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The Fort Dearborn Hospital Is Almost Out of the Hands of the Receiver, and Within a Few Days Atty. A. L. Williams Will File His Report and Inventory, Setting Forth Its Assets and Liabilities Before Judge Denis E. Sullivan, of the Superior Court.
SOME OF THE LAWYERS CONNECTED WITH THE COURT PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORT DEARBORN HOSPITAL CONTEND THAT THE R. W. EYSTER LINEN COMPANY AND THE COLONIAL HOSPITAL SUPPLY COMPANY HAVE ON THE SLY RECEIVED SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS WHICH WAS COMING TO THEM FROM THE FORT DEARBORN HOSPITAL, WHILE ITS NUMEROUS OTHER CREDITORS HAVE BEEN LEFT HANGING HIGH AND DRY.
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Prior to the last stormy meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Dearborn Hospital on January 26, 1922, and at the first meeting of the newly elected members of the Board of Trustees November 22, 1921, before we would consent to become one of the members of the executive committee, we informed all of the officers and trustees present at the meeting that the very first thing that we would want to do would be to remove the women's six-bed ward from the main or ground floor of the hospital, that it had no basement under it, and that the thin cement floor rested right flat on the ground and that it was always damp and cold, which was unhealthy and unsanitary for a well person, without saying anything about a person who was sick or who enjoyed poor health; that it did not show good taste or culture or refinement to have the door wide open leading into that large room or ward so that anyone in passing through the main-hallway would have no trouble in gazing in upon the sick and scantily clad, helpless women patients.
After we had plainly set forth our views along that line and declared that it was not the proper thing to have any of the wards on the main or the damp basement floor of the hospital which caused it to resemble a butcher shop, our distinguished friend, Dr. M. J. Brown, finally admitted that what we had stated in relation to the basement on the main floor being damp, at least part of the time, was true.
Not long before that time, he went on to say, one of the women patients who had been confined in that ward contracted a severe cold from the dampness coming up through the floor which transformed itself into pneumonia, and which contributed to her death. The death of that woman pa-
POST GRADUATE COURSE IN MEDICINE, SURGERY AND NURSING
To Be Held at Tuskegee Institute, April 1 to 30
Eleventh Annual Clinic and Fifth Annual Meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society To Be Held April 3, 4, 5
Tuskegee Institute—The second annual post graduate course in medicine and surgery at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, of Tuskegee Institute, will open April 1 and continue through April 30. At the same time a post graduate course in nursing will be conducted and on April 3, 4 and 5 the eleventh annual clinic of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society will be held.
The post graduate course in medicine and Surgery is open to all registered physicians and surgeons, and will consist of instruction and practice in the most modern theories of medicine and surgical methods. The hospital staff will be assisted in conducting the course by some of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in the country, including professors of some of the leading medi-
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tient simply showed that we had the correct conception in relation to maintaining a women's ward on the main or the basement floor of the hospital.
Coming on back to the last meeting of the Board of Trustees January 26, 1922, it was not long after 12 o'clock before the stormy meeting wound up in disorder. Dr. M. J. Brown and Mr. Alfred Clover tumbled to the mat together in hurling charges back and forth at each other. Mr. Clover claimed that Dr. Brown and some of his associates acted in bad faith some way or other at the time that he donated $1,100 to the Fort Dearborn Hospital.
Notwithstanding that fact, Mr. Clover was willing to advance $1,000 that very night in order to take care of the monthly current bills providing the doctors would sign papers releasing their interest in the hospital so that it would-become a public institution as they agreed to do at the time that the $100,000 drive was on for the benefit of the Fort Dearborn Hospital.
For some cause or other, Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. B. R. Bluitt, Dr. C. W. Bibb and Mr. C. Crook absolutely refused to sign away their interest in the hospital and accept notes for their money, which would be endorsed by Mr. Alfred Clover and by the other officers of the Board of Trustees.
Hon. George B. Holmes, Hon. Henry Stuckart and Hon. Emmett Whealan were present and each one of them let it be known that they were ready and willing to contribute $100 each to the hospital.
As stated before, the meeting ended in a bad mess or colored row. Dr. Brown lead in the bitter fight against the members of the executive committee and when it finally wound up that was the end of the newly elected officers and trustees of the Fort Dearborn Hospital.
The course in nursing, which is open to registered nurses, will consist of practically every phase of this profession, including hospital management, operating room technique and surgical nursing, private nursing, public health nursing, and sex hygiene, with the allied branches of each course. As in the course of medicine spared in the effort to secure competent instructors to assist in conducting this course.
Present indications are that many physicians and surgeons and graduate nurses will take advantage of the opportunities offered by these courses.
The John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, which is of Grade A rank, is splendidly equipped to conduct the post graduate courses, and the location and prestige of the hospital as well as of the annual clinics will furnish ample practice as is demonstrated by the fact that during the post graduate course in medicine and surgery last year, 1,136 patients were treated, including 64 successful major operations.
Dr. John A. Kenney, director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, announced that the post graduate courses had received the approval of
CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922
393 PEC
HON. ROBERT E. CROWE The Brainy and Fearless State's Attorney of Cook County Who Has in a Very Short Time, Forged to the Front as the Far Seeing Leader of the Grand Old Party in This Neck of the Woods.
physicians and surgeons and registered nurses throughout the country and that many men, eminent in the science of medicine, had signified their willingness to deliver lectures during this period. Among those who lectured to the physicians attending last year were: Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Frank R. Ober and Dr. James S. Stone, Harvard Medical College, Boston, Mass.; Dr. A. M. Greene, American Medical Association, Chicago; Dr. M. L. Goodkind, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Dr. E. H. Carey, dean medical school, Baylor University, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal, assures those attending of ample and comfortable accommodations.
SENATOR OVERMAN ACCUSED
OF WATCHING A LYNCHING
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, has made public a published accusation that Senator Overman of North Carolina had "looked interestedly on" during the lynching of three Negroes taken by a mob from the Rowan County jail in North Carolina. Senator Overman is a member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary which is considering the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, passed on January 26 by the House of Representatives. The charge against Senator Overman will be laid before that committee, the Advancement Association has announced.
The charge against Senator Overman is taken from the Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News of February 28, 1922, which says editorially:
"Lynchings take place in North Carolina, except in the very rarest instances, whenever and wherever a mob has sufficient leadership with it to undertake them. And Governor Morrison knows it. And the trash and off-scourings of humanity which make up the personnel of these villainous murder gangs most often are neither friends nor relatives 'of the outraged persons' and Governor Morrison
rison knows that. What 'friends or relatives' either of the 'outraged persons' or of his excellency, who speaks so knowingly of mob habits, broke into that Charlotte Hospital and lynched that wounded Negro? He doesn't know nor does anybody else. What friends and relatives of the Lyerlys broke into Rowan jail while Judge Long was there with a governor's high commission to hold a special court, took six Negroes from the jail, lynched three, and without interest enough to wear masks, save for the brute faces of the several executioners, and got away with it while Judge Long, Congressman Hammer, Congressman Klutz and United States Senator Overman, Sheriff Julian and thirteen special deputies and the Rowan Rifles looked interestedly on?
