The Broad Ax

Col. John Arthur Johnson, the Former Heavy Weight Champion Prize Fighter of the World, After Wandering Over the Face of the Earth in Many Parts of the World for the Past Six Years, Struck Chicago, His Old Home Town, Thursday Morning. ARRIVING IN IT FROM LEAVENWORTH AND KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, OVER THE SANTE FE RAILROAD --- HE WAS GREETED AT THE POLK STREET DEPOT BY HUNDREDS OF HIS OLD FRIENDS, AND HE WILL BE ROYALLY ENTERTAINED BY THEM, PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FOR NEW YORK CITY AND HIS RETURN HERE TO MAKE IT HIS FUTURE PERMANENT HOME. COL. JACK DEMPSEY HAS NOT THE MORAL COURAGE NOR THE BACK-BONE TO FIGHT COL. JACK JOHNSON, FOR COL. DEMPSEY IS FEARFUL THAT HE WOULD BE KNOCKED OUT STIFF AND COLD AND THAT COL. JOHNSON WOULD WALK AWAY WITH THE HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. The latter part of the spring of 1915 Col. John Arthur Johnson, who at that time had become the ex-champion heavyweight prize fighter of the world, faded away to Canada with his wife, Mrs. Lucille Cameron Johnson, taking with him his two high powered racing machines which were worth a whole barrel of money and about ten large trunks which were loaded down with all kinds of finery belonging to himself and Mrs. Johnson, including her highly trained Spanish dog, which is one of her best friends. In winding up his travels to all parts of the civilized world, Col. Johnson is firmly convinced that the United States, with all of its faults is the greatest country on earth and that old State street in Chicago is the greatest street in the world. On Thursday morning Col. and Mrs. Johnson arrived in this city and thousands of their friends greeted both of them as they alighted from the long train from Kansas City at the Belk street station, a hand of Col Johnson, with all of his belongings except his beautiful home in the 33rd block on South Wabash avenue, successfully made his getaway from the United States long before the federal officers at this point had woke up and some claim that at least some of the higher-ups had caught a severe or a bad case of the sleeping sickness and that they had no time to think of planning to compel Col. Johnson to remain within the shadow of the big federal building. After Col. and Mrs. Johnson had beat it from the United States for more than five years they resided in France, Spain, Mexico and traveled through many parts of the old world, a little over one year ago Col. Johnson decided that no longer would he dart and hide from the United States officers; that he would walk up to the trough and take his medicine like a manly man, so the first part of July, 1920, for the first time since he faded away in the spring of 1915, he set his feet on the American soil in California. He was brought on to Joliet, arriving at that point Sunday, July 25. Later he was sent to the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., where he served his time, one year Twelfth Annual Conference at Detroit Demands Square Deal for Negro. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, has published the call to the nation adopted by resolution at the final meeting of the twelfth annual conference in Detroit. The call was presented by Harry E. Davis, colored member of the Ohio legislature, and read as follows: Call to the Nation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in its twelfth annual conference, meeting in this great crisis of the world's reconstruction, would remind the nation that from our very first conference we have planted our agitation and action upon a careful and thorough investigation of the truth concerning the Negro problem. *Often when we have published in our organ, The Crisis, and in letters and articles in the press, our findings and conclusions, we have been accused of exaggeration. Today we stand vindicated before the world in the regulations of THE BROAD AX act. In winding up his travels to all parts of the civilized world, Col. Johnson is firmly convinced that the United States, with all of its faults is the greatest country on earth and that old State street in Chicago is the greatest street in the world. On Thursday morning Col. and Mrs. Johnson arrived in this city and thousands of their friends greeted both of them as they alighted from the long train from Kansas City at the Polk street station, a band of music was on hand to assist to welcome them home and to escort them to the home of Col. Johnson's sister, Mrs. Jennie Rhodes, 3642 Grand boulevard, where more than two thousand men and women were in evidence to shake hands with Col. and Mrs. Johnson. The reception and the feasting and the drinking of real wine lasted until 3 o'clock, at which time Col. Johnson wended his way to the Dreamland Cafe, 3520 South State street, where he received a great ovation from all of the leading sports on the south side. During the day a boxing bout was staged in his honor at the Eighth Regiment Armory, which drew a great crowd of sports and sporting fans, also a grand reception was held there later in the evening. Col. and Mrs. Johnson are looking the picture of health and they both received their hosts of warm friends with open arms, and they were both bedecked with brilliant diamonds from head to foot. Col. Johnson stands ready to go to the mat with Col. Jack Dempsey or with any other heavyweight prizefighter in the world. Georgia, and knowing that Georgia is little if any worse than half a dozen other states, we solemnly adjure this nation to give more serious attention and more earnest action to this featering social sore. Lynching and mob violence against Negroes still looms as our most indefensible national crime and unless the present administration takes early action by legal enactment it will stand condemned of all thoughtful citizens north and south. Increasingly the Negro at Washington, Chicago and Tulsa has been forced to give his life in self-defense. No man can do less for his family and people and it is a cruel campaign of lying that represents this fight for life as organized aggression. Negroes are not fools. Eleven million poor laborers do not seek war on a hundred million powerful neighbors. But they cannot and will not die without raising a hand when the nation lets its off-scourings and bandits insult, harry, loot and kill them. What is the cause of the new conflict of race in America? It is not simply a growing sense of manhood on the part of the blacks, it is increased lack of sympathy and sense [Name not visible] The Most Expert Scientific Foot Specialist in Chicago, Who Occupies Fine Quarters at 135 South State Street. He Has Been Successfully Established in Business in This City Since 1887. of justice on the part of the whites and this arises from the snapping of those human bonds which must exist between neighbors. If the Negro child is not educated, if the Negro is segregated in federal departments and Oklahoma cities, if he is publicly insulted by "Jim Crow" cars, if he is treated unjustly in the courts as in the twelve pending Arkansas peonage cases, if in the army and navy the Negro is grossly and continually discriminated against and faces plans for further discrimination in the national guard, if he has no voice in the administration of the law especially as to labor, agriculture and education, and if finally the nation is being honeycombed by secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan, who stir up race hatred by inuendo and appeal to the lowest brute instincts—if all these things are done, how can we help but kill the human sympathy, the spirit of the Prince of Peace, the strong faith and the desire for humble effective cooperation which alone can save civilization? Men and women of America, the program of those who would save America from bitter racial hatred and conflict and murder is short and simple: 1. The right to vote under the same 2. A federal law against lynching and mob violence. 3. Justice for the convicted peons in Arkansas. 4. Equitable treatment for Negro soldiers and sailors. 5. Abolition of the "Jim Crow" cars in interstate traffic. 6. Free public schools for Negro children. 7. The appointment of an interracial commission, of high class, fair-minded men and women representing both races, to make a scientific survey of race relations. 9. The weight of our influence to secure justice For the natives of Africa particularly in the former German colonies. 10. A world-wide attempt to promote peace through inter-racial understanding and equality, and through a wider recognition of the basic identity of race and labor problems. Hyde Park was shaken at 12:15 o'clock Thursday morning by the explosion of a time bomb between the buildings at 423 and 431 East 40th place. The blast shattered the windows in almost every building between Grand boulevard and Vincennes avenue, and the force of the explosion was felt for blocks around. Patrol Sergeant James Tucker, colored, passing one of the buildings, was severely cut by flying glass. The bomb was the fourth of a series since Negroes began to invade the neighborhood. It was to guard against a recurrence of the explosions that Sergt. Tucker had been stationed in the street. He declared he saw no one in the street before the explosion. The building at 423 East 48th place is occupied by the family of J. H. Kristner, colored. The building at 431 East 48th place is occupied by the family of E. N. Butler, white. AN APPEAL FOR NEGROES. Chicago—(Editor of The Tribune.)—Eleven millions of Negro people in the United States are making one continuous cry for justice. What do they want? The righteousness of conduct in personal dealings, men with men, is one of the rights assured by the constitution of the United States to every citizen, regardless of creed or color. "Equality and exact justice to all men," said Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address. And this is what the Negro wants and ought to have. Do they have it? Look_right down into the black record. Truth-harms no one but the guilty. In the past fifty years over 5,600 Negroes have been lynched; mutilated and tortured. Only recently, within sight of the White House at Alexandria, Va., a Negro was most brutally lynched. At Springfield, IL, where all that is mortal of Abraham Lincoln, a Negro was burned. At East St. Louis over forty Negroes were slaughtered. The same year thirty-one Negroes and one Negro woman were lynched. Negroes have been burned at stake even in John Brown's own state of Kansas. Think of Chicago and Tulsa. The United States protested with all its might against the atrocities of Belgium; but are the atrocities committed against the Negro in this land of the Stars and Stripes any different? Why visit the Belgian atrocities with fire and sword and tolerate them in our own land? Give the Negroes the same security of life against mobs as the whites have. Give them the same standard of citizenship, honest fairness in the courts, judgments without prejudice, trials by courts, not by mobs; fair and honest opportunity to earn a living and do away with oppression. Why spend millions upon millions of dollars to compel people to live up to the eighteenth amendment, and not one cent to enforce obedience to the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth amendments? John Meier. THE OLD OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, TWENTY-SEVENTH AND DEARBORN STREETS, HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. The old members of Olivet Baptist church, who now hold forth in the new Olivet Baptist church, 31st street and South Park avenue, sold their old church at 27th and Dearborn streets, which was the old landmark for the Colored Baptists in this city, to the Liberty Baptist church, 39th and Dearborn streets, for fifty-five thousand dollars. Rev D. W. Bowen is the hustling center of the Liberty Baptist church The signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17th, 1787, marked a very important event in the history of the world. Each community and each individual daily enjoys advantages which would not be his but for the wisdom of the pioneers who gave a Constitution to a united country, North and South, East and West—all are glad that we are one country under one flag. New times bring new responsibilities and new duties. We would be untrue to those who have gone before if we stood for the Constitution as originally drafted with no changes to keep pace with the world's advance. Community Service is among the large national organizations who are emphasizing the desirability of each locality having a special celebration to commemorate "constitution day," on September 17, 1921. REV. L. K WILLIAMS, PASTOR OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH AND DR. J. S. DORSEY HAVE BURIED THE HATCHET AND BECOME FAST FRIENDS AGAIN. For some years past, Dr. J. S. Dorsey, the popular druggist, corner 31st street and Vernon avenue, was one of the main officers in the Olivet Baptist church and some way or other he and Rev. L. K. Williams, the present eloquent and influential pastor of Olivet Baptist church, broke away from each other, but they have become fast friends again and Dr. Dorsey will do everything in his power to assist Dr. Williams, to make the national Baptist convention a howling success which meets in his church the first part of September. Mr. Van Buren Miles, who is also an officer and an active member of Olivet Baptist church, is greatly pleased that Rev. Williams and Dr. Dorsey are standing shoulder to shoulder again. NEW ADULT PROBATION OFFICER. Raymond O. Edwards, 4818 Evans avenue, has been appointed adult probation officer of Cook county, having made an average of 88, 60, 100, fourth on the list in the examination held in September, 1919. Upon the resignation of one of the officers recently, Chief Probation Officer J. W. Houston was only too glad to fill a long felt need by the appointment of Mr. Edwards, who is the first race man in the office. Mr. Edwards is prominent in social and literary circles. EAST ST. LOUIS TO PAY $454,000 RIOT DAMAGES East St. Louis, Ill.—On July 1, 1917, this city had its race riots and next Monday at 9 o'clock will "pay the piper"—$454,000. Holders of validated damage claims will be paid in full. The city government has received $450,000 from the sale of a bond issue recently voted for the settlement of riot judgments. This will be disbursed Monday. CHARLES E. STUMP, TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, BEATS HIS WAY INTO WASHINGTON, D. C., AND NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., AND COMES IN CONTACT WITH MANY MEN AND WOMEN OF PROMINENCE ON HIS WAY TO THE SOUTHLAND. Washington, D. C.—I have never had any desire to get away from the race. God made me a real black man, with blue eyes and I think He knew just what he was doing, and I am going to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer. But there is an effort on the part of one man to crush the real manhood in his brother, and unless he goes way back and takes a seat and permits the white man to do his thinking then he must be looking for a job. to me?" I am just some pumpkins now, and I am going to be. This is all because I am thinking. I have been going just some since I wrote, to you last, and I expect to go some more until I am ordered by God to make a period and come on up home and rest. I will have earned my place in God's universe. I am knocking at the door of opportunity and tell him to get out of the way of a man, for I am going to enter and take up those who are around beg- I am sure that you have been keeping up with the times, and you have seen that there have been some changes made in the schools of our people. For instance, for the past twenty years, or more Prof. N. B. Young, one of the strongest men in this race of ours, a man who has devoted his life to helping to make men to helping our young people to find the real man and woman, has been left out as president of the State School in Tallahassee, Fla., and reason assigned was that he was not in harmony with the industrial plan. Prof. Young has worked and worked hard to develop a real school in Florida. He has advocated the reaching of a man through the mind. He has believed in the manual training, but wanted it all done through the cultivation of the mind, which is the real man at work. He wanted more blacksmiths, more carpenters, more wheelwrights, more everything, but he thought that they should all be educated men and at the same time he wanted for Florida a real college. To this end he has worked, and to this end he has acted, doing a great big job for my people. He was a man every inch of him. He did not go to the white man with his hat under his arms, "Yesah boss," but it was man meeting man, as it should be, and now you see what it cost to be a man. The same thing happened to Prof. Sampson, of Staunton school, Jacksonville, Fla., and next year he will be in a school where he can exercise his gift as a man. He will be at. Edward Waters college. Bishop John Hurst called him in, and extended him a place, and there is right now a real place for Prof. Nathan B. Young, but I have not heard from him yet. He will be in some place within the next few days. You can't keep a good man down. It is hard to tell just where that white man is going to strike next, but let us keep on keeping on and at the same time keep on preparing our boys and girls to meet the demand of the times in which they live. I believe the policy in the future will be to get men in our schools who will teach the Negro that he is not a man, and that his mission is to do only manual labor, and not to fill the higher stations in life, but any man who thinks that the Negro is going to accept any such doctrine at this day he belongs to the class of American damphules, and he could easily take his place at the head of the class. Tell him that I said so, and then fell him who I am. The school room has been preparing men for a long time. Man is no longer comparing his manhood with the brute, but he is putting his mind in touch with God; in fact, he is getting direct in harmony with the God who made him out of the dust of the ground. He is thinking Godward, and when a man thinks that way it is impossible to get him down. He is always looking up, and getting in touch with the higher things. Every man in America had just as well make up his mind that he must treat with me as a real man and not as a toy, or a boy. I have passed those stars, and now gazing up into the face of the sun and asking, "Who are you, from where do you get your heat, and what is your relation to God? I am asking about the spots on the sun, and all them other things. I am looking into the face of science and asking "What is your relation --- to me?" I am just some pumkins now, and I am going to be. This is all because I am thinking. I have been going just some since I wrote to, you last, and I expect to go some more until I am ordered by God to make a period and come on up home and rest. I will have earned my place in God's universe. I am knocking at the door of opportunity and tell him to get out of the way of a man, for I am going to enter and take up those who are around begging for the touch of a man. I was in Elizabeth City, N. C., when I wrote to you last week, and there I was in company with some real men. Bankers, doctors, merchants, business men were my companions, and a few educators. All took me in as one of them, and I tried to look wise whether or not I could keep up with them. But they did give me some big time, and invited me to come again and be at home with them. Now there was Dr. G. W. Cordwell, at whose home I stayed, except one night when I stopped with the cashier of the Albemarle Bank, Banker W. H. Holland, and he is a man who has made his way from the ground up to the top. I had the pleasure of meeting a sorry set of preachers down there in that man's town, but then that's their business and I will not meddle with them this time. I feel like saying a few things about the job lot of preachers of Elizabeth City, but you may not know them. Not all of them, but a few. Now away from Elizabeth City, I made my way to the bank, at Norfolk, Portsmouth, found Levi C. Brown, president of the Mutual Savings Bank, Portsmouth, Va., and his family in good health; J. L. Jones, of the Tidewater Bank and Trust Company, doing well, and I would mention another character, but time will not permit me to do so, for I made it over to Hampton. Hampton is one of the great institutions for the training of our people. This is where white men and women can do and are doing their work. There are but few of our people connected with this great educational plant, except as students, and we are all that. This is an institution which furnishes an opportunity to the white men and women to serve us, to instruct our young people. Some of them are rendering an unselfish service, and are true blue, but you must not expect all of them to be. There is a fine man at the head of the school, and I am proud of him. He is bringing about many changes, and I thank him for them. The standard is being raised more and more. I want to see him just put in a few more of us in the faculty. I am just making this suggestion now, and hope to not become unpopular in so doing. From Hampton, I beat it to Washington, and to the home of W. H. Jernagin, who is now way out on that big ocean going to Europe. He has gone there in the interest of his people. I had the pleasure of attending a big meeting at Mt. Carmel Baptist church presided over by the Rev. Dr. Randolph, and there were some speakers there. They said many good things about the man who deserved to have them said about him. Editor J. Finlay Wilson, of the Eagle, flew around some, and when he lighted there was some money on the table, and it was presented with check and other cash by Mr. Pendleton, and it was in all and all a great big meeting, and some money was put in his hand, I then beat it to New York, because I could not go to New York, and New York could not come to me. It is some city, and you may tell the world I told you so. It was so hot there that flies were dying for the want of a cool breeze. I got there and got out without dying, but it was a job. I was the guest of Dr. Montrose W. Thornton, pastor of (Continued on Page 2) JULIUS R. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 VOL. XXVI No. 43 JULY 16, 1921. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. A BUNCH OF TYPE OR TWO HUNDRED, MORE OR LESS Tell the Truth If It Kills Anybody, They Ought to Dye Their Hair, First.—M. A. Majora. Memories, Memories of the Long Ago Chase that possum, chase that squirrel; Chase that pretty girl around the world. Chase that rabbit, chase that coon. Follow your honey around the moon. There is not a motion of syncopation in this little verse, yet it has a tremulo of multidinous velocity, it mates with "Turkey in the Straw" and belongs to the old time quadrilade. Half the world have helped to give dignity to this song of great variety of tempo; well, you know it was not written for the "high brows." Lines to B. L. T. He was so broad, so deep, so high, so poetic and strong; Could make you laugh, could make you read, weep, sigh, or sing a song. His power was so magic, a tonic if you please; Great Nature is impoverished, there's no more B. L. T.'s. For poetry and drama she gave us Wm. H. S. For real wit, and better lit, B. L. T. came to bless; But what's the use of trying, our shallow pated skull Hasn't got enough gray matter, and words are too blamed dull. One hesitates before the task to write a line of him Who thro' the fields of gorgeous joy made literature so prim; The ardent soul yould have us try to do what we can do. Legs and Dogs and Pants If it takes two legs to make a pair of pants, how many legs will it take to make a dog's pants? A dog has only four legs you know. Speaking of pants, when a dong pants he is laughing because being tired tickles him. Now if women are soon to make them the vogue, the creases will increase decreasing capital of the main guy who wears them the most. THE——Column