The Broad Ax

The Crowe-Brundage Combination Won Out at the Primaries Tuesday, Routing Hon. Charles S. Deneen, and the Other Hidden Forces, Who Attempted to Oppose Their Onward March. HON. CHARLES RINGER WITH THE GREAT AID OF THE BROAD AX PUT HON. WALLACE G. CLARK TO FLIGHT AND MR. RINGER, AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, WAS NOMINATED FOR TREASURER OF COOK COUNTY WITH TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY THOUSAND MAJORITY AT HIS BACK. HON. PETER M. HOFFMAN, AFTER A ROYAL BATTLE, DEFEATED H. C. W. LAUBENHEIMER FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY. THE BROAD AX WAS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE COLORED RACE IN THIS CITY TO ASSIST TO FIGHT FOR MR. HOFFMAN TO THE LAST DITCH AND FOLLOW HIM ON TO VICTORY. HON. JAMES M. DAILEY ROUTED HON. JOHN E. TRAEGER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY AND HON. PATRICK J. CARR HAD NO TROUBLE WHATEVER ON HIS HANDS IN WINNING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR COUNTY TREASURER. Read The Broad Ax and be happy VOL. XXVII. The Crown Primaries and the Opposes HON. CHARLES R. GREAT AID OF PUT HON. WALLI FLIGHT AND REPUBLICAN NOMINATED FOR COOK COUNTY FIVE TO THIRT JORITY AT HIS HON. PETER M. HOWYAL BATTLE W. LAUBENHEIM PUBLICAN NO SHERIFF OF COBROAD AX WAS PAPER PUBLISHED EST OF THE CITY TO FOR MR. HOFFMAN DITCH AND FOR VICTORY. HON. JAMES M. HON. JOHN E. DEMOCRATIC SHERIFF OF COBHON. PATRICK TROUBLE WHAT HANDS IN WIN CRATIC NOMINATY TREASURED Tuesday, April 11, will be long remembered by all the statesmen and would-be statesmen residing in this city, county and throughout the state of Illinois, for on that day many of them were unhorsed, very suddenly, and were forced to bite the political dust and some of the would-be statesmen who went down to defeat will never be able to break back into the political game. At this writing, with the returns still incomplete, there is still some doubt on the part of some of the candidates who claim that they have been nominated and others who are seemingly defeated. Several things are dead sure, however, and among them are that Hon. Charles Ringer, after a very bitter fight with the great aid of The Broad Ax, defeated Hon. Wallace G. Clark, for the Republican nomination for treasurer of Cook County, and Hon. Peter M. Hoffman, who after a red hot royal battle, easily defeated H.C. W. Laubenheimer, the Deneen candidate for sheriff, and be it remembered that The Broad Ax was the only newspaper published in the interest of the colored people in this city which manfully fought the hand to hand battle for Mr. Hoffman to the last ditch. The Chicago Defender, no doubt for so much gold, with its brazen face stood by Hon. Wallace G. Clark and endeavored to ram him and H.C. W. Laubenheimer down the throats of the decent and self respecting colored people residing in this city and Cook County. COUNTY TICKET WINNERS The following Republican and Democrat candidates won out in this city and county: Republican Sheriff, Peter M. Hoffman; County Treasurer, Charles Ringer; President County Board, Charles S. Peterson; County Judge, Frank S. Righeimer; Probate Judge, Jerome J. Crowley; County School Superintendent, Orville T. Bright, Jr.; County Clerk, Berger Loman; Probate Clerk, John F. Devine; Clerk Criminal Court, Wil- lian R. Parker; Board of Review, Edward R. Litsinger; Assessor, George K. Schmidt; Sanitary Trustees, James H. Lawley, Matthias Mueller, Charles J. Peters; County Commissioners (City), Charles S. Peterson, Charles N. Goodnow, Tom Murray, Borgen O. Borgerson, Helen M. Bennett, Thomas A. Boyer, Emily Washburn Dean, Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, Joseph Esposito, J. R. Palandech; County Commissioners (Country Towns), William Busse, George A. Miller, William H. Penfield, Dudley D. Pierson. Democratic Sheriff, Jarves M. Dailey; County Treasurer, Patrick J. Carr; President County Board, _____; County Judge, Edmund K. Jarecki; Probate Judge, Henry Horner, County School Superintendent, Edwin J. Tobin; County Clerk, Robert M. Switzer; Probate Clerk, Heary A. Zender; Clerk Criminal Court, John P. Gibbons; Board of Review, Ulysses S. Swartz; Assessor, M. K. Sheridan; Sanitary Trustees, T. J. Crowe, Michael Rosenberg, James M. Whalen; County Commissioners (City), _____; Joseph M. Fitzgerald, Daniel Ryan, Emmett Whealan, Maurice F. Kavanagh, Barthely Burg, John Budinger, Joseph A. Mendel, Frank J. Wilson, Albert Nowak; County Commissioners (Country Towns), Frank J. Novak, Joseph F. Triska, William McGurn, James G. Wolcott, Mrs. Elizabeth Schroyer. HELD JOSEPHUS DANIEL'S REET TO THE FIRE The very remarkable speech made by Dr. George C. Hall at the unveiling of the Dr. Booker T. Washington monument at Tuskegee is the preface to another advanced chapter in the aggressive fearlessness of the Negro in America. "Dr. Booker T. Washington," he said, "never subscribed to the doctrine, any doctrine of Negro inferiority." In next week's issue there will be a treatment of Dr. Hall's speech from the writer's pen. M. Re-Nominated for Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois. He