Senator Overman is reported to be bitterly opposed to the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
A strong movement should be started at once to make or compel Senator Overman to hot-foot it out of the United States Senate, for it seems to us that he should not be permitted to bring reproach upon the members of the United States Senate and everlasting disgrace upon himself for aiding and abetting in a lynching.
EDITOR.
MR. BERT A. WILLIAMS, THE GREATEST COLORED COMEDIAN IN THE WORLD, HAS PASSED ON OUT OF THIS LIFE
New York City.—On Saturday evening, Bert A. Williams, who was the most famous colored comedian in the wide world, closed his eyes in death at his beautiful home in that city.
His dutiful and devoted wife, Mrs. Williams, who spent the holidays in this city with her many friends, was at his bedside at the time of his death. Pneumonia was the cause of his passing on out.
He had been in poor health for more than one year. A few days ago he completely collapsed on the stage in Detroit, Mich., and was forced to
leave his company, which was pres-
presenting "Under the Bamboo Tree."
He was removed to his home in
New York City and blood transfusion
was resorted to in a vain effort to
save his life but he continued to sink
lower and lower, and at last failing
to rally, when the end came.
Mr. Williams, who was 46 years old,
came to this country from Nassau,
British West Indies, when a
child. He worked at old jobs about
New York theaters in his youth and
after serving an enlistment in the
United States army went on the stage.
He began his career as a banjo player
with a minstrel show. Then he and
his partner, George Walker, went
into variety, as it was called in those
days, and made a name along the Pacific coast.
In recent years Mr. Williams was engaged by Ziegfeld for several of his "Follies" productions.
He had a comedy method of his own.
The slow, shambling gait, the balanced intonation, the clear diction, the skillful pauses, are familiar to the theatergoers.
Mr. Williams was well known in
this city and he had thousands of
friends among its white and colored
citizens alike. Only recently he filled
a long successful engagement at one of
the leading downtown theaters.
May he find favor in the sight of the Gods throughout eternity!
SUCCESSFUL MEETING AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL WEDNESDAY EVENING IN THE INTEREST OF THE PASSAGE OF THE DYER-ANTI-LYNCHING BILL BY THE U.S. SENATE.
Alderman Robert R. Jackson Ably Presided and Read the Contents of the Bill
Resolutions Were Drawn Up and Passed, Urging Senators Medill McCormick and William B. McKinley to Work and Vote for Its Passage
GOVERNORS OF SOME OF THE LEADING STATES IN THE UNION; MAYORS OF SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT CITIES; ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT BISHOPS AND MANY COLLEGE PRESIDENTS ARE AMONG THE SIGNERS OF THE ANTI-LYNCHING MEMORIAL TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
The following Memorial to the United States Senate was read and adopted at an Anti-Lynching Mass Meeting held by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in the Town Hall, New York, on the evening of March 1, the meeting being addressed by Senator William M. Calder of New York, Representative Leonidas C. Byer of Missouri, who introduced the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in the House of Representatives; by former Attorney General George W. Wickersham, and by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The killing and burning alive of human beings by mobs in the United States is a reproach upon our country throughout the civilized world and threatens organized government in the nation.
Since 1889 there have been 3443 known mob murders, 64 of the victims being women. In only a few instances has prosecution of the lynchers been even attempted. American mobs murdered sixty-four persons in 1921, of whom four were publicly burned at stake.
The House of Representatives on January 26, 1922, in response to insistent country-wide demand, passed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which invokes the power of the federal government to end the infamy of American mob murder.
This bill is now in the hands of the United States Senate. The undersigned United States citizens earnestly urge its prompt enactment.
Among the signers of the Memorial are the following:
Governors—Thomas E. Campbell of Arizona, William D. Denny of Delaware, Len Small of Illinois, Warran T. McCray of Indiana, Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, Channing H. Cox of Massachusetts, Albert C. Brown of New Hampshire, Harry L. Davis of Ohio, Joseph M. Dixon of Montana, Charles R. Mabey of Utah, Mayors—John F. Hylan of New York City, James M. Curley of Boston, Edward F. Leonard of Springfield, Mass, George L. Oles of youngstown, O., Edward W. Quinn of Cambridge, Mass, Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee. Huston Quinn of Louisville, Ky., Jeremiah P. Mahoney of Newport, R. L., Herbert T. Corwine of Topeka, Kansas.
Archbishops—Patrick J. Hayes of New York, Henry Moeller of Cincinnati, Michael T. Curley of Baltimore, College Presidents and Professors—Charles F. Thwing, president of Western Reserve University; Benjamin Ile Wheeler, president Emeritus University of California; Josiah H. Penniman, vice-provost University of
ber of both men and women attended the public meeting held at the Wendell Phillips High School in the interest of the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill by the United States Senate.
Alderman Robert R. Jackson ably presided over the meeting, reading the contents of the bill and urging the Colored people in all parts of this state to hold public meetings in favor of its passage and to write letters to United States Senators Medill McCormick and William B. McKin-
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Pennsylvania; Ellen Pendleton, president Wellesley College; Ray Lyman Wilbur, president Stanford University; Bliss Perry, professor Harvard University; E. R. A. Seligman, professor Columbia University; L. M. Burton, president University of Michigan; Ernst Freund, professor University of Chicago; Andrew F. West, dean of graduate school, Princeton University; John A. Ryan, professor Catholic University of America.
Editors—Charles H. Dennis, editor Chicago Daily News; Victor F. Lawson, publisher Chicago Daily News; Edwin F. Gay, editor New York Evening Post; Phil J. Reid, editor Detroit Free Press; C. A. Rook, editor Pittsburgh Dispatch; Henry L. Manken, editor Smart Set; Royal F. Davis, editorial writer New York Evening Post; Paul Kellogg, editor The Survey; William Allen White, editor Emporia Gazette.
Bishops and Churchmen—Rt. Rev. Chauceyn B. Brewster, P. E. bishop of Connecticut; Rt. Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, R. C. bishop of Pittsburgh; Rt. Rev. William F. Faber, P. E. bishop of Montana; Rt. Rev. William A. Leonard, P. E. bishop of Ohio; Rt. Rev. M. J. Hoban, R. C. bishop of Scranton, Penn; Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, P. E. bishop of Washington, D. C; Rt. Rev. C. H. Phillips, C. M. E. bishop, Nashville, Tenn; Rev. Samuel Lane Loomis, secretary American Missionary Society; Rt. Rev. William T. Russell, R. C. bishop of Charleston, S. C; Rt. Rev. William O. Shepard, M. E. bishop, Portland, Ore; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York; Rt. Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, P. E. bishop of Kentucky; Rt. Rev. John Hurst, A. M. E. bishop, Baltimore, Md; Rev. Charles S. McFarland, general secretary Federal Council of Church of Christ in America; Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D., Broadway Tabernacle, New York
Lawyers and Jurists—Moorfield Storey, ex-president American Bar Association; George W. Wickersham, former U. S. Attorney General; Judge Julian W. Mack, Chicago; W. Ashbie Hawkins, Baltimore, Md.; George W. Kirchwey, New York; Charles H. Strong, New York; Butler W. Wilson, Boston; L. Hollingsworth Wood, New York; Clayton B. Blakley, city attorney, Louisville, Ky.