Is Before You Well, here we are. This column is destined to cure you of the blues, and if you haven't got em, give 'em to you. Glittering, scintillating truth for the first time uttered will be given first aid treatment in the best nurseries to be found. Think of it; you won't have to lie awake nights trying to solve intricate phoenomena any more. All you need do is to leave it to this column to assuage the vexations that come to you as you meander across the Sahara of oblusion, seeking stimuli for your intellectual crown. Hereafter trouble for you is in disfavor and is to be discarded. We are on the job, fellows who have been to college, lingered where they were spreading it so long that we have been pressed bowleged so weighted down with that fearful thing called knowledge. To go bowleged through a dirty world is a sacrifice we proudly make eating fish, spring chicken, potatoes and greens. We possess a facility for getting these only to be guessed at by the ```markdown ``` M. Ex-United States Senator from Illinois, Who Stands Ready and Willing to Assist to Nominate a High Class Colored Lawyer on the Coalition Ticket for Judge of the Superior Court in 1922, in Order to Beat the Republicans at the Judicial Election at That Time. curious minded. We get the greens and potatoes by digging looking for bait to fish with. -A. Fool-ish Fellow. He Would—But— turn about is only fair play. After we had been educated up to the Farnum and Bill Hart class they doubled their prices of admission and made us like it. It used to be the There are more people who want to be great than there are who want to be honest. There are more people who want something for nothing, do nothing, fit for nothing than you could shake a stick at, if you were kept busy shaking it for a half a day at the corner of Madison and State Streets. —Questionnaire. The Black Hound Goes For Us In the days of the old blue back speller, a yellow dog was worth having to watch things when there wasn't anything to watch, but now that we have a little something worth watching we wouldn't keep a yellow dog for love nor money. Black dogs are the vogue. —Airdale. Who Do We Need? Einstein or a The theory of Relativity might decide for us why Salome asked the king for John's head. Spots on the sun, the good of prohibition; or why a bowlegged girl from a country town loves the city, and how jealous crosseyed men are in these piping days of brevity, low cuts, and abbreviation of the bathing laws. Einstein ought to tell us how we may fill the stein. Some of these relativities if put to good use no doubt would lower the high cost of divorces, cut off alimony and minimize the importance of breach of promises. —Phil. You Pimple A pretty man is one of those fellows that imagines he is a howling success with women who have money. —Unfortunatus. He Would But — Wouldn't Be Blind for Anything The bathing beaches, to tell the naked truth, furnish the blind men no little bit of comfort these sultry July days. —Pitous. Don't Take Your Music to the Pawn Shop Some of the big things a fellow, mellow, yellow, with his cello, could tell her, that is, if she would listen, (you know a fellow that plays on a cello is no bank cashier; these big fiddle players always like a tall girl with long skirts and fond of saving her money) that he was in a very sad plight, that he wanted to take a ten spot to give to the pawnbroker who has his cello. —Loanmetus. Walking Back Hurts If you haven't got but ten thousand laid away you don't want to take any summer course at the seaside, or the watering place. If you are going to the sea coast, or the watering place, just because you believe in the water cure, Romanius has guessed your philosophy proceed with thy long distance, but be sure thy feet are fit for that lonesome trail homeward. —Likoga. Lizzards Are in Bad Would you, could you, love a lizzard Of the lounge variety? A loafer (lover) should be caught in a blizzard He's no good for society. —Rinklo. Going Up and Going Down! The movie picture theatres are having a hot spell these days, but just look what they have been giving us, turn about is only fair-play. After we had been educated up to the Farnum and Bill Hart class they doubled their prices of admission and made us like it. It used to be the five-cent, then the ten-cent, then the twenty-cent, the twenty-five, now it is twenty-eight cents. We don't know how much higher they are going, but we are determined to follow Theda Bara, Nazimova, their Dalton girls, Doug and Mary, Russell, Walthal, Jerry, Chas. Chas, and the rest of them to the tenth row back. Intoxication of Puckered Lips Ever fall out of a persimmon tree! A persimmon is one of those fruits that oppossums find choice and detectable. They would be delicious if they wouldn't pucker up a fellow's mouth. We hope they do pucker up an oppossum's mouth anyway. Judge Taft used to eat oppossums in Georgia when he was president. We have some unsuspecting notions that the Georgia statesmen used to give our president persimmons to pucker up his mouth, and then get him to speak on the Negro question. A Six Dollar Luxury Little drops of water. A little bit of sugar is poor consolation to a fellow that is in the habit of being consoled. It used to be a comfort and a convenience before the country became unpopular, but now it has been a $6.00 luxury, but the taste ain't changed a bit and the stomach is still there at the same old stand. —Cornsilk. How Could You? Did you ever stop to look at a woman coming up out of the water? Now can't you understand why they don't wear so much silks and satins? —Se-um-better. Church Too Refined, Camp Meeting Told By Rev. W. H. Carwardine. "The trouble with the church in these days is that the devil has got us all chloroformed." It was this accusation that caused the campers to sit up and take notice last night when the Rev. Dr. George Hugh Birney, evangelist of Cleveland, O., opened the first of his evening services at the Desplains camp meeting. "The church is not noisy enough. We are altogether too respectable and refined. People are going to hell because too many Christians are asleep at the* post of duty. The church is responsible for the loss and wastage of society in these days." M. H. It Was Her Good Looks They were talking about their neighbor and the little one said: "She ain't moe'n thirty-seven, I'l be boun'" The big one said: 'If she's less than forty-four she saint a day?' But they didn't undertake to tell each other why she was so popular with the folks of the village. It was her doggone good looks. —Corrinne. These Times—My, Me! Divorces by collusion and perjury are becoming quite common. "You made me what I am today I guess you're satisfied" has a pathos all right, but the gentle rhythm is enough to make a fellow go in search of a prescription. "Wanta?" "The woman God made "must enjoy opportunities superior to the woman God did not make. We have some fancy notions that the woman God made does not need to paint, powder, pad, wax, use hot irons, lace, use bust developers, and cut her gowns to the knee, tattoo her legs, set a mole, or camouflage a dimple, all for what? If God made 'em they would perfection, and wouldn't have to make up to make out. The Double Barrel Question, the Sexes The world has gone to the devil because there has been too much attention paid to the sex. If we could forget that there is any such thing for an hour or two once or twice in a month or even once or twice in a year there would be a remarkable change in the world. Take a man, for instance, if he is not eating he is smoking. If he is not laughing or working he is joking. He feels that he must boss something. Must make money, needs it for real purposes, don't want women to make it, although he can't make it without putting a woman's head on it. He feels himself the main guy and everything must be exactly according to his supreme wishes. Now take a woman for instance, she is either dressing to go somewhere, or getting a dress. If she is not talking, she has lost her powers of speech, she wants to have her way, and weeps desperately blinding tears because she knows it makes her feel like a baby. Well, there is not any remedy and our cause is lost. Y. W. C. A. NEWS. Camp Hammond is open! On July 4 nearly 200 guests visited and enjoyed the cool breezes of Lake Wolf at our very beautifully appointed camp house, in North Hammond, Ind. Miss Webster, the camp director, and her splendid staff of workers were very much pleased with the interest shown on the opening day. There were games, races, bathing, swimming and an abundance of good "eats" to be enjoyed by all. The Wilson Efficiency Club of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. Wilson Girls' Club gave a very interesting picnic at camp on that day, offering whole hams, bacons and other Wilson products as prizes to the best runners and highest jumpers. They also staged a very lively, ball game on the grounds. Registrations for camp are piling up. To date we have 167 registrations for one week's outing at camp during the months of July and August. To be assured of your reservations register now at the Indiana Avenue Branch Y. W. C. A., 3541 Indiana avenue. PRESENTED WITH CAR Rev. T. L. Scott, pastor of the Grant Memorial Chapel, 4600 Evans avenue, has been presented with a handsome Oakland Sedan by the Automobile Club of the church, of which Mrs. Laura Coleman is president. The Pastor's Aid gave the largest donation, $150 toward the purchase of the car. Rev. Scott is extremely pleased with the presentation. CHAS. E. STUMP CONTINUES TO BEAT HIS WAY ONTO THE SOUTHLAND Bethel, A. M. E. church, and one of the greatest preachers in the A. M. E. church. He knows a thing or two, and lie is one of the men who has been trained in true manhood. He was presented a gold medal at his annual conference by the conference because of what he had accomplished for the church, and the general conference will put its approval on his labor in 1924, and I want to be there to see him crowned a bishop. I got through with New York, and then made my way to another place. But I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Jernagin off, and then in touching hands with some of the leaders around there. I had gone the rounds in New York; painted the town red and blue, and made it back to Washington, where I am writing to you at this time, but will have been to Savannah, Ga., and perhaps will be in Wilmington, N. C., and you declare that I am the most ridingest man you have ever seen. I am sure that you would like to have to pay my riding bill for just one month. But I will have to bring this letter to a stop. I wish you could just drop into the Nurse's home in New York, and see all them graduate nurses and how they are pulling together. I am just going to devote a letter to them. Take good care of yourself. CHARLES E. STUMP WHO LOVES ME? "Who loves me?" is the anxious_question Every man will sometimes ask, No matter what his sphere or station. No matter what may be his task; No matter if he's in the gutter, Or nestled in the lap of fame. He wants to know that someone loves him, And is pleased to hear his name. He wants to know that some true mortal Sees in him the good that's real— To know that while he sometimes falters, That mortal is as firm as steel. He'd give the world to have this question Gently answered with a kiss— To hear the tender voice proclaim it, Would be to him a dream of bliss. True, there is but little gladness For the man of busy life, Except that joy which comes at evening, In his home with loving wife; But to him who has no fireside, And whose home cannot be found— He who rolls and keeps on rolling, Like a ball upon the ground— He it is who asks the question O'er and o'er and o'er again, And if he never hears an answer The very silence gives him gain, The world to him is very gloomy, Naught there is in life to cheer— No one to say "Sweetheart, I love you." No one on earth to call him "dear." "Who loves me?" is the anxious question Every man will sometimes ask, No matter what his sphere or station, No matter what may be his task; No matter if he's in the gutter, Or nestled in the lap of fame, He wants to know that someone loves him, And is pleased to hear his name. —The Citizen Advocate, Los Angeles, Calif. July 9, 1921. Mrs. Carrie Blakemore, 3553 Grand boulevard, is spending her vacation in visiting with friends in her. old home town, Detroit, Mich. She will be absent two weeks longer. C HON. SHERIDAN E. FRY One of the Many Splendid Lawyers in Chicago, Who Will Be Nominated on the Coalition Judicial Ticket to Make the Race in 1922 for Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County. NEGRO MINISTERS CO-OPERATE WITH TEACHERS. AND FARMERS. Leaders Hold Four-Day Conference at Hampton Institute—Educational Exhibit Teaches Many—Lecturers Present Constructive Programs—Christian Communities the Conference Objective. ger, who is the chaplain of Hampton Institute and founder of the Ministers' Conference, for his uniting activity and keenness of vision, and the sympathy of the conference to Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Charlottesville, Va., who has done so much to help develop Negro education throughout the South and win new friends for Negro education. By Wm. Anthony Aery. Hampton, Va.-Ministers, farmers and teachers are co-operating heartily to improve community life as well as to develop the success qualities of individual men, women and children. The recent joint meetings at Hampton Institute of Negro leaders showed clearly the growing interest in community program making. The interdenominational ministers conference of Hampton Institute (Rev. M. E. Davis, Norfolk, president, and Rev. Laurence Fenninger, Hampton Institute, executive secretary) brought together 255 colored leaders from 11 states—168 from Virginia, 72 from North Carolina, 4 from Maryland, 2 each from South Carolina, Arkansas and New Jersey, and one each from Ohio, New York, Delaware, District of Columbia and Texas—who represented 16 denominations, including Baptist, 154; African Methodist Episcopal, 39; Protestant Episcopal, 19; Presbyterian, 10, and Methodist Episcopal, 6. Educational Exhibit For the benefit of 255 colored ministers from Virginia, North Carolina and, neighboring states, and for 115 visiting farmers, an educational exhibit of posters, containing slogans and pictures, new and helpful books on church work, especially church work in rural parishes, and stereomotograph views of rural churches and rural health, was placed on display in the main room of the Y. M. C. A. building at Hampton Institute. This exhibit was thrown open to the public and was visited by a large number of men and women in search of knowledge and inspiration. A few of the slogans will indicate the live-wire method which was used to call attention to some serious rural life problems: "The peril of the country today is not the uprising of the 'sinners,' but the downsitting of the 'saints.'" "You can live anywhere and be a 'preacher,' but to be a 'pastor' you must live with your people." "There is an old saying to the effect that 'God made the country.' In view of the present religious conditions there, it is time to win it back to its maker." Church Leaders Co-operate. The following officers of the Ministers' Conference were elected: M. E. Davis, Norfolk, president; G. D. Jimmerson, Newport News; L. L. Downing, Roanoke; S. S. Morris, Nordell; N. J. Lee, Norfolk; J. T Johnson, Hampton; A. A. Hector, Richmond; E. E. Ricks, Newark, N. J.; C. C. Sommerville, Portsmouth; J. S. Brown, Rocky Mount, N. C.; W. C. Cleland, Durham, N. C.; Reverdy C. Ransom, Oceanport, N. J.; E. L. Baskerville, Charleston, S. C., vice presidents, Laurence Fenninger, Hampton Institute, executive secretary; Thomas J. Bolling, Hampton Institute, assistant executive secretary, and J. W. Lemon, Ark, Va., recording secretary. The conference also elected about forty of its members to serve on the executive board, which represents a dozen or more denominations. Rev. L. L. Downing, of Roanoke, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, expressed