend reside in a pleasant home at 5326 Prairie avenue, and his hosts of friends freely predict his election to the Circuit Court bench Monday, June 6. acknowledged the broch was in his possession, but claimed that he had found it on the floor of his car. Attorney Lucas showed the court that the warrant had never been signed by the owner of the broch, but by an outsider whose only interest lay in taking Reese back south. Reese has been in jail a month pending a hearing of his case. After listening to all of the evidence in the case Judge Friend promptly discharged John Reese—Editor BARON Citizen and Eminent Lawyer, Wh Spellbinders at the Non-Parti arch, 30th Street and Prairie Ave "The Negro and Organised or Profesional Organs?" "May I last I was assigned to the North Side to try unbailable murder cases. It was found that there were 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 Sex Grimès? Discrimination in Court 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 whites 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 The city hall machine controls the election boards. To make sure that your vote is counted put a cross in the square before the name of each candidate in the Democratic column, as shown below: GIRLS' GLEE CLUB OF HAMP TON GIVES SONG RECITAL Hampton, Va.—The girls' glee club of Hampton Institute, under the direction of Miss Wilhelmina B. Patterson, recently gave the following song recital: Sanctus from "St. Cecelia Mass"... Gounod Solo by Marjorie J. Johnson Little Lamb ..... Chadwick To a Wild Rose ..... MacDowell Calm Is the Night ..... Bohm Done Paid My Vows to the Lord.. Lullaby (from "Jocelyn").....Godard Humoreske .....Dvorak My Heart at Thy Dear Voice (from "Samson and Delilah")..... .....Saint Saens ATTACKED! IN LARGE MEETING. The officers and members of the Royal Circle of Friends of the World met in a large meeting May 20 at Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church and obligated more than three hundred new members. This organization is making rapid strides in the city with Dr. R. A. Williams as supreme president and Dr. D. J. Williams as the supervisor of Illinois. If this is his record, as it seems to be, the league, in behalf of Colored America, petitions you to withdraw his appointment to Federal Department of Justice, which department enforces the Constitution and the 14th and 15th amendments thereof, with which your acceptance speech accorded. Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, Pres." TO REMAIN IN SUBURBS. ON DUTY AS ATTORNEY Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, who was recently appointed attorney for the Pyramid Building & Loan Association, 3539 S. State street, has accepted the position and is on duty. The Pyramid Building & Loan Association is the only corporation of its kind in the State of Illinois under state supervision and conducted by members of the Race. IN CITY Eli Hart, an old resident of Lake Forest, Ill., spent the day in the city Sunday, attending the annual sermon of U. B. F. & S. M. T., of which he is a member. CHARLES E. STUMP I will not be able to tell you all the things that happened. I was invited to take a seat on the stage and this made me feel like I was some pumpkins. I heard all the addresses, and talked with big preachers and teachers, and then I got through. I shall have more to say about this next week or some other time. —Charles E. Stump. HON. DAVID F. MATCHETT Independent Non-Partisan Candidate of Cook County. "Justice M Matchett Is Bound to be Re-e Monday, June 6. For years Judge and Mrs. Matchett and their family have resided in a lovely home at 6133 Ellis avenue, and once each week The Broad Ax finds its way into their home. In 1895 he was admitted to the Illinois bar and he has been in the public eye from that time to the present. He served as Master-in- OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS VIRGINIANS MEET The monthly meeting of the Virginia Society was held May 18 at headquarters, 3638 State street, at which time several new members were added to the roll. The society is composed of native Virginians. RETURNS TO MICHIGAN. 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Price by mail 25c on receipt of stamp or coin. AGENTS WANTED - Write for Purcellum EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia Womake EXELENTO SIN BEAUTIFUL, an instantment for dark, yellow skins, used in treatment of skin troubles. J. STANLEY DURKEE, A. M., Ph. D., President EMMETT J. SCOTT, A. M., LL. D., Secretary-Treasurer Venor College, consisting of the Schools of Liberal Arts, Education, Journism and Commerce and Finance, granting respectively the degrees. A. B. or B. S.; A. B. or B. S. in Education; B. S. in Journalism; B. S. in Commerce. School of Applied Science, four year course, giving degree, B. S. in S. E.; B. S. in E. E. B. S. in M. E., B. S. in Architecture; B. S. in Agriculture, and B. S. in Household Economics. School of Music, four year course, giving degree of Mus. B. School of Religion, three year course, giving degree of B. D. (Also Diploma and Correspondence Courses.) School of Law, three year evening course, giving degree of LL.B. School of Medicine, including Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Colleges. Four year course for Medical and Dental Students; three years for Pharmaceutical students. Following degrees given: M. D., D. D. S., Phar. C. Students may enter for Collegiate Work at the beginning of any quarter. REGISTRATION: Autumn Quarter.....September 27 to 29, 1989 Winter Quarter.....January 8, 1981 Spring Quarter.....March 19 and 21, 1981 Registrar Washington. APPELLANT WESTERN BANK INGS BANK Chicago ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle and Jackson Streets Chicago A Bank Book's Evolution Bank Books oftimes bring about the most amazing developments. Beautiful homes, gigantic businesses grow out of them. It's all up to the owner of the book. His willingness to save, his dogged consistency tell the story. Presidio change! What will your bank account turn into? Lincoln State Bank of Chicago 3105 South State Street—9 and 11 East 31st Street Under State Government Supervision 3 Per Cent on Savings Resources over $2,600,000.00 Where's Your Savings? The only safe place for your money is in the bank, beyond the reach of fire and thieves protected 24 hours a day with armed guards. Our bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System Government protection. English Titles of Nobility. The rank of earl was introduced in England at the time of the Conquest and succeeded the Saxon earl-dom. It continued the highest rank in England until Edward III created dukes in 1387 and Richard II created marquesens in 1385, both being superior to earls. Smells Like Onion. The kulim of the Philippines and Malay Peninsula gives forth a strong aroma of onions, says the American Forestry Magazine, while the pac d'alho 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." 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. Wells 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 dies away from the but for the same reason. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 West Engle Ashland State CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 1610 West 63rd Street West Englewood Highland State Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $800,000.00 at 63rd Street Comparative Statement of Deposits November 18, 1912, $838,605.23 November 17, 1914, $912,005.69 November 17, 1918, $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 OFFICERS IN President' MABEL MAISSEL, 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 superstitions 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. HARR REAL ESTATE Up-to-Date or Modern Hous and Stores to Re 3101 COTTAGE GR Corner 31st Street, RGE F. HARDING REAL ESTATE 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. MOR Proprietors 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4721 Champain Avenue. Phone Kenwood 2611 MERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. Preprietors ANA AVENUE CHIC Public Main 4153; Residence, Capain Avenue. phone 2611 GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. 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