General—Leo S. Rowe, president American Academy of Political and Social Science; Edward W. Bok, former editor Ladies Home Journal; Samuel S. Fels, Philadelphia; Talcott Williams, former head Columbia School of Journalism; Horace J. Bridges, Chicago; Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement; Louis F. Post, former assistant U. S. Secretary of Labor; Florence Kelly, Consumers League, New York; John G. Milburn, New York.
ley, urging them to vote first, last and all the time in its favor. Hon. Edward D. Green, ex-member of the Legislature of Illinois and author or father of the Anti-Mob Lynch Law Bill of this state, was the leading orator of the occasion. He was followed by Thomas H. Samuels, representing 22,000 Masons in Illinois; Stewart Jefferson, Prof. James W. Eckelberger Jr., Rev. J. A. Brockett, and Richard E. Moore were the other speakers, and their remarks were very timely and to the point.
a: Hon. Patrick J. Carr
‘Regular Democratic Candidate.for Treasurer of Cook County,
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HOLDS ELECTION
The Pyramid Building and Loan
Association met at 3539 South State
street, Monday evening, and the elec-
tion of officers was held by the direc-
tors. This is the third year of the
association and more than $45,000 has
been loaned to members of the Race
for the purpose of paying off mort-
Gages and assisting in the purchase
or building of homes.
Officers elected were George H.
Jackson, president; Adelbert H. Rob-
certs, state representative, first vice-
President; Anthony Overton, presi-
dent the Overton Hygenic Mfg. Co,
second vice-president;" James A. Par-
ker, 6618 Langley avenue, secretary;
Charles S. Duke, civil engineer, treas-
urer. The Board of Appraisers in-
clude M. T. Bailey, president the
Bailey Realty Co., 3638 South State
street; Anderson H. Richey, and Wal-
ter B. Anderson of Anderson & Ter-
rell.
THE LB. W. W. CLUB
Last Thursday afternoon, the I. B.
W. W. Club met at the beautiful
home of Mrs. Mollie Taylor, 5816
Wabash avenue. The meeting was
largely attended.
The next meeting of the club will
be held at the residence of Mrs. Mary
Baler, 6142 South Ada street, Thurs-
day afternoon, March 16. All former
‘members are invited to be present.
Mrs. Cordelia West is president of
the club, and Mrs. Henrietta Middle-
ton is secretary.
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HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY
Republican Candidate for Renomination for Trustee of the Sanitary
‘District of Chicago, to Be Voted for at the Primaries Tuesday,
s 11.
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MORRIS LEAVES FOR IOWA RETURNS TO OFFICE
Charles Satchell Morris Jr, the sil-| Mrs. Theresa Harvey-Schmidt, 6008
ver tongued “orator, well known|South Ray street, who has been ill
throughout the country, leaves the and confined to her home for more
a AS va I than three weeks, has resumed duties
city to arrive in Davenport, Ia, to! 2. stenographer in the offices of the
make an address Sunday evening in| Board of Education, city.
memory ef the late Col. Young, and sTeane en
to deliver a lecture on Monday eve-} TAKES UP SCHOOL WORK
ning, returning in time to take up his |
duties as a student at the University! iss Alpha Baxter, 420 East 48th|
of Chicago. Last Sunday evening, place, left the city Saturday morning
Mr. Morris spoke before a large and|for Alton, Iil, to take up her school
appreciative audience at the Metro-| work in the schools for the remainder
politan Community Center Church. |0f the session.
ATTORNEY WATKINS BACK BAILEY PLEASED
Attormey S. A. T. Watkins of the
law firm of Watkins, Denison &
White, and attorney for the Pyramid
Building and Loan Association, is
back from Hot Springs, Ark, where
he spent one week looking after the
legal end of the erection of $250,000
bath house, etc, in that city by the
Knights of Pythias.
Judging from the way that the dear
sweet ladies are undressing them-
selves this winter they have a rich
treat in store for their gentlemen
friends this coming spring and sum-
mer.
‘Miss Alpha Maxwell, 4207 Prairie
avenue, and her mother, Mrs. Bass,
have both been confined to their
home with severe colds. They have
been under the medical care of Dr.
Louis M. Fenwick. The many friends
of Miss Maxwell and her mother
hope that they will soon be able to
be out again.
RETURNS TO OFFICE
Mrs. Theresa Harvey-Schmidt, 6008
South Ray street, who has been ill
and confined to her home for more
than three weeks, has resumed duties
as stenographer in the offices of the
Board of Education, city.
TAKES UP SCHOOL WORK
| Miss Alpha Baxter, 420 East 48th
place, left the city Saturday morning
for Alton, IIL, to take up her school
work in the schools for the remainder
of the session.
BAILEY PLEASED
M. T. Béiley, president the Bailey
Realty Co., 3638 South State street, is
much pleased with the progress be-
ing made for the opening of the sea-
son of selling property in the suburbs
for the benefit of the Race.
SERVE LUNCHEON
Attorney and Mrs. F. L. Barnett,
3624 Grand boulevard, served luncheon
Sunday afternoon at their residence
in honor of Miss Mary E. Branch,
who is attending the University of
Chicago.
TO MEET
It is hoped that every Kentuckian
in the city will meet on Tuesday eve-
ning, March 14, at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Giddens, 3614
Calumet avenue, the Kentucky Circle.
A good time is contemplated.
CALLED TO TENNESSEE
On account of the death of her old-
est son, Mrs. Fannie Streeter, 5828
Indiana avenue, was called to Nash-
ville, Tenn. Mrs. Streeter ieft dur-
ing the week for the burial, which
will take place at Rasfive. She is
accompanied by her son, Walter
Streeter.
IN OFFICE
Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 18
West Washington street, is back in
the office after an absence of several
days on account of illness.
‘MISS FRAZER LEAVES
Miss Johnella Frazer, ’a teacher at
the V. N. & LL, Petersburg, Va,
left the city the latter part of the
week for Virginia after spending sev-
eral days at the bedside of her sick
father, P. T. Frazer, who is much
improved. .
‘MRS. COBURN BACK
.
