The Broad Ax
Saturday, January 14, 1922
Chicago, Illinois
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Commodore Ferdinand W. Peck Lauds Mayor William Hale Thompson, Condemns Proposed Subway, Advocates Monorail System of Transportation at Meeting of Local Transportation Committee at The City Hall Last Tuesday Morning. Noted City Officials and Others Present at Meeting.
Aldermen Schwartz, Chairman; Hogan, Bowler, Toman, Franz, Wallace, Shaffer, Guernsey, Byrne, L. B. Anderson, Lynch; Samuel Insull, representing the Chicago Elevated Railways; Britton I. Budd, President, Chicago Elevated Railways; Gothard Dahlberg, Assistant Corporation Counsel and former Speaker of the House, 52nd General Assembly; Major Kelker, Engineer, Department of Public Service; Mr. Burgee of the Chicago Surface Lines; Mr. Hornstein, Assistant Corporation Counsel; Mr. Flanigan, Department of Public Service; Alderman Powers; Mr. Mock, Engineer, Chicago Elevated Railways; M. Toussey, Board of Supervising Engineers; C. V. Weston, Chicago Surface Lines; Frederick Deiser, Secretary, National Suspended Monorail Company; Commodore Ferdinand Peck, "Chicago Builder"; Morris Lewis, Private Secretary to Commodore Peck.
After presentation of the position of the Elevated Lines, by Mr. Insull, in which he advocated the extension of the present elevated system and expansion of the surface lines for temporary relief and the adoption of a system of subways as a solution of the transportation problems of the City, Commodore Peck was introduced by Alderman Schwartz. The Alderman said: "Commodore Peck is with us. He is the oldest native born citizen of Chicago, with the possible exception of one; the Commodore built the Auditorium, the Exposition of '93, and has contributed to many other great civic achievements in the city of Chicago. Now, he is interested in transportation, and the Committee has asked him to present some suggestions to us, which we are glad to hear.
Commodore Ferdinand Peck: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am here by the courtesy of your chairman. If there is no prohibition law that prevents a man from standing up, I shall stand up.
The Chairman: It depends on what he has got in his hip pocket, Commodore.
(Laughter.)
Commodore Peck: I have none just now.
Ald. Bowler: That is too bad.
Commodore Peck: Two years ago
I appeared, by request of the committee, before the Transportation Committee appointed by your Mayor. I spoke on this subject, transportation of my native city of Chicago. That was two years ago. I have devoted much of my thoughts and time since to the careful study of that problem. I have been in New York as much as I have been here during that period. I have ridden on those surface lines and elevated lines, and the calamitous subway, calamitous subway, I said, many times. I think I understand city transportation. I am not here to go into details or suggest financial methods. I am not here for a detailed analysis of any figures that will annoy you or bore you. I am a concise man. What I have to say will be in a few words. Yes, gentlemen, I am practically the oldest native born citizen of this great metropolis. I am entitled to no great credit for that. True, indeed, I am proud of it, but my mother and father had more to do with it than I had. (Laughter.)
I have seen Chicago grow from twelve thousand people to three millions—probably unprecedented in the lifetime of any living or dead man. I have seen its progress and tried to do my bit towards its advancement and prosperity. I have devoted 80 per cent of my life to the betterment of the people of Chicago, for which service I have never received one dollar, directly or indirectly, or in stock or bonds. I devoted four years to the Auditorium, four years to the Columbian Exposition, and administered the Auditorium for sixteen years; have been at the head of the Board of Education and have executed many other public trusts. Now, I mention those things not in a conceited or boastful way, but to show you why I feel I have a right to be here and say a few words
on this all-important subject of transportation in my native city.
The Chicago Tribune claims to be the greatest newspaper in the world. I think it is the greatest in this country west of the Allegheny Mountains. But, gentlemen, remember that New York is east of the Allegheny Mountains, and when they say in their headline every day, "The World's greatest newspaper," they forget New York and that the New York Times and some other papers exist.
Now, at the top of every Tribune editorial page you will read these lines in fine print: "Let us have the subway now."
Well, now I am a a "now" man. I rarely do on Tuesday what I can do on Monday. The exposition was built in four years; it should have taken ten. The Auditorium was built in three years; it should have taken eight years, and I am mainly responsible for both achievements; therefore, I am a "now" man, and most desirous that Chicago should no longer delay the solution of the 'great problem of transportation. I do not think that the gentlemen who represent that great newspaper have mastered the subway problem, or what it means. I do not think that one-tenth of the people of the city of Chicago comprehend the subject. I have made a study of it, and I think I understand what it means. It means an indefinite delay in solving our greatest need in our city, lack of transportation, for a period of ten or twelve or fifteen years, to construct anything that is adequate in the way of a subway to lessen the congestion in our city.
Now, gentlemen of the committee, in my judgment it will cost not less than one hundred and fifty million dollars, and perhaps more than two hundred million dollars, to produce a subway that will relieve the situation.
Now, twelve to fifteen years time, and from one hundred and fifty to two hundred million dollars is a very serious proposition. Then, gentlemen, remember, if you please, that there are physical difficulties. In New York the subway was hwn through solid rock, blasted, and they knew what they had before them, while in Chicago, this mud and morass, out of which this great and magnificent city has risen, is an indefinite proposition. We do not know what we are going to strike, and I say to you, gentlemen, for God's sake don't venture needlessly into dangerous fields, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
If there is any substitute for this subway which everybody is talking about, as well as the Chicago Tribune, let us have that substitute before we plunge into the ills we know not of and blindly grope our way through an unknown forest the limits of which are so indefinite.
Gentlemen, I am an enemy, a bitter enemy of the subway.
Now, I am going to give you a little illustration. Suppose that a subway were built. What is the situation? What of the fine girls in Marshall Field's store? Think of the splendid employees behind the counters of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company's store, the Boston Store, and the Fair, and, yes, Rothschild's, the splendid girls in our offices and in our mercantile and manufacturing establishments! After they have worked all day behind the counter, yes, in discussions with their customers and their voices exhausted, think of them going down into the gloomy, mistlike, miasmatic hole. And then they wait for a train. The roar of the cars in that circumscribed tunnel is terrible. They are in a state of exhaustion, these girls of Chicago, when they reach their destinations, want to go home peaceably, quietly and safely. Think of them! They get into the car. They talk to their friends. They are nearly ready for the insane asylum when they get to the other end. We do not want to fill our asylums that way.
Recently, in New York, I was at 42nd street, and I said to my friends, with whom I had a business conference, an important conference, "I must be at Wall street in twenty-five
German System of Monorail Proposed for Chicago
minutes. How will I get there?"
They said, "Right around the corner is the subway." I went, gentlemen, with all my prejudice against it. I got on the train after waiting, distracted as the roaring trains rushed, which made me nearly crazy, in that gloomy, dark, noisy tunnel. Gentlemen, remember that trains in a tunnel that has a roof are not trains on the surface, or trains on the elevated. It is the difference between peace and hell. One is heaven compared to the other. Well, when I got to Wall street I met a friend on the car and I conversed with him all the way down, as I had important business with him. When I reached Wall street I couldn't speak out loud and I said, "For God's sake, where is the nearest insane asylum. Gentlemen, that is one experience with the subway.
I doubt whether the Tribune writers have ever ridden on the subway in New York. (Laughter.)
Ald. Bowler: I cannot help but look as Oscar Hewitt.
The Chairman: You speech will be accurately reported, Commodore.
Commodore Peck: Well, gentlemen, I call things by their right names. I didn't say "The Chicago newspapers." I said "The Chicago Tribune." I wish they would criticize what I have said, or will say. If they do, I will answer them. (Laughter.) Is the Tribune represented here?
Ald. Wallace: Oh, yes, Oscar Hewitt is here.
The Chairman: Will the representative of The Tribune stand up so that he may be seen by the Commodore? (Laughter.)
Commodore Peck (addressing Mr. Hewitt): Please do not omit what I have said before this Transportation Committee on this subject of the subway. The people do not understand the serious features of the subway. They said, "Give us the subway now." Yes, the thoughtless people say, "Well, why don't we have it?"
The Chairman: Well, there is one thing, The Tribune won't forget anyway, Commodore, and that is that you say it is the greatest newspaper west of the Alleghenies. That is quite an admission.
Commodore Peck: Well, I will admit that, and I am proud of the Tribune, but when they compare themselves with the great dailies of New York, and 'especially the New York Times, they claim too much. (Laughter.)
Now, gentlemen of the committee, we must have relief for this congestion. The greatest problem, and I don't need to tell you gentlemen, who have studied it probably more than I have, the greatest problem before this community is the question of the transportation of our wonderful citizenship, now three million and one hundred thousand, while in New York there are five million six hundred
thousand, almost double our population, and growing more rapidly than we ourselves realize, which makes the subway there an essential evil.
And, gentlemen of the committee, it is our rapid growth which causes the increases in taxes every year. I am a large taxpayer, but I never kick about it, because I realize that it is owing to the growth of the city, and I know that the taxes must be larger, much larger every year. That is by reason of the growth of the city itself and it does not mean mismanagement, extravagance or mal-administration, and it is not by reason of the administration of our city, which is a splendid one, in my opinion, including the Mayor, who is the greatest and most constructive Mayor, in my judgment, that the city of Chicago has had in sixty long years, and I have been personally intimate with every one of them.
I am willing to be quoted in making that statement. (Laughter.)
Ald. Bower: You are all right.
Ald. Guernsey: You will have to answer the Tribune in the Republican.
Commodore Peck: There is not enough room for that, but I take my hat off to the Republican, as well as I do the Mayor.
Ald. Guernsey: You can see it right up there.
Commodore Pek: It is a patriotic paper.
Ald. Guernsey: You can see it right up there. (Indicating.)
Commodore Pek: Yes, I see it.
It is the Republican's representative here. (Laughter.)
Ald. Guernsey: Yes, in great numbers.
Commodore Pek: I did not think this was a Bill Thompson committee, and I did not know whether the Republican was represented here or not. Now, what is the remedy? What is the remedy? Gentlemen, I am willing to face the skepticism and prejudices that exist against any new form of anything in this world.
In my judgment, gentlemen, your complete remedy is the monorail, and I want to say, before I go any further, I haven't the slightest monetary interest in it, either directly or indirectly. I haven't a share of stock, but I have given it much thought, and I have talked with many eminent engineers on the subject. That is your complete remedy for all your difficulties in my opinion, your five-cent fare, and every other transportation problem.
It will cost, to build the subway, as I have told you, to give you something like an adequate system of transportation, say eighty miles, one hundred and fifty million dollars, and yet, people, they talk about building an adequate subway with the surplus that is coming from the elevated and the surface lines, that paltry thirty-six million dollars that is now in the city treasury. Why, gentlemen, it is
ridiculous. That would build only a mile or two. It will cost two million dollars a mile at least to build the subway, and eighty miles would be one hundred and sixty million dollars. Ald. Guernsey: Well, we don't care
Ald. Guernsey: Well, we don't care for a few million here.
Commodore Peck: No. (Laughter.)
Now, the monarch can be built, one hundred miles of it, a complete system, for thirty million dollars, and that can be done in two and one half years, as against one hundred and fifty million dollars more or less, in twelve or fifteen years, and with an uncertain outcome in case of the subway.
Gentlemen of the committee, I have come here today to plead for my fellow citizens of this great commonwealth of the city of Chicago and to beg of you to spend, out of the City Treasury, out of that fund, the insignificant sum of a million and a half or two million dollars to build a test line of say six miles, which can be done, gentlemen of the committee, in eight months, and if you do not authorize or recommend that to be done, why, it is criminal, and you are not properly representing the great trust for the people of the city of Chicago that has been placed upon your shoulders. Gentlemen, you owe it to the people of the city of Chicago to try it.
The German system has been in use, and has been very thoroughly approved by every one that ever rode on it for the last thirty years. I have seen and talked with many of those who have ridden on it, and they have never had one single accident, or injured a passenger in thirty long years, and they rode at the rate of seventy miles an hour, and with perfect safety, and with perfect comfort, and almost noiseless. Almost noiseless. Gentlemen, think of that, and consider the nerves of the people of Chicago and have respect for them. We don't want to fill our insane asylums with these splendid girls I have spoken of, and our citizens of this great and magnificent city by transporting them in that underground, passageway hole, in that chaotic bedlam of noise that fills that awful tunnel.
Now gentlemen, I have investigated the subway thoroughly, and I have seen the report of the Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad and of the Pennsylvania and other eminent experts and they all give a complete endorsement, and they all advise the monorail system for the city of Chicago.
Now, I have in my pocket letters of endorsement from many experienced people, among them Mr. Van Housen, who was, for many years, the Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad and of the Pennsylvania. Gentleman, he is entitled to consideration. I do not ask you and I would not ask you to follow simply the opin-
TOURISTS IN "GAY PARIS" (FRANCE)
—BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THAT ARTISTIC AND ENCHANTING CITY
By BEATRICE E. LEE, Ph. B.
PART FIVE
Our drama is broader in aim and represents more phases of our own life. On the mere business side of the theater we are better organized if somewhat more mechanicalized, though that is not fundamentally important. The average of our "mise en scene" is higher and our acting in certain lines more varied as to types, though not always played with such an admirable ensemble.
Yet theater-going in Paris is stimulating: there is a charm about it which is undeniable.
anyone. A great many moralists censure American tourists for risking their health, reputation, and lives for new sensations. In defense of the situation as it is one can say "Paris is Paris," and why should anyone expect the American women to fail to participate in the Parisian life, no matter what it is. It depends on the stamina of the women whether they suffer from it.
When the American woman comes to Paris, she checks prudery at the port, according to moralists, and intends to enjoy whatever the town has to offer. It offers amusements and
The most important and interesting theater from the American visitor's point of view is the Grand Opera, where classical opera, with occasional ballets are produced in magnificent style. The higher-priced tickets admit the holder to the grand staircase, foyer, and reception rooms. It is usual and customary to promenade the building during the entr'actes in all the principal theatres; and at the Opera, this is especially desirable as the decorations form one of the principal attractions.
The intervals between acts are much longer in Paris than is usual in America, but this is one of the features, which is appreciated by the French play-goer, as he has a partiality for promenading the theater, conversing with his friends, and taking refreshments by way of diversion.
There is another essentially French entertainment producing comedy in its broadest sense, interspersed with outrageous farce. Ludicrous "situations" not always within the limits of American notions of propriety, form a staple feature. At the Follies Bergere and Casino de Paris, there is a revue which lasts all the evening. The winter garden forms a popular promenade between the performances. Smoking is allowed in all parts of the building. Women in France are not adicted to smoking, as they are in England.
There are, also, a number of places of amusement, known as cafe concerts, where prominence is given to facilities for drinking and refreshment during the performance. The Ambassadeurs on Champs Elysees is the most popular, being essentially Parisian in the quality of its entertainment, the audience frequently joining in the chorus of any well-known popular melody.
The Nouveau Cirque is an equestrian entertainment, and is decidedly the best circus in Paris. The performance is of the nature one would at a circus, so far as the first portion is concerned. A novel feature peculiar to Nouveau Cirque is the introduction of "Aquatic burlesque." During the interval, the floor of the arena is lowered, forming a basin or pond in which a number of the performers are constantly making a fall or plunge, in unsuitable attire at unexpected moments.
An interesting aspect of Paris is the so-called "wild night life." The Paris night life is enough to upsetions of a local engineer of the city of Chicago. No. But these are all men of national, international reputation, men who will definitely state what they think about the monorail, and insist that it is a practical proposition to solve this terrible congestion in the city of Chicago. Then there is Mr. Slifert, who was the assistant to General Goethtals, who built the Panama canal. He was the chief engineer. He was general superintendent of the Rock Island Railroad and general manager, and then he was assistant to General Goethtals who built the Panama canal. Then there is Mr. Smith, who represented the Missouri
anyone. A great many moralists censure American tourists for risking their health, reputation, and lives for new sensations. In defense of the situation as it is one can say "Paris is Paris," and why should anyone expect the American women to fail to participate in the Parisian life, no matter what it is. It depends on the stamina of the women whether they suffer from it.
When the American woman comes to Paris, she checks prudency at the port, according to moralists, and intends to enjoy whatever the town has to offer. It offers amusements and joys such as are unknown in New York—the world's best champagne, the sofest music, the brightest lights, and the finest imaginable perfumes. It is true that some young girls get excited. In this case, their parents should take care of them, and return them to their homes. But no one can change Paris.
The most shocking thing is the patronizing of flashy restaurants by unitesorted French women. This gives strange men an opportunity to accost them. In many restaurants, one sees a beautiful and refined American girl sit down and quickly thereafter permit a total stranger to make her acquaintance. In the U. S. A., "No" A drink, a dance, another bottle of wine; a suggestion that more fun can be had elsewhere and the pair go away to other and gayer restaurants and worse. The champagne palaces could not exist, if it were not for American patronage.
The majority of tourists attend only the summer shows in Paris. These are terrible, but so are the winter shows patronized solely by French people. All tourists visit the world-famed Follies Bergere, where the performance is absolutely shocking. The arrangement of the theater proves that the only object of the revenue is to stir the senses.
Tourists dance a great deal in the Paris restaurants, where, of course, there is a luxury and an abandon that shock sensitive people who think of war-streken France. Sometimes the crowd is wild, with champagne flowing, and women in the filmiest of garments.
Parisians say Paris, during the summer months especially, is no longer Paris. It belongs to the Americans, and to a class of Americans such as was not seen here before the war. Because of the so-called "Present Wave of Immorality," many of the Americans who had lived in Paris, as the art and cultural capital of the world are leaving forever.
But Paris will still be Paris, with its painted women and shocking night life. Dancing goes on, and American adventurers into the realm of gaiety, and those catering thereto, are now changing skating rinks and ice palaces into smart champagne dauce halls to entertain and amuse the rich men and women tourists who annually monopolize the French capital.
