The Broad Ax

Col. William Joseph Simmons, of Atlanta, Georgia, the Grand Dragon or Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and His Cohorts Are in the Saddle and They Are Successfully Riding Through the Northern States and Cities and Unfurling Their Banners, Stained with Human Blood Throughout the South Land, on the Ramparts in All Sections of the North and West. Within the past six years the Ku Klux Klan, under the leadership of Carl William Joseph Simmons of Atlanta, Ga., its Grand Dragon or Wizard, has increased from a few hundred to more than eight hundred thousand members and the invisible empire, ruled over by the K. K. K.'s stands from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean and from the extreme northern clime to the uttermost parts of the south and if the high government officials and the officials of the universities states and cities throughout the Union permit it to continue to grow and florish like a green bay it will only be a question of time until it will be ten times stronger or more powerful than the United Government and all the states and city governments combined and the city governments and Dragons of the invisible empire will be administering all the laws of the land instead of the regular constituted authorities discharging those functions. Within the past few weeks, Col. Simmons wended his way from his home in the south to Chicago, where he established headquarters for the members of his Klan and where many thousands joined his white grown night riders in one night and Col. Simmons or some one connected with it paid the Chicago Tribune and several of the other daily newspapers many thousands of dollars for whole page advertisements setting forth the sounding principles of the Ku Klux Klan and in an editorial August 27, the Chicago Tribune practically endorsed everything which the Ku Klux Klan stands for or for whose members are falling for. The Chicago Tribune sounds the praises of the Ku Klux Klans for the benefit of its Irish-American readers, in Jewish-American readers and its Colored-American readers, who are not considered one hundred per cent American and for that reason they are forever deprived of the honor of associating with the clay eating Klans of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and in the other southern states where the members of the Klan have in the past and even at the present time reddened their unlawful hands in the blood of their victims, both white and colored, both men and women thusly: "Furthermore the objects of the society, as stated in its constitution are commendable. We all owe a duty to citizens to support the constitu- THENTON MAYOR TO SUPPRESS K. K. K. The National Association for the advancement of Colored People, 70 With avenue, New York, has made public a letter sent to a colored post of the American Legion, Mitchell Davis Post, No. 182, by the Mayor of Clinton, N. J., in which that official used he would take all possible action to thwart the progress of the Ku Klux Klan. The letter reads as follows: "I wish to take this occasion of acknowledging the letter of August 18th to me by the committee of the Mitchell Davis Post, No. 182, protesting against the organization of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in this city. "In reply to your letter I wish to advise your committee that as long as I remain Mayor of the City of Trenton I will take every possible action to prevent the usurpation of any citizen's rights and privileges, regardless of race, creed or color. Likewise, I shall use all my official power to thwart the progress of any organization designed to upset the friendly relations that exist in Trenton between our white and colored citizens. I am strongly against the promotion of any agency that may THE BROAD AX tion and the law of the land, and this duty justifies organization of citizens to give aid when necessary to the formal agencies of government and to create that sentiment of loyalty upon which the proper functioning of such agencies depends." Some of the Grand Wizards or Dragons of the Klan claim that it was reorganized largely for the purpose of protecting the virtue or the chastity of white women from the ravishments of colored men, which is all hog wash, for less than two months ago a mob of Ku Klux Klan, at least they claimed to be such, rushed into a hotel in a small town in Texas, seized a white woman and bodily threw her into an auto, drove some ten miles into a wild country and when the machine came to a halt three or four thousand men or white figures who had already assembled formed a circle and the white woman was ushered into the center of it and in the presence of those three or four thousand fiends of the infernal regions, the white woman was stripped naked from head to feet and after she had been tried by the mock court which had been set up by the members of the Klan and found guilty of committing bigamy she was tarred and feathered and then she was permitted to wander forth upon the face of the earth in all of her shame or disgrace and humiliation. It is enough to cause the bright shining angels in the high heavens to weep long and loud when such revolting specimens of humanity set themselves up as the sole protectors of the virtue or the chastity of the white womanhood of America. The Kn Klux Klan proudly marched through the streets of Conroe, Texas recently and one of the inscriptions on one of their banners was "We want no mulatto children." That inscription was enough to cause the boss devil to crack his sides with laughter. When we take into consideration the fact that for more than two hundred and fifty years that the vast majority of the southern white gentlemen have been working over time in order to increase the mulatto population in that section of the country and at the present time ninety per cent of all the bastard children born to the most repulsive looking colored women throughout the Southland are the offspring of white gentlemen. create interracial distrust or friction and your committee may rely upon my active support at all times to prevent the fomenting of such a condition in Trenton. "This is my position and if you care to give this letter to the public press you are at liberty to do so. Very truly yours, Frederick W. Donnelly, Mayor, PREACHER TARRED AND FEATHERED. As long as the K. K. K. confined its hellish deeds to branding, castrating, whipping and lynching colored people, the white press had little to say about that criminal band. But hear them howl when the Klan flogged a white woman, tarred and feathered a white preacher! Their strong denunciation of the crimes immediately calls the machinery of the law to get busy; resolutions and petitions have been sent to the city, county and state officials, and they in turn have taken steps to put the Klan out of business. This goes to show how much depends upon the color of one's skin as to whether or not the press and the law will work to extinguish the Klan. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921. M. H. C. The Best and the Ablest City Comptroller that Chicago Has Ever Had, Whose Honesty and Straight-Forward Business Career for More Than Thirty Years in This City Has Never Been Questioned, Who Is Assisting His Many Colored Friends to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn Hospital. KLAN IS WARNED BY GOV BLAINE OF BADGER STATE. Answers Protests on the Organization. Madison, Wis.—Pledge has been made by Gov. Blaine in a letter to Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, that if the Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin, "or its membership, violated the law, the entire power of the state will be used to protect the people in their liberty and their security." The governor has received a petition signed by a large number of Milwaukee citizens and another signed by Maj. J. G. Joachim of Kenosha, in which it is urged that he use his influence to prevent the organization of the Klan in Wisconsin. "With such a record as the Ku Klux Klan had during the period following the civil war, and steeped in crime as the Klan was, do you think that any liberty loving, law abiding sensible citizen of Wisconsin is going to join an order that is alleged to be a counterpart of the Klan of rebel days, if in fact it is?" the governor says in his letter. "I cannot engage in the presumption that the Klan will engage in violence or crime. I must indulge them the same presumption under our constitution that is granted others." "However, permit me to say that as governor, I must make the pledge that, if its membership violates the law the entire power of the state will be used to protect the people in their liberty and their security. "I must also suggest that the commission of any overt act or any violence by members of any organization may, as a legal conclusion, im- HON. GEORGE F. HARDING, JR. and the Ablest City Comptroller that Chica Whose Honesty and Straight-Forward Busi- ness than Thirty Years in This City Has Never Who Is Assisting His Many Colored Frie hundred Thousand Dollars for the Foal. OV. plicate and hold guilty the entire membership if a general conspiracy is proven. "If Ku Klux Klan of today is like the Ku Klux Klan of rebel days, it has no place in Wisconsin." OUST PROFESSOR KERLIN FOR LETTER TO ARKANSAS GOVERNOR. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, has announced receipt of news that Robert T. Kerlin, professor of English at Virginia Military Institute, and author of "The Voice of the Negro," had been expelled from his position because of a letter he wrote to the Governor of Arkansas asking him to review the cases of the Negro farmers sentenced to death in connection with the Arkansas riots. In the letter Professor Kerlin wrote to the Governor of Arkansas, he stated that the Negro farmers of Arkansas were the victims of peonage; that they had neither instigated nor begun the riots as was shown in the trial before the Arkansas •Supreme Court, that they had armed themselves only after being threatened and molested; and that the convicted Negro farmers had been tortured by whipping and an electric chair during their trials to make them testify as the white landlords wanted them to. "The time will come," said Professor Kerlin's letter, "when the world with full knowledge of this will be revolted by such Congo barbarity." Because of his championship of these victims of Arkansas "justice," Professor Kerlin was handed a resolution passed by the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute, asking for his immediate resignation. Professor Kerlin refused to resign and the board of visitors thereupon passed another resolution depriving him of his professorship. Ald. Robert R. Jackson, alderman from the old Second ward, has indicated that he will not accept his appointment by Gov. Small as a member of the Illinois industrial commission at a salary of $5,000 a year. "I find that my business affairs will not permit me to give the time to the commission which would be necessary," Ald. Jackson has stated. Ald. Jackson is placed in the new Third ward by the fifty-ward plan. He is regarded as the Lundin-Thompson leader of the ward. He has served sixteen years in various elective positions. CLEVELAND, OHIO, AGAINST THE KLAN Cleveland.—Cleveland's city council and Mayor William S. Fitzgerald are on record today as unalterably opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, a local branch of which, it has been announced, is being organized here. A resolution condemning the organization received the unanimous approval of council, while Mayor Fitzgerald denounced the organization as a "hotbed for stirring up race and religious prejudice." DAUGHERTY HALTS KLUX KLAN INQUIRY Cincinnati, Ohio—Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty wired the Department of Justice at Washington to take no further steps in the investigation of the Ku Klux Klan until "further advised by him." MAYOR SMITH DENOUNCES KU KLUX KLAN; DECLARES IT IS A MENACE; CANNOT ENTER LOUISVILLE, KY..IF LAW WILL PREVENT. Mayor George Weissinger Smith cheered the hearts of Colored Louisville Monday when he came out in a flat-footed statement denouncing Ku Kluxism and declaring it could not get a foothold in Louisville, if he could prevent it. The statement which is remarkably clear and clean cut follows: "For several months past there have been rumors of attempts to organize a branch of the order known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisville. These efforts have been discouraged by officials and private citizens. An advertisement has recently appeared in Louisville newspapers announcing the proposed organization of such a branch. "From newspaper accounts of the workings of this order in Southern cities recently convinced that such an organization would be a menace to the peace and good understanding between the people of Louisville. The alleged purport is to back up law enforcement; its real purpose is to arouse the old race prejudice of reconstruction days. It is promoted by paid organizers and is not a patriotic organization. "The order advertises for 100 per cent Americans, but in its actual workings it violates the principles of Constitutional government by taking into its own hands the powers of courts and executives. In the disguise of a law supporter it countenances crimes as horrible as those it seeks to punish. COMMODORE PECK, HONOR ARY PRESIDENT, CHICAGO WOMAN'S BAND Commodore Ferdinand Peck, Chicago's oldest native-born citizen, born in '48, has not curbed his indomitable, restless, creative genius. Not satisfied with "conquering" kings of Europe, as he did preceding the World's Fair, gaining uniform support of that enterprise from abroad; not satisfied with the conception and erection of the first Confederate monument in the North; not satisfied with being the "Father of Grand Opera" in promoting the Opera Festival of 1885 in the Old Exposition Building on the Lake front; not satisfied with the creation of the famous Auditorium of Chicago, nor with the great American commercial caravan he led to the Paris Exposition of 1900; not stopping with the successes following in his wake in the founding of many other Chicago public institutions of gigantic proportions, the insatiable energy of Commodore Peck has impelled him to a part in Mayor Thompson's recent Pageant of Progress, the shining light of which was the Chicago Woman's Band which has been breathed into active, public being by the commodore. This leader of men and things swung this band into the parade preceding the pageant where, resplendent in their crimson capes, skirts and turbans, 160 girls, composing the band, proved the great attraction of the Pageant of Progress and continued their daily attractive, mesidist the plaudits of the gath-ered multitudes at that great event "The good citizens of Louisville are able and willing to back up the constituted agencies of law enforcement—peace officers and the courts, and do not need the doubtful assistance of an order, the very name of which recalls bitterness and bloodshed. "The Colored people of Louisville are in the main law-abiding citizens. They have been quick to condemn even those of their own race who have not respected law and they have assisted the police in apprehending offenders and have helped in their prosecution. Negroes who violate the law, just as white men do so, can be controlled by the peace officers, as always has been done in Louisville, without clash or race prejudice. "Because I believe this organization to be a menace, I shall use every lawful means to prevent and suppress its growth in our community, as long as I am Mayor there will be no Ku Klux Klan in Louisville. "Geo. Weissinger Smith, Mayor." Mayor Smith is a true blue American and he has the moral courage to talk out straight from the shoulder in relation to that class of colored people who violate the established laws of Louisville, Kentucky, and the Ku Klux Klan has only been revived for the sole purpose of racial strife, bitterness and bloodshed. Mayor Smith deserves to be highly commended for assuming a bold stand against the Ku Klux Klans and in favor of law and order.—Editor. No musical institution of Chicago has gained a place in the hearts of Chicagoans more quickly than has this band. From its general director, John S. Greenwalt, its charming conductor, Miss Miriam Greenwalt, its stately, graceful drum major, Miss Ruth Sinclair, down to the last of the twenty drummers, the organization is thoroughly loyal to Chicago and loves the musical harmony it can produce and will continue to produce to please the ears of its thousands of hearers wherever they play. Commodore Peck predicts that the band will soon be world-famous. Engagements are awaiting them at "White City," Milwaukee and Indianapolis, and applications for engagements are coming in daily. The organization is incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois and at a meeting held recently in the office of Commodore Peck the following officers were selected: Honorary President — Ferdinand W. Peck. President—Mrs. Samuel S. Hutchinson. Vice-President—W. N. Horner. Manager and Secretary—Mrs. K. C. Raclin. Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. Ferdinand W. Pirnat. General Director—John S. Greenwalt. Conductor — Miss Miriam Greenwalt. Trustees Mrs. Samuel S. Hutchinson, W. N. Horner, Mrs. Jacob Baur, Mrs. Jean Prescott Adams, Mrs. Walter Lytton, John S. Greenwalt, Mrs. K. C. Raclin. The band is also sponsored by the Illinois Women's Athletic Club and Mayor William Hale Thompson is honorary member. 2 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday 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 200 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. 50 SEPTEMBER 3, 1921 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, IIl. Under Act of March 8, 1879. A BUNCH OF TYPE OR TWO HUNDRED, MORE OR LESS A POLITICAL PATIENT. Hospital Physician—"Which ward do you wish to be taken to? A pay ward or a—" Maloney—"Iny of them, doc, thots safely. Democratic" HIS PROFESSION. A passing stranger was attracted by frightful screams coming from a little house not far from the road. Hurriedly tying his horse he ran to the house and found out that a little boy had swallowed a quarter, and his mother, not knowing what to do, had become frantic. The stranger caught the little fellow by his heels and, holding him up, gave him a few shakes, whereupon the quarter soon dropped to the floor. "Well, mister," said the grateful mother, "you certny knew how to get it out. Air you a doctor?" "No madman," replied the stranger; "I'm a collector of internal revenue." "Coin Shark." LIFE'S HARMONIES. Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall today is the sweet of tomorrow, And the moment's loss is the life times gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, And only the heart that has harbored trouble Can fully rejoice when joy is sent. Let no man shrink from the bitter tonics Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife; For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics Are found in the minor strains of life. Ella Wheeler Wilcox A PESSIMISTIC FATHER "Just remember, my boy, that the higher you set your goal the finer your achievement will be when you reach it." "Yes, I know that dad, but isn't there a slight chance that I may set it so high I'll never get quite to it?" "Oh, thunder, don't worry about that. You'll never reach it, no matter where you set it." "Lightning." NO ORDINARY AFFAIR "Yes, when Josiah and me got married we had an awful fine weddin." "I suppose it was a church affair?" "Indeed it was; I'll never forget it 'till my dyn' day. I guess every body for miles and miles around was there. We had music or the organ, and brides maids, and a best man and all them kind of things, you know, and when the paper wrote it up the next morning it said right in the head lines that we plighted our throth." "Memoranda." [Name] HON. JAMES W. BREEN First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; of Mayor William Hale Thompson, Who Fored in Being Permitted to Serve as One of the Campaign Committee to Raise One Hundre lars for the Fort Dearborn Hospital. Isel of Chicago: Strong Supporter Hampson, Who Feels Highly Honerve as One of the Members of the rise One Hundred Thousand Dollospatial. First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; Strong Supporter of Mayor William Hale Thompson, Who Feels Highly Honored in Being Permitted to Serve as One of the Members of the Campaign Committee to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn Hospital. Little feet of women are camouflages, while within their shoes rages a misery that would make a dumb animal afraid of shoe leather. Gee! they must be tough souls (of the shoe) to be so dainty. But as woman is made to suffer in silence she takes her medicine like a man. When she talks about anything of large consequence she has thrown silence to the winds, and nobly sustains her principles like a woman of the species. DEFINITION OF SEVERAL THINGS. What is a vamp? Well, a vamp is one of those little creatures that have been known to make a preacher even, lay his bible down. They are not the hundredth part to dread as the masculine fool who has a little money without sense enough to keep it. Every woman has to look pretty. It is her great duty to the human race, but looking pretty does not mean that she is a marketable commodity. Men are foolish to show alertness at the appearance of a splendid well dressed woman. If men were decent and self respecting and held a high regard for purity of women there would be little encouragement to smart female tricksters exercising a shrewdness and sagacity far above the intellect of the ugly lascivious jackasses with their bag of gold and illuminating promises which they hold out to the kind of women who flourish on the foolishness of besotted reprobates. If we don't want the vamp an empty purse is the best possible method to discourage her. But how shall we get rid of the infamous meat hound who would all but pollute his own kin? "Derby." PHILOSOPHY 107 PEU HON. HARRY OLSON Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago on the Campaign Committee and Assist to B Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn High School. Court of Chicago, Who Will Servi e and Assist to Raise One Hundred Fort Dearborn Hospital and Train Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago, Who Will Serve on the Campaign Committee and Assist to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School. A SONG TITLE. "The beach combing hound is running loose" would be a very appropriate title for a song, and we have no doubt it would make a hit and prove to be a screaming success. THEY OUGHT TO HELP SOME Two hundred thousand Negroes in the vicinity of Chicago ought to get together and put over a few colossal works. We have the millions of dollars and the brain and brawn, all that is lacking is the initiative. "Economist." FIGURES ARE TRUTHFUL. We might use occasionally some figures to prove lots of things but it is a very strange thing about us we get tired of dry dull figures so very easy. We have not much spirit in that direction even to counting money in ten cent pieces. "Calculator." When a fellow says he made a flying trip don't you think it would be in order to ask him the make of his acroplane? "The Bird." THE PADDOCK AND THE BARN. The horse is coming back. The track is getting popular, and the jockey will loom up as a celebrity once more. The sport is great. The automobile has a thrill, but nothing like that supplied by the elasticity and fleetness of horseflesh. "Derby." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921 YOU TELL 'EM "Genius." "Philosophy." ATTORNEY PATRICK H. O'DONNELL DELIVERED A MASTERFUL ORATION SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT BETHEL CHURCH. HE TALKED ON THE ECONOMICFREEDOM OF THE COLORED RACE. HIS TALK LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION ON THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE MEETING. Sunday afternoon a meeting was held at Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn streets, which was largely attended in the interest of the Douglass National Bank, which will soon qualify under the national banking laws, and throw its doors open for business at the corner of 32nd and State streets. Dr. Edward S. Miller, one of the directors of the Douglass National Bank, was the first speaker of the afternoon and he made it perfectly plain during his talk that a National bank, conducted by Colored people, along safe or conservative lines, would fill a longfelt want. It would be a kind of a haven of rest, where the Colored people could borrow all the money they could use, in their various lines of business or industry, providing however that their securities or collateral was O. K. In winding up his highly interesting talk, Dr. Miller introduced Mr. P. W. Chavers, President of the Douglass National Bank, who has been for the past four or five years, successfully engaged in the manufacturing business and Mr. Chavers looks like a banker and talks like a banker and he has every branch of the banking business right down at his fingers ends and after informing his hearers in the most intelligent manner, pertaining to the ultimate aims and objects of the Douglass National Bank, that its capital stock was $200,000, surplus $60,000, total $260- THE BRUTE. A man is a cruel creature And, more he has always been; He is always ready to beat you, His heart is corroded with sin. He tries to be cute in his manner He would have you believe him a saint, And after you've perched on his banner You'll find out his methods are quaint. There never has lived such a devil He knows every trick of the scamp His promises are not on the level, He deserves what he gets from the vamp. "Scribe." HE LAUGHS AT US. The American boy is one of those difficult enigmas. Sometimes we think we have solved him, but shucks, there is just as much possibility of knowing the ways of a boy as there is in dealing with the intricate phenomena of a tricky mule's hind legs. Wisdom startles him alright, but he is laughing at you all of the time. "The Kidder." MYSTERY. The age is wrestling with the unknown. Every improvement over the old forms speaks in thunder tones the steady tread of the ubiquitous searcher after new things to astonish us. "Wonder." EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE MEETING. Preparations to give a cordial reception to the delegates of the Equal Rights League are progressing favorably under the auspices of Local Branch No. 1, of which N. S. Taylor is President. He is receiving very helpful support from a number of citizens co-operating with him in that Branch of the League. A citizen's committee of one hundred has been formed with J. Gray Lucas, as its president and a number of meetings indicate that wide-spread interest will be manifested in the coming session of the National Body when it convenes here next month. A second branch of the League work is also interesting and a number of citizens among the professional men, the chairman being F. L. Barnett, Secretary B. C. Duster. Literature is being prepared for the information of citizens who are cordially invited by the National President M. A. N. Shaw, to co-operate with the movement. Especial interest will be manifested by the Convention in the growth of the new Ku Klux Klan order above the Mason & Dixon line and will interest colored people in all sections of the country. 000: that each share of stock is worth $130: that purchasers would have eight months time to fully pay for it. In well chosen and eloquent words, he introduced Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell, who was loudly applauded, when he arose to speak. Rev. S. L. Birt the popular pastor of Bethel church, joined in giving Mr. O'Donnell, a rousing send-off. Mr. O'Donnell, among other things, declared in a burst of eloquence that the immortal Abraham Lincoln had stricken the chains of physical slavery from the limbs of more than four million slaves, some fifty odd years ago; that it is now up to the Colored people to free themselves from economic or industrial slavery, that the Colored people, like the Irish-Americans, must learn to patronize or support their own banking institutions and other business enterprises, as long as they are honestly and properly conducted. It was evident throughout the meeting, that Mr. O'Donnell stands very high in the estimation of the colored people in this city, that they have unbounded faith in his honesty and integrity and that he can always be relied upon, to thunder forth against the many outrageous wrongs, which are constantly being heaped upon the Colored people in this country. At the conclusion of his wonderful oration more than one hundred shares of stock of the Douglass National Bank was subscribed for. THE REMARKABLE PROGRESS OF THE COLORED RACE. By Sidney Meyer, of Southern Extraction (White). Comparatively speaking and as a historical event, only a short period of time has elapsed since the American colored race was freed from the bondage of slavery, and, with this in mind, one cannot but marvel at the sure, steady, and remarkable progress made by these people, in the face of existing handicaps, encountered thru much racial prejudice and animosities. It must be borne in mind, that generally speaking it is only here and there, and then under quite a limitation, that the colored people are permitted to come into actual working contact, not to say competition, with their white brethren, in any of the various avenues of occupation except common labor channels, and there, where the field has been the greatest, competition for the colored man reaches the maximum through the entrance into the United States of a vast number of illiterate foreigners, equipped only for menial or so-called "common labor." Many people (white) in their prejudice against the colored race, overlook the important fact, that of all those of foreign extraction in the United States, the colored people alone can say that they did not migrate here of their free will, but were forcibly smuggled over and inducted into slavery. A terrible war was fought to right this great wrong of an earlier period, thru outcome of which issues, all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the whites under the Constitution, were brought into existence for the dark race. The man who fosters race hatred of any sort, or religious intolerance, automatically commits an unfriendly act to his country, its flag, and to his God. It was just as divinely intended that the colored people should inhabit the earth, primarily speaking, and the United States, secondarily speaking, as the white race, in the same degree that it was pre-ordained for Columbus to discover America, and a haven found for the then persecuted people of Europe. And, here again, the writer wishes to reiterate his opinion, that the people of no one race, color, or religion, can claim in any degree entirely, the credit for upbuilding and molding the U. S. from a vast wilderness into the greatest country now extant, for the people of the proper caliber of all foreign extractions, in a unified manner, assisted in this great work and the colored man has done his share in times of peace, and in the stress of war. We, of the white race, must not lose sight of the fact that the colored person is capable of enjoying as keenly, the same pleasures, and falls heir to the same ills and pains as any other human being, and on behalf of myself I can truly say, that it is, and always has been, impossible to find in my heart, or to entertain, the slightest degree of prejudice or malice towards the colored people as a race (an individual might by personal actions arouse my ire temporarily however). Member of Congress from the First Congressional D Who Will Work Hard to Assist to Raise Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn Hosp Member of Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois, Who Will Work Hard to Assist to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn Hospital. The country is greatly indebted to the colored man for his immense contribution in labor, which developed that vast area south of the Mason and Dixon line. This wonderful agricultural advancement of the country, came directly from the sweat of the brow of the colored slave, before the war, and ill-paid colored labor after the war. The slave received no remuneration, at the time, but later was offered the greatest of all gifts "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," and those who followed him of his race, should be permitted to enjoy this blessing to the utmost. No American, who is a good American, should in any manner deprive him of these rights. by improvised Equal Rights Committees or Leagues, let there be elected delegates to this National Convention at Chicago when the race itself will plan a campaign within the race reaching all over the land to put the utmost pressure on Congress to pass the Dyer, Tinkham and Madden Bills. Let the churches elect the pastor and one layman as delegates on Sept. 4 and a great assembly meet in Chicago, Sept. 10. M. A. N. Shaw, D. D. Pres. Wm. Monroe Trotter, Sec'y. GRAND MASTER GETS AUTO. National Grand Master, William H. RIGHTS LEGISLATION LABOR DAY. National Use of National Holiday Urged by League Sunday Pre- vious for National Prayers. Boston, Mass—National Head- quarters of the Equal Rights League has issued the following appeal to the Colored American Citizens: To the Colored Citizens of the U.S.A. Greeting: U.S.A. Greeting As a prelude to the 14th Annual Meeting of the National Equal Rights League, the only racial national league for rights at home, to be held Sept. 10-14, in Baptist Pilgrim Tabernacle, Chicago, the League appeals to the Colored Americans of every community to set aside Labor Day, the National Labor Rights Day of Organized Labor, as a Federal Rights Legislation Day, holding mass meetings to demand that Congress pass the present bills in Congress against lynching, disfranchisement and Jim-Crow cars. Also let every church make the preceding day a solemn Federal Legislation Sunday with a fervent prayer service for the enactment of federal legislation for our rights. At those Sept. 15th meetings, held At those Sept. 5th meetings, held [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. ATTORNEY PATRICK H. O'DONNELL One of the Very Best Friends of the Colored Race on Earth, Who Divered a Great Oration at Bethel Church Last Sunday at Congressional District of Illinois, Assist to Raise One Hundred tart Dearborn Hospital. by improvised Equal Rights Committees or Leagues, let there be elected delegates to this National Convention at Chicago when the race itself will plan a campaign within the race reaching all over the land to put the utmost pressure on Congress to pass the Dyer, Tinkham and Madden Bills. Let the churches elect the pastor and one layman as delegates on Sept. 4 and a great assembly meet in Chicago, Sept. 10. M. A. N. Shaw, D. D. Pres. Wm. Monroe Trott, Sec'y. GRAND MASTER GETS AUTO National Grand Master, William H. Fields of St. Louis, Mo. A. U.K. & D. of A., was presented with an automobile by the Chicago District of which Mrs. Eliza E. Jackson is state grand queen, at the 14th annual session held in this city Aug. 1st. Among others remembered was M.T. Bailey, chairman of The Location Committee, who was presented with a gold ring with the emblem of the organization engraved upon it by the National Grand Master. LEAVES CITY. After attending the grand lodge session of Knights and Daughters of Tabor held at Quinn Chapel the past week, Miss Rhoda M. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., left the city with 18 members of the Palastine Guard age 14 to 18 years, for Quincy, Ill. Saturday. During her stay in the city, Miss Johnson was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3550 Giles Ave. TO BUILD AT IDLEWILD. Mrs. Ella L. Holmes, 3115 Wabash Ave., has gone to Idlewild, Mich. to complete all arrangements for the building of several cottages on lots which she purchased there. Mrs. Holmes is widely known fraternally < a / og a be ( a Bs HON. JOSEPH F. HAAS fuorder of Deeds of Cook County; Member of the Executive Com- Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Greater Fort Dearborn Hos- pital and Training School. a ENTERTAINS VISITORS. } MEETING ON TUESDAY. — | pees Miss R. Coleman Baskin, 3244 Ver-| The meeting of the Pyramid Build- son Ave., entertained last Thursday jing and Loan Association will be held ewening seventy-five guests in honor jon Tuesday evening, Sept. 6th, at oi Mrs. C. Calhoun and daughter of | 3539 State St., on account of Labor Little Rock, Ark, and Mrs. J. E.|Day and the absence of the president Walker, wife of Dr. Walker, presi-|and secretary from the city. dest of The Mississippi Life Insur- ———_———— ace Co. Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Cal- PLEASED WITH VISIT. ton is the sister of Dr. Emmett El- =— nore, interne at Fort Dearborn Hos- Mrs. Nettie Anderson, 3244 Vernon pital. Miss Baskin made a charming | Ave, and niece, Helen Alberna, are tosess in a white lace gown with a! pleased with their visit to Toronto, sesle strand of beads around her |Canada where they have already neck. {Spent a month with friends. IN MORGAN PARK. CLIENTS COMING TO CITY. ae a Mrs. Lelia White, 3428 S. Dearborn Hundreds of clients of the Bailey |St., spent the week end in Morgan Realty Co, and Milton Mercantile| Park as the guest of Mr. and Mrs Agency, 3638 S. State St, of which | Agee, 11305 S. Elizabeth St. MT. Bailey is president and man- Diente ager, will be in the city Sept. 6th to STOP IN CITY. Bh in attendance of the National ——- Baptist Convention and Mr. Bailey Mesdames Bertha Meacham, W. S. is preparing to meet them. Reid, Medora Mallory and Mattie E. REELECTED FOR THIRD TERM. Rev J. W. Tutt of Quincy, IL, ui reclected for the third term as sate grand master of U. B. F. & SMT. at the recent session of the and ledge held at Alton, Ill. MRS, HARRIS VISITS CITY. is Lena Harris of Gary, Ind, wary of The City Federation of {ered Women's Clubs, widely ‘ann jraternally, spent some time tithe city during the past week on bsiess An evening was spent at ‘te residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3556 Giles Ave. ae inte ame & i z ms 4 3 = | : 3 : > AG 2 | : . bE me . ‘a S : PEO es | ; / * ae ; | Be SN : HON. JAMES HAMILTQN LEWIS ‘mer United States Senator. from Ilinois, Who Has Been a yon Subscriber to This Paper for More Than Twenty Ts. “As a Member of the Senate He Voted Against the i Exclusion Bill and He Voted in Favor of Every Meas- ‘ettaining to the Welfare of the Colored Race in this Country. At the Present Time He is Assisting to Raise One Hijed Thousand Dollars for a Greater Fort Dearbom Hoe and Training School for Colored Nurses. Mesdames' Bertha Meacham, W. S. Reid, Medora Mallory and Mattie E. Holmes of Detroit, Mich., stopped in the city en’ route from Alton, IIL, where they attended the grand lodge of U. BF. & S. MT. VISITS FRIENDS. Mrs. Bessie Dandy and daughter, Ruth, 2946 S. Dearborn St., spent the week in Morgan Park as the guests of Mrs. Ivy and Settles, 11346 S. Throop St. VACATION OVER. Att'y. and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington St, have return- ed from a two weeks’ vacation in northern Illinois and Atty. Farmer is on the job in his office at 184 W. Washington St. _ Se BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921. a HARLES E. STUMP, THE espe CORRESPONDENT FOR THE}; BROAD AX, IS STILL ON EARTH, ¢- FOR LAST WEEK HE ATTENDED THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL = MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AT“. LOUISVILLE, KY., AND HE HAD A :"” HIGH OLD TIME, RUBBING UP)“ AGAINST THE LEADING DOCTORS :: IN THE UNITED STATES, eee Chicago, I1_—What will be the ai- termath of the mecting of the Na- tional Medical Association, and what will be the result for the next few months in Louisville? This is a ques- tio8 which may cause you to wonder why I asked it, and 1 am at a loss myself to know, except I am told that before the mecting and in the course of preparations some of the Louisville physicians are reported to have said that in their social fune- tions they did not want their distin- guished “guests from all parts of the country to come in contact with kit- chen mechanics and suds busters. I can't believe any sane man be- longing to my race would say any- thing like this, yet it has stirred Louisville, and some of the women have declared war and boycott on them, and believe me honey, there will have to be some explaining be- fore this matter is fully adjusted, for when you step on a woman's feet you have done something and you had better get off and then take time and explain how it happened. The doctors may say, “I cure you all,” and the lawyer may say, “I plead for you all,” and then comes the preach- er who says, “I pray for you all,” but at the bottom of the ladder are | “ae | £ h 4, _. a e a | \" = - | " ey | oie) | — | ; y = [ | ee HON. DANIEL RYAN President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County and One of the Active Members of the Campaign Committee to Raise One Hundred Thousand Dollars for a Greater Fort Dearborn Hospital and Training School for Nurses. the common people, the cooks, the suds busters, and others who look up into the faces of all professions and declare the truth when they say “We support you all.” It is to be regret- ted that such a thing should get out. There was a great meeting of the National Medical Association in Louisville, and I am not joking when I tell you that. They had many so- cial functions, and I sometimes think too many of them for the good of the organization, in the future some of that part will have to be cut down. But I am here to tell you that there was a great benefit reaped. I am willing to give credit for the great good that was accomplished al- though there was one thimble headed physician there with more brains than comimon sense who hurled an insult at me in public, but I am not going to get back at him, but just pray “Father forgive him for his brains got in the wrong place for a few minutes.” There were some wonderful clinics conducted there by men who are able to conduct clinics, medical and sur- gical, and the younger men with less experience got the benefit of the skill of these men. Then the city hospital was thrown open to them, a thing unknown south of the Mason and Dixon line. They got the benefit of some wonderful cases in this. Then they got to see some of the greatest surgeons in the country take steps to. save human life, and every operation was successful. I was there with the ‘other doctors, and I had on the robe like they did, and while I did not do anything but look I was convinced of the wonder- fal skill of our men. ‘As early as 5 o'clock I was up one morning to go out to the Red Cross hospital to be with Dr. J. H. Hale, of Nashville, Tenn., surgeon and chief of the Millie Hale Hospital. Nashville. I have told you about this wonderful surgeon before, one of the best in the country, I care nothing about race or color. He is tight up to date. All night long be- fore he goes into an operation he has before him the human body, and goes over it, and then just before going to the operating room, he gocs in conversation with God, and then he is right. He believes in prayer as well as in skill, and with faith in God with his knife consecrated to Him and the saving of human life he goes to work, and do you question his sue cess. The whole world is giving him his place now, and not a gift, for he has carned all that belongs to him right now, and is just letting his fame leak out. Right by his side is that won- derful woman, Mrs. Hale, who is an expert anaesthetist, as well as one of the best nurses in this country. She was right there, and contributed much to the success of that abdominal op- eration performed by Dr. Hale and I necd not tell you about the success for you know that. The next opera- tion she had to“assist in the same business. Then I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. A. M. Curtis, that man with a national reputation as a surgeon cut off a man's leg, and he will continue to live. This was necessary to save his life. You know that Chicago has contributed to the surgeons. There is Dr. G. C. Hall, at the head of the class, and now we present to you Dr. U. G. Dailey, Dr. Roscoe C. Giles, and Dr. C. G. Roberts, and I would like to tell you about each of calling them in when you need good attention. Then there was Dr. J. E. Perry, who is the president elect, and I shall have more to say about him later. Dr. H. W. Conrad was there, and in his class he is at the head. I heard many good things said about him. Away from Louisville, but I must go back and tell you that I have been to the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias S. W. Green, of New Orleans, was re-elected su- preme chancellor, and no one against him. All the whole ticket was re- elected, and without opposition. It is the first time in years that such a thing has been done. There was a great convention, and believe me, Kansas did do honor to the occasion. I was there in all my good rags, and people just looked and looked at me. They took me to be one of them supreme officers. At the head of the Calanthe is Er- nest G. Tidrington, and he has made good. The women were loud in their praises of the good work he is doing for the cause, and what he is doing to help his people. He is just one of the men who believe in doing things. He is a remarkable man. Of course you know Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle. She is a leader of wom- en, and one of the greatest leaders in this country. All the people honor and respect her. She was given a high place, a member for life, and the expenses in the future will be borne by the Supreme Court, and she is worthy of all the honor they can confer on her. I was proud to see her and all of the Alabama people. ‘Major General R. R. Jackson is a wonder and a puzzle. He attracted much attention. I think they called him a military genius. I don’t know just what that means, but I think he ‘is on the order of me and General Grant. He certainly did pull off one great parade. The people all declare that it was the finest they had ever seen by any people. It took R. R. Jackson to show Kansas a real pa- rade. I was on the reviewing stand with the Supreme Chancellor and others, and this is the first time in all my life I had filled such a fine and high position. | am getting the big head. I shall have to bring this letter to a stop. Iam now in Chicago as you see and ready for the National Bap- tist Convention which will be next week. I have been to Olivet Baptist Church, and find that Dr. L. K. Wil- liams and his people pulled off a rally last week and realized $18,000 and that is going some. That money was all placed on the table last Sunday, and some is still coming in. Dr. Williams is a leader of men. I want to repeat what I have said before that he is going to entertain the National Baptist Convention, and they are going to do it in styte. Dr. Williams is not a candidate for president, and don't you think he is going to allow his name to be used. He has all he can do, and is going to do it, believe me, honey. Right by his side is Rev. J. H. Branham, and I am going to be around myself. Drop in and see the convention in session. I will tell you alput it next week. Charles E. Stump. | _-MRS. JOHNSON DIES. Mrs. Matilda Johnson, the mother of Mrs. Charlotte Shaw-Richardson, 3617 Dearborn St, and one of the F. F. Vs, passed away on Aug. 7th at the age of 105 years. ATTENDS ENCAMPMENT. Lieut Roscoe C. Keeble, Ist lieu- tenant of The Uniform Ranks of K. of P, spent two weeks at Topeka, Kansas, in attendance of the annual encampment of Knights of Pythias. DIFFERENCES SO SLIGHT. There isn't as much difference be- tween a Negro and a Caucassian per- son as there is between two white persons, one being cross-eyed and the other bowlegged. If there was a par- ticle of difference it would very like- ly be in the Negro’s favor. “Ethnologist.” Phone Drexel 7345J Office Hours 10a. m. to 12 Sundays By 2p.mtos Appointment 6p.mtos Dr. Jas. M. Hall Office and Residence 4545 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago " nemidence, 1262 Mscalister Place tet aware =. AILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-399 REAPER BLE Clark and Washington Streets Pheme Central 1239 cHICcAgo Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153: Residence 4751 Champlain Avenue. Phone Kenwood S611 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUN- SELOR AT LAW Suite 708-184 W. Washington St CHICAGO Boulevard 1580 : Phones + Boulevard 1880 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,RPh J.M.STARKS RPA. BINGA STATE BANK Under State Supervision Seples i...ccccs:, 2Q0ORG8 Offers Equal Service to All 3% INTEREST ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS State Street and 36th Place neti SG HON. HENRY STUCKART Former City and County Treasurer, Who Is One of the Best Busi- ness Men in This City, Who Is Willing to do Everything in His Power to Aid the Colored People to Enlarge the Fort Dearborn CHIPS Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall have removed from their former ,home 3408 South Park Avenue into their lovely mew home at 3638 Grand Boulevard. Dr. Fannie Emanuel, Physician, and surgeon, has one of the neatest and most attractive little offices in this city. It is located in the Roose- velt State Bank Building, Grand Boulevard and 35th Street and she has many patients among her num- crous old friends. Capt. and Mrs. James S. Nelson, 3652 S. Wabash Avenue, returned home Monday morning, from their two weeks’ outing at Idlewild, Mich, and Capt. Nelson has fallen deeply in love with that beautiful summer resort as he has decided to erect a cottage there and remain all summer next year. The Eighth Regiment, Illinois Na- tional Guard, has been Federalized and has become a part of the Mili- tary arm of the United States Army. It is the only colored regiment in HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. Founded by GENERAL O. 0. HOWARD I, STANIEY DURKEE. A.M Ph.D. D.D. 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Dorsey's Drug Store, 432 E. 31st Street, corner Vernon Avenue. Hoves Douglas 6302 and Douglas 605 Nights call Douglas 7078 The Porter-White Drug Co. store southwest corner 4700 S. State N. State St. shop and te St J. S. DORSEY Reliable cigam and arborn St. Druggist Turner Williams' barber shop and laundry office, 4803 S. State St Edward Felix, notions, cigar and news stands, 3002 S. Dearborn St. Full Line of Fresh Drugs and Toilet Articles Prescriptions Filled With Accuracy. sailing parlor, close to the beach Thomas Bell, news stand, ice cream parlor and laundry office, 17 W. 68rd St., near State. 484 East 31st Street Chicago, Ill. Chelsea Oakland 344 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 1057 South State Street Near Sixth St Not On The Carrier --- --- PAPA 3515 INDIANA AVENUE DON'T SEND IT ALL OPPONENT HOME NATIONAL SERVICE BANK CHICAGO. ILL THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921. LOW SQUARE HEEL New Note in Stylish Footwear for the Street. Young Girls Are Wearing This Model for Dancing, in Satin to Match Gowns. A new note in footwear is a low square leather heel for street wear, which big city shops report as a "best seller." This fashion is said to be inspired by the low-heeled slippers worn in a successful musical comedy. The young girls are wearing the low-heeled model for dancing in satin to match their gowns; a touch of the Victorian, in harmony with wider and berried skirts. The favorite for street wear seems to be this low-heeled model in patent leather. The fringed tongue, which originally was used only on brogues, has been adopted for afternoon and evening wear. White kid oxfordes with French heels are shown with the fringed tongue, and the latest adaptation is seen in a black satin slipper with a solid black satin piece, the etids of which are fringed with cur steel beads. These are items that are well to remember when one is shopping for one's midsummer and fall footwear. There has been a new feature in the decoration of hand bags, in the use of the seed bead in the making of the solid beaded bag. But used with this is the large nailhead head. From abroad come interesting ideas of the exploitation of the black and white vogue in the neckwear field for the coming season. Organdie is still the chief fabric medium, and touches of black are given by means of black organdie appliques usually in straight narrow bands as often as edging, and by chainstitch embroidery in black. Gauntlets continue to be in the glove field, these being shown in plain styles as well as in a wide range of fancies. Stiff cuff gauntlets being shown by some of the importers do not enjoy the same popularity as the soft cuff variety. STYLES IN NEW YORK Capes for practical use are often made reversible, one side dark serge, the other light canton crepe. A sleeveless sport coat of brown velours is bound on all edges with a bright shade of blue leather. A midsummer cape suit shows a skirt and cape of white flannel striped in green. The cape is lined in green crepe de chine, this same material being used for the long slip-over blouse worn over the skirt. A smart sport skirt of wool striped in vivid shades is fringed at the bottom and fastens all the way down the left side with buttons and loops. There is a single huge pocket placed very low at the right side. The wide sash is weighted with wool fringe on the ends. Jabots of laces or organdles are worn with every stricty tailored suit. Very chic the red leather hat worn with the white flannel sport suit. Red crepe de chine lines the short flaring jacket, the oval shaped panel on front of the skirt is also worked in a red stitchery. What lovely bathing accessories are seen in the New York shops! Have you already seen the charming separate girdles made entirely of rubber flowers? They are really exquisite and would transform the plainest suit into a thing of beauty. They are lovely in color and as well made as the evening cordieries. To carry at the seashore, the leading houses show huge Chinese parsols painted in exotic colors and boasting exceedingly long handles. They are pretty and must be very practical, affording a real protection for the woman who doesn't swim as much as she parades up and down the beach. Have you seen the new checked gingham bathing suits? They are adorable. The skirt is made of narrow panels that tie on as an apron over the trousers. The blouse has a smart sailor collar, turn-up cuffs and buttons of black oilcloth. The cap to match is of checked gingham bound in black oilcloth. Indians Have Curious Numeration. The Indians of Guiana have a curious system of numeration. They count by the hand and its four fingers. Thus, when they reach five, instead of saying so, they call it a "hand." Six is therefore a "hand and first finger"; seven, a "hand and second finger." Ten is "two hands." But 20, instead of being "four hands," is a "man." Forty is "two men," and thus they go on by twenty. Forty-six is expressed as "two men, a hand and first finger." Arrow Deadly as Bullet. A mounted Indian or white man with bow and arrows sometimes could kill more buffaloes than a man could kill with a rifle, says the American Forestry Magazine. At close range the arrow was as deadly as the bullet, it made less noise, and arrows could be discharged three or four times as rapidly as bullets from muzzle-loading guns. Tit for Tat. When Lord Randolph Churchill visited the diamond fields of South Africa he is said to have exclaimed after looking at some diamonds: "And all for the vanity of women." A lady who heard the remark added: "And the deprivacy of men." Personal in Exchange—"I would like to locate my wife, who left my bed and board on March 25 last. I wish to send her $100 so that she can get even farther away than she is now."—Boston Transcript. FRILLS OF FASHION When it comes to suits we find satin and cantep crepe occupying the first attention of the Parisian designers. These frocks are made on redingote lines. A smart method of applying a flower to a hat is to put a big one on the very edge of a wide brim, fastening it securely and pulling some of the pearls over, some under the brim. Flowers of silver tissue give an interesting note to a black lace evening frock. They are sold as corsage flowers, and may be used to give a lot of freshness to a frock that is in use. Some of the most effective of the redingote dresses are carried out in dark taffeta over an organdie foundation. A charming model of this kind had wide cuffs, huge collar and foundation of pale gray organdie, while the redingote itself was made of dark blue taffeta. The kimono sleeve is now more than ever in favor. But the 1921 kimono wishes a new interpretation of its own style and, instead of being exceedingly wide under the arm, is quite snug. Quite a hard task for the home dressmaker, but decidedly chic and stylish. Capes are made of oblons of silk fabrics of some sort, bordered along one long and two short edges with fringe as wide as the cape itself. This is really a cross between a cape and a scarf, for it is wrapped about the shoulders, one long, unfringed edge at the neck and folded across the chest. A smart cape of this sort is made of black tricot, lined with gray chiffon, and with heavy gray silk fringe. NEW SHADE OF RED IN PARIS Name in Doubt, But May Be "Pill" or "Pillar"—Cardinal With Dash of Pink. "Is it pill box or pillar box?" The question refers to the bright red shade that is being much exploited. Pillar box is correct volunteers a writer in Women's Wear, although the shorter term, probably a corruption of the original, is frequently heard. The Parisians are in doubt. Over there they ask whether the Americans used a pill box of characteristic red shade, evidently believing that the word had its origin here. The term "pillar box red" is said to have been coined by an American silk buyer, named for the post boxes of Paris, which are not the vermilion red that we sometimes see on iron in this country. "Cardinal with a dash of pink" seems to be a fair description of this very bright red shade, although the pill or pillar box red that is used in millinery is said to have just a hint of the fuchsia tone in it. This exquisite new red—which is neither cerise nor flame, but something of both—is the newest color to which Paris gives her favor. Overshoe Economy Rubbers wear out more quickly at the heels than in any other parts. To prevent this, cut heavy cardboard to exactly fit the heel and place them there when the rubber is new. You will be surprised to find how much longer the rubber will last. Taffeta The taffeta evening frock with the taffeta wrap to match is worn much by young women this season. One finds the skirts of the frocks quite full and not too short, caplike sleeves and a touch of ribbon flower somewhere Fortunes Left to Pets Sometimes cats fare very well as beneficiaries under wills. It was a Parisian woman, a few years ago, who left 10,000 francs to her cat. On 1's death the money was to be spent on elementary schools. The feline has since died and the money distributed according to directions. In numerous instances fortunes have been left to found homes for cats and dogs. Sometimes these wills have been dictated by love of animals, while in others alas, they have been written merely for the purpose of "getting even" with grasping relatives. "Crepuscular" Sun Rays The beams of light sometimes seen radiating from the sun when not far from the horizon are called "crepuscular rays." They are due to rays of light passing through breaks in the clouds and made visible by dust or fine drops of water in the air. Their apparent divergence is an effect of perspective. The phenomenon is popularly described as "the sun drawing water"; sailors speak of the "sun's backstays," while Homer wrote of the "rosy-fingered dawn." Care of Geraniums Geranium should be kept moist, but should not be given too much water at a time. They need a sunny window. The plants should be kept in a fairly even temperature, and it should be borne in mind that they must have plenty of air, for they won't thrive in a "stuff" room. Light and sun are necessary for all plants, and there is always more danger of getting too little than too much. --- Indian Name of Quaint Old City. The Indians called a strait "Kebec," and the name was given to the site of the present city of Quebec from the peculiar configuration of the St. Lawrence river at that point, for the river there grows narrow and from its deep waters rises the bold height on which the ancient city stands. The French-Canadian still pronounces the name Kebec. Expecially If He's Eat "People are not apt to envy those beneath them," remarks a writer. But how about the man in the upper berth of a Pullman?—Boston Transcript. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER FAIRTATE ANBULANCE AUTOS TE ALL HOURS ALL AEROBOD HOURS 5121 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAK GARAGE GASOLINE JOB 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 PHONE MAIN 2014 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Residence Telephone 13342 Calumet Ave. Douglas 1275 JAMES G. COTTER ATTORNEY AT LAW 145 NORTH CLARK STREET SUITE 407 Telephone Central 8354 CHICAGO Formerly Assistant Attorney General State of Illinois Rrs 3646 Grand Bout Doug. 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 16-17 Phone: Douglas 6351 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 Residence 3855 Prairie Ave Phona Douglas 9138 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 54 W Washington Street CHICAGO PHONE KENWOOD 455 West Englewood Ashland State Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $300,000.00 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 BAIN President MICHAEL MASSELL, Vic EDW. C. BARKY W. MERLE FI ARTHUR OFFICERS MAIN President HAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARKY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant C ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst OFFICERS \ BAIN President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARKY 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 tool, he cannot blame the falkir for taking advantage of opportunities — Exchange. 1: Always Costs Him a Stroke. IT ALWAYS COSTS FUN to converse to a middle-aged golfer than to be asked by the young lady who is watching him drive off whether he intends to enter the grandiflora' tournament. The Cranford A 3600 WABAS The finest, building ever opened Steam heat, electric lights, t Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey Cranford Apartment 3600 WABASH AVENUE building ever opened to Colored tenants heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. W. THE BROADWAY The foes, building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington OUR NEW HOME FUNERAL DIRECT RAL DIRECTORS CERS President Cashier ISHER, Assistant Cashier R. C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. Chair Silencers. In rooms where the floor is not covered with a soft carpet the moving of chairs is often the cause of a good deal of noise. The trouble may be ruined in this way: From this felt cut small rounds to give on to the feet of the chairs. These can be removed from an old hat or cut from an old piece of floor covering. The chairs can then be moved about quietly even on the hardest floors. Chicago