‘Mrs. Josie Coburn, 3606 Wabash
avenue, secretary of Gates Ajar Tem-
ple, S. M. T., is back from St. Louis,
‘Mo. where she went to attend the
funeral of her cousin, Mrs. Alice Ov-
erton Webster, who died in New York
City. |
BETTER
Charles T. Jackson, 4332 South |:
Wabash avenue, 2 member of North |i
‘Star Lodge No. 57, U. B. F., who has
been: quite ill for several days, is/t
much better. }
CHICAGO, IEL., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922
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|HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY AND HON.
| MATT. A. MUELLER WILL BE RE-
NOMINATED AND RE-ELECTED
TRUSTEES OF THE SANITARY DIS-
| ‘TRICT OF CHICAGO. |
Hon. James H. Lawley, Republicar
candidate for renomination for Trus-
tee of the Sanitary District of Chi-
cago, has for the past six years hon-
estly and faithfully served all the peo-
ple residing in this city.and county
in that ‘capacity.
Mr. Lawley is a native of this creat
city, being born in it in 1876. He re-
ceived his education in its public
schools and later on graduated from
the Illinois College of Law with high
honors.
For ten years he was one of the
highly honored members of the city
council from the Fourteenth Ward,
ably serving on its finance committee
and other important committees of
that body with the unqualified en-
dorsement of all the leading civic
bodies in this city.
For many yes he has been promi-
nent in benevolent and fraternal
work. He is an honored member of
the Phi Alpha Delta League frater-
nity, Garden City Lodge A. F. & A.
M., York Chapter, 148, R. A. M., Co-
lumbia Commandery No. 63, Medinah
Temple A. A. C. N. M. S., Knights
of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose,
National Union, and Fraternal Order
of Eagles.
In 1916-Mr. Lawley was chosen one
of the Trustees of the Sanitary Dis-
trict of Chicago and in every way he
has amply proven himself to be wor-
thy to be renominated on Tuesday,
April 11, for his present responsible
position.
Hon. Watt. A. Mueller, warm asso-
ciate and running mate of Mr. Law.
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The Baptists are now getting ready
for the meeting of the National Bap-
tist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U.
Congress in New Orleans next June.
and I am getting ready to be there
myself. I hope that things will turn
out in good shape.
We are all proud of President W.
J. Hale, who is a great man and one
of the greatest educators in the race.
He has been able to show his man-
hood, and Tennessee would not let
him go down under those who would
pane him, Men have trials in this
world in order that they may enjoy
their crown in the world to come. It
is good to he on the Lord’s side.
I will bring this letter to a stop.
Write me when you have the time.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
DIET AND A LITTLE PHILOS-
OPHY ABOUT FOOD
By M. A. Majors
What do you eat? It is not tru
that’ one’s character, habits or dispo
sition can be determined by what on
eats, It is true that all people shoule
be educated in the things that give
them a mind for excellent distinction:
and fine discriminations in the choice
‘of food that must be nourishing te
the tissues and stimulating to the
brain and heart, also providing
strength for tendons, bone and mus
cle. Food that is of a mature tha
assures easy digestion and assimila
tion upon which perfect metabolism
depends.
The vastness of human ignorance
is emphasized very pertinently on the
subject of food and its uses. Many
people should match their appetite:
with their tempéraments. A food that
in no instance should be eaten by
people who are sick may, on the
other hand, be improper for a great
many who are well.
Health is an evidence of bodily re-
sistances to disease. Our bodies are
so constituted that we readily absorb
the unfit poisons, generate gases and
fermentations that wreck the physical
foundation which conduces to illness,
the result of ruthless violation of Na-
ture’s laws.
Ignorance is always to be found
the cause, but even the rigors of
death can not be excused because
some person tried to digest or as-
similate unfit articles of food.
Alll foods are energy and heat pro-
ducers, but the proteins also fulfill
an important part.in the building up
and replacement of bodily structures.
It always will be found that even
the ignorancé of a king who may suf-
fer with the gout and the bootblack
who suffers from diabetes are put in
the same cencgt violators of great
Nature's! law stomach should
always be ae sensible if not scien~
tific consideration by those who un-
fortunately lige merely to eat, instead
of eating merely to live.
The ignorant person demands a full
or knowledge of what forces are
stimulated of what organs are de-
pressed. The educated person uses
his meat, eggs, fish, cheese, rice, ap-
ples or nuts just as he would use a
simple rule of arithmetic to work a
problem. He studies the essential
elephants nutritive powers of each
article of the food he would use for!
ae eee
9 as people are of |
the mutritive qualities of food and
heedless of the harm done by much
ley, was also elected as one of the
Trustees of the Sanitary District of
Chicago in 1916. Mr. Mueller is one
of the most popular German-Ameri-
can Republicans in Cook County and
being a high-class busingss man, the
S majority of the voters residing
in this city and county made no mis-
‘take when they elected him one of the
Trustees of the Sanitary District of
Chicago.
Mr. Mueller has been an honored
resident of this great city since 1883,
and his first émployment was in the
Union Stock Yards. With various
companies he remained in the yards
until 1902, when he was appointed
Real Estate Deputy in the Board of
Review. He served ably in this ca-
pacity until 1909 when he was elected
‘Alderman from the 29th Ward. Later
he established the real estate firm of
Matt. A. Mueller & Co, and won
recognition as a business man of en-
ergy and honesty.
‘He is a man of family and a mem-
her of the Modern Woodmen, Na-
tional Union, the Plattdeutchen Guild,
was a member of the Knights of La-
bor and a member of other fraternal
and benevolent organizations.
It can be stated in all honesty and
truthfulness that Mr. Mueller, as one
of the Trustees of the Sanitary Dis-
trict of Chicago, has made an honor-
able record for efficiency in the faith-
ful discharge of all of his duties as
such, and he can rest assured that he
will be renominated for Sanitary
Trustee as a part of his reward for
services well rendered in the past by
a majority of the voters at the pri-
maries Tuesday, April 11.
of what constitutes the provision for
tissue building there will be weak,
frail, scrawny, glandular unfortunate:
with bent bodies and twisted legs, the
very expression of Nature violated
emphasized in these numberless un-
fortunates among the poor and’ im-
provident.
Something should be done by the
movies, the churches and other civic
institutions to give the public the
needed instruction on food and diges-
tion.
We are to regard the stomach and
its purposes from the analytical stand-
point and ever foster the principles of
civilized humanity in our manners,
customs, conduct and character. The
‘stomach and alimentary tract should
merit just consideration in ‘our choos-
ing the victuals that are to give us
not only nourishment and strength
for a vigorous and active healthy
body but to maintain us against the
encroachments of old age and the ill-
nesses of senility and decrepitude.
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MR. WILLIAM F. HARRAH RE-
SIGNS AS SERGEANT-AT-
ARMS OF CITY COUNCIL
He Has Been Selected as General
Secretary of All the Council
‘Committees |
At the last regular meeting of the
City Council, Mr. William F. Harrah,
who succeeded the late William E.
Brown in 1916 as Sergeant-at-Arms
of the City Council, who started on
west at that time, never to return to
this earth again, resigned his position
which he had faithfully filled to the
entire satisfaction of all the city fath-
ers, at the present time ‘and during
the past
Mr. Harrah has been for a long
time one of the most popular men in
thg City Hall. He always greets all
comers with a broad pleasant smile
and with a glad extended hand; and
whenever any of the city fathers
would get to arguing strong and loud
and. felt like going to the mat with
each other, Sergeant-at-Arms Har-
rah always succeeded in pouring
plenty of his smooth oil on the trou-
bled waters, and he has always been
able to quiet the city fathers down
without laying his strong arm of au-
thority upon them.
When it became known in the City
Couneil that Mr. Harrah had been
Promoted to be general secretary in
charge of all the committees of the
City Council, Alderman John Pow-
ers, the dean or the venerable father
of that body, arcse and moved that
a rising vote of thanks be extended
to Mr. Harrah “for six years of in-
defatigable service in the Council's
behalf,” and in an instant every al-
derman was on his feet, many of
them calling for a speech from Mr.
Harrah, but he ducked out and could
not be found.
‘Mr. Thomas J. Courtney, who has
tor some time past been ably serving
as first assistant Sergeant-at-Arms,
was selected to succeed Mr. Harrah,
and Mr. Courtney, with his ever-
ready smile, is as smooth as the
smoothest and stands high in the es-
timation of all the city fathers and
all the big politicians that frequent
mittee rooms and it goes without say-
ing that Mr. Courtney will prove
himself to be the right man in the|
right place. .
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Republican Candidate for Renomination for Trustee of the Sanitay
District of Chicago to Be Voted for at the Primaries Tueay
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AGED MAN LEARNS TO READ| 1922. Counsel for the Supreme Lat
AND WRITE moved that the suit be diemia 2
Little Rock, Ark—A new world
has opened up for “Uncle David”
Shaw of Hamburg, Ashley county.
For 87 years Uncle David’s knowl-
‘edge has been limited to such infor-
mation as he could acquire through
personal contact with men and af-
fairs. But now in a hand shaky with
age and unformed through experience
but still legible, Uncle David writes,
“T can read and write my name.”
Last year Uncle David was num-
bered among the state’s 100,000 illiter-
ates. Now through the efforts of
County Superintendent Fred McCuis-
tion the teachers of Ashley county
and the Forward Educational Move-
ment, illiteracy has been lowered to
the extent of Uncle David at least.
E. B. Tucker, assistant director in
charge of the Forward Educational
Movement, said that Uncle David's
case illustrates ideally the ambition
of the Forward Education Movement
among the race and of other state
agencies for the eradication of illiter-
acy. It illustrates the direct and prac-
tical value of “opportunity schools.”
These schools are institutions oper-
ated by the regular teaching staffs
after school hours for the benefit of
adult illiterates and in Ashley county,
the school Uncle David is attending
has 33 other students regularly on
the roll.
Uncle David's age is more or less a
matter of guesswork as he does not
know himself the year in which he
was born, but he is conservatively
estimated to be 87. He was born a
slave on an Alabama plantation, but
has lived in his present home for 40
years, and will continue in school, |
he says, until he is a “scholar.”
INJUNCTION GRANTED
VIRGINIA GRAND LODGE
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
Nine Years Fight Still in Court
Richmond, Va—Grand Chancellor
John Mitchell Jr., on behalf of the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of
Virginia, has secured from the Su-
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, Mr. Justice Jennings Baily pre-
siding, another injunction which is
drastic in its provisions in protecting
it from the proclamation of Supreme
Chancellor S. W. Green, who ordered
the charter.of the Grand Lodge re-
turned to him, together with the other
property of the Grand Lodge of Vir-
ginia and who declared that the
Grand Lodge, its subordinate lodges
and the members thereof, had been
put out of the Order of Knights of
Pythias.
The suit was entered December 12,
1921, and the case argued January 23.
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1922. Counsel for the Supreme Loip
moved that the suit be dismised ie
Justice Bailey over-ruled the megs
to dismiss and ordered the injmnese
issued which provides protection 4
the Grand Lodge.
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SIFTS OUSTING OF
NEGRO ORCHESTRA
Columbus, O—W. X. Weodraf,
Gincinnati, Department ci jasice
agent, was here Saturday taking de
Positions of members of a Negro or
chestra who recently were bea =
by a band of white men after hag
lured from a hotel in Miami, Fl Te
orchestra members were manasa,
put on trains for Columbus, and
vised to remain there. The Nema
were told by the band of whites the
their actions respecting white pee
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JOHN E. KLINCK
The Successful and Old Esb
lished Real Estate Dealer @
West Sixty-Third Street.
Lately, Mr. Emmett Whee
County Commissioner, and Alderss
Thomas F. Byrne, of the 2h Wat
who is always eloquently fighting st
contending for the rights of wit
labor and for the rights of the ie
ing people in general, on the foor#
the City Council, and who bs?
string of big and small fry polities
following in his foot tracks om
time that he enters or leaves the
Council committee rooms, and
John E. Klink have formed 2 =
nership to deal in real estate, to ba
die high class renting property #!
negotiate loans, handle mortsast
and so on.
The real estate firm will be know
as Klinck, Whealan & Byrne. Tet
maim office is located at 2402 Wet
63d street. They represent the of
reliable Hanover Fire Insurastt
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The Last Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Dearborn Hospital, Thursday Evening, January 26th, 1922, Was a Stormy Session. Dr. M. J. Brown Led a Strong and Bitter Fight Against the Executive Committee, Freely Predicting That It Would Utterly Fail in Its Attempt to Conduct The Business Affairs of the Hospital
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, IS STILL FEASTING ON ORANGES AND OTHER GOOD FRUITS AND BASKING IN THE WARM SUNSHINE DOWN IN FLORIDA.
Orlando, Fla.—Daniel A. Murphy has paid the debt we all must sooner or later pay. We cannot never get used to this dying business although people are dying every day in the week and every hour in the day. We do not feel it so keenly though until it comes to our home and takes away some dear one belonging to us, and then we must stop and shed a tear for a short time, and then the world continues to move right along.
Perhaps you do not know Daniel A. Murphy or did not know him when he lived on earth. He was a fine young man, and had charge of the composing room of the Afro-American, Baltimore, a position he has held for many years. He has grown right up with the paper and in his line he ranked with the experts. He took the time when young to get a thorough education in his line and then when he stepped out into life, he did not have to go back and ask some one what to do.
He lived well yesterday. He made every day count for something, and when he began to fail in health, he could look back over his yesterdays, take an inventory, and exclaim: "I have lived well today; let tomorrow do its worst!" When the end came he had but to fold his arms and go right on home to God. He was an honest man, an industrious man, a man of thought and ability. I am glad that I had the pleasure of knowing him. I met him when he was yet a school boy, getting ready to meet life. He was active, and when he entered life he put his whole being into his work making each day count for something.
His health has been failing for some time so this winter his father decided to give him a trip into the South land thinking that it would help him some. From Baltimore to Montgomery, Ala., over to Tuskegee, and then down to Atlanta, Jacksonville, Fla., and quarters had been engaged in St. Augustine, but he broke so that he could not make the trip and remained in Jacksonville to the end. His body was carried back to Baltimore for burial. His father, Editor John H. Murphy, remained with him to the last. He then accompanied the body to Baltimore. Bishop Hurst was there and rendered all assistance possible in that hour. He and Editor Murphy are good friends.
Now, what are you doing for next month? Are you getting ready to be in Tuskegee April 5 to witness the unveiling of the monument erected to Booker T. Washington? I think it would be a nice thing for you to be there, for it is going to be one more big time there, and the people are going to be there from all parts of the civilized world. There will be big people from all the races, from all conditions of life, and there will be some wealth and some brains there. I expect to be there, but I will neither represent wealth nor brains, but I am just going along to be with the other gentlemen, and because I knew Dr. Booker T. Washington before he took his trip from earth to glory. I know Dr. Robert R. Moton right now, and I am going to shake hands with him before I shall leave. here myself. I am going to be with them big people, and I think I will feel like I am some pumkins myself.
Honey, put it down in your book that I have been riding some lately, and if I don't stop I am liable to ride my fool brains out, but then that will be my business and none of yours, and it will be my brains not yours. Then you have no right to say I have fool brains. You can afford to attend to your own business.
I made a trip from Jacksonville, Fla., to Denmark, S. C., to visit Voorhees normal and industrial college, to come in touch with Prof. Martin A. Menafew, the wonder of the age, and the man of doing things. It was to me a source of pleasure to drop in and take a look at him, and to see the large number of young people there are getting ready to take the place of man and woman. They are going to make this world take notice, and that makes me a proud man.
I spent some little time there, and then made it to Savannah, where the banks there had failed. When I say banks I mean some of the banks operated by white folks, but our banks have been going right on and on. Mrs. Willie G. Hill, the widow of wealth and ability, met me at the station in her little lemonade and toted me out to her home where she served me some fish and oysters, and then I left for Jacksonville, again. I am not prepared to tell you all the things I saw there, nor all the people I met. I only remained there one night, and left for this place. You see I am here now, but will soon be away from here. I am the guest of Rev. H. K. Hill of the Baptist church.
Perhaps you do not know Dr. H. K. Hill. He is some punkins in the Baptist church and has been doing some re work for his people in this section of the country. He is pastor of the Baptist church here, and a member of the trustee board of that school in Live Oak, Florida, and then he is interested in anything which means racial development and uplift. I have had the pleasure of knowing him and his great work for a long time.
Right by the side of Dr. Hill is his wife, Mrs. Viola T. Hill, who is president of the convention here among the Baptist women and a woman of extraordinary ability. She has been doing things for years, and she continues to do them. She has the love of the women of this section of the world.
I must not forget to tell you that I had the pleasure of meeting Rev. John E. Ford, in Jacksonville, but he could not have me spend a night in his home because he had had so much company during the winter, and some of them had remained two weeks or more, and all the bed linen had been placed in the laundry and his wife was not well. Of course, I did not think of wanting to spend a night in this home, for so many had been there already and had soiled all the bed linen he had, and from what I could learn had not left anything to have it washed. It certainly costs a man something to be somebody.
I am sure that the smile which Editor W. L. Porter of the East Tennessee News is wearing now must put to blush the Gold Dust twins, and I do not blame him for this wonderful smile, for the good Lord has blessed him, and there is not only a wife in his home but there is a daughter, Dorothy Marion Louise, and she is there to remain, and will have full charge of the house. I am proud of this, and may they live many years yet to come. She will some day be writing editorials like her father. She will be pleading the cause of her people.
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Shortly after our highly esteemed friend, Dr. M. J. Brown, succeeded in getting the writer interested in the Fort Dearborn Hospital, which was near the 1st of August, 1921, we started in to raise some money for it through the columns of this newspaper and within five or six weeks from that time we raised almost four thousand dollars directly and indirectly from our good and generous hearted white friends who were and are still greatly interested in the welfare of the colored people, and at the end of our successful drive through the columns of this newspaper Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. B. R. Bluitt, Dr. F. C. Cade, Dr. John W. Burrell and several other doctors who had dumped their money into the rat hole in connection with the Fort Dearborn Hospital, heartily thanked us for rushing in just in the nick of time and with the four thousand dollars which we dug up and turned over to Dr. Brown and Dr. Cade for the hospital. They all declared that we had prevented the doors of the Fort Dearborn Hospital from being closed up tight never to open again under their management, for that they had arrived at the end of their rope and that it was utterly impossible for them to raise the money to carry the heavy toad any further; that at that time they owed more than ten thousand dollars running indebtedness; that we had saved the day for them and had interjected new life or blood into their fast falling or tottering or shaky institution for them.
Not long after that time our good and true friend, Dr. M. J. Brown, declared that inasmuch as we had single handed and alone, accomplished such a wonderful work for the Fort Dearborn Hospital in the way of raising money for it at the critical time when it was sadly in need of it; that he further desired us to endeavor to get some of our prominent white friends to become trustees and officers of the Fort Dearborn Hospital, and our following warm white friends of many years standing willingly consented to serve to the best of their ability as trustees and officers for at least one year from the time that they were inducted into office, namely: Hon. George B. Holmes, Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, Trustee and President of the Board of Trustees; Hon. Emmett Whealan, Commissioner of Cook County, Vice-President; Hon. Jam:s W. Breen, First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; Hon. Thos Carey, President of the Chicago National Life Insurance Company; Hon. Henry Stuckart, ex-City and ex-County Treasurer; Mr. T. Frank O'Connell, Secretary-Treasurer of the Chicago National Life Insurance Co. were honored members of the Advisory Committee and again it must be distinctly under stood that all of the above mentioned gentlemen became deeply interested in the Fort Dearborn Hospital through our uniting efforts in its behalf.
Our highly distinguished friend, Dr. M. J. Brown, further contended the reason why he wanted some white men selected as officers of the Fort Dearborn Hospital, was that every time that the colored doctors connected with it always had a monkey and parrot time every time that they met to discuss its affairs and that frequently some of the hot-headed doctors would almost come to blows before they would wind up their disgraceful and ungentlemenly conduct that he felt confident that with sev-
eral high-class white gentlemen present at the meetings of the Trustee Board, that the colored doctors would refrain from conducting themselves in such a roughhouse manner in the future.
That statement or conclusion on the part of our good friend, Dr. M. J. Brown, was as far from the truth as the bright shining sun is from the earth.
For on Thursday evening, January 26, 1922, the members of the Board of Trustees whose names were published in the last issue of this paper met at 3902 South State street, for re-election of officers for the coming year and for the transaction of any other business which might come before it, and all went well until after President Hon. George B. Holmes stated that the executive committee had accomplished wonders in such a short space of time in handling the business affairs of the Fort Dearborn Hospital, that he had made up his mind to re-appoint it for the coming year, the executive committee consisting of Mr. Alfred Clover, Mr. A. L. Williams and Mr. Julius F. Taylor; then the fireworks or the bitter fighting began against it which was led by Dr. M. J. Brown, who was ably backed up by Dr. B. R. Bluitt and by Dr. C. W. Bibb, they bitterly fought and protested against the re-appointment of the executive committee, and at that point each member of the executive committee informed President Holmes that its members were ready and willing to step aside and permit other members of the Trustee Board to discharge its duties as at best it was a thankless job. For the sake of peace and harmony, Dr. Brown intimated that he had contributed one thousand dollars to the Fort Dearborn Hospital and had made a grandstand play by giving, another thousand dollars at the meeting at the Wendell Phillips High School at the time that Mr. Alfred Clover donated one thousand dollars to the Fort Dearborn Hospital to be used to secure a home for the nurses and not to be used in paying off the old running debts of the hospital; that all the doctors and others connected with the hospital must work under him and his very able associates and not attempt to work over them, or words to the same effect.
Dr. Brown, in continuing his bitter fight against the executive committee, asserted that it had failed to treat him right and he freely predicted that it would utterly fail in conducting the business affairs of the hospital; that statement on the part of Dr. Brown was enough to cause the boss devil to crack his fat sides with loud laughter when we take into consideration the fact that the executive committee was forced to buy more than one hundred dollars worth of new surgical instruments in order for the doctors to perform operations properly. That was one of the first things it was forced to do on assuming charge of its business affairs and the next thing it was compelled to do was to buy new bedding for all patients above eight or ten.
The hospital being far short on surgical instruments it was no wonder that one of the lady patients labored under the impression that the doctor rushed down stairs into the kitchen after the butcher knife and after a big pair of tailor's shears, which she thought he used while performing an operation on her.
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.
"THE LYNCHING BEE AND OTHER POEMS" have a bag or two of feathers, and mean only to tar and feather him?
By William Ellery Leonard
(Published by B. W. Huebsh, Inc., New York. Price with postage, $1.60.) William Ellery Leonard, the author of this volume, is a college professor now at the University of Wisconsin, a man of wide education and learning. He has translated Lucretius and Beowolf, has written upon Socrates and Shakespeare and many other great figures in literature. He has published a number of volumes of his own poetry.
A man familiar with European thought as well as with that of England and his own country, it is interesting to note that in this, his last book, he sings of America's most terrible sin, the crime of lynching. And every time a man of this calibre turns upon his own race and shows it is in its baset aspect, we need to note and give thanks. For, after all, it is only when a race criticises itself that much good comes of the criticism.
"The Lynching Bee" appeared first in the Nation and has now become the title poem for a volume of verse. It takes its place among twenty pieces each voicing some human wrong. They are in five groups. The first, "By Fire and Rope," contains "The Lynching Bee," "Leo Frank," and "A War Movie," describing the baiting of a German-American woman. The second, "By Court and Decree," contains "Tom Mooney," "Debs" and others. And the last three sections are grim war pictures of the sufferings alike of the soldier and the conscientious objector. The whole volume portrays a passionate resentment against wrong, expressed with the artistry of the poet.
I reread "The Lynching Bee" last night and did not enjoy my dreams. It is an extraordinary poem, intensely modern, and yet lyrical in its expression. Here is no free verse enthusiast pouring out cadences, but a skilled rhymster, exquisitely precise in his use of words, who yet knows how to tell a story in verse that has more power to stir our vision than any moving picture. Nothing thrown on a screen could be more realistic or more full of suspense.
"Honk, honk," go the automobiles.
"Honk, honk!"
"They stop—they jerk—they chug—they back,
And in a monstrous ring they park,
With ghostly cones converging from the dark,
Upon a central tree all split and black,
Whose limbs and leaves are covered out of sight
In the eternity of night."
Then they bring their victim:
"A bandy-legged 'Nigger,' Quite jerky, but all silent down inside."
The poet suggests that perhaps they do not mean to lynch the boy after all. Perhaps they will just play with him, and he recites all the buffoonery that the white man loves to show off in the black, the wagging of ears, the wrinkling of scalp, the butting of a thick skull against a tree trunk.
Then they tie him against a tree, stripped, and smear him with hot tar. And again you are held in suspense with the question that perhaps they
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have a bag or two of feathers, and mean only to tar and feather him?
But no.
"With rags, and straw, and sticks, and other toys,
In run the women-folk and girls and boys."
And last comes the mother, the mother of the dead child, who is to light the match. She looks into the black face!
"And the two glare and glare
At one another
In two eternities of hate and pain,
Yet with such monstrous union in despair
Such hideous sameness in their haggard shapes,
The one, the other,
That you would say the twain
Seemed like a savage sister and twin brother
Dying of hunger out among the apes."
For what Leonard shows is not an innocent Negro but a criminal, neglected creature, made a brute by his surroundings. And when at length, we hear the boy's shrieks, the poet retails the agony of the life of the African and brought to this land.
"The human ladings at the western coast,
The slave-ship, and the storm at sea,
* * *
The million sweats, the million bloody whips,
The million ankles, festering in a cord—
The unborn baby still between the hips,
The bent gray 'head along the rice-
swamp, humming,
'O Massa Gawd, I'm coming.'"
At last the victim dies, the motor cars back around the embers, and you are left with the whites, "wolves or wolf-like things," pawing in the cinders, and snatching a bit of rib or skull or crup.
"They wrap them up
And foot it off and down the road,
Past the weasel, skunk, and toad,
The barnyard rat,
The hooting owl and the whirring
bat."
"I can't read such a poem," many
people say. And this is the poet's
answer, the answer that we all like
to make when we are confronted with
terrible things that we should remedy:
It makes your eyes in their sockets ache,
O squeamish listener, but think
It's all a midnight dream, and no one is awake;
And in the morning, with the bob-o-link.
And the magnolia blossoms, white and pink."
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JOHN McGILLEN & CO.
Security Bonds—Casualty Insurance
Interest in a client's welfare doesn't cease w
t of premium. We frequently have b
service to patrons in general business
Representing Assets Over Eleven Millions
105 South La Salle Street
Central 4287 CHI
Kenwood 1233
B. CLITHERO & CO.
REAL ESTATE
J. B. CLITHERO & CO.
REAL ESTATE
Renting, Insurance, Mortgage Loans
7 West 51st Street
Notary Public CHICA
Notary Public
Notary Publici
Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence,
4751 Champlain Avenue
Phone Kenwood 5611
Office Phones: Main 10
W. G. Ande
Attorney At
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW
Suite 708—184 W. Washington St.
CHICAGO
Dollar
Same Price in 1922 and
What else do you pay the price you pay—and, whether for re-heating, laundry work or heating purpose in home
You Can Do It By
Call, or write at TELEPHONE W
The Peoples Gas L
Michigan Avenue
Vote for Matt
Republican Candidate for Re-the Sanitary District
PRIMARIES TUES
Polls Open 6 A.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN
Vote for James
Republican Candidate for Re-the Sanitary District
PRIMARIES TUES
Polls Open 6 A.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN
Beautiful Mount
The Coming Cemetery of the Mount Glenwood Cemetery, located on villages of Thornton and Glenwood, contains land which has been improved and (620,000) Dollars, which improvements ways, trees, shrubbery, three sets of ornamental's quarters with modern improvements, adding greatly to the natural beauty rounded by a County Forest Preserve, natural beauty of those tracts.
Dollar GAS
The Price in 1922 as It Was in 1905?
What else do you buy TODAY?
the price you paid in 1905?
And, whether for room heating, washing, laundry work or almost any kind of purpose in home, store or fact?
You Can Do It Better With C
Call, or write and ask us.
TELEPHONE WABASH 60000
The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co
Michigan Avenue at Adams Street
Vote for Matt. A. Mueller
American Candidate for Re-Nomination for Trust
the Sanitary District of Chicago
PRIMARIES TUESDAY, APRIL 11
Polls Open 6 A. M. to 4 P. M.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN VOTE FOR MR. MUELLE
Vote for James H. Lawley
American Candidate for Re-Nomination for Trust
the Sanitary District of Chicago
PRIMARIES TUESDAY, APRIL 11
Polls Open 6 A. M. to 4 P. M.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN VOTE FOR MR. LAWLEY
Beautiful Mount Glenwood
The Coming Cemetery of Chicago and Cook Co.
Glenwood Cemetery, located on the C. & E. I. Railroad,
Thornton and Glenwood, contains one hundred and three acre
lands which have been improved as an extension of Two Hundred
Dollars, which improvements consist of landscaping, mui,
shrubbery, three sets of ornamental iron gates, a chapel,
quarters with modern improvements. Thorn Creek runs through
greatly to the natural beauty of the grounds. The com-
munity a County Forest Preserve, and thereby receives the b
beauty of those tracts.
Dollar GAS
Same Price in 1922 as It Was in 1905 What else do you buy TODAY at the price you paid in 1905? and, whether for room heating, water heating, laundry work or almost any kind of heating purpose in home, store or factory
Call, or write and ask us. TELEPHONE WABASH 6000 The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Michigan Avenue at Adams Street
Vote for Matt. A. Mueller
Republican Candidate for Re-Nomination for Trustee of
the Sanitary District of Chicago
PRIMARIES TUESDAY, APRIL 11
Polls Open 6 A. M. to 4 P. M.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN VOTE FOR MR. MUELLER
Vote for James H. Lawley
Republican Candidate for Re-Nomination for Trustee of
the Sanitary District of Chicago
PRIMARIES TUESDAY, APRIL 11
Polls Open 6 A. M. to 4 P. M.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN VOTE FOR MR. LAWLEY
Beautiful Mount Glenwood
It is now proposed by officers of the
bank to sell the lot for $50.00 each, and
lots for the flat price of $50.00 each, in
instend of $75.00 and upwards, as hereto-
fore. These lots are to be sold on the
installment plan. The purchaser will pay
$10.00 down upon the signing of the
contract and $10.00 or more per month un-
died for the last ten years. The addition
to title to the lot the purchaser
shall each receive two shares of stock
for such lot purchased by the stock
stock is now being sold for $15 per
MOUNT GLENWOOD CO.
3128 SOUTH 2
COUNT GLENWOOD CEMETARY ASSOCIATION
3125 SOUTH STATE STREET
MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETARY ASSOCIATION
3125 SOUTH STATE STREET
CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922
ALLEN & CO.
Insualty Insurance
fare doesn't cease with the
frequently have been of
in general business lines.
Over Eleven Millions
Salle Street
CHICAGO
ERO & CO.
STATE
CHICAGO
Office Phones: Main 1612, 1854
W. G. Anderson
Attorney-At-Law
Notary Public
184 W. Washington St., Cor. Wells
Suite 603, Firmenich Bldg.
Residences: 3354 Vernon Avenue
Phone Douglas 6045
J. GRA
ATTORNEY
129 E.
Phone:
GAS
Was It Was in 1905
buy TODAY at
paid in 1905?
boom heating, water
or almost any kind of
home, store or factory
Better With Gas
and ask us.
WABASH 6000
Light & Coke Co.
At Adams Street
St. A. Mueller
Nomination for Trustee of
District of Chicago
SDAY, APRIL 11
M. to 4 P. M.
VOTE FOR MR. MUELLER
James H. Lawley
Nomination for Trustee of
District of Chicago
SDAY, APRIL 11
M. to 4 P. M.
VOTE FOR MR. LAWLEY
Count Glenwood
Chicago and Cook County
the C. & E. I. Railroad, between the
one hundred and three acres, more or
an expanse of Two Hundred Thousand
consist of landscaping, macadam road-
mental iron gates, a chapel, and superin-
ents. Thorn Creek runs through the com-
ney of the grounds. The cemetery is sur-
rounded thereby receives the benefit of the
share. The lot owners will have a double
interest in the property, that of lot
owner and that of stockholder.
As a part of the revenue of the company about $1.50 per year will be collected for watering the lots and cutting the grass for the purpose of keeping the cemetery in first-cause condition. This is not charged by other cemeteries for like services.
It cannot be too strongly emphasized and borne in mind that while the commemorative attractive in the City of Chicago and its environs, yet the price of $50.00, not to include the stock bonus, which is easily represented about $2 per cent of the selling of lots in the average cemetery.
Do not fall to secure one of these choice lots while they last. It is the coming Oak Woods of comerces in this city. Every family and household should own a lot, thereby providing for the future for our bereaved ones just as we do in everything else.
Agents will call and see you upon request and will provide full information. Call the office by phone, Victory 6254, or visit our office at 3123 South State street.
Come and select a choice lot while you can.
EMETARY ASSOCIATION
STATE STREET
A. D. GASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
118 N. La Salle Street
CHICAGO
Residence Telephone
3342 Calumet Ave. Douglas 1278
JAMES G. COTTER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
145 NORTH CLARK STREET
SUITE 407
Telephone Central 8384
CHICAGO
Formerly
Assistant Attorney General
State of Illinois
Res. 3646 Grand Boul.
Doug. 4397
J. GRAY LUCAS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
129 E. 31ST STREET
Suite 16-17
Phone: Douglas 6381
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
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.
PHONE KENWOOD 455
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
UNDERTAKER
5121 ERNEST H.WILLIAMSON UNDERTAK
GARAGE
GASOLINE OIL
OPEN DAY & 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.
Wanted
West Englewood Trust & Savings Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $500,000.00
OFFICERS
OFFICERS
John Bain, President Arthur C. Utesch, Ass
Michael Maisel, Vice-Pres. W. Merle Fisher, Ass
Edw. C. Barry, Cashier and Tru
The Cranford Ap
3600 WABASK
The finest building ever opened to
Steam heat, electric lights, til
Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey,
Cranford Apartment
3600 WABASH AVENUE
building ever opened to Colored tenants
heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble e
263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. W.
The Cranford Apartment Bldg.
The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance
FUNERAL DIRECTO
CORAL DIRECTORS
ICERS
Arthur C. Utesch, Asst. Cashier
W. Merle Fisher, Asst. Cashier
and Trust Officer