THE END.
Pacific Railroad, and Mr. Turnbull, who, up to within a few weeks, has been the chief engineer of the Missouri Pacific.
And here, right here in our own city, is Javis Hunt, who made an argument five years ago in behalf of the monorail, and he is of the same opinion, only in a stronger manner than five years ago.
Ald. Bowser; Who was Hunt? *
Commodore Peck; He was the architect of the city plan, and the city plan expect, and he constructed most of the railroad terminals here, to a large extent at least. Now, there
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GLIMPSES AND SIDELIGHTS
OF LIFE
By Dr. M. A. Majors
A few years ago the Shakespearean dramas were silenced by rapid changes of civilization, and a new order sprung into being. The dramas written by the immortal bard of 'Avon are as well-night immortal, and they are appreciated and respected by the most learned people of all the world and perhaps read more extensively than any other book except the Bible. Shakespeare sounded with a mental vision all of the heights and depths of human nature. In his matchless intellect he treasured all of the great courts of royalty, and brought kings and queens, and great potentates before the common vision of the poor, by hurling them before the footlights with pleas for mercy, or excuse for acts they would have populace approve.
What was it that almost put the Shakespearean dramas to almost Herculean silence?
It may have been the advent of vaudeville, the supergorgeous burlesque, the modern comedy, combined with the commercial spirit of the literary age that has brought to the surface within the last dozen years such writers as Hal Caine, Winston Churchill, H. G. Wells, A. Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Brisbane, and a host of others of less magnitude. Then the era business opportunity for riot in a speculative period no doubt has sobered the mind of humanity to a very great extent. Of course, we are not to lose sight of the fact that the new day takes powerful stress from the old day. Modern life has become an impelling force itself, and people are drifting away from those older lessons learned, when they could learn no others.
Then there is the integral factor, or unit. Perhaps more impressive the individual; separate and distinct in all that pertains to life itself, not excluding its aims, beliefs, principles sustaining truths founded upon knowledge, and proved by a thousand experiences; these are the lulling hynotics that have put Wm. Henry Shakespeare drama to peaceful sleep, only temporary, yet to peaceful sleep.
Now, what of all of this about Shakespeare? What is it in your mind, Mister? You who are so all fired thoughtful for the rest of us? We are very anxious to know what it is that is so great a burden on your literary heart.
If Wm. Henry Shakespeare is ever to come back then the Negro tragedian will give him the vogue. The American knows that Shakespeare's greatest characters were the Negro and the Jew. His dramas do not match well with the American system of caste, to flaunt before an audience Othello in the act of killing a white woman, after she had proved her love for a black man would be very unpopular in this period of the world's progress. White men do not believe good white women love colored men. Can't you see, reader, some of the causes of the suppression of Shakespeare? No writer of any race has ever undertaken to tell this truth to the public before.
LEAVES CITY
Rev. J. W. Tutt of Davenport, Ia. state grand master of U. B. F. & S. M. T., left the city during the week after attending the annual session of the Mutual Aid Board which convened at the Vincennes hotel on January 2. Rev. Tutt was much pleased with the year's work of the organization.
PETER H.
MR. JAMES M. DAILEY
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Cook County Who May Become the Standard Bearer of His Party for Sheriff of This County.
EMANCIPATION DAY
AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
"New Day Is Dawning in Race Relations," Declares Dr. J. L.
Shepard
NEW COUNTY INTEREST
RECORD SET BY CARR
1921 Collections Reach Total of
$654,419.90; Commissioners
Laud Result
NEGROES MAKE PROGRESS
Dr. James E. Gregg Says "Hampton Belongs to the Colored People"
Hampton, Va.-Two thousand colored men, women and children of the Lower Peninsula of Virginia celebrated the fifty-ninth anniversary of Emancipation Day by holding public exercises in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, under the auspices of the Elizabeth City County Emancipation Association, of which C. H. Henderson is president.
Dr. James E. Gregg, in his address of welcome, declared that it was appropriate to link up the thought of freedom with the thought of education. "A school," he said, "is a peculiarly appropriate place for the commemoration of the end of slavery and the beginning of full legal freedom—intellectual freedom, deliverance from the bondage of superstition and ignorance; moral freedom, delivered from all the habits which enchain and enslave a man and keep him from being his best and truest self." Dr. Gregg added:
"Hampton Institute belongs to the colored people. It is devoted to serving them and to serving the young people of the Indian race. All that Hampton has is given freely for the enrichment and the upbuilding of its young men and women and through them to the blessing of the races which they represent.
Community Center Will Be Bought
Major Allen Washington, commandant of cadets at Hampton Institute, in introducing the speaker of the day, Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School at Durham, N. C., urged the colored people to purchase and support the local community center, so that their boys and girls may have a place for wholesome recreation. Major Washington impressed upon his hearers the importance of present action. He declared that procrastination would be a great calamity to the community as it would mean the loss of a community center three times as valuable as the price which the colored people are called on to pay.
J. M. Pollard of the National Headquarters of Community Service, Inc., made an appeal to the people to contribute to the fund for the purchase of the local Hampton community house. He referred to the work of Ohio colored people; in Dayton a population of 9,600 recently gave $15,000 for a community center; in Cleveland, 35,000 gave $40,000, and in Columbus, colored people gave $18,000.
The Emancipation Day program included singing of "America" by the audience; invocation by Rev. J. T. Johnson of Hampton; "O Freedom," sung by the audience; reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by Miss Lucy C. Barrow of Phoebus; address, "The Essentials of a Democracy," by Arthur P. Davis, a Hampton Institute student, emphasizing "respect for law, education and intelligence, physical and moral courage, deep spiritual life and high Christian ideals, which are possessed by Negroes;" "Soldiers of Freedom," Hampton Glee Club; "Negro National Hymn," words by James Weldon Johnson and music by Rosamond Johnson, sung by Phoebus Glee Club, and benediction, Rev. John H. Gray of Hampton.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sulinger have started the erection of their future home in Morgan Park on lots purchased at 11267 S. May street, through the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State street.
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NEW COUNTY INTEREST RECORD SET BY CARR
1921 Collections Reach Total of $654,419.90; Commissioners Laud Result
Congratulations were recently extended to County Treasurer Patrick J. Carr by members of the Board of County Commissioners because of the large amount of interest money earned on public funds during the year 1921 as indicated in the report to the board. All previous records were shattered. The total interest received on all funds ending December 1, 1921, was $654,419.90. Mr. Carr has been Treasurer since April and the interest is on money collected since that time.
Lauds Check System
Ludus Check System
The wisdom of checking on the Treasurer's records and requiring him to report all interest earned is shown, Mr. Carr says, in comparing the records of past years. In 1905 the total interest turned over by the County Treasurer was only $75,138, according to records in the County Comptroller's office. The total has grown steadily until it has reached the big figure reported by Mr. Carr.
In 1909 the interest received, according to the Comptroller's records, had increased to $117,266.91; in 1914 it amounted to $189,286.12, in 1918 to $300,533.45, in 1920 to $684,681.17 and this year to $654,419.30. The best showing of any month during 1921 was in May, when the interest amounted to $128,638.44. The poorest showing was in January, $12,461.12, a period when practically no tax money was being received.
Treasurer Carr's Letter
Treasurer Carr's Letter
In his letter to the County Commis-
sioners, Treasurer Carr says:
I herewith take pleasure in submi-
tting to you an accounting of all
interest earned on County moneys for
the fiscal year ending November 30,
1921. A resume of all of said interest
shows a total for the year of interest
from all sources on all county moneys
of $654,419.90. This is by far the
largest amount of interest ever
returned on county moneys.
If your honorable body should desire to make an audit of this interest or appoint a committee for that purpose, I will gladly give them every access to the County Treasurer's records. The new law, which went into effect in 1919, covering interest on county moneys, makes it obligatory upon the county treasurer, as well as upon all depositaries of county moneys, to make verified returns each month with affidavits attached and sworn to as to the amount of interest earned on such moneys, the original copies of which are in the hands of the comptroller of Cook County. These verified returns will show that the amount stated ($654,419.90) is accurate.
NEW "JIM CROW" CAR LAW
FOR NASVILLE, TENN.
On the 3rd of this month a Jim Crow ordinance was introduced before the city council by Hines, one of the councilmen, and referred to a special committee consisting of Hines, Yarbrough and Willard. This ordinance goes further than the already existing one to provide that a portion of each car should be set apart for each race and that strict segregation be enforced. Large printed and movable signs are to be used and the entrances also are to be separate. It is to take effect thirty days after passage.
Mrs. Lottie Carter, 5423 S. Wabash avenue, will return home this evening, after spending the holiday season in visiting with relatives and friends in St. Louis, Mo. and Cleveland, O.
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Commodore Ferdinand W. Peck, the First Citizen of Chicago, Favors the German Monorail System for Chicago.
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are many others here I might mention.
Now, gentlemen, I am not an engineer. I am not a mechanic. I do not understand how these cars are going to get around curves, but they will, and they will not interfere with the trolley lines. They run seventy miles an hour in Germany. We don't need that speed here, but we need as much or more speed as we have on the elevated or on the surface lines.
There is John F. Foster, who was formerly city engineer of the city plan in New York city. Those are all eminent men of national reputation. Everyone of them will tell you that the monorail is practical.
Now, we have to listen to other people because, as I have said, we may plunge into unknown dangers here, and we must be influenced by the opinions of people who are eminent engineers, and whose opinions are valuable on such a subject. Gentlemen, it would be criminal if you did not give the monorail a trial. Eight months, and a million and a half dollars, a mere bagatelle when it is compared to the two hundred million dollars required and the time for the subway, and if you can avoid the construction of the awful tunnel, gentlemen, for God's sake do it.
Ald. Gearnsey: Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman: Alderman Guernsey.
Ald. Gearnsey: May I ask the Commodore one question?
The Chairman: Just one, Alderman Alderman Guernsey: I am wondering whether you have given consideration to the necessity of double capacity of the north and south side elevated roads, or whether you have given consideration to the necessity of double the capacity of the north and south side elevated roads from Chicago avenue on the north to some point south of the loop, there being but one line each way, as you, of course, recall.
Ald. Guernsey: And that, making the neck of the bottle smaller than the contents north and south, and, even though you advocate the monorail as the best plan, and in your judgment you have to have a general scheme, do you not think that there is a possible necessity of that underground tube between, say Chicago avenue on the north and 22nd street on the south, to augment the elevated, and to save the necessity of further development in the street for these same cars?
Commodore Peck: I will answer that in two ways. I will admit that it will probably be necessary to have a tube or a subway out of the loop and then go on your monorail track. I will answer you in another way. In my judgment, if you adopt the monorail, the elevated system of the city of Chicago will be in the scrap heap, just like the battleships of the United States will be.
Ald Guernsey: Ultimately.
Commodore Peck: Yes, sir, as we may not need them.
Ald. Guernsey: No.
Commodore Peck: If we adopt this system, that is my opinion of what will occur.
Ald. Guernsey: But I have in mind the immediate ten years succeeding this time, in what is confronting us. Mr. Chairman, I am not asking him a second question, I am discussing it. (Laughter.)
The Chairman: Yes, Mr. Peck, we are much obliged to you.
Commodore Peck: I am not through.
The Chairman: Go ahead.
Commodore Peck: But I don't want to take the time of your committee.
The Chairman: Go ahead.
Commodore Peck: But this subject, gentlemen, is very dear to me, because I love Chicago. Another thing, gentlemen, if you spend this money in making this test line of six miles, say from Canal street to the city limits on Madison street, and right over the street cars, it will cost you as I told you, a million and a half dollars, and you will have the salvage of the iron, if it should be, unfortunately, disappointing. You have got that, and you will simply
ATTORNEY RICHARD E. WEST-
BROOKS RE-ELECTED PRESI-
DENT OF THE COOK COUNTY
BAR ASSOCIATION.
The annual election of the Cook County Bar Association, at which officers for the forthcoming year were elected, was held at the Appomattox Club last Saturday evening.
Hon. Richard E. Westbrooks was re-elected President. The office of president was hotly contested by Hon. James A. Scott, Assistant State's Attorney and C. Francis Strafford. Mr. Scott withdrew after the first ballot had been cast. Attorney John F. Wilson nominated Mr. Westbrooks. Attorney N. S. Taylor nominated Mr. Scott. Attorney A. M. Burroughs nominated Mr. Strafford.
Commodore Peck: Yes
Ald Guernsey; Ultimately.
Ald. Guernsey: No.
The Chairman: Go ahead
be out the labor. The iron will be just as valuable and good when you scrap it as it was when you put it in there.
Now, I am going to say just one word in a general way. I move a great deal among what you call the more intelligent class of people in this city of Chicago. I belong to eight clubs. I have founded nearly all of them myself, including the Union League Club, the Chicago Club, the Chicago Athletic, the Press Club and others. Well, I talk with thinking men in those clubs every day, men whom we all respect. The concensus of opinion is that we have today in the city of Chicago a Common Council we ought to be proud of, and it is the greatest Common Council we have ever had in my experience. The members are men of integrity and men of ability, and I take off my hat to the Common Council, as well as I do to the Mayor of the city of Chicago. Gentlemen, you ought to be proud to be in that body. We have to look to you for relief. We have to look to you for realization of all our desires and needs in this great city.
Now, I have coined an expression I term "Civic Harmony." I never heard anybody else use it. Civic harmony means co-operation and harmony between the three elements, the people, the press and the Mayor. That is what "Civic Harmony" means. If you want the greatest advancement and prosperity in this great city of ours, let these three elements of this great city pool together and pull together. There is too much lack of cohesion here in Chicago and too much unjust criticism thrown at our Mayor constantly and also at the council by newspapers and too much of a lack of harmony between the council and the Mayor. Gentlemen, pull together. You have a great Mayor. You can well afford to take off your hats to him. He has never been accused of lack of integrity. Gentlemen, he sat on that knee of mine when he was two months old, and nobody knows him as well as I do. His wife does not, or anybody else. I might tell his wife a good many things about him that she does not know. (Uproarous laughter.)
Gentlemen of the committee, he is the most constructive Mayor we have ever had. There are more tangible results to show from his administration, his one and one-half administrations, than we have had in the administration of any Mayor we have ever had, and I have been intimately acquainted and associated with every one, from Dr. Boone, our Mayor who was present when my mother brought me forth into this world, down to the present Mayor, and I know whereof I speak. I am mighty proud of our Mayor. Now, gentlemen, I am mighty proud of him, not only because he is Mayor but because he is worthy of being Mayor.
Now, I hope, gentlemen, you will take that suggestion I make to heart, and pull with your Mayor, as you cannot get results without harmony, and we must have it. It is unfortunate we have to move along here and pull apart from our splendid Mayor. Can you not pull together? There have been editorials printed in The Tribune and in the News and in the Post about our Mayor that are disgraceful.
Now, gentlemen, I wish to express my appreciation for the time you have given me, and I do ask you to build this test line of the monorail, as when you do that, you will have solved this problem, and I ask you to start in at once, for if you undertake this dark and impenetrable subway, we will "fly to ills we know not of," and we will impair the financial condition of Chicago if you build the subway, but you will never regret it if you test the monorail, and you will never cease to regret it if you build a subway without such test. If you try the monorail and find it, for some unknown reason, impractical, then you can build your subway afterwards, but you will not build it, as the monorail will be a triumph.
Gentlemen, I thank you very much. The Chairman: There being nothing else before the committee, we will stand adjourned.
Whereupon the sub-committee adjourned.
Other officers elected were First Vice President, C. Francis Strafford; Second Vice President, Violet N. Anderson, Third Vice President, J. Harold Mosly; Secretary, William L. Oford; Treasurer, Oliver A. Clark.
The Board of Directors is made up of Colonel Franklin A. Denison, Willis E. Mollison, Hon. James A. Scott, H. M. Porter, J. Gray Lucas, A. E. Patterson and N. S. Taylor.
The speakers were the President, Attorneys Wilson, Mollison and Denison.
The installation and banquet will be held February 3d, 1922, at the club rooms of the association.
Miss Betty Ray, St. Louis, Mo., spent the holiday season in this city as the guest of her sister Mrs. Carrie Warner, 3822 Calumet avenue.
1930
HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER Ex-Member of Congress from the Eighth Congressional District of Illinois Who Is Being Urged by His Legions of Friends to Enter the Race for One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago.
N. A. A. C. P. MASS MEETING
URGES CONGRESS TO
PASS DYER BILL
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in its annual mass meeting on the night of January 7, in New York City, unanimously and by acclamation passed the following resolution calling upon Congress to pass, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill: "Since 1889, 3,434 human beings accused of crime have been murdered by mobs in the United States before their guilt could be established by law or their punishment legally inflicted.
"During the World War when the allied nations were fighting to make the world safe for democracy, more than 250 United States citizens were lynched in America. During the last year 63 have been lynched, and since Congress has been debating the Dyer Bill, mobs in impudent defiance of the government have murdered 39 victims.
"Some of these lynchings have been accompanied by the most atrocious and revolting orgies; in the last three years 23 have been publicly burned at the stake amid torture an dphysical maiming, and in the presence of women and children, and in many cases the burning has been openly advertised beforehand.
"No particular crime is responsible for this blood lust. Since 1889, 2,593 persons have been lynched, against whom no accusation of any crime against womanhood has been even alleged, and in this same period 64 women have been lynched.
"In view of a record of lawlessness which shames this nation in the eyes of the civilized world, neutralizes her philanthropy and religion, denies her civilization and discredit its democratic government everywhere, we, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in mass meeting assembled, appeal to the United States Congress to take drastic action in order that lynching may be stopped absolutely and forever and by the power of the Federal government. The states will not and cannot act. They stand helpless before the mob and confess openly their helplessness.
"We assert that an enormity so cruel and frightful calls upon this government to hesitate at no technicalities and legal hair-splitting, but to go to the limit of its authority in maintaining law and order; in re-establishing republican government according to constitutional guarantees, and in giving its own citizens at least as much protection as international law compels it to give to foreigners.
"In the name of God and humanity, Congressmen of the United States, pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill!"
INVITED TO VIRGINIA
M. T. Bailey, 3638 S. State street; president of the Alumni Association of the V. N. & I. I. at Petersburg, Va. has just been invited to attend a big mass meeting on January 15 at Richmond, Va., by the citizens of Richmond and surrounding towns at which time the president of the Institute, Prof. John M. Gandy, will make public the appointment of Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes as non-resident lecturer and a member of the faculty. If for any reasons, Mr. Bailey cannot be present, he will be represented either by Hon. J. C. Robertson of Richmond or Hon.'J. Thomas Newsome of Newport News, Va.
the Eighth Congressional District of by His Legions of Friends to Enter ustees of the Sanitary District of Chi
JACK RABBIT FEVER
Rabbits, lice and a species of horsefly (crysops disalis), says the U.S. Public Health Service, are all responsible for the transmission of an infectious disease of rodents, recently christened tularaemia. Investigations and experiments made in Utah in the summer of 1920 demonstrate that the disease originates among jack rabbits, to which it seems very fatal, and is transmitted to man, and other rabbits, by a blood-sucking horsefly which obtains it by biting the rabbits and passes it on by biting the man or another rabbit. Further investigations disclose that the wild rabbits are infested with lice and that these lice also spread the disease among them. Experimental transmission by means of these lice explains how infection is kept alive from year year.
Tularaemia is seldom fatal to man only one death due to it being known. It is, however, a disabling septic fever which lasts from three to six weeks and from which convalescence is slow. Its economic consequences to the victims, however, are serious because it attacks farmers and field workers in the busy midsummer and harvest seasons, when the fly carrier is most prevalent, and lays them up for two or three months.
This is the season of closed windows and overheated, badly ventilated living and working conditions. And these conditions are directly responsible for what we call the seasonal increase in cases of pneumonia, bronchitis, catarrh and common colds. Pneumonia cases and deaths increase in Chicago each year from October to May. With the advent of the outdoor season they rapidly decline until cold weather comes again. Watch your air supply.
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To think is to suggest. Thinking health tends to suggest health. Some people are prone to worry about disease and fancy they have the symptoms of this, that or the other ailment. The trouble is they think along the lines which suggest disease or sickness instead of the subjects which would suggest health and vigor.
In doing things that are worth while, co-operation counts for much. In fact it is almost everything. One person alone cannot transform a dirty and unkempt neighborhood into a clean and tidy one. But when the neighbors all-pitch in and help, the job is easy and soon completed.
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The decayed and aching tooth is too often beyond the skill of the dentist to repair. The wise thing to do is to have the teeth examined before it is too late to save them.
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Smallpox, a most loathsome disease, is no respector of persons. The only one who is protected against it is the individual who has been successfully vaccinated.
There is plenty of good, fresh air in God's big outdoors. Then why exclude it from the places where we live and work.
Smallpox has not terrors for the person who is protected against it by being vaccinated. How about you?
A live or wide awake newspaper man or solicitor can earn some easy money by calling on or addressing the undersigned.
Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth street. Phone Wentworth 2597.
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THIS IS THE NEW YEAR, | doing to you is being done to them
1922, A. D. by the very people that are helping
— the ones who are doing things to you.
By Dr. M. A. Majors is ili iain Be cea im edie als
Don't forget your resolutions if you
fave made any for this year. Re-
wenber that keeping resolutions is
the same as Keeping your word sa-
creé, paying your debts and doing
otter honorable things. If you are
careless in any of the things that re-
quire character to sustain don't rest
until you have given yourself a much
seeded overhauling, for you can't go
on straggling through the world in
sach a slipshod manner. This is the
year you promised to make some re-
markable changes in your life. You
know better than we do what they
were, and if you are half the man
you think you are you won't quibble
about it, but pursue the manly and
coureageous course. Your whole
"life may hinge on your doing
duty, performing a service in
‘ing those resolutions for 1922.
ve individual counts for so’ little
<-s-ome-eomes to think of it
vhther you keep your word, meet
obligation, or do some really
wane acts of kindness do not for-
hat you are the one helped or
hndered. You've got to be loved or
espised just in that proportion that
you make yourself useful or useless.
And it all can be determined by you
and you only. Do not be governed
too much by public sentiment, but
rather by principles and conscience
that express themselves through the
bead and heart.
The year 1922 ought to be a very
mod year for the fellows who can't
behappy unless they are doing right,
meeting their honest obligations.
THE MULE SPIRIT IN
MORTALS
2.
By Dr. M. A. Majors
The world is a funny thing. Life
's sach 2 funny proposition. | You
never know what they are doing to
you until after they have done it, and
some of the people cannot tell pre-
cisely how much what they are doing
to vou effects them until it is hope-
lessly too late. - Often what they are
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_ HON. THOMAS CAREY
resident of the Chicago ‘Life Insurance
Bee aS ate Senstine at Low Anes
2 Jus Se es
Prudent of toa Cienme titionsl Se co
People want you to be refined, edu-
cated fit to shine with all of the hu-
man graces, If you are rough, loud
and uncouth and attract needless at-
tention about trivial non-essentials,
‘you are jest making yourself a poor
boy. It is not your color that makes
you hated, but you are hated on the
principal that you are a pest, an am-
bitionless mope. an ignorant fool, and
you must not forever expect people
to pass you by without secing how
much you are out of date and out of
harmony with this aggressive, perse-
vering and progressive age. You can-
not blame anybody—there is the
night school; it is free. It is not al-
ways color; it is the way you act.
Color prejudice is dying out.
THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL
‘TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE
January 18 and 19 the thirty-first
annual Tuskegee Negro conference
will be held at the Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Alabama.
‘The main or the most important
subject for discussion will be, “Co-
operation of the Town and the Open
Country for Community Improve-
ment.”
It is expected that the conference
will be largely attended as in the past.
Prof. Robert R. Moton, President of
Tuskegee Institute, has made ample
provision to entertain all the visitors.
‘THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO; ILL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922.
SOCIAL SERVICE DEPT. OF
THE. FORT DEARBORN HOS-
PITAL ASSICIATION, CHI-
‘CAGO, ILLINOIS:
‘The Woman's Auxiliary Board was
Well attended Thursday, January 5.
A partial report of the Benefit Milk
Fund entertainment, at the Y. M. C.
“a was given by Mrs. Elizabeth Tay-
Plans were discussed for a linen
shower at the Fort Dearborn Hos-
pital Thursday, January 19, from 1 to
11 p. m. The board earnestly desires
a liberal response from the generous
public for much needed articles.
Mrs. Arline Scott Newton, general
chairman, with the following efficient
sub-chairmen to assist her: Sheets,
Mrs. James A. Scott; pillow cases,
Mrs. G. W. Hardeman; towels and
wash cloths, Mrs. Hattie Lee; gowns,
Mrs. Rene Champion.
Women from the various churches,
clubs, argonizations and individuals
are cordially invited to enroll as mem-
bers and to lend a hand in relieving
suffering humanity, the great army
of unemployed men and women, ne-
cessitates a relaxing of the purse
strings of the more fortunate, to meet
the demand of the hour. Milk is
needed for the under-nourished chil-
dren, hospital care for the sick, cloth-
ing for the needy. The Social Serv-
ice Department is the clearing house
through which all demands are made,
and a record kept for all relief work
accomplished.
‘The Jenior Service Leagee resliged
$825 from their house social at 3531
Grand boulevard, December 27.
Three bolts of bird’s eye linen to
be made for the baby ward, 15 cards
of safety pins (two sizes) and two
spools of thread were purchased with
the proceeds.
A Valentine party is being arranged
for February 14. The following offi-
cers were elected at Saturday's mect-
ing.
President, Miss Ashby Woods; Vice
President, Miss Thelma Ewing; Sec-
retary, Miss Edith Brown; Treasurer,
Miss Lillian Rhodes.
‘The Auxiliary Board meets on
Thursdays at 2 pm.
The Junior Service League meets
on Saturdays, at 1:30, in the Social
Service Department's new headquar-
ters, at Fort Dearnborn Hospital, 3831
Vernon avenue.
Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Director.
NAACP. SECRETARY PUSHES
DYER BILL IN WASHINGTON
‘The Ngtional Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 70
Fifth avenue, New York, has an-
nounced that its secretary, James
‘Weldon Johnson, had been in Wash-
ington at the opening of the “present
session of Congress to confer with
leaders in the House of Representa-
tives on the strategy to be pursued
for enactimg the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill into law.
Daily conferences are being held
between Mr. Johnson and Represen-
tatives Dyer, Mondell, Campbell,
Madden and others. Mr. Johnson will
remain in Washington until a vote on
the Dyer bill is taken.
Mr. Johnson is keeping in constant
communication by telegraph and tele-
phone with the national office of the
N.AA.CP. in New York, so that in-
formation of necessary action on the
bill may be sent out over the country
at a moment's notice.
MAKES BIG SHOWING
The temple which was worked up
by Mrs. Ida Simmons, 2 past officer
of S. M. T. and a present state officer
of A. U. K. & D. of A. and set to
work on January 7t hat Bailey’s Hall
by Dt. Eliza Jackson, state vice-
princess of S. M. T. of Illinois, made
‘a great showing or that evening and
Mrs. Simmons was all in smiles.
Those assisting in the organization
were Mesdames Elizabeth Rochon,
‘Dora Cannon, Nellie Burbridge, Seril-
da Jackson, Mamie E. Britton, Geor-
gia E. Harding, Pearl Fihser Hill,
Hattie Sawyers and many others.
ON FRATERNAL VISIT
Mrs. Ella G. Berry, 3329 S. State
street, D. G. W. N. R. of Households
of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction,
has gone to Rockford, Ill, where she
will visit the Households there and
later visiting other cities in Illinois
in company with several other district
officers.
BACK :
Col. J. W. Hall, 3743 Federal street,
colonel of the First Regiment of Illi-
nois of A. U. K. & D. of A, has just
returned to the city from Kansas City,
Mo., where he went to attend the fun-
eral of his mother, Mrs. Christina
Bell. Col Hall has the sympathy of
his many fraternal friends. -
Memphis, Tenn. — Reports from
Florence, S. C., indicate that the new
year was ushered in by 2 lynching
wear the county line between Florence
and Williamsburg counties on the
very first day, and that ow Sunday.
The reports came through the office
of Sheriff Gamble of Williamsburg
county. A Negro whose name does
not appear was accused of intimacy
with a white woman. It is Gignif-
‘cant, howover, that letters from her
‘were found in his pocket after the
lyaching.
BOOK CHAT--BY MARY WHITE
OVINGTON—CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL-
ORED PEOPLE. AUTHOR OF
“HALF A MAN,” “HAZEL,” “THE
SHADOW,” ETC.
Sn ee oe Merete seek,
I received a letter the other day
from a woman living in a city of the
Southwest which ran in part as fol-
lows:
“I read what you wrote about what
the publishers said about colored peo-
ple not being a reading public, and I
think they are wrong. I do not think
the great majority of colored people
— about these books and publica-
tions, and the few who do know like
myself are so poor that they have
not’ been able to subscribe and buy
like they want to. They are just too
poor as I am....Of course, one can
do housework at $2.50, $3.00 and
sometimes $5.00 or a little more a
week, but everything is mighty high,
and when the necessaries of life are
got there isn’t anything left for books
and papers.”
My corresponden: agrees with me
that only a few of the colored people
know of the manifold books and pub-
lications on the Negro question, and
this confirms me in my belief of the
need of Book Chat. What she says
of the inability of the Negro to buy
books is another matter. Of course,
a city that pays as low as $2.50 a
week for housework, and only reaches
as high as $5.00 or 2 little more, pays
starvation wages. One is horrified
that such exploitation of women
should continue. And doubtless there
are other of my readers besides my
correspondent who are struggling for
the bare things of existence. But in
the colored world as well as in the
white there are large numbers of
people who spend money for more
things than actual shelter and food
and raiment. They go to moving pic-
‘ture theaters, they buy a new record
for the victrola, they indulge in sodas
‘and sundaes, and if they want them
badly enough, they buy books. They
have the money for +h: thing they
‘most want.
If you believe in wide reading, you
can easily train a child to indulge in
it. Give him a book shelf in his
room, and ste if if doés aot soon fill
up. The child knows what it likes
and makes its wants known and
money will be saved for the new
romance or *history or book of ad-
venture. When Christmas and birth-
day celebrations come the harrassed
relative, wanting to know what will
please John or Susie, sees the book-
self and gladly gives a contribution.
The child I knew the best of all in-
variably asked for books as a gift
and consequently had a very respect-
able library before she was out of her
teens. It was decided that if she
really wanted the Waverley novels
more than a string of gold beads she
| GREETINGS TO FRIENDS
R. W. Wells, president of The Wells
Book Concern, 3710 Indiana avenue,
sends the year's greetings to his many
fraternal friends from a trip which
he is now on covering Colorado,
Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
. CHIPS
Hon. and Mrs. Thomas Carey, 4427
Grand boulevard and several other
members of their family, left last Sun-
day evening for their beautiful winter
home at Los Angeles, Cal., where
they will spend the remainder of the
winter. Mr. Carey himself will return
back to Chicago about March 1 to
look after some of his affairs, in
connection with the Chicago Nation-
al Life Insurance Company and to
take a hand in the great primary fight
the first part of April.
Miss Rosalind Perkins, who has for
some time, been one of the leading
school teachers of Albany, Ga, ar-
rived in the city Tuesday morning,
and that same day she ws united in
marriage to Mr. Beach, whom she
met while visiting im this city last
summer. Mr. and Mrs. Beach are
receiving the hearty congratulations
of their friends and they are now at
home at 4007 Vincennes ayenue.
‘The Prattle of Chiigren.
Four-year-old John W.. when visit
ing his grandparents, was taken te
Sunday school. The lesson of the day
was the ever interesting story of “Dan-
fel in the Lion's Den” and the teacher
Presented it in a manner to keep the
interest of all the children. But dur
ing one of the intervals John W. spoke
up, saying. “Yes. and I saw six little
pigs at the very same circus.”
ey ae
Mexico has adopted the nopal cac-
tus, oF prickly pear,.as its national
flower, and Canada the leaf of the
gagar maple. remarkable for itx bea
tiful coloring in the fall. By popular
vote the goidenred hax heen chosen as
the national flower of the United
‘Stater, though there has been ne off
cial adoptkn
should have the Waverley novels.
Few parents object to pampering a
child's love for books. And it is the
same as we grow older. Unless we
are in the tragic $2.50 a week group,
we have a margin for other than bare
necessities and decide ourselves
whether our surplus shall go toward
a piano or a victrola, toward a ple-
thora of moving pictures, toward per-
sonal adornment or toward a well
stocked library. We choose.
How fascinating book shelves are!
‘To the lover of books, next to his
own shelves, nothing is so fascinat-
ing as to browse around another
man’s bookcase. Unless the book
‘agent has forced his wares upon an
understanding buyer, books reflect
their owner and are indicative of his
eae and interests. How one thrills
at the sight of a volume of well loved
poetry im another's home! One may
be almost a stranger to the person
one has gone to visit, but the book
‘at once creates a common bond. It
would be ill-bred to scrutinize too
‘carefully a man’s furniture, Lut it is
a permissible to move one’s
‘hand lovingly over a line of books,
picking out -a favorite for perusal
‘while awaiting. For my part I cling
to the open bookshelf, even though
the tops of my volumes accumulate
dirt, I love so to see my books
standing out wholly invitingly, not
behind a film of glass, but where I
may run my hand over them, taking
one out without the formality of
me a door or moving up a par-
tition.
| T got a high school girl to dust my
books for me this fall. (She was not
paid by the hour!) She seemed to me
to take an unconscionable amount of
time for the task. One week, two
weeks, and it was not finished. And
finally, when she had done she told
me confidentially that she could not
put a book back upon the shelf with-
‘out fondling it in her hands and look-
ing for a brief space into it. There
is your true book loyer io whom the
printed page is a living thing to be
fondled and loved.
With the new year shall we not
resolve to begin a new book shelf
and once a month add a new volume
to it? That would mean twelve vol-
umes a year, twelve new friends come
to visit you, not for the brief moment
that the library allows, but to take
off their wraps and settle down for
life. Be cautious how you allow them
to go visiting. They are so apt to
lose their way, quite inadvertantly,
of course, and fai! never to return
home. But do you know them your-
self, turning to them not for. one
reading only, but again and again.
What do you think of this as a New
Year resolve, Gentle Reader?
Shoe Lore.
Many supersitions are connected
With the shoe: for instance, it is
thought unluckly to pot elther shoe
‘en the wrong foot. Becuuse Augustus
Caesar wax nearly assassinated by a
mutiny one day when he put on his
left shoe first. a suying has arisen
that the right “shoe” must be put on
first unless its owner wishes to court
misfortune. Pythagoras, old Greek
sage. told his disciples to put their left
foot into their baths first. - In Anglo-
Saxon marriages the father-in-law
gave the bride's xhoe to the bride-
groom who touched her on the head
with it to denote his lordly authority.
‘The Old Post Road—1788,
‘The old rvad between New York
and Albany was, for the greater part
of the way, but a rough belt through
& virgin forest. Occasionally = farm
er had cleared # few acres, the lawns
of 2 manor house were open to the
sun, the roud was varied by the maf
esty of Hudson and Palisades for a
brief while, or by the precipitous walls
of mountains, so thickly wooded that
even the wind barely fluttered thelr
exon
“Mies thes Diteti es tee.
A great many glass articles and par
ticularly the finer grade commodities
are blown by hand. In the past the
glass blower was an essential and an
indispensable employee in the giase
plant, but today he has lost = great
deal of his importance. The lung
power of the blower is being re
Placed more and more by compressed
air in the ginss-blowing machine.
Mercerized Goods.
Mercerized cotton is obtained by
subjecting = cotton yarn or cloth ua
der tension to a bath of strong caustic
soda. The fiber gains in strength and
loses its twist, becoming highly lus-
trous. It takes the dye more ensily
than ordinary cotton, and the colors
produced are better and more perme-
ent. The process of mercerization
increases the cost of manufacture, but
produces a beautiful, Instrous and
more durable fabric, which is often
fgeed as 2 substitute for linen or silk,
Novelties Have Been Launched
by Paris Designers.
Band Trimmings of Embroidery Done
‘on Bright-Colored Cieth; Satin
Lining to Match,
Novelties taunched by Parts de
signers are short box coats of fur,
with band trimmings of lovely em
broidery done on bright-colored civth.
‘The coats are lined with satin to match
the embroidery, and the general effect
Is one of youth, simplicity and becom:
ingness,
Another novelty launched by the
same maker is the short shoulder cape
and deep gauntlet cufts of astrakhan,
to be worn with the heavy wool street
dress. The vest of fur is new and
comfortable for motoring. It may or
may not have sleeves of crepe de
chine, Another designer shows @ mod-
el made of beaver fur with sleeves of
crepe de chine.
Inexpensive or substitute furs are
very much used by Paris dressmakers.
Dyed rabbit, dyed squirrel, dyed sheep-
skin, masquerading under various
names, as petit-cris-tuggre, sibeline
if
em
era
oY
&..
Se eee
Parisienne, agneau, etc., are success-
fully used for these, as well as for
trimming purposes. The novelty wis-
tateh is yet to be tasted.
Among the smartest of the so-called
costumes is a camel'shatr dress in
chemise form with bell sleeves and
high collar. It buttons from neckline
to hem with tan bone buttons. An
accompanying cape reaching below the
hips is circular, although it may be
had in straight effect us well, and has
& collar of raccoon fur. Long ril-
bon ends which tle the cape are
trimmed with balls of fur.
FROCKS TO WEAR AT DANCES
Lace Skirt With Taffeta Bodice Ameng
Favorites That Have Appeared
‘This Seasen.
A lace skirt with # taffeta bodice is
among the frocks that have made their
appearances at dances. There was &
full lace skirt, in cream color, and =
bodice of mauve taffeta, that were
most Interesting as a combination for
an evening frock. ‘Then there was one
with a skirt made in three tlers of
black lace flounces, with « darted and
fitted bodice of black taffet. To he
sure, this wax worn by « giri whose
hair was a brilliant red, so that noth-
ing was taken from its youthfuiness, ax
the hair supplied the necessary note of
color and sparkle.
The slippers and stockings of the
present season are worthy of mention
—more so than. they have ever been
before. They are taking # place of
prominence that has not been granted
them for a long, long time. Indeed
sometimes they are the sole trimming
and note of color, and for this reason
they must be regarded with reverence,
even with awe.
Silver slippers and those made of
cloth of gold are famous from fairy
tale days, to be sure, but now they
have stepped into real life with a ven-
geance. Hardly # twinkling foot but
shows the glint of precious metal about
its toes. And there are slippers made
of brilliant brocades—even sandals,
and those with heels that are given
every uppearance of a veritable sandal.
Often one sees light-colored stockings
(even those with apparently no color
at all), that are worn with black
pumps. These, in fact, are the rule rath-
er than the exception, and it Is quite
extraordinary to see feet and legs clad
in the same color, unless that color
happens to be something more than ex-
traordinarily brilliant.
Buekles, when there are any, are apt
to be rather inconspicuous. The bro-
cades are the thing, and they are used
to make the whole slipper, with Its in-
trieacies of strappings over the instep.
Girdles in Variety.
A good deal of interest centers
around the girdle which a frock adopts.
‘The trend at present, it le said, ts to
make the hips appear as large 83 pow
sible by means of padded girdle effects.
or fur running through velvet loops,
and the aproo effects are also men
tioned. Girdles of metal and girdles
of ribbon onte which cabochons,
buckles and metal squares have deeo
applied are being shown in the New
York shops to the exclusion of any
other kind of # belt. Wooden beads,
too, im fantaste designs and colors
are popular, for the girdle st the
mon.ent is the decorative feature of the
costume.
Vast Wealth in City Street
‘The Chandai Chowk. or “Silver
street.” is the main bazaar of Delhi,
and one of the richest streets in the
a a ee ee
sume boa tes
a
CHOICE OF DRESS
Women Should Use Brains, As-
serts Fashion Writer.
‘Thought to Right Garment for Right
Occasion, and Glance at Mode
Will Be Aid.
“The reactionary period of fashion
‘Is upon us, when the French designers
‘Insist on purity of line, women must
‘return to her stays, the uncorseted fig-
lure, the extremely short skirt, and az
immodest decolletage must give way
to dignity and modesty in dress.” This
is the opinion expressed by a promt
nent writer of fushions and designer
of many a distinctive dress and drese
accessories,
“The corset bids fair to come back @
modified and corrective article of
dress, an inconspicuous and useful
Dreserver of the beautiful lines of the
natural figure.
“This is the opportunity of the wont
an who is clever enough to dress with
her brains instead of with her purse
alone. If a woman of average inte.-
Ugence gives her thought to the right
garment. for the right occasion and
casts a sharp glance at the present
mode she may dress well at compara-
tively small outlay.”
‘The speaker was busily fashioning
an odd little bag of velvet. Shé was
wearing a knitted sport dress, high
of neck and long of sleeve, in a dell-
cate lavender.
“I knitted this dress. You see, I
practice as well as preach,” she naive-
ly produced the daintiest of work bags
and exhibited a biack lace stocking
she has Just finished.
“Here's a stocking I made to mate
& black lace evening gown. Simply rip
up an old stocking for a pattern and
cut from a yard of all-over lace, use
silk Jersey for sole, heel and toe,
whip the seam carefully and finish the
top with the hem from a discarded
pair of stockings.” The directions
were simple and the product a tell-
ing tribute to the skill of the maker.
“And here's a sport dress any girt
way have now that tweed-like fabrics
and economy are in vogue. This de-
sign will be brought out in the spring
by @ manufacturer in several colord.
[did tt this way: The one-piece skirt
ls in brown burlap; the six-inch hem
is cut and fringed. The shirt is at-
tached to a darted brassiere with
shoulder straps and is worn with «
sweater. A softcrowned hat with a
brim of burlap is fringed to match the
sxtrt.” <in8
Even the shoes were her own design,
black, patent leather, high lace boots
with ‘sides of dull biack satin. Of
course there was reason. “I'm a great
friend of the high lace boot with a low
heel and moderate sole for golfing.
general walking in fact, for all out-
of-doors sports. Low shoes ruin the
line of the ankle, so the sensible wom-
an will choose the high shoe. even if
it Is a bit inconvenient as to lacing,
in order to present # trim silken clad
ankle to the drawing room.”
In the matter of home furnishings
she was enthusiastic. She declared
she “dressed up” her own home in
unbleached muslin dyed in shades from
brown to gold, used black lace shades
appliqued with a medaition of color
cut from a design in cretonne in a
room furnished with old-fashioned hair
cloth furniture.
“The effect 1s artistic and restful,
the browns and golds cheer up the
haireloth furniture in its eustere wal-
ut, the tones of the medallions blend
the’ schemes together. The expense
was small, but the investment of time
and thought repaid me, as it does any
cena ete Seen tae foe
fll &
iH
il
i
‘The hoop effect is quite pronounced
in @ new style of skirt siready being
mangtactured in Chicago fer miladys
spring wear.
Worth Remembering. y
reese on the seams of new
keep in a warm place for
day pr two and the article will not
rust jo the seams. Have a little bag
hug on the inside of the sewing ma-
ching frame to receive the clippings
that pecumulate when working at the
‘mectise.
< Discrimination.
A salesman recently told the Bow
Street magistrate that no swearing is
allowed nowadays in Covent Garden
‘Market. This exctusion of ail golfers,
ratepayers and spring-cleaning victims
I surely rather drastic—Punch (Lea-
en).
Saving Is Logical
Whatever excuse one may make for not establishing a bank account, it is contrary to every dictate of good judgment to be unprepared for the time when a reserve fund may be needed. Open an account here today with $1.
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TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1
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ESTABLISHED 1877
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COAL CO.
Telephone Oakland 1550
5100 Federal Street CHICAGO
reet
A. L. WILLIAMS
ATTORNEY AND
COUNSELOR AT LAW
Suite 706 Firmenich Building
184 W. Washington St.
CHICAGO
Residence 3655 Prairie Ave.
Phone Douglas 9133
Telephon
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OF CHICAGO
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and South State St
Telephone Victory 4500
LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government Supervision 31st and South State Streets Telephone Victory 4500
Phone Main 2017
7% Bonds May Be Bought On the Instalment Plan
H. HARDING, JR.
REAL ESTATE
Modern Houses, Apartments
Stores to Rent
AGE GROVE AVE.
West Street, Chicago
One Yards 27
NITURE
Beds, Electric Washers,
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Ware, Linoleum
STUCKART
ARCHER AVE.
PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary
H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer
Residence, 1262 Macalister Place
Telephone Monroe 2714
MILES J. DEVINE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Suite 318-320 Reaper Block
Clark and Washington Sts.
CHICAGO
Telephone Central 1239
PERHAPS the most obvious advantage to be obtained by buying bonds on easy payments is the opportunity to save small sums systematically with a high interest return. Ten dollars a month or more will make an initial payment on a Lincoln Bond which pays 7% interest from the date of the first payment.
The instalment plan is a boon also to the investor who is following the trend of interest rates and knows that it is uncertain how much longer well-secured 7% First Mortgage bonds will be available. The instalment plan enables him to "tie up" more good bonds paying a high interest rate than he would be in a position to purchase outright.
Any 7% First Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bond offered by this bank may be purchased on instalments.
Let us send you, without obligation, de-
tails of this plan, and information con-
cerning our approved 7% First Morti-
gage Bonds. Write for Circular 14.
U STATE BANK
CHICAGO
Government Supervision
South State Streets
ne Victory 4500
CHICAGO
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922.
JOHN McGILLEN & CO.
Surety Bonds-Casualty Insurance Our interest in a client's welfare doesn't cease with the payment of premium. We frequently have been of helpful service to patrons in general business lines. Representing Assets Over Eleven Millions
Telephone Kenwood 1233
J. B. CLITH
REAL ESTATE
Renting, Insurance 7 West 5
Insurance, Mortgage Loans
7 West 51st Street
CHICAGO
WM. JONES
Established 1899
DEALER IN
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RECIPIES AND FRUITS IN SEASON
MADE SAUSAGE A SPECIALTY
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Phone Boulevard 1812
Renting, Insurance, Mortgage Loans
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Phone Boulet
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TELEPHONES
Office: DOUGLAS 9054
Residence: DOUGLAS 470
DR. BENJ. R. BLUITT
Hours: 11 A. M. to 1 P. M.; 4 to 6;
8 to 9 P. M.
3102 INDIANA AVENUE
CHICAGO
Notary Publi
Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence,
4751 Champlain Avenue
Phone Kenwood 5611
Walter M. Farmer
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW
Suite 708—184 W. Washington St.
CHICAGO
HARD UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Founded by GENERAL O. O. HOWARD
ALEY DURKEE, A. M., Ph.D., D. D., President
T. J. SCOTT, A. M., LL. D., Secretary-Treasurer
STATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
covering the Freshman and Sophomore years and leading to
Senior Schools.
consisting of the Schools of Liberal Arts, Education, Journal-
al and Commerce and Finance, granting respectively the degrees,
or B. S., A. B. or B. S. in Education; B. S. in Journalism;
B. S. in Commerce and Finance.
And Science, four year course, granting the degree, B. S.
in Civil Engineering, B. S. in Electrical Engineering, B. S. in
in Chemical Engineering, B. S. in Architecture, B. S. in Agriculture,
S. in Household Economics.
The work of the Junior College and the Senior Schools
taken in evening classes with full credit.
Four year course, granting the degree of Mus. B.
Inon, three year course, granting the degrees of B. D. and
Courses are offered also by correspondence.
Three year course, granting the degree of LL B.
Linee, including Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Colleges.
Courses for Medical and Dental students; three year course
pharmaceutical students.
degrees granted: M. D., D. D. S., Phar. C.
center for collegiate work at the beginning of any quarter.
September 28, 29, 30, 1921
January 3, 4, 1922
March 18, 20, 1922
D INFORMATION WRITE
F. D. WILKINSON, Registrar
WASHINGTON, D.C.
HOWARD U. WASHINGTON
Founded by GENEVA
J. STANLEY DURKEE, A.
EMMETT J. SCOTT, A. M.
COLEGIATE AND PRO
Junior College, covering the Freshman
the Senior Schools.
Senior Schools, consisting of the S. Simm, and Commerce and B. A. B. or B. S., A. B. or B. S. in Commerce and F.
School of Applied Science, four in Civil Engineering, B. Mechanical Engineering, and B. S. in Household I.
Evening Classes. The work of the may be taken in evening at
School of Music, four year course,
School of Religion, three year course,
Th. B. Courses are offered.
School of Law, three year course,
School of Medicine, including M. Four year courses for Med. for Pharmaceutical students.
Following degrees granted:
Students may enter for collegiate w
REGISTRATION
Autumn Quarter
Winter Quarter
Spring Quarter
FOR CATALOG AND INFORMATION
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J. STANLEY DURKEE, A. M., Ph.D., D. D., President
EMMETT J. SCOTT, A. M., LL.D., Secretary-Treasurer
COLLEGIATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
Junior College, covering the Freshman and Sophomore years and leading to
the Senior Schools.
Senior Schools, 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 and Finance.
School of Applied Science, four year course, granting the degree, B. S.
in Civil Engineering, B. S. in Electrical Engineering, B. S. in
Mechanical Engineering, B. S. in Architecture, B. S. in Agriculture,
and B. S. in Household Economics.
Evening Classes. The work of the Junior College and the Senior Schools
may be taken in evening classes with full credit.
School of Law, three year course, granting the degree of LL.B.
School of Medicine, including Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Colleges.
Four year course for Medical and Dental students; three year course
for Pharmaceutical students.
REGISTRATION | Autumn Quarter | Spring Quarter | Summer Quarter | September 28, 29, 30, 1921
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| Autumn Quarter | Spring Quarter | Summer Quarter | September 28, 29, 30, 1921
| Spring Quarter | Summer Quarter | September 28, 29, 30, 1921
| Summer Quarter | September 28, 29, 30, 1921
Punched Time Clock
"Did the mar-s major go this way, sentence?" "I don't know, corporal." "Well, keep your eyes open. What do you think you're here for?" "Here for? Two perishing hours!"—Calcutta Looker-On.
Much in a Name
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but—there is a lovely rambler rose known as "Lady Gay." This flower was originally named "Amelia Jenkins," but no one bought it or troubled to cultivate it. Under its new name it has met with wide popularity.
Uncle Eben's Comfort
"When I goes to church," said Uncle Eben. "I has de comfort of knowin' dat even if I don't understan' de sermon. It's out o' mischief foh de time bein!"
The Opportunity
In this world the one thing 'upremely worth having is the opportunity to do worthily a piece of work, the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.—Roosevelt.
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Phone Douglas 6636
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Attending Surgeon Fort Dearborn Hospital
Hours: 11 to 1 P. M.; 3 to 5 P. M.; 7 to 9 P. M.; Sunday: 2 to 4 P. M.
3035 PRAIRIE AVENUE CHICAGO
Uses of "Atomized" Coal.
"Atomized" coal-different from merely "powdered" coal because very minutely divided-is a new product that is finding important uses. It is used for making a high-grade paint and also a substitute for lamphack in the manufacture of ink. Another valuable employment for, it is in "facing" foundry molds, to give the surfaces a smooth finish in preparation for castings.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Long-Distance View.
Looking from one lofty mountain range access to another, enormous distances may be spanned. The record is said to be between Mount Sparta, in Mexico, and the Sierra Madre, the two ranges being about two hundred miles apart.
Exceptions.
An astronomer says that: the term "fixed," as applied to stars, is a misnomer. Still, we know some stars that are mighty well fixed.—Boston Transcript.
Living Room Important.
A living room of all rooms in the home is the most important, and one writer says: "Furnishing a living room is like starting out on a voyage of discovery." This room should be furnished with thought for the need and comfort of each individual member of the family. Give to the master of the household a comfortable fireside chair, a table beside that chair on which he can place a paper, magazine, book or any other things that he may wish there; give him his own reading lamp and a comfortable stool in front of his chair.
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A. D. GASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
118 N. La Salle Street
CHICAGO
Residence Telephone
3342 Calumet Ave. Douglas 1275
JAMES G. COTTER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
145 NORTH CLARK STREET
SUITE 407
Telephone Central 8384
CHICAGO
Formerly
Assistant Attorney General
State of Illinois
Res. 3648 Grand Boul.
Doug. 4397
J. GRAY LUCAS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
129 E. 31ST STREET
Suite 16-17
Phone: Douglas 6381
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Phone Victory 5703
Dr. Geo. W. Hardeman
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Vice-President Fort Dearborn Hospital
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 5
and 7 to 9 P. M.
Sundays by Appointment
3334 S. STATE ST. CHICAGO
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
PHONE KENWOOD 455
West Englewood Trust & Savings Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $500,000.00
John Bain, President
Michael Maisel, Vice-Pres.
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