Received Six Votes, to Every One Cast for His Opponent. "THE COURIER" GETS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY Newspaper Scoop of Daily Papers Gives Only One Side—Investigation Reveals New Facts of Startling Nature All Pittsburgh and vicinity was stirred the other day when a great head line appeared purporting to be the truth about a white woman living in slavery and captivity in a Negro home. The Courier sent out for the truth of the matter and the white woman told us her side of the story. If the truth is ever told at any time by a white woman it is when she is arrested with Negroes and accused of being intimate with them, either socially or criminally. At the hearing before Morals Court, it was developed that the white woman, a Mrs. Margaret Wyles, has had a past. Her past was revealed to the Court and the curious ones standing near to hear. Onite a past, too. It seems that she is the mother of a child by the man Henry Washington, colored, who was accused of keeping her a "prisoner," according to The Post. There was almost an admission that she had another child by Washington at a later date. This was not shown to be the real situation. When she was quick with her first child to Washington, her husband, white, charged her with being intimate with some one, not knowing about Washington, and as a result, it is said the white man deserted his white wife. This left Mrs. Wyles on the public. Her white friends turned her out, it was shown at the hearing, and she went back to Washington's house for skelter. It was stated that Washington had to call in his wife and explain his relations with the white woman. The colored wife, after hearing the troubles of her husband, consented to have the white woman, about to become a mother, stay at the Washington home. The child is said to have been born there. After a few years, the white woman left the Washington house, but she found her own people against her, and she shifted for herself for about HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN two years and then went back to the Washington house for shelter. The Washington people took her back again, and she has been there ever since. Sister-in-Law Squeals. It was shown at the hearing that the sister-in-law squealed. The sister of Mr. Wyles reported that a "white woman was being detained by Negroes." The officers found the woman at Washington's house, and the arrest followed. The woman said at the time of her arrest that she was not a prisoner; that she was staying there because the colored people were giving her a home, something her own, people would not do. But the officers insisted that she was a prisoner, and the Post published a great "story" about Negroes holding prisoner some white woman. Man No Hypnotist It was even hinted that the woman was being held by the Negroes under some hypnotic power of the man, Washington. The fact that Washington wears ear-rings, and he lost one during the scuffle, made the reporters of the Post think he was a hypnotist, it is said. This accounts for the "spell" the white woman had been under. It was a different "spell" if the story told is true. Washington is the father of three children by his wife, and if he is the father of the two children the white woman is supposed to have birthed, and could by any possible means keep the two women under the same roof and keep them from fighting about him, he is better than a hypnotist. Locks of Gate Mr. Washington had locks on his fence, but because he has a horse, a few pigs, some chickens and several dogs of "royal blood" living within his gates, and not for the purpose of preventing the white woman from escaping. The house is said to be clean, the floors having been worn thin from the constant use of the scrub brush. There is everything to be found in Washington's yard, from a horseshoe to a wagon bed, because Washington is in the hauling business, and picks up everything he sees lying loose. Outside of keeping two women and fathering too many children without a license, Washington is allright.—From The Courier, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 8, 1922. Brother Washington must be alright for he seems to be able to boss and manage one colored lady and one white lady at the same time.—Editor. WHITE PREACHER IS DEAD SET AGAINST LYNCHING Atlanta, Ga.—Reverend C. M. Leadbetter, white, a Methodist minister of Hawkinsville, is the object of considerable interest and some illwill because of his stand on Lynching. Mr. Leadbetter considers lynching a national evil, resulting from a diseased state of mind and deplores the fact that almost all discussions of it treats it either as a local, political, or racial matter. Undoubtedly these latter are factors increasing or decreasing the number of lynchings, but the foundation rests in a disregard for law, growing out of passion and sanctioned by public opinion. So Mr. Leadbetter very logically concludes that the first and big job is to educate and influence public opinion. His plan is the formation of a bureau on lynching, supported by the state, which should conduct essay and oratorical contests on the subject, "How to Prevent Lynching" in elementary and high schools. These essays would be given publicity in the newspapers, and the persons participating in the contests would naturally interest their friends and relatives, in this way stimulating the consideration of the subject in its general aspects, without the passion which a particular case would carry with it. He recommended that a start be made with Georgia, since the number there exceeded that of other states. BOOK CHAT "THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY" Chosen and edited with an essay on the Negro's creative genius by James Weldon Johnson. Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. Price $1.75, with postage, $1.85. A Book of American Negro Poetry! How many of us have been longing for this, and now that we can snuggle the smooth, attractive volume in our hands, how satisfying the feeling is! We wait a little to open the book, so pleasant is it just to realize its existence. When we do open it the inside justifies our anticipation. Here are many favorites, poems that have appeared in current magazines, in slim volumes of verse. The earliest Negro writers are notled in the preface and the book begins with Paul Laurence Dunbar. When we have finished, have read through to the end, we turn back to Dunbar. Unquestionably he has as yet no rival. Mr. Johnson compares him to Burns, an apt comparison. There is the same poignant appeal in the two poets, through the speech of peasant people, to the very simple things of life. You hear it in Dunbar's death song. "Let me settle w'en my shouldahs draps dye load Nigh enough to hyeah de noises in de road; Fu' I tink de last long res' knowed. Campbell, Davis, Holloway, Dandridge are all represented in dialect poems but they stand below Dunbar. One dialect piece, however, Claude McKay's "Two and Six," seems to me on a level with our own poet's work "Two and Six" is in the dialect of the Jamaica Negro and describes the father returning from market, where his sugar brought only two shillings, six pence, unable to take any little gift back to his wife and children. "No e'en buy a little cake To gi'e baby when she wake, .Passin' long de candy shop 'Douten eben mak a stop To buy drops fe las'y son For de illly cash nea done. We may roughly note three types of poetry in the volume—the dialect, the poems of oppression, noting the load under which the Negro labors, and the very modern verse. There are other delightful bits like the Vers de Societe of Jessie Fauset's, and Braithwaite's verse. Braithwaite, however, is not at his best. His lyrics are poorly represented, whereas, no American poet has written lovelier simple lyric songs. I understand that Mr. Braithwaite does not care for his earlier poetry, but an artist is the last person wisely to judge his own work. Among the poems of oppression are Leslie Pinckney Hill's, Joseph F. Cotter Jr.s., and Roscoe C. Jamison's Negro Soldiers. "These truly are the brave, These men who cast aside Old memories to walk the blood-stained pave Of sacrifice." Finest of all, Cotter's question to the white man. "Brother come! And let us go unto I mock no peoples, my people are mocked. And, brother, what shall you say?" The modern verse is 'of special interest because it is a new venture and sometimes a powerful one. Some of it is free verse, some not, but it is all influenced by the new school that speaks of things which the Victorian age held in taboo. Fenton Johnson belongs here with his "Tired." Claude McKay (here is a man who gives promise of being a great poet), and Anne Spencer. Especially noteworthy is Anne Spencer's "At the Carnival" with her tribute to The Little Girl of the Diving Tank. "I have seen the queer in queer places 5 CENTS per copy No. 30 at the Deneen, pted to But never before a heaven-fed Naiad of the Carnival-Tank! Little diver, Destiny for you. Like as for me, is shod in silence; Years may seep into your soul The bacilli of the usual and the exp- pendent; I implore Neptune to claim his child today." It would be easy to go on quoting for many columns, but such as is left me, must be given to an appreciation of the Preface, the Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius. Mr. Johnson has written a Bernard Shaw preface, 48 pages long, in which he tells many things to the public. He reviews early Negro poetry, giving due note to Phyllis Wheatley. Frances E. Harper and others. He tells us at the start that there is but one measure of a people's greatness, the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. And he then goes on to say that "the Negro is the Creator of the only things artistic that have yet sprung from American soil and been universally acknowledged as distin- tive American products." These creations are summed up under four heads: the Uncle Remus stories, the "spirituals," the cakewalk, and ragtime. And as Mr. Johnson goes on to expiate on these contributions one is not only convinced by his argument but charmed by his manner of presentation. He makes little digressions into his own personal experiences, enforces his contention with bits of music, the