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Hon. Thomas Carey, President of the Chicago National Life Insurance Company, Who is One of the Best and Truest Friends of the Colored Race in this City; has Become Chairman of the Campaign Committee to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses Julius F. Taylor will Serve as Vice-Chairman of the Campaign Committee MR. ALEXANDER FLOWER, PRESIDENT OF THE ROOSEVELT STATE BANK, 35TH STREET AND GRAND BOULEVARD, HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS THE CAMPAIGN TREASURER. THE NEXT ISSUE OF THIS PAPER WILL CONTAIN THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST PROMINENT WHITE AND COLORED BUSINESS MEN AND PROMINENT WOMEN OF BOTH RACES, WHO ARE FULLY DETERMINED TO PUT THE FORT DEARBORN HOSPITAL ON A SOLID FOUNDATION. The one hundred thousand dollar drive for a greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for colored nurses continues to make rapid strides forward. This week Hon. Thomas Carey, President of the Chicago National Life Insurance Company freely and willingly accepted the chairmanship of the campaign committee after he had been approached by Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. Fred C. Cade, Julius F. Taylor and a few others and Mr. Carey will devote much of his value time to the great sustainable project in his order to aid the colored people residing in this great city and President Carey will send out a personal letter to his legions of warm friends and business associates urging them to join hands with him in his invaluable question to aid the colored people in a lasting manner, and without the least question about it the colored people all over this city feel themselves highly honored to think that the Hon. Thomas Carey has become deeply interested in their welfare to such an extent. In the near future a noon luncheon will be held at the Palmer House at which time Chairman Carey will announce the names of the persons he will select to serve on the campaign committee which will include many of the most prominent white and colored men and women in Chicago. NAT'L RACE LEADERS CONFERENCE ON SECURING CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION CALLED FOR CHICAGO, SEPT. 10. Call for 14th Annual Meeting of National Equal Rights League by the President, Dr. M. A. N. Shaw. To the Branches of the Equal Rights League, Affiliated Organizations:—and every Colored American citizen— The time is near at hand for the 14th annual meeting of the National Equal Rights League which convenes in Chicago, Illinois, September 10 to 14, 1921, at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist church, 33rd street and Indiana avenue. Because of the serious conditions affecting the welfare of our race calling for conference and action by the best minds and most unselfish men and women among us, I am urging that every state, county, and city send delegates to this convention. If you have no local branch of the National Equal Rights League in your midst, organize one or a Committee, at once and elect delegates to meet with us. Every church, every Woman's Club and every civic, and fraternal organization is urged to send as delegates the best representatives in your midst. You are entitled to one dele- THE BROAD AX In accepting the chairmanship of the campaign committee, President Carey stated in the plainest language at his command that he did not want any politics drugged into the one hundred thousand dollar drive for a greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses, that he wanted the hearty support of the white and colored followers of Mayor William Hale Thompson, as well as the support of those who march under the banner of Hon. Charles S. Deneen and Chairman Carey naturally expects that all the leading Democrats will fall in line and greatly assist to aid the movement for a greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses. This is the first time in this section of the country that the colored people have come before the people of Chicago to ask for assistance, and we feel that they will not fail us, for the colored people have given much, in fact their all. We were called upon for everything during the great world's war, and we did not hesitate to give our best. The Fort Dearborn Hospital is located 3831-35 Vernon avenue, and it is the largest colored institution in this city. It has seventy-five beds for patients and in the past and at the present time it is accomplishing much good for humanity. gate each, from bona-fide organizations of not less than twenty-five members. Matters to Be Acted Upon at the Convention. We want only earnest self-sacrificing men and women to take action on:— 1. The proposed enactment of legislation by Congress making lynching a Federal crime. 2. The rapid growth of Ku Klux Klan whose avowed purpose is vindictive punishment instead of the penalties provided by law. 3. To encourage the establishment of business enterprises among our people in all sections of the country to the end that we may provide more employment for our young people. 4. To plan for legislation which will protect us in the enjoyment of property lawfully acquired and to encourage land ownership. 5. To abolish peonage and all forms of labor contracts which carry prison penalties. 6. To co-operate with all forces tending to reduce illiteracy, promote the moral welfare and better conduct on the part of our people from the South some of whom are turning their new found liberty into license. 7. To abolish color line discrimination in organizations pledged to collective bargaining. 7. To urge closer affiliation of or CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921. 101 President of the Chicago National Life Insurance Company, Who Has Gladly Accepted the Chairmanship of the Campaign Committee to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses. ganizations representing Capital and Labor and aid in promoting industrial peace. 9. To establish an effective and national defense bureau which shall cooperate with lawful authorities in the maintenance of all our constitutional rights. 10. The promotion of a national concerted drive for the Tinkham and Madden bills against disfranchisement and Jim-Crow cars. 11. Insistent opposition to color segregation especially by the Government. Where to Notify Your Intention to Attend. Delegates will please send notice to Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnet, 3624 Grand Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., Chairman Publicity Committee. Bespeaking for our race the earnest, self sacrificing service of representatives from all sections of our common country in wiping out all proscription and public restrictions based on color and invoking divine guidance for the plans and work of our convention, I issue this call to duty for the time and place above stated. M. A. N. Shaw. President Nat'l Equal Rights League. Boston, Mass., August 3, 1921. FIRST OR PLEASANT MEETING OF THE LADIES AT THE APPOMATTOX CLUB IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER PORT DEARBORN HOSPITAL. The first donation for the Greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for nurses was received last Friday at the luncheon given by the HON. THOMAS CAREY Chicago National Life Insurance Accepted the Chairmanship of the raise One Hundred Thousand Dollar born Hospital and Training Sch Woman's Organization at the Appomattox Club. The donor was Dr. J. Herbert Gray, who saw the announcement in the papers and he hastened to send it by special delivery. The luncheon was a great success and the club rooms were taxed to capacity. A stirring address was delivered by Rev. W. D. Cook, who said that the time had come when all little unit affairs must be laid aside to take part in this great campaign, which was of great importance to the masses of the people. He pledged himself as well as his church to do their utmost to make this public drive a great success. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett also made a strong appeal for volunteers to take part in the campaign and all who had not yet signed up, immediately done so. Mrs. Emma Smith was the first to respond. General Chairman, Mrs. Irene Goins then closed the meeting in which she used the Campaign Slogan "Push." KU KLUX/KLAN OPENS ITS RANKS TO WOMEN. Atlanta, Ga.--Announcement was made last Saturday by William J. Simmons, imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to the effect that at the meeting of the imperial Klon-cilium of the organization held last week it was unanimously voted to admit women into Klan membership. Mr. Simmons asserted women were to be included because they can keep the secrets, they influence men for ideals of good and they have been loyal at all times. ANOTHER WHITE "TRIANGLE." McPherson, Kan.-The little town of Boxbury, this county, is stirred over a "triangle" brought to light by the arrest of Arthur Bacon, wealthy farmer, and his stepdaughter, Alice Elliott Bacon, following complaint by Mrs. Bacon, who alleges intimacy on the part of her husband and her daughter. The girl, who is 18 years old, has admitted improper relations with her stepfather, stating that they started shortly after the marriage of her mother and Bacon, 10 years ago, according to an affidavit which, County Attorney Henry says, she signed at the jail. She loves her stepfather and hopes to marry him as soon as the law frees him from her mother, the alleged affidavit reads. The above simply indicates that many white persons with all of their culture and so-called civilization and superiority over the colored people are just as immoral or unmoral as the most ignorant colored people who had been taught for over two hundred and fifty years in this country to bring forth all the children that they possibly could for the slave market. The daily papers are loaded down with nauseating details and news of the divorce courts on the part of the whites from the highest to the lowest tragedies of sinful love is ever being played and the least that can be said that those who live in glass houses should never throw stones at the colored people for many of the whites give the colored people cards and spades and then beat the colored people at the game of immorality.—Editor THE HISTORIC MEETING OF THE SHRINERS AT ST. LOUIS, MO., LAST WEEK, WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. ARABIC TEMPLE NO. 44, MADE A WONDERFUL AND SUCCESSFUL FIGHT. NOBLE OR ATTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS, MADE A GREAT HIT BEFORE THE COUNCIL. IN ORDER TO SUPPLY THE GREAT DEMAND FOR THE LAST ISSUE OF THE BROAD AX, THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS REPRODUCED, AND FIVE HUNDRED EXTRA COPIES HAVE BEEN ORDERED BY THE MEMBERS OF ARABIC TEMPLE NO.44. The National Conclave of the Imperial Council of the A.E.A.O.N.M.S. met at St. Louis, Mo. last week. Delegates from all over the United States, Canada and South America made an impressive and educational sight to be seen. Among them came men of the leading walks of life, in every description. Lawyers, doctors, ministers, editors, writers, agents, merchants, agriculturalists, manufacturers, superintendents, etc. The brains of the race seems to have been in this meeting. Heretofore it seems that Chicago, representing Arabic Temple No. 44, the largest Temple in the world, took a back seat, but at this session it can be said she redeemed herself beyond a doubt, and opened the eyes of the world to its grandeur, ability, and nobility. It seemed that at this august Council the grievances of Chicago comprised the major part of the procedures. Arabic Temple No. 44, sent to represent it sixteen delegates, to wit: Noble Stewart C. Jefferson, Illustrious Potentate, Noble Frank D. Crenshaw, Chief Rabban, Noble John B. Hart, Noble A. L. Williams, Noble I. R. Hodge, Noble W. W. Johnson, Noble F. A. Johnson, Noble W. H. Jones, Noble R. J. B. Ellington, Noble Robert Ford, Noble A. A. Neal, Noble Attress Sams, Noble David Marshall, Noble George L. Chambers, Noble W. J. Meacham and Noble T. H. Samuels, Grand Master of Illinois, the largest delegation attending. From the beginning Noble Jefferson, Illustrious Potentate, ably assisted in every detail by Attorney Noble A. L. Williams and Noble J. B. Hart, the delegation fought like demons for what they thought as right, and as the fight progressed the organization was so determined until they compelled the Imperial Potentate to reverse several decisions made by him. It can be said, however, of the Imperial Potentate, Caesar R. Blake, that he was sufficiently able to meet the occasion. Whenever it was shown to him that he was wrong, he gladly accepted and reversed himself. While the fight was being waged doggedly by Arabic Temple's representatives, Noble J. E. White, a member of Arabic Temple and acting attorney for the Imperial Council, tried to cast a bomb shell into the council against Arabic, his own Temple, in that he stated that "Only past Potentates were members of the Council, and the representatives elected by their respective Temples had no right to participate in the proceedings, nor vote on measures. That he thought that certain persons in the Council who had had a lot to say should not have been allowed to speak as they were not entitled to a vote or a member ship in the Council." The delegation decided that his actions were such as would demand an explanation from him, to the Temple at the proper time. Noble A. L. Williams, leading the fight with Noble Stewart C. Jefferson, Noble J. B. Hart, T. H. Samuels, Fred A. Johnson, and Robert Ford, demanded a show down at this point, as they construed the law to provide for representatives to be members of the Council. Whereupon when it was temporarily decided against them, Arabic Temple threatened to leave the Council, but afterwards when their contention was sustained by the Chair and the suggestion of Noble White was overruled, they continued to represent their Temple in the proceedings throughout. Noble A. L. Williams, while leading his fight was told by several members who claimed, that, they had attended every session of the Council for the last twenty (20) years, that the fight that he was leading was of such he could not expect to gain the confidence of the older Potentates, and he was hurting himself and the Temple by his persistent and vigorous contentions. Noble Williams answered these Nobles by saying that although he was a new man in this respect, he was first a man and a lawyer and fully able to protect himself and the delegation and before the closing of the Council he was fully justified in his contentions. Nobles Frank D. Crenshaw and A. A. Neal made a gallant fight on the patrol and got every contention Arabic Temple asked for. Arabic Temple brings back to Chicago a successful victory. Everything it asked for was given by the Council during its Session. Not only did it get all it asked for but it could have gotten more, as the Imperial Council offered Arabic Temple a place on its Official Staff. Illustrious Potentate Stewart C. Jefferson said that as his Temple did not come seeking office, it would refuse to accept any office in the gift of the Council. Noble Caesar R. Blake, Imperial Potentate, was offered the greetings of Arabic Temple No. 44, and was invited to make his first official visit to the said Temple and therefore become more acquainted with its magnificent material, and get first hand the details from which these grievances arose, in order that Justice, Harmony and Fraternity should prevail in this, the largest Temple in the world. The Closing Session. Thursday morning was devoted to hearing reports of committees followed by the election of officers. The (Continued on page 2 column 7.) 2 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill Phone Wenworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 VOL XXVI No. 48 AUGUST 20, 1921 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. A BUNCH OF TYPE OR TWO HUNDRED, MORE OR LESS YOU KNOW IT Women may be mysteries, but up to the knee everything is plain enough. "Watchman." ALL FOR FURS. "Now, darling," he began. She flung a bare arm, yes her impetuous arm against his chest sending him staggering backward. "Go away, you horrible old man, I'm through with you," she screamed. Nevertheless this lovers' quarrel ended as do most lovers' differences, in ardent reconciliation. The bluff was worth a set of expensive furs. "One Born a Minute." LOOK—WATCH YOUR STEP, MEN. Gentlemen in crossing the street should look both ways to be sure no short skirted girl is in sight. Then they can watch for automobiles. *RISIBLES VS. MISERABLES. There are lots of funny things in this old world of ours. It is quite an art to make up droll stories, the kind people are compelled to laugh at. And if they are well and not in too much trouble they are likely to be found laughing when they have unraveled the riddle. Of course there are people who are too dignified, or straight laced to see real genuine fun, but you will at least even find this kind of a bird given over to the rankest folly. This column is written to help you find the nuggets of golden philosophy. Of course you will have to search for them to find them. For a good sum most any writer could study out a thousand funnyisms for the delectation of the critics splendid analytical propensity. We are of the serious disposition, and not much given over to levity, but we enjoy the jocular and ribald jests of the joker. We are beginning to get some encouragement from quite a number of our readers who see our object and sympathize with our point of view. They have joined with us to make up a column worth reading, and rest assured it will not be many days before you will be longing for every issue of The Broad Ax. "Nurse." THE CHAIN OF THINGS The chain idea has knocked all of the individuality out of the modern world. Everything is done on a pattern, and life is just a series of chain stores, chain shops and chain restaurants. Cigar stores all alike. Also part of an endless chain, or an endless rope. Everything is the same even down to the way all cigar clerks part their hair. For luncheon you go out to dine at a chain restaurant, and pick up a bill of fare that looks like yesterday's bill of fare even down to the fly speaks. You order a chain steak, and it's just like the one you ordered yesterday, in size, color, and the difficulties you had with the chain steak yesterday are the same. Remembering that old joke about the chain being no stronger than its weakest link, you begin to show that steak some of your athletic proclivities, in search for its weakest link, but to all intents and purposes the chef must have seen your teeth, and the muscles of your jaw, and sent in one of those chain steaks that could be handled by a set of chain teeth. Chain candy at a chain candy store, indigestible tablets at a chain drug store. We can see it. In a fortnight civilization will have to take the --- NOBLE STEWART C. JEFFERSON Illustrious Potentate of Arabic Temple No. 44, Which Is the Largest Temple in the World Among Colored People. count, or survive the chain dentist, SEIZE HUSBAND; PLOT TO chain doctor, chain church. MURDER WIFE IS CHARGED Negro Accomplice Also Is Arrested. Charged with engineering a compi- racy in which his wife was to have been drowned in Lake Michigan, John M. Hafner, proprietor of a bakery at 3985 Vineencres avenue, was arraigned Thursday morning before Judge Howard Hayes in the Stockyards court. With him will appear Henry Davis, his alleged accomplice, and Charles Johnson, who is held as a material witness and due to whom the alleged conspirey was made known to the police. Both are colored. Johnson, who claims to be a member of the African Methodist Episcopal council, declares that last Monday he was approached by Davis, who first complimented him upon his robust physique and then told him he was just the man to carry out the plans of Hafner, to whom the pair went. Tells Details of Plot Hafner, Johnson says, offered him $500 to forge the name of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Hafner, 507 Oakwood boulevard, to a "suicide note" which would bequeath to Hafner all of his wife's belongings. For a second $500, he declared, he and Davis were to force Mrs. Hafner into an automobile, drive her to a lonely spot on the south shore, and drown her in the lake. The conspiracy, he said, further contemplated the arrangement of Mrs. Hafner's clothing where it would be found on the beach, with the "suicide note" pinned to one of the garments. Warns Wife of Conspiracy Tuesday evening Johnson went to the home of Mrs. Hafner and told her of the plot to do away with her. The two then visited Assistant State's Attorney Rudolph Shapira at the Stockyards station, but found it too late to secure a warrant for Hafner's arrest. It was decided, however, that Hafner should be taken into custody through a ruse. The plot was explained to a colored policeman, who donned plain clothes and went with Johnson to Hafner's bakery. Behind them were several officers who were to wait outside until signaled to enter. Johnson left the Negro policeman outside, and, entering, informed Hafner that he was afraid to go ahead with the plan, but said that he had a substitute waiting who would do as he had directed. Hafner told Johnson to call the "substitute" in and then went over the plot in detail for the latter's benefit. Davis also was present. "Be sure and kill her so there will be no comeback," Hafner is alleged to have ordered. When Hafner had completed his instructions, the squad of police entered and the quartet were arrested. Later the supposed "substitute" was of course, set free. Had Stormy Married Life The Hafners were married March 30, 1921, and separated July 24 when, according to Mrs. Hafner's bill for divorce, filed through her attorney, Israel Goldberg, on Aug. 1, her husband beat her when she charged him with infidelity. Subsequently she was awarded temporary alimony of $30 a week. Last Thursday Mrs. Hafner caused her husband to be arranged before Judge Hayes in the Stockyards court on a charge of assault and battery, but because of the pending divorce action, the case was continued until Oct. 11. Formal warrants charging Hafner and Davis with conspiracy to commit a felony were issued and served yesterday morning on complaint of Mrs. Hafner. BEG YOUR PARDON. It was stated in the last issue of this paper, that the National Council of the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, had purchased some shares of stock in the Binga State Bank. That was an error. The National Council however, secured three hundred shares of the capital stock of the Liberty Life Insurance Company, through its President, Mr. Frank L. Gillespie. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES S. SMITH WILL SOON CELEBRATE THEIR TWENTY-FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Thursday evening, September 1, Mr. Charles S. Smith, and Mrs. Geneva Fowler Smith, 4714 Champlain avenue, will celebrate their Silver or Twenty-Fifth wedding anniversary. count, or survive the chain dentist chain doctor, chain church. We might as well all be driven to drink, but it is well the chain saloon is being put to the pulmotor. A fellow might attempt to get one on the sly if it was not a possibility of being arrested and put on The Chain Gang. REMINISCENCE "Old Black Joe" was a feature in the life of the colored race, "Unele Tom's Cabin" was a story that gives to them a place; "I'm Going Back to Dixie" and the little "Old Log Cabin" too. Belongs to Negro fiction and always will ring true. There's "Steal away to Jesus" and the "Georgia Camp Meeting" songs, That tell of mighty suffering, a multiplicity of wrongs. "Way down upon the Suanee River" and "The Missionary Man," All preach a sermon to the world to emphasize some plan. "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" and "The Cricket on the Hearth" "In a Hundred Fathoms Deep" "Fond Memories" bless the earth; "All Coons Look Alike to Me" "On the Road to Monterey" "Under the Bamboo Tree" all point to us "Some Day." The Negro minstrel, and the jubilee companies have long since placed the Negro on the honor list of American Music and Song. Recently we have had music emphasized by the orchestra, brass band, and traveling syncopated orchestral music company now delighting multitudes in all parts of the countries of Europe. It does seem that some day we will reach a very high mark of excellence in all of the things we do, and merit the applause of all mankind. "Caligulos." DOING A BIG THING ON A SMALL SCALE HELPS US. From the intellectual point of view, what does your appetite call for? There are numbers of us that could thrive or bird seed, peaches and melons. Some of us would need to eat a whale a day. Now and then you'll see a scholar that must have the very finest spun philosophy. And he or she would almost starve if they had to feed on ambrosia. We hit upon the idea of The Column to peradventure stimulate the readers with the gentle touches of tender levity with the hope that we might be doing little acts of kindness to the greatest number. We have for years preached in a major key our burdensome philosophy; now we have hit upon the minor key hoping to reach a multitude of readers of the race. "Verbim Sapientia." IN TWO MINUTES THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO BOY. The boy stood on the burning deck It was only a minute he stood. Measuring apples by the peck. The deck was built of wood. INSURE YOUR APPLES. Our favorite, Irene Castle got a choking recently she will never forget. The movie villian was of that super-cave man variety, and emphasized muscular contraction of his lunch grabbers to the little star's discomfiture. We would advise the pretty Irene to insure her appleams. Cave men don't care Adam for apples on a woman's neck. GOING DOWN. The price of candy is going down Fellows who send boxes of candy to more than two girls the same day will welcome the drop. Especially the gum drop. 'Honey Bunch.' FOOL BORN EVERY HALF MINUTE Taking spite out on women by wed- ding a half dozen of them is foolish ness. In these days when women can vote what chance has a fellow got that wants to run for office who incurs the enmity of five women? "Alimony Jim." When a woman gets to be a hundred years old she doesn't care who knows it. THE BKUAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921. The Shriners Had a Wonderful Meeting At St. Louis, Mo. Arabic Temple No. 44, Chicago, Carried Off the Honors of the Meeting. (Concluded from page 1.) Grand Court sent a committee to exchange fraternal greetings which was reciprocated by a committee from the Imperial Council. Election of Officers. The Imperial Council then proceeded with the election of officers as follows: Caesar R. Blake, Jr., Charlotte N. C., Imperial Potentate, unanimously re-elected; Samuel W. Franklin, Detroit, Michigan, Deputy Imperial Potentate; Harry Knight, New York City, Chief Rabban; Wm. Heathman, Providence, R. L., Assistant Rabban; STOPS IN CITY. John Mitchell, Jr., editor of The Richmond Planet, president The Mechanic Savings Bank, only member of ian Bankers Association and Grand the race having membership in Amer Chancellor of K. of P. of the state of Virginia, accompanied by Dr. Jefferson also of Richmond, Va., stopped for two and one-half hours in the city Monday evening. M. T. Bailey of The Bailey Press Bureau, 3638 State street, and Dr. P. C. Downs of the medical staff of A. U. K. & D. of A, met the party at the Illinois Central Depot and rushed them for a visit to the residence of Mrs. Henrietta P. Lee, 3112 Vernon avenue, where they dined and made a short visit to the Appomattox Club and the residence of Dr. Downs thence to the Pyramid Building & Loan Association from where they left for the Polk Street Depot and departed for Topeka, Kans. The visit was a short but interesting one. GOOD WORK COUNTS In appreciation of the good work rendered during the past year by Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 3556 Giles avenue, D. G. M. N. G., of Illinois and Wisconsin Households of Ruth, G. U. O. O. F. Mrs. Young was presented with a color of solid gold at the district meeting of Eden Household No. 18 at Joliet, Ill., and a pair of embroidered pillow cases, aprons and ten dollars in money at the district meeting at North Vernon, Ind. Mrs. Young visited Indianapolis, Ind., while away and returns home after two weeks absence pleased with her trip. TO MAKE FINAL REPORT. The General Committee in charge of arrangements for the meeting of The National Grand Council of A. U. K. & D. of A. met Saturday evening at Grant's A. M. C. Memorial Chapel, 4600 Evans avenue, but the meeting was adjourned to meet Sept. 10th at the church for final reports on all outstanding matters concerning the meetings. The committee is headed by Rev. T. L. Scott, assisted by Dt. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen and M. T. Bailey of the Bailey Press Bureau. TRIPS CANCELLED The trip to Alton, Ill., to the grand lodge of U. B. A. & S. M. T. and the trip to Boston, Mass., to the grand lodge of Elks and to visit old school mates and friends, have been cancelled by M. T. Bailey, president of The Bailey Realty Co., and manager The Milton Merenantile Agency, 3638 State street, who has been asked by clients to close some pressing business matters in the city. ```markdown ``` J. B. HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of C Chairman of its Finance Committee; Stro Mayor William Hale Thompson, Who May E Treasurer of Cook County in 1922. One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago; the Able Chairman of its Finance Committee; Strong Supporter of Mayor William Hale Thompson, Who May Enter the Race for Treasurer of Cook County in 1922. James E. Shephard, Durham, N. C., High Priest and Prophet; D. A. Butler, St Joseph, Mo., Oriental Guide; Chas, Freeman, Washington, D. C., Imperial Treasurer; Levy Williams, Jersey City, N. J., Imperial Recorder; D. A. Oliver, Fort Worth, Texas, 1st Ceremonial Master; C. A. Baxter, Indianapolis, Ind., 2nd Ceremonial Master; I. H. Bradberry, St. Louis, Mo., Outer Guard; R. C. Fisher, St Louis, Mo., Imperial Reporter; W. A. Hanger, Toledo, Ohio, Inner Guard; Genevieve M. Reuben, Official Press Stenographer. Next place of meeting is Washington, D. C., August, 1922. HISTORICAL SOCIETY GETS FAM OUS PRINTING PRESS. The printing press of Elijah P. Lovejoy, absolitionist editor who lost his life in the Alton riots on a November day in 1837, has just been acquired by the Chicago Historical society. The press, upon which Mr. Lovejoy published his Alton Observer, was dismantled by the rioters and thrown into the Mississippi river. Several years ago it became part of the historical collection of the late C. P. Gunther of Chicago. PLEDGES SUPPORT Although she refused to accept the re-nomination as national grand queen of A. U. K. & D. of A. at the recent session of The National Grand Council, Mrs. Dora Cannon who has been in ill health sometime, pledged herself to help further the work of A. U. K. & D. of A. in the city and state. Mrs. Cannon also served some time as state grand queen. CONVENES AT ALTON The Grand Lodge of U. B. F. and S. M. T. is convening during the week at Alton, III. Among the large delegation which left the city Saturday evening were J. B. Street, R. W. Wells, delegates from North Star Lodge No 57; Mesdames Eliza Jackson, Serila Jackson, Georgia Harding, Dora Cannon, Wm. Turner, H. D. Smith and others. Rev. S. D. Davis of Indianapolis, Ind., inspector general of the Military Department of A. U. K. & D. of A., in company with Hon. William H. Fields, national grand master, left the city a few days ago in Rev. Davis' ear for their respective homes after spending much time in the city on fraternal business. WILL GO TO BOSTON Dt. Ruler Bettie A. Givens of Heliotrope Temple, together with Dts. Ella L. Holmes, Flossie Edgehill, Mildred McCloyne, Ella G. Berry and others, will leave the city Saturday evening for Boston, Mass., to attend the grand lodge of Elks. THRONG IN SUBURBS A throng of people from the city and other suburbs were in Morgan Park last Sunday looking over the property for sale and many completing preparations for building. A Mary District of Chicago; the Able Committee; Strong Supporter of Jon, Who May Enter the Race for 1922. LEAVE IN AUTO. [Name] NOBLE AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS One of the Directors of the Public Life Insurance Com cagio, Also One of its Attorneys and Largest Stockk Cut a Wide Swath at the Meeting of the Shriners Missouri. One of the Directors of the Public Life Insurance Company of Chicago, Also One of its Attorney's and Largest Stockholders, Who Cut a Wide Swath at the Meeting of the Shriners at St. Louis, Missouri. HAYS DECLINES "CENSORSHIP" OF NEWSPAPERS. Washington, D. C.—Postmaster General Hays has addressed a statement to the newspaper publishers and editors of the United States concerning his action in readmitting the New York Volks Zeitung to second class, or newspaper rate, mail privileges. Mr. Hays says he will not allow himself to be made a censor of the press and he lays down the principle that any publication entitled to the use of the mails in any way is entitled to second class privileges, provided, of course, that it meets the ordinary requirements of the law as to second class matter. Postmaster Hays must be given the credit of being absolutely fair in his dealings with the newspapers, both great and small—Editor. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. NOTES. Dr. H. E. Stewart, the pastor of Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash ave., will preach Sunday morning subject, "Vice Conditions in Chicago," or "The Price of Blood." What has brought about the awful situation in the second ward and what is the remedy. Don't fail to hear this sermon at 10:45 a.m. Some startling facts concerning vice will be revealed. At 3 p. m. a special program by Quinn Chapel Helpers. Sunday night an illustrated sermon. Subject "The Hand on the Wall." SPENDING VACATION EAST Miss Ethyl Jones, 6125 Michigan avenue, assistant to Dr. C. J. Davis, is spending her vacation in New York City with friends and will visit Boston, Atlantic City and Washington before returning home. AT IDLEWILD Dr. and Mrs. P. C. Downs left the city Tuesday morning in an automobile for Idlewild, Mich., where they will spend their vacation. On returning, they will visit friends at Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Mrs. Anna Vinson, has moved from 59th and Lafayette avenue to 555 E 35th street, where she will be pleased to see her many friends. Misses Bessie and Dorothy Boswell of Dallas, Tex., are in the city the guest of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, 503 Aldine Square. MISS HARRIS HERE Miss Hazel Harris of Dallas, Tex., an accomplished pianist, is in the city the guest of Mrs. Clair Garrett, 4535 Indiana avenue. While here, Miss Harris will take up a special course at The Reese Auto School. RETURNS HOME Miss Agnes Morse of Atlanta, Georgia, returned to her home last week after a pleasant stay of several weeks in the city with friends. Friday Mr. and Mrs. Giles Elliott, Dr. and Mrs. Alonzo J. Bowling, Miss Marguerite Clarke and Mr. J. W. Elliott enjoyed an auto ride thru the parks; after which they formed a box party at the LaSalle Theatre, where they saw with delight, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." MOVES IN CITY Public Life Insurance Company of Chineys and Largest Stockholders, Who Meeting of the Shriners at St. Louis, CHIPS Mrs. Carrie Warner, 382 Calmet avenue, left the first port of this week for Idlewild, Mich., where she will spend two weeks vacation in her beautiful summer home. ```markdown ``` Miss Beauna Carter, sister in law of Dr. J. S. Dorsey, 434 E. 31st street, the wide awake druggist, will shortly leave with her mother, Mrs. Carter, on a visit to their old home, Gordonville, Va. * * * Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4535 Champlain avenue, left Monday morning for St. Charles, Ill., where they will spend two weeks vacation. * * * Miss Marguerite Clarke, teacher in public schools of Muskogee, Oklahoma, who has been attending summer school at the University of Chicago, was dinner guest of Mrs. Mayme Elliott Bowling Thursday. * * * Dr. and Mrs. Alonzo J. Boring of 4714 Calumet avenue are favored with a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Giles Elliot, their father and mother, of Emporia Kansas, and their brother, W. J. Elliot from Kansas City, Mo. They motored in, and report a pleasant trip. * * 6 Mr. James W. Woodlee, 256 Rhoeas avenue, who with his good wife Mrs. Woodlee, own a lovely home at that number and who holds down a good position in the Chicago Postoffice and who will graduate from a law school next year, has for some years been a strong supporter and reader of The Broad Ax. ```markdown ``` Alderman Robert R. Jackson has been selected by Governor Leen Small as one of the members of the Industrial Board of Illinois. Alderman Jackson has the honor and the distinction of has the first colored man within the confines of this state to be elevated to a position of that kind. He wears his new honors well and continues to receive the hearty congratulations of his army of friends over his appointment. ```markdown ``` Pearl W. Marner, 5225 S. Dearborn street, who has for some years been the organist of the Ebenezer Church and who is at the present time connected with the new Liberty Baptist Church, has opened her new office at 3906 Indiana avenue. She will serve you as public typist. She will also handle insurance and negotiate loans. * * * "We want no mulatto children." This was the inscription on the banners of the Ku Klux Klan, carried by them as they marched, two hundred strong through the streets of Conroe, Texas, one day last week. We are curious to know just how many of those rascales in that parade had ravished some defenseless colored woman and become the father of her mulatto babies. ☆ ☆ ☆ Madame Nona A. Keiser, 3859 S. State street, hair culturist, who is a prominent member of the National Beauty Culturists League, which held a three days' session in this city last week at the South Park avenue M. E. Church, 33rd street and South Park avenue and on Wednesday evening Mrs. Keiser delightfully sang a classical vocal selection; at its conclusion she was loudly applauded. She was accompanied on the piano by Miss Gertrude M. Jackson. [Name] HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON Major-General of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pyth the World, Member of the City Council from the and One of the New Members of the Industrial Major-General of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias Throughout the World, Member of the City Council from the Second Ward and One of the New Members of the Industrial Board of Illinois. ON STYLE CARD AS FALL NEARS Interesting Fashions Offered by Paris Dressmakers for Autumn Wear. DESIGNERS AIM TO PLEASE Originators of Modes Endeavor to Derive Newest Notes That Will Despite the mushroom success of new tailors and dressmakers in Paris who have brought out certain simple types and popularized them to an almost unheard of extent, many women, writes a Paris fashion correspondent, now are ordering their clothes from houses that have held to their own definite types through all these changes in fashion. Madeleine Vionnet, who only a short time ago might have been termed an outsider in the great dressmaking circles, has impressed both France and America very deeply with her simple floating panel styles and handkerchief clamp, but as women continually demand varying types the opportunity is not lacking for the success of a variety of styles. This gives a house like Jane Lanvin an opportunity to keep her definite types. The model is a box coat suit in blue sleeve marked off in little squares with white braid and blue beads. It has the high frilled collar and jabot which continue to find favor. Lanvin has for some time been a strong advocate of these short, youthful-looking jackets, as well as all sorts of frilled high collars and fluffy jabot effects. Designer's Mark Always Present. It is a very good thing for clothes in general that the great makers hold definitely to ideas that are distinctly their own. The designing and making of dress is a great deal of a gamble, the past two years have shown very plainly that there is no telling when a very simple thing may meet with an almost over-night success. If all the dressmakers in Paris had followed Vionnet's lead and made her type of dress because it was the best seller for the time being, they would have lost their cuchet completely and would have been practically nowhere when the wave of enthusiasm over this particular style had died down, as it certainly must. Of course, they cannot always hold to a definite type. No designer can do this and be a success. New themes or variations of successful old ones must be continually worked out. Flowing Sleeve and High Collar. The same holds true of those who do not design clothes, but import to America the works of the various great French makers. They must permit their own taste to prevail in making their choice. For instance, it was all very well to bring over those unique models from Madeleine et Madeleine which had the waistline placed at the knees, if one desired to show great novelty, but it was not reasonable to suppose that the women of this country or any other, no matter how capricious they might be, were likely to adopt such a fantastic style. There are two outstanding features of the Lanvin clothes which are notice- Telephone to Deaf The receiver of a telephone set for the deaf that has been invented in Germany is small enough to be hidden in a person's ear, while the transmitter can be carried in a handbag or fastened to clothing. Credit Where Credit Was Due. Many a man who wakes up to find himself famous would have overslept if his wife hadn't called him.—Wichita Beacon. --- able in dress at the present time—the flowing sleeve of greater length than those used heretofore and the high collar. The former might be termed a fashion which is thoroughly crystallized and the latter a strong fashion tendency. Sleeves open at the top to reveal almost the entire arm are featured in one frock. It was created by Lanvin for a well-known French actress to wear in a recent production. The material used is a soft black satin. This is only one of the many indications that the more lustrous materials will vie with dull silks this autumn. Perhaps they will surpass them in popular favor. It is too early to know but it is certainly safe to predict that they will be used extensively. Many handsome models of shiny silks will be seen at the autumn openings. It will then remain for women to take their choice, but it is very likely that the public will have tired to a great extent of the dull finish and the creep weave in silks. Lanvin always has been an originator of most interesting embroideries. Recently she has been working out some extraordinary effects through entirely new means. For Instance, she uses tinsel tinted in lovely color tones and applies it to the frock to give the effect of embroidered panels. Some New Trimming Effects. In a charming suit this effect has been achieved through the use of the white braid and blue beads. One cannot imagine this maker departing entirely from embroideries or embroidered effects, as work of this sort has been raised to the eminence of a fine art in her work rooms and no amount of study and effort spared to produce the best in this line. Children, too, have their fashions nowadays and their clothes are receiving an amount of study and attention which would have astonished makers of children's clothes a few years ago. Great designers have discovered the artistic possibilities that lie in these little garments. Consequently they are infinitely more attractive than in the days when they did not differ from the dresses of their elders and when little babies' dresses were miniature duplicates of their mothers' frocks, or even within the last decade, when clothes for little people were just plain and useful. Of course, the best children's clothes are simple. It is impossible to overdo simplicity in them. And no matter how simple, they may have some special interest of design or trimming, as do those of grown-ups. We have in great abundance the frills, floucees and fichus of a hundred years ago in dresses for future debutantes, but the very smartest thing is the chemise dress of white or some delicately colored French volle with a bit of hand needlework adorning it. *Styles Seen at the Races.* The lovely summer days brought out a large attendance at the race courses. All of the week days are more chic than the Sundays and it is on bright, sunny afternoons at Longchamps, Auteuil Saint Cloud, Maison Laffitte and Vincennes that the smart Parisienue has an opportunity to display her latest extravagances. Among the novelties noted are plaid cape wraps which are nothing more than big, straight scarfs, as wide as they are long, thrown across the shoulders. Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon the continued popularity of the cape and the continued use of monkey fur as a trimming on every form of summer wrap for both day and evening wear. That's Going Too Far. A woman may get up at a mother's convention and declare that she has the best husband on earth, but she never goes so far as to say she expects to meet him in heaven—Chicago Daily News. Use for Piaster of Paris. Gypsum or plaster of paris is used for wall plasters, tile, wall board, dental work, portland cement manufacture, modeling and surgical work. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, VISITED HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, AND TOPEKA, KANSAS, WHERE HE HAD A ROYAL GOOD TIME WITH THE BIGGEST PEOPLE IN THOSE TWO TOWNS. Huntsville, Ala.—As I sit down to write to you today my mind goes back to the days of William H. Councill, one of the greatest educators this world has known. He has lived well in his day and time and has passed out, but there are thousands left behind to sing his praises, and to let those who are coming along know that he once lived. It was often said that when Dr. Councill passed out it would be hard to and one to fill his place, and I am of the opinion that this is about true, and I regret to see this. Normal was at one time at the top, but I do not know what place it occupies now. It is down in the scale, and President Walter S. Buchanan, has resigned and gone into other business, using Normal as a stepping stone. He will some day rank among the wealthy men of our country and race, and in this he has now my congratulations. Build well today, laying a foundation upon which your building will stand. I have been moving some since I wrote to you the last time and I have just a few things I would like to say and when I have said them I will bring this letter to a stop. Will you listen to me for just a little while and see what I have to say? I had made it to Louisville, Ky., when I wrote to you the last time and this letter you have read, I am sure, and I will be in Topeka, Kansas when you read this letter or will be on my way from there. The reading will be the same, it matters not where I am, for I am one of the most readingsest men in this country. I should have said one of the most movingest and ridingest men in America, and I don't care who knows it, for if you are reading after me you have long since decided that I do some going. Well, it was a nice thing to spend a little time in company with William H. Steward and his family, and to get a couple of chickens in a box fixed up by Mrs. Carolyn Blanton, and ride to Nashville, eating chicken as I rode. I enjoyed this so very much and had the pleasure of meeting some people riding also. Now let us turn attention to Nashville. I reached the city, and went out to see my good friend and brother Dr. Julian C. Caldwell, a minister and a Christian gentleman. Caldwell has made a place for himself in the African Methodist Episcopal church. He has put on the map the Allen Christian Endeavor, and it is up to Rev. S. S. Morris to try to keep it where this young man put it. He is trying, and let us pray that he will pull up in the future. We are all looking forward to 1922, when we hope to see Dr. Caldwell consecrated as one of the bishops of the A. M. E. church, and I am of the opinion that it is going to be done. He has won his way, but I am not going to take up time to talk about it now. Mrs. Caldwell has had a nervous breakdown, but I am glad to report to you that she is improving, and let us all hope and pray that she will soon be herself again. She was busy at home. I stepped across the street from Dr. Caldwell's, had a heart to heart talk with Dr. and Mrs. E. W. D. Isaac, of the National B. Y. P. U. Board. We regretted and lamented over the death of Dr. C. T. Walker, and then we talked about the approaching National Baptist convention, of which Dr. Isaac is an important factor. He has had much to do with saving our work and keeping it in tack, and his worth to the denomination cannot be estimated. Next found me in bed, and bright and early Sunday morning there was a call from that most eloquent pulpit orator and scholarly preacher, Dr. W.S. Ellington, inviting me to preach for him Sunday morning, and after prayer and hesitation, I accepted the invitation and went to the stable, and had my trunk toed over to Dr. Hale's place, known as the Millie Hale hospital, and Dr. Madison toed me over to the church in his automobile carriage car. Before I could get started to preach Nautical Terms Gross tonnage is obtained by dividing the whole cubical capacity of a ship by 100, that many English cubic feet representing a ton. Net tonnage is the gross tonnage less deduction for machinery, crew and other spaces not used by passengers or cargo. Dead-weight tonnage or tonnage capacity is the number of tons which can be carried in the holds when the vessel is charged to the load-water line. Displacement tonnage used with reference to warships is the actual weight of sea water displaced by the vessel when charged with all its weight to the load-water line. Flag Etiquette. When the flag passes in a parade or review, the spectator should, if walking, halt; if sitting, arise, stand at attention and salute. Civilians should remove their hats, although women are expected only to stand respectfully until the colors pass. All men in uniform of any branch of the army and navy are required to stand at attention and salute until the colors have passed. ing, Dr. Hale came in, and remained through the sermon,—in fact he waited to tote me over to his place for dinner, to remain over night. The invitation was accepted, and we went over. The table was laden with chicken and other good things. Believe me, I got on the outside of just so much and stopped, but I have seen the time that I would have put three times that much on the inside. But I am going slow and getting down trying to get rid of them bugs that are trying to fix me to the extent that the worms can get fat off of my cares by eating three or four meals a day. But you see Dr. George C. Hall, and Dr. H. W. Conrad have fooled them telling them that they were liars, and I am still here. After the dinner, Dr. Hale invited me to join him and his family in a cool off ride, and of course I accepted. We rode for three hours or more, getting back to the Millie Hale hospital there was a calling waiting for him. He said that we could make it out there and get back in time for church, and I accepted the invitation, and it made me feel like I was some doctor too. We got out there, and there was a man coming up the road saying "Are you coming after me, doctor? Come right on." He led the way to the house. We thought he was only drunk, but found that he had been stabbed by another man in two places. Dr. Hale in a few minutes fixed him and he was on his way rejoicing. He is one more fixer. Dr. J. H. Hale is one of the greatest surgeons in this country, and we will all have to give it to him. About a week ago, about 11:30 at night the police rushed into the Millie Hale Hospital one J. B. Batte, the son of the late Prof. J. B. Batte. He was in a very serious condition. Now you will have to know what all this is, for I do not, but I do know his stomach was hanging out. The record is: "An inised wound was made beginning at lower part of the sterbum cutting two ribs and stomach in two. The transverse colon was severed, the contents of the stomach being poured into peritoneal cavity. A partial gastrectomy was done immediately, with a lateral anastomosis. There were also deep wounds of the neck, a lacerated wound in the lungs, side and head. All were repaired, the entire operation being completed in forty minutes. Patient was put to bed and in five days afterwards patient was out of danger, and is now rapidly recovering." I am told that Dr. Hale took out eight inches of intestines. Now this is wonderful. I am now proud of Dr. Hale. This case has its place in history. He will shine forever. Sunday night I had the pleasure of preaching for the Rev. Dr. J. T. Brown, of Spruce Street Baptist church. He is doing a great big work there. But I must not forget to tell you that on my way back to the stable, I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. R.H.Boyd, of the National Baptist-Boyd Publishing Board. He is in bad health. Let us all pray that he may be restored to health, for he is not just yet ripe for the Kingdom, and I want that this venerable worker shall make it into the kingdom of heaven. Just as soon as that matter is straight with the National Baptist convention, then it will be better for all. Speaking of the National Baptist convention, they have decided to erect one of the largest—no, I mean the largest and most complete publishing plants in America owned and operated by our people. I can see no reason why this cannot be done, for they have the number and then they have the money. Dr. A. M. Townsend is just a leader of men, and one of the greatest leaders in America. He is a Sunday school man from his heart. I shall have more to say to you next week. I am going to tell you about other things. I am not well as I write this week, but hope that time will bring about improvements. Good bye. Charles E. Stump. And He Meant So Well. And He Wanted So Well. I was escorting two girl friends home from a dance one night, when we noticed a wide-open window in a house we were passing. Thinking to avert a possible burglary, I stuck my head inside and shouted, "Say, good people—" But that was as far as I got, for a bucketful of water struck me full in the face and a furious female voice shouted, "I told you what you'd get if you didn't get home before ten!"—Chicago Journal. Olive Oil in Babies' Diet. Olive Oil in Babies Diet Dr. E. E. Graham of Philadelphia recommends the addition of olive oil to the diet of babies in their first two years. It is digested well by most infants and supplies them with additional fat. Another Definition. A pessimist is one who sees in a dimple nothing except the future site for a wrinkle. And an optimist is one who sees in a wrinkle only the dimple that once was there. P. President of the Roosevelt State Bank, Thirty-Fifth Street and Grand Boulevard, Treasurer of the $100,000 Campaign Fund Drive for a Greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Nurses. Mr. Flower in offering his assistance said that "we are in this community as a part of it, to help in any way we can to make it better, and to lend our aid and influence towards bringing up every line of business and endeavor. A Training School for Colored Nurses is a neces- St. Swithin Myth Disproved. St. Swithin's Myrtle Dispersion A record was kept from 1840 for twenty years for the purpose of testing the truth of the popular belief that if rain fell on St. Swithin's day it would rain for forty days after. The result of this test shows that the greatest number of rainy days had occurred in these two decades in years when St. Swithin's day was dry. Few Regions Really Rainless. No part of the earth's surface is absolutely rainless except the interiors of Antarctica and Greenland, where the moisture that falls is always in the form of snow. No Substitute for Work. So far, no real substitute for work has been found. Panhandling is not Neither is theft, burglary or even resolutions unanimously adopted by a mass meeting.-Houston Post. Phone Drexel 7345 J Office Hours 10 a. m. to 12 Sundays By 2 p. m. to 4 Appointment 6 p. m. to 8 Dr. Jas. M. Hall Office and Residence 4545 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago Residence, 1962 McCallister Place Tue. mon., 214 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-380 REAPER BLK. Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1290 CHICAGO Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4751 Champlain Avenue. Phone Kenwood 5611 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708-184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Boulevard 1580 : Phones : Boulevard 1580 TOILET ARTICLES CIGARS CIGARETTES TOBACCOS The Ogden Pharmacy 3700 South State Street Prescriptions Filled With Care and Delivered—Up-to-Date Soda Fountain JAMES LURIE, manager B. S. JONES, R.Ph. J. M. STARKS, R.Ph. BINGA STATE BANK Under State Supervision Capital $100,000.00 Surplus 20,000.00 Offers Equal Service to All 3% INTEREST ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS State Street and 36th Place sity, because, any of us may need a nurse any minute. We never know when, and I feel that the whole city of Chicago most certainly should bend every effort towards helping us go over The Top." Mr. Flower, who has never been frightened when he has come in contact with colored people, aside from being President of the Roosevelt State Bank, is the leading member of the firm of Flower Bros., wholesale woolens, 371 West Jackson boulevard, and Mr. Flower easily ranks with the best and the brightest business men in Chicago Avoid Being Irritant. Some folks are just plain irritants. You don't know why it is you don't like them. But you surely don't like them. By word and deed they get under your skin and you feel mean at being so touchy. But it can't be helped—they irritate. Do your best to get beyond the irritation stage. You can put up with a lot when you train yourself to it. In the end you may find that part of the irritation belongs to yourself. Come on. Be a sport. Buck up—Grit. Engraving 6,000 Years Old record as holding court from the seat of an old buggy. The case was that of a tenant who had disregarded notice to vacate property, so the buggy was drawn up within a short distance of the house in question and the trial proceeded. An engraving approximately 6,000 years old was discovered recently in Wales. Upon the plaque are a number of triangular symbols dating from Neolithic times, probably by workmen of the Iberian race, many evidences of which survive. HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D. C. J. STANLEY DURKEE, A. M., Ph. D., President EMMETT J. SCOTT, A. M., LL. D., Secretary-Treasurer UNIVERSITY BETON, D. C. A. M., Ph. D., President LL. D., Secretary-Treasurer HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D. C. J. STANLEY DURKEE, A. M., Ph. D., President EMMETT J. SCOTT, A. M., LL.D, Secretary-Treasurer Collegiate and Professional Schools Junior College, covering the Freshman and Sophomore leading to the Senior Colleges. Senior College, consisting of the Schools of Liberal Arts, Journalism, and Commerce and Finance, granting respect degrees. A. 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HO...MES, Registrar Howard University, Washington Bashman and Sophomore years, and Schools of Liberal Arts, Education, Finance, granting respectively the or B. S. in Education; B. S. in Jour- cure course, giving degree, B. S. in M. E., B. S. in Architecture; B. S. Household Economics. giving degree of Mus. B. course, giving degree of B. D. (Also Di- courses.) course, giving degree of LL.B. Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Col- medical and Dental Students; three students. Following degrees given: Write Work at the beginning of any arter. September 27 to 29, 1929 January 3, 1921 March 19 and 21, 1921 write IO...MES, Registrar Washington, D. C. Junior College, covering the Freshman and Sophomore years, and leading to the Senior Colleges. Senior College, consisting of the Schools of Liberal Arts, Education, Journalism, 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 C. 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 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, 1920 Winter Quarter.....January 3, 1921 Spring Quarter.....March 19 and 21, 1921 Are You Prepared for Sickness or Adversity? You should have some money in the bank in case that sickness or adversity overtake you. Come in today and open an account. $1 is enough to start. ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Saile and Jackson Streets Chicago & SAVINGS BANK on Streets Chicago ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle se Jackson Streets Chicago MR. ALEXANDER FLOWER sity, because, any of us may need a nurse any minute. We never know when, and I feel that the whole city of Chicago most certainly should bend every effort towards helping us go over The Top." Mr. Flower, who has never been frightened when he has come in contact with colored BACK HOME. Mrs. Luster L. Glenn, 11301 S. Bishop street, Morgan Park, is back home after a visit to southern Illinois and attending the Grand Chapter at Centralia, Ill. Mr. Abraham Emanuel and Mrs. John Emanuel, of White Plains, N. Y., are the house guests of Prof. and Dr. Fannie Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes avenue. Old Bugay His Court A judge of Livingston, N. J., is on record as holding court from the seat of an old buggy. The case was that of a tenant who had disregarded notice to vacate property, so the buggy was drawn up within a short distance of the house in question and the trial proceeded. 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Corner 31st Street, Chicago Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MOR CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE cGOWAN AND MORSELL O'S REPRESENTATIVE KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. S. GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MOR Proprietors D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Proprietors GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Proprietors Dodson's shoe shining parlor and saw stand, southwest corner 30th and State St. Mrs. Moses Ratcliff, president of the Willing Workers' Club of St. Catherine A. M. E. Zion Church. 373. Elmwood Ave. Phones Douglas 6302 and Douglas 6533 Nights call Douglas 7078 J. S. DORSEY Reliable Druggist Full Line of Fresh Drugs and Toilet Articles Prescriptions Filled With Accuracy. 494 East 31st Street Chicago, Ill Telephone Oakland 246 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST P. Bishop, cigar, tobacco e-2 news stand, 8 W. 27th St., near State. A. D. Hayes, cigar, tobacco, stationery and news stand, 3540 S. wint St. Telephone Oakland 2946 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 1867 South State Street Near 51st St. Not On the Corner CHICAGO --- P 3515 INDIANA AVENUE FROM ON AND AFTER THIS DATE THE BROAD AX CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Dr. J. S. Dorsey's Drug Store, 432 E. 31st Street, corner Vernon Avenue. The Porter-White Drug Co. store, southwest corner 4700 S. State St. Turner Williams' barber shop and laundry office, 4803 S. State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stands, 3002 S. Dearborn St. Thomas Bell, news stand, ice cream parlor and laundry office, 17 W. 63rd St. near State. DON'T SPEED IN ALL OPPONENT - 100 BATTLE - 100 GAME - 100 CHICAGO. ILL THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921 NEW IN CORSAGE NEW IN CORSAGE Sleeveless Fashion Pronounced Summer Feature. Garment Attractive When Large Loose Collar Forms Part of the Scheme. A curious fashion is very much in evidence this summer. That is the sleeveless corsage. These are creations of famous Parisian dressmakers. A sleeveless summer frock is distinctly attractive, especially so when a large, loose collar forms part of the sartorial scheme—as in the Doucet model. This exquisite dress was made of foxglove pink linen and the embroideries were worked in white pearl beads. The design was extremely simple, but the outline was supremely elegant, just one of those quiet little dresses which bear the cachet of a great French "Maison." The large collar is one of the new ideas. The corsage is cut round and the collar turns over and falls on the shoulders. Similar collars on dresses had elaborate sleeves, but this particular model had no sleeves at all, the collar covering part of the upper arm. Silk-finished linen is very fashionable this summer. It is produced in exquisite shades, and the bead embroidery shown is very popular. Sometimes the beads are multicolored, sometimes all white, or all dark blue—the latter a novelty which pleases the Parisian taste. This is quite a girl's dress, but the outline is so becoming that it might be adopted by any woman who had retained a slender figure. VELVET HATS IN LIMELIGHT First of the Splendid Rich Fabric Now Making Its Appearance in Paris. Plain materials are having a great vogue and the only dressmaker of any importance in the Paris who dares to use prints to any extent is Paul Polet. He uses most extraordinary patterns in dress silks, the designs seemingly more suited to a carpet than to a dress. The first velvet hats are beginning to make their appearance. Reboux is having success with hunter's green velvet hats trimmed with a natural coque, all in the burnished green effect. Reboux also is using a sort of triple crepe for covering large sailor shapes. This crepe is fluted to cover the brim and there is only the simplest of ribbon band trimming. Everything to match is an important note in present Paris fashions. The crepe de chine dress is often accompanied by a-bat trimmed with the same material. And it is not unusual to see hat, cipe and dress all of the one material. Crepe Kasha. Crepe