the thanks of the conference to the authorities of Hampton Institute for courteous treatment, to the speakers for their inspiring talks, and to the executive secretary, the Rev. Laurence Fennin- ger, who is the chaplain of Hampton Institute and founder of the Ministers' Conference, for his nurturing activity and keenness of vision, and the sympathy of the conference to Dr. James-Hardy Dillard of Charlottetown, Va., who has done so much to help develop Negro education throughout the South and win new friends for Negro education. Teaching and Inspiring People. "Hampton Institute would be deedict in its duty," said Dr. James E. Gregg at the closing session of the Ministers' Conference, "if it did not keep in mind the fact that teaching and preaching are professions which are closely allied. The teacher should be the shepherd of souls; the preacher must think of his hearers as those whom he is to instruct as well as inspire." Dr. Gregg referred to Viscount Bryce's statement in "Modern Democracies" that there was only one workable democratic government one hundred years ago; namely, the United States. Today China, Russia, Germany, Austria and other countries are embarking on the experiment of democracy. "Democracy is going on," said Dr. Gregg. "There will be more democracy in the world rather than less democracy. In a Christian democracy no man need expect any sort of caste system to persist. Christianity and democracy can be trusted to abolish racial prejudice, enmity, strife and hatred." Archdeacon James S. Russell founder and principal of St. Paul School at Lawrenceville, Va., delivered four addresses, "Work of the Christian Ministry," "Family Life and the Church," "The Keeping of the Church" and "The Open Door to Service." Rev. Levi G. Batman, pastor of the First Christian Church, Youngstown, O., gave four lectures on "The Church and Its Organization," Rev. Dr. William P. Hayes, pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, New York, spoke on "The Case Against the Church," "The Church and Its Young People," "The Institutional Church" and "Financing the Church." Rev. Herman N. Morse of New York, author of "Fear God in Your Own Village," who is the director of publicity of the Presbyterian Board of Home Mission, spoke on "The Opportunity and Task of the Country Church," "The Country Church and Community Welfare" and "Program of the Country Church; Content and Method." Rev. Dr. Reverdy C. Ransom of Oceanport, N. J., editor of the "A.M. E. Church Review," spoke on "Essentials of Effective Preaching." "What to Preach," "The Preacher in His Study" and "The Preacher in His Pulpit." The conference sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. J. H. Ashby, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, Norfolk. Victory Through Co-operation. Victory Through Co-operation. That ministers and teachers should co-operate in helping people fight the battle of life with equal weapons and with Christian education was the opinin expressed by Dr. Ransom in his address on "The Teacher as Priest," delivered in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, before a union meeting of farmers, teachers, and ministers. Dr. Ransom referred to the need of equipping all children for American citizenship by the adequate financial support of public and private schools and the response which people from the cotton fields and mines are making to the call for money which will be used for education. He stated that America cannot go forward as it should while any group is handled by ignorance. The colored teacher everywhere should equip herself so as to supplement the teaching of history. Each teacher should specialize on the teaching of Negro history so that the coming generation MAJOR JOHN ROY LYNCH Ex-Paymaster in the United States Army, an O ing Republican, Who Is Highly Deserving Consideration at the Hands of President Ex-Paymaster in the United States Army, an Old-Time Fighting Republican, Who Is Highly Deserving of the Highest Consideration at the Hands of President Harding. of Negroes may-hold up its head in the United States. Somebody must look out for the exceptional boy or girl and get behind exceptional ability. The preacher and teacher must clasp hands anew in answering the high calling of God." Hampton instructors gave for the benefit of ministers and farmers practical demonstrations in culling hens for egg production, controlling poultry diseases, installing a simple water-supply system, and planning year-round vegetable gardens. VICTORIOUS. The S. M. T.'s of Illinois and jurisdiction were successful, through an injunction filed in the courts of Illinois by their attorney, Walter M. Farmer, 184 West Washington street, to gain the freedom of the control of all their fraternal business. A large mass meeting was held a few evenings ago in honor of the victory. ADJUSTING MATTERS. ORGANIZE HOUSEHOLD AT AUORA. A committee of officers and members of Chicago and Rockford, Ill., Households of Ruth made a trip to Aurora, Ill., Saturday evening and organized a Household which had been worked up by Inmate Ella Harris with thirty members. Among those who were present at the organizing of the Household were Inmates Lou Ella Young, D. G. M. N. G. of Illinois and jurisdiction; Margaret Womack, Mattie Alford, Margaret L. Harris and J. W. Womack of Chicago. Ethel Blake, Ella Harris, Gladys Robinson and other inmates from Rockford, Ill. CONVALESCING. Little Tommy Shaw, 3731 Dearborn street, adopted son of Mrs. Frances Coleman, is convalescing rapidly after being removed to his home from the hospital where he has been quite ill for several weeks. Little Tommy is a member of Mt. Carmel Juvenile No. 20. THE NEW YORK TIMES States Army, an Old-Time Fight Highly Deserving of the Highest Is of President Harding. VICTORIOUS The S. M. T.'s of Illinois and jurisdiction were successful, through an injunction filed in the courts of Illinois by their attorney, Walter M. Farmer, 184 West Washington street, to gain the freedom of the control of all their fraternal business. A large mass meeting was held a few evenings ago in honor of the victory. ADJUSTING MATTERS The past week was a busy one for M. T. Bailey, president the Bailey Realty Co., and manager the Milton Mercantile Agency, 3638 State street, who spent most of the week along the north shore adjusting legal matters for clients in the city and that vicinity. RETURNS SOUTH. Eugene Taylor of Jackson, Miss., has returned to his home after several days in the city on account of the death of his mother. Mrs. Helen Evans, sister, will remain with relatives in the city and will not return south until August 1. She is stopping at 4402 Dearborn street. MEET IN SUBURBS. Mrs. Sophia Phillips of Hannibal, Mo., Mrs. Edith Johnson of Chicago and Mrs. Matfie Whithers, sisters, met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Whithers, 110th and Throop streets, Morgan Park, last Sunday, and spent a pleasant day together. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 RETURNS. Mrs. T. J. Kinney, 3142 Calumet avenue, has returned to the city from Greenville, Centralia and Carlisle, Ill., where she spent several weeks with relatives and friends. WILL HOLD FEAST. After the regular meeting of the Virginia Society, Wednesday evening, July 20, at 3638 State street, a feast will be held for all members and friends present. Virginians are welcome. DR. DOWNS BETTER Dr. P. C. Downs, 3748 Grand boulevard, who has been confined to his residence for three months on account of illness, is much better, and will spend a long vacation before taking up his practice. VISITING LODGES Rev. Jordan W. Tutt, state grand master of U. B. F. and S. M. T., is in the city on his annual visit to the various lodges and temples. Rev. Tutt is much pleased with the progress being made by the lodges in the city. CALLED TO LAKE FOREST. Mrs. Ida Warren of Cincinnati, O., was called to Lake Forest, Ill., a few days ago on account of the death of her father, George Rice, an old resident along the north shore. CHIPS Mrs. Blanche Gilmer, 5123 South Dearborn street, is rapidly improving after meeting with a street car accident several weeks ago and she will soon be able to be out again and discharge her duties as one of the adult probation officers of Cook county. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Grayson, 3906 Calumet avenue, have sent out invitations announcing the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Miss Mildred Victoria Grayson, to Mr. Reginald McReynolds Hardin, Wednesday evening, August 3rd, at St. Thomas Episcopal church. The Misses Nellie and Alice Rucker, the highly accomplished daughters of Hoh. and Mrs. H. A. Rucker, of Atlanta, Ga., are visiting in this city, and are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. McSee, 6502 Rhodes avenue. They will remain here until the first week in August. Mr. John N. Blackshear, an old friend of the Ruckers, is gallantly assisting to make it very pleasant for the young ladies. 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 flies away from the bat for the same reason. Trail's End. Speaking of pathetic figures, what is more pitiful than the predicament of that Ithaca man who discovered that he had been corresponding with his own life through a matrimonial outfit—Tiffany Express. Raleigh's Great Work. H. G. Wells wasn't the first to write a world history of his own conception. Sir Walter Raleigh auted 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. 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. Smella 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 welding 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." Notice1 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. Old Forms of Currency All evidence leads to the conclusion that the knife money of China is the oldest of all moneys, the ramenskis of India, ticks of Babylon, ring money of Egypt and the punched coins of Asia Minor following successively in the order of time. One Recipe for Success All a man has to do to make a real success in life is to spend 25 or 30 years learning to do some simple thing better than anybody else can do it and than 5 or 30 more doing it every day, so you give people a chance to find out about it—Ohio State Journal. Wrong Tactics "Newt never did have good sense!" Interrupted Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. "He ort to have knowed that it would be cheaper to take a shot at his brother-in-law than to burn the house down to get rid of him"—Kansas City Star. Origin of "Strut." A stiff piece of wood used as a support is called a strut; so also a person who walks stiffly and pompously about is said to strut. Both words are of Scandinavian origin and the Middle-English word was "strouten" to swell or spread out. There was a German word, strotzen, to be puffed up. The Word "Bum." The word "rum" is an abbreviation of "rumbooze," "rum" being an Asian word for "good," and "booze" a derivation of the German "bausen," meaning to "guzzle." Another thing that startles a man as he gets on in life is how young boys and girls can be and still call one another Mr. and Miss—Ohio State Journal. Which is the Highest Mountain? It is generally thought Mount Everest, with its 29,400 feet, is the world's highest peak, but some authorities assert that Teram Kangri, Kara Korama, Chashmore, has an altitude of nearly 80,000 feet. Squawking Silas 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. German House Pipes in Demand. The early German "house pipes" are much prized by collectors. They are of formidable size, some of them holding as much as a pound of tobacco. These pipes are usually of porcelain, beautifully molded and decorated. Entrally Too Much. "It is terrible what I spent during the entertainment for charity," reclaimed Mrs. New, d. h. "Two thousand for my dress and five hundred for my coat, besides the twenty for my charity contributions. It is too much." For the tailored woman who prefers to swathe her hat with velling rather than wear the made vell there is the Russian mesh with a woven dot either in square or round effect—the square dot being given preference. Then there are the octagon and square meshes with either French dots or large chenille dots, both of which are very popular. These come in solid color as well as varying shades. The woman who is in mourning and cannot indulge in beautiful new colors has not been neglected by designers and manufacturers. They have not only made copies of the newest styles in veils or pure white and solid black, but have originated types especially for her. A square model of Russian mesh is in black with a large woven dot and is bound with grosgrain ribbon. It is worn over the hat with the front edge drawn about the wearer's throat. All corners are left to hang in the back. Another manner of wearing a square vell is to arrange it on the hat so that the points hang in the back, front and on either side. Then there are white flowing vells of fancy meshes having white grosgrain ribbon neckbands. Others are bound with crepe and come in either black or white. HOME-MADE DUSTLESS MOPS Convenience That Is Dustless and Also Sanitary Labor-Saver May Be Easily Made. Dustless mops and dustless dusters are sanitary labor-savers. They can be made at home by dipping the mop or the duster in a solution of some vegetable oil, such as linseed or cottonseed, and gasoline or other solvent, about one tablespoonful of oil to one pint of gasoline being used. There should be no fire in the room where the gasoline is used. The mop or duster should be hung outdoors until the gasoline has evaporated. The oil will be evenly distributed in this way. The duster may be washed once or twice before it is necessary to redip it in the oil solution. Moody's Last Sermon. Dwight L. Moody preached the last sermon of his life in Kansas City in Convention hall on the night of November 16, 1899. He had undertaken to conduct revival meetings in the hall from November 12 to 19, but on the night of November 16 he became so ill that the next afternoon he gave up the meetings and returned home. He died at his home in Northfield, Mass., December 22, 1899. Powdered Fish Good Food. Powered Fish Good Food. A great many fish are caught merely for the recovery of the oil contained in their bodies and after this is pressed out, the residue or what is called "cake," is used for fertilizer. A Japanese investigator has succeeded in making this available as a food and it is said to be very nourishing after the treatment which he gives it. It takes the place of "stock" in making soups and gravies. Whare "Pep" Is Useless. The business day is short in India; it seldom begins before 11 o'clock in the morning. There is a "tiffin" or lunch period, probably two hours long, followed by an early closing. The American salesman, accustomed to jumping from town to town on fast trains, seeing customers early and late, and sending daily orders to the "house," is hardly the one to tackle the deliburateness of India, where the "house" is best forgotten in the sales talk and where the potency of the first person singular is undeniable. Mammoth Cave in 1812. Visitors to the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, whose attention is attracted by the brilliant arches of crystal, by the amazing echoes, and by the diversity of the rock formation, may not remember that this particular locality was once of great practical benefit to the country. For it was by reason of its immense deposits of salt-peter, used in the manufacture of gunpowder during the War of 1812, that the spot was first given notoriety. And How Many There Are! An old fool is one who thinks that when a pretty girl smiles at him she's flirting instead of laughing at him—Toledo Blade. It isn't true that men will do anything for money. Some won't work for it. -Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. W20B Studio CHEVROLET THE BEAUTIFUL HOME OF DR. AND MRS. GEORGE C. HALL, 3408 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, WHO WILL SOON VACATE IT AND MOVE INTO THEIR NEW HOME AT 3638 GRAND BOULEVARD. 