Memphis Blues or "Go down Moses" and shows us how ragtime and the cakewalk "Came, saw and conquered" not only this continent but Europe. His preface is important in itself and whets our desire to read the poems that follow. "What the colored poet in the United States needs to do," Mr. Johnson says, in speaking on dialect, is something like what Syngge did for the Irish; he needs to find a form that will express the racial spirit by symbols from within rather than by symbols from without, such as the mere mutilation of English spelling and pronunciation." To a reader who always flounders through dialect this is welcome news. There is poetic material in abundance among the Negroes in the United States. How to bring it out so that the reader will feel its beauty and poignancy, as we feel the beauty and poignancy of modern Irish poetry, should be a delightful task, for Mr. Johnson himself has done this in his poem, "Creation, A Negro Sermon." Here is the poetry that is waiting for you young poets to pick up by the wayside and to give to us. The author of "The Creation" heard a Negro preacher, ignorant, uncouth perhaps, but with an imagination that touched the stars. And the poet who heard responded, giving the spirit of the preacher in deeper, more artistic form. And there the great God Almighty Who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky, Who flung the stars to the most far corner of the night. Who rounded the earth in the middle of his hand; This great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay, Til he shaped it in his own image; Then into it he blew the breath of life, And man became a living soul. Amen, Amen. MADAM M. CALLAWAY BYRON RETURNS HOME FROM A LONG RECITAL TOUR OF THE WEST AND SOUTH-WEST On Friday, Madam M. Callaway Byron, 3300 Rhodes avenue, and her daughter, Miss Nellie Byron, returned home from a four months' successful song recital tour of many parts of the West and Southwest. The Madam and Miss Nellie are both looking exceedingly fine. The Late Judge John E. Owens [Name] HON. PATRICK J. CARR Nominated for Treasurer of Cook County Who Will Put Up a Stiff Fight to Be Elected This Coming Fall THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Subscriptions must be paid in ad- One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 April 15, 1922 Vol. XXVII. No. 30 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111. Under Act of March 8, 1879. The Late Last Friday morning former County-Judge John Edward Owens passed away at the family home, 3335 Warren Ave., after a long spell of sickness, combined with pneumonia. At the bedside when the end came were the former judge's two brothers and two sisters, William and Frank Owens and the Misses Eleanore and Ida Owens. They had been there all through the night. William Owens flashed word of the death all over Chicago. It traveled quickly to scores of judges on all the benches, to lawyers, to business men and to some who had attended school with him. His aged mother, Mrs. Owens, whom he was very much devoted to, closed her eyes in death about one year ago. The following short sketch of his remarkable strides forward in all of the affairs of life in this great city is reproduced from the Christmas or the Holiday edition of The Broad Ax, December 22, 1917: "Hon. John E. Owens has within a very short period of time forced himself to the front as one of the most eminent lawyers in Chicago, and almost every hour in the day some of his many tried and true friends as well as many prominent politicians are urging him to enter the race for mayor of Chicago in 1919. "Judge John Edward Owens was born in this city on the Northwest Side June 22, 1875, where he spent his boyhood days. Since becoming of --- A. He Was One of the Most Popular Lawyers and Citizens in Chicago. From August 1, 1899, Down to the Day of His Death, He Was a Constant Supporter of This Newspaper and He Was a Warm Friend of Its Editor. age he has resided on the West Side in the Thirteenth ward. He resides at 3335 Warren avenue with his dearly beloved mother, Mrs. Owens, and two sisters and two brothers. He received his early education at St Stephens Parochial School and at St Patricks Academy, Christian Brothers. He pursued law studies at night, graduating from Lake Forest University, and was admitted to the Illinois bar, May 1, 1896. "Shortly after being admitted to the bar he was selected one of the assistant prosecuting attorneys of Chicago, his salary being $65 per month. Honorably serving in that capacity until he was elected city attorney of Chicago and served from 1901 to 1903. While in this office he destroyed the "ring" which through personal injury damage suits had muted the city of hundreds of thousands of dollars. "He was appointed master in chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook County, December 1, 1904, by Judge Edward Osgood Brown. He was elected judge of the County Court, November, 1910, for a four-year term, which expired shortly after December 1, 1914. He is a member of the following organizations: Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Knights of Columbus, Foresters, Loyal