kasha is a novelty in a silk wool crepe, an understudy to canton crepe, which, with crepe black satin is to hold its place. A French adaptation is the combination of strictly tailored cloths with dressier fabrics to give new type of street costume for the fall. Some usual ones are of rep or poplin with duvetyn, vellinette and ermine. The Algerian wrap of the gayest striped silks, and dresses of duvetyn with panels and underskirt embroidered in newly discovered Arabian patterns are full of the charm of the unusual, slightly tinged with the bizarre. Well-Groomed Head. A well-combed head of hair always lends itself to a charming collure. It makes but little difference whether one has a natural wave, a permanent wave or straight locks, if they are well combed they can be dressed to enhance the charm of any woman. HAVE ONE EVER-READY FROCK Crepe de Chine or Other Silk, Preferably Dark, Affords Gown When Needed in Haste. In your wardrobe for summer there should always be an attractive frock of crepe de chine or other silk, preferably of dark color—something that you can be sure of and can fall back on when the organdles have all have mussed and lighter clothes have become soled. You always think that it will be so easy to press your own frocks with a little iron. But in your busy days you do not take time and you may be caught with nothing to wear unless you take some substantial, serviceable frock that looks well any-way. An evening frock of black or brown lace or net is also a good emergency addition to your summer wardrobe. This is not the type of evening frock you would select for summer evenings, but it is sure to look presentable and needs only a little attention to make it look fresh. Often all that it needs by way of pressing after it has been in your trunk is to be hung up in a closet to let the wrinkles hang out. Care of Hair. Between the regular shampoos, the hair should be well shaken and the scalp ventilated, in the sunshine if possible, to invigorate the roots and make it more fluffy. Shake it loose and then wipe down the hair shafts with a soft, clean towel (not one that has a tendency to shed lint). Then brush thoroughly, finishing with a piece of soft velvet or plush. Forest Fires Spread Darkness. During the occurrence of great forest fires in Idaho, in August, 1980, the smoke was carried over the whole of the northern United States and southern Canada and far over the oceans. It was observed 500 miles from land. These fires caused "dark days" over a greater area than in any other case on record in this country. LOW SHOES AGAIN IN FAVOR Present Indications Point to Strap Effects for the Coming Fall and Winter. Low shoes had such a vogue all last year that high boots even for the most severe winter weather had only a moderate call. According to present indications the same conditions will hold good for the coming fall and winter season. Strap effects will continue to be in high favor. The fancy for color and different leather combinations will also be a feature of next season's footgear. The short vamp shoe will be a leader for fall and toes are to be more rounded than those of the present season. The simplicity of styles offered for gowns, suits and other items of outer apparel during the past few seasons has served to emphasize the importance of smart and novel shoes, hats and other accessories. By using good judgment in selecting the minor items, any woman may be well dressed at comparatively small cost. But be sure the shoes you select are becoming to you. One type of shoe looks well on one pair of feet, but fall to suit another type. HOW TO KEEP NAILS NICE Cuticle Should Be Pushed Back Every Time When Hands Are Washed With Warm Water. The cuticle around the nails must be clipped at times, but if careful you need not cut this delicate skin more than once a fortnight, or even once a month, as cuticle cut too often tends to become hard and tough in appearance. The best way to keep the nails nice-looking around the edges is to have an orangewood stick handy in the bathroom and to push back the cuticle with warm water and soap. Even if you have not time for this and push back the cuticle only once a day it will be enough. An astringent cream is a good thing to use because it will keep the cuticle soft, and at the same time prevent it from growing fast. FASHIONS IN BRIEF Three-piece suits have eclipsed the two-piece suits for fall. Small hats of black taffeta are edged with narrow ruching. Monograms of beads are among the smartest things shown in the new bags. The smartest sport skirts are of white flannel and knitted silk in bright Roman stripes. Soft materials will lead in fall coat fabrics. Velmrage—the name is self-explanatory—will be one of the strong numbers. Very bright colored lightweight velours are used with very good effect to fashion vests, sometimes entire sleeves, etc., in serge frocks. Knitted wool and silk capes are popular country and summer resort wraps. They are shown in wide variety and in many color blendings and color combinations. Plain linen or chambray dresses are very smartly trimmed with chintz, belt, collar, cuffs and pockets being of the figured fabric. These frocks are of the tailored type, usually designed for girls of not more than eight years and almost always accompanied by matching bloomers. Something new and dainty is being offered in the shops in the form of perfume vials hidden in the heart of a flower. The perfume in the vial is of the odor of the flower. One of the newest evening wraps is fashioned of deep flouces of black thread lace, over a foundation of black georgette, and the close shoulder line defined by rows of kolinsky, of varying widths. GARMENTS FOR THE KIDDIES Designers Have Outdone Previous Efforts in Providing Winsome Attire for Children. Children's garments are more alluring this summer than ever before. Designers seem to have outdone all previous efforts along that line. The shops are filled with pretty novelties that may be purchased all ready to wear, or that serve equally well as suggestions for the benefit of the mother who makes her children's clothes. Little kindergarten designs in the form of small sun-bonneted figures are appliqued on frocks and aprons to form pockets. These pockets may be made of the same plaid material used for cuffs and sash, or match the dress and embroidery cotton. There is a very pronounced fancy this summer for hats and bonnets to match all frocks designed for members of the younger generation. When the frock is of the tailored type, a straw hat is often preferred to one made of fabric, but if the dress is at all of the lingerie type, then the preference seems to be for fabric hats or bonnets. Lovely organdle hats are often trimmed with bands or appliqued motifs of checked gingham. Such a hat may be worn either with an organdle or a gingham frock. Many daly little hats are made of colored dotted swiss, or of colored dotted swiss in combination with plain color or white. The short socks carry out the color scheme of hat and frock. Many mothers buy dozens of pairs of the little short socks, watching every bargain table that offers such merchandise, so that every outfit, whether green, yellow, red or other shade may be complete and blend from head to heels. Drives Away Ship's Smoke. Featured by a water spray, apparatus has been invented in Italy to prevent smoke rising from ships' funnels. Moon Hollow. Moon Hollow is the name given to the spot where the boundaries of three states meet—New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER PRIVATE ANBULANCE AUTOS AT ALL HOURS ALL MONDAYS 4:55 5121 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE OIL OPEN BAY & NIGHT Day Light Chapel, capacity 200, Outside Ventilation—Organ and Organist Free—I am as near as your Telephone—I give service at a reasonable price—Distance immaterial, consult me—I save you wor y, time and money. 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLIN PIONE MAIN 2004 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Telephone Douglas 1275 Residence Telephone 3342 Calumet Ave. Douglas 1275 JAMES G. COTTER ATTORNEY AT LAW 145 NORTH CLARK STREET SUITE 407 Telephone Central 8364 CHICAGO Formerly Assistant Attorney General State of Illinois Res. 3646 Grand Beul. Deug. 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 16-17 Phone: Douglas 6381 CHICAGO F. Dunn, J. B. McCahey, Trustees Tel: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN Established 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO Audenceco 3885 Prakie Ave. Phono Douglas 9138 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 84 W. Washington Street CHICAGO PHONE KENWOOD 455 West Englewood Ashland State Bank 1610 West 63rd Street Comparative Statement of Deposits November 18, 1912, $836,605.23 November 17, 1914, $912,005.69 November 17, 1916, $1,132,750.72 November 18, 1918, $1,284,084.24 November 17, 1919, $2,359,636.62 November 15, 1920, $3,224,633.09 OFFICE JOHN BAIN. President MICHAEL MAISEL, VP EDW. C. BARRY, W. MERLE F. ARTHU N. President AEL MAISEL, Vice President DW. 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 Something in This. If a man has the raw material for being a blamed fool, he cannot blame the fakir for taking advantage of opportunities—Exehange. Nothing is more disconcerting to a noble-aged golfer than to be asked by the young lady who is watching him drive off whether he intends to enter the grandfather's tournament. 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