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. ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle and Jackson Streets Chicago SAVE FOR THIS HAPPIEST OF DAYS THERE will be so many needed things to buy when the glad event looms near. things you want to buy yourself. Part of what you are now earning can easily be saved.once that wise course is planned. IT has been the privilege of this bank to serve many young business women. May we serve you, too? DON'T READ IT ALL Lincoln State Bank of Chicago 8:05 South State Street—9 and 11 East 31st Street Under State Government Supervision 3 Per Cent on Savings Resources over $2,800,000.00 Parrot a Favorite Beneficiary. If all of the money that has been left to parrots in different countries could be gathered together it would make enough to support the average orphan asylum. In most cases these bequests come from unmarried ladies who have found solace and companionship with their favorite parrots. The Home Life. Economics changes man's activities. As you change a man's activities you change his way of living, and as you change his environment you change his state of mind. Precept and injunction do not perceptibly affect men; but food, water, air, clothing, shelter, pictures, books, musc, will and do affect them—Exchange. Full Instructions. A traveler in Japan tells of curious notices he saw in shop windows, and especially an official municipal notices to motorists: "If a cow obstruct, toot 'er soothingly; if she continue to obstruct, toot 'er with vigor; if she still obstruct, wait till she pass away!"—The Christian Advocate (New York). Seven Champions The Seven Champions of Christendom, who are often alluded to by old writers, were St. George, the Patron Saint of England; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales; St. Patrick of Ireland, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, and St. Anthony of Italy. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921 Custom Long Kept Up. On to a few years ago a horse, stabled and bridled stood in the stables of the Vivyans (Vivian as it was spelled in the old days) of Tredowarren (Cornwall, Tug.) ready for use night and for 900 years horses had succeeded each other in commemoration of the escape on horseback of a Vivian who lived in the days of the memorable flood which submerged the land, some say in 1014 and others in 1050. Only One Test of Worth. Not what we have, or know, or even what we do, but what we are—that determines our worth. Great universities know this. See their mottoes, One motto is "Quacumque munt sure." (Whatsoever things are true.) Another one is "The truth shall make you free." Another, "Culture must flourish under the law of God." Another, "Culture without character is a vain thing."—Exchange. How Rainfall is Recorded. The government gauge for recording rainfall consists of a cylinder two feet high, eight inches in diameter, upon which a funnel of the same diameter fits. Within that is a brass cylinder of the same height, the diameter a little over two and one-half inches. In it is a measuring tube, the area of which compared with the area of the funnel is as ten to one, so that when a one-hundredth of an inch falls in the funnel it becomes one-tenth of an inch in the measuring tube. The Savior in Profane History. Among the historical references to Jesus Christ which are undisputed is that made by Tacitus, the Roman historian, on speaking of the Christians sold, "The originator of that name had been executed in the reign of Tiberius by order of the administrator, Pontius Pilate." This may be found in the Annals of Terewat. Reference to Christ is also made in the "Antiquities of Josephs," a Jewish historian, who was contemporary with Christ, but this passage is declared by some to be a forgery. Calling in Caire. Englishmen who do not know Calre sometimes take houses in remote and undesirable parts of the city. In "Egypt as We Know It". Mrs. E. L. Butcher amusingly describes how hard it is to find a person who has thus gone astray. Her husband, she says, wrote to a doctor for the address of some friends whom she knew he had attended. Here is the doctor's answer: "The M——is live in a house without a number in a street without a name next door to an Armenian butcher who, I think, has no sign, west of Abdin palace! The staircase has eighty-seven steps." It will grow. Democracy can never be extended by force, as you would fling a net over a flock of birds; but give it a chance and it will grow, as a tree grows, by sending down its roots into the heart of humanity and lifting its top toward the light and spreading its arms wider and wider until all the persecuted flocks of heaven refuge beneath its protecting shade—Henry Van Dyke. Beards in History. Pliny, we are informed, "observes that Sipei Africans was the man who introduced the fashion of the daily shave, "and the Russians wore beards until Czar Peter enjoined them all to shave, but he was obliged to keep on foot a number of officers to cut off, by violence, the beards of such as would not otherwise part with them." 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 Prepisture 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. Preserving Milk. Is milk condensed? Milk is condensed by the evaporation of the water it contains, after it has been sterilized. Sugar is added to some brands, and is not added to others, and the unsweetened is known as "evaporated" milk to distinguish it from the sweetened. Copper tanks holding 1,000 gallons or more are used in the sterilization of the milk, and the water is evaporated in huge vacuum pans. I a long-tasselled girdle, worn with a skirt of light rose baronet satin. A rose alk soft sport hat, embroidered in a few tan wool motifs, completed the charming effect. The envelope handbag is not the only shape in frequent use, nor is red leather the only material. There is great variety in the shape, the size and the colorings of the new French purses. There are large casselike purses of black suede carrying handsome monograms and tiny evening bags of elongated shape made of bright colored faille, moires and oddly striped silks mounted on small, square tops. Much elaboration is noted in the mountings of afternoon and evening purses, many being studded with costly jewels. For those who hold to the fashion for black or black and white, eschewing all bright colors for the time being, there are beautiful little pocketbooks of black silk with pearl-studded mountings or with the wearer's monogram outlined in pearls. A great vogue is evinced for very decorative mountings and frames for handbags. So many women are doing tapestry and bead embroidery that it makes these novelty frames in great demand, as once the work is finished the bag can be sewn to one of these mountings with gratifying results. Owing to the popularity of Egyptian patterns in tapestry work many of the new frames also are in Egyptian designs. Comparative Statement of Deposits November 18, 1912, $836,605.23 November 17, 1914, $812,005.69 November 17, 1916, $1,132,750.72 November 18, 1918, $1,264,064.24 November 17, 1919, $2,359,636.62 November 15, 1920, $3,224,633.09 OFFICE JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, V. EDW. C. BARRY W. MERLE I. ARTHU JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant Cashier ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. Books That Have Life. After all, is it not better that a hundred unnecessary books should be published than that one good and useful book should be lost? (Nature's law of parsimony is arrived at by a process of expense.) The needless volumes, like the infertile seeds, soon sink out of sight; and the books that have life in them are taken care of by the readers who are waiting somewhere to receive and cherish them.—Henry Van Dyke. THE HOTEL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 5121 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE OIL OPEN DAY & NIGHT Ernest H. 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