Order of Moose, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Irish Fellowship Club, Chicago Yacht Club, Pistakee Yacht Club, Gaelic League, United Irish Societies, and he has served with distinction as the first vice-president of the County and Probate Judges' Association of the State of Illinois. CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY, AP RIL 15, 1922 "Judge Owens has the distinguished honor of being one of the most handsome bachelors in this city. He occupies an extensive suite of law offices on the fourteenth floor of the Conway building and his clients are numbered among the best citizens of Chicago." Funeral services were held over his remains at his late home Monday morning, to Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic church, Albany St. and Jackson Blvd., the services being conducted by the Rev. Father A. M. Quigley, O. S. M., assisted by Rev. Father V. M. Healy and by Rev. Father Stephen B. Sullivan, and his remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Calvary cemetery. The following were the active and honorary pallbearers and prominent citizens who attended his funeral: The active pallbearers were William J. Healy, John W. Beckwitt, William H. Stuart, George Kersten, John Courtney and Edward Richter. The honorary pallbearers were Judges Frank S. Righeimer, Theodore Brentano, M. L. McKinley, William E. Dever, Kickham Scanlan, John R. Caverly, Charles A. McDonald, Francis S. Wilson, Frank Johnston, Jr., Marcus Kavanagh, Thomas J. Lynch, John J. Mooney, John K. Prindville, Bernard P. Barasa, William L. Morgan, Wells M. Cook, John Newcomer. Ex-Governor Edward F. Dunne, William L. O'Connell, Oscar F. Mayer, Maclay Hoyne, Roy D. Keehn, Robert E. Crowe, William R. Parker, Edward Osgood Brown, Robert M. Sweitzer, Patrick J. Carr, Anton J. Cermak, Charles C. Fitzmorris, John P. Moran, Jos. F. Haas, Chas. H. Wacker, William H. Sexton, James McAndrews, John H. McKay, Capt Edward Maher, Judge Geo. F. Rush, Judge Joseph Sabath, Judge David M. Brothers, Judge George Kersten, Judge Denis W. Sullivan, Judge C. A. MacDonald, Judge Harry Olson, Judge Samuel H. Trude, Judge John J. Rooney, Harry Brown, Mark Mac Namara, Robert E. Turney, Frank N. Moore, E. L. Richter, Hugh O'Neill, John Courtney, William McCabe, Frank J. Hogan, Michael B. Morris, Harry A. Riley. Hon. Frank S. Righeimer closed the County Court all day Monday out of respect to the memory of Judge Owens. Judge Owens was one of our best and earliest friends in Chicago prior to being selected city attorney of Chicago away back in 1899, 1900 and 1901 his professional card appeared in the columns of this newspaper year in and year out and when he was elected Judge of the County Court in 1910, he gave us the undisputed right to place one colored man in the Board of Election Commissioner's office at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month and L. W. Washington was selected solely by us for that position. Judge Owens, also on our recommendation, appointed several colored men and women as judges and clerks of elections in the various precincts on the South Side, for he was the first County Judge to place women on the same level with the men in that respect. May his soul find favor in the sight of his Heavenly Father, for all time By Dr. M. A. Majors The great public libraries are full of books that tell the student who reads what kind of people we are. When have you been down to get a book to read more extensively about the great people of your own race? Did you know that every great nation in Europe can boast of its own great Negroes? You can very well be proud and stick out your chest even if we had produced only Phyllis Wheatley, Pushkin, Dumas, General Dobbs, Frederick Douglass, Edmonia Lewis, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Perhaps the greatest thing our race could do would be to organize reading clubs in every city to study the history of the colored race. Of course people who do not know much about any thing care but very little about anybody. But we are an intelligent people and we should know all of the greatest forces that have given the race distinction in one form or another. Henry O. Tanner, the great artist, and S. Coleridge Taylor, the great musician, Joseph Douglass, the great violinist, this should be upon the lips of our children. Knowledge like this makes them straighten up and flare back into the faces of adversaries in bold defiance and indifference of their kind. There are a thousand wonderful questions and answers that are to be written about this wonderful race of yours and mine. Some of us must make diligent researches in the great archives of the world's progress, and claim every particle of credit that is ours by right of blood. We have got to strike deeply in the pages of history acquainting ourselves with its richest truths that tell of all the great things we have worked for, struggled for, fought for, and died for. Do you want to know the great men and women of your own blood? Then go to the libraries and seek to know the truth about Pushkin, about General Dobbs of France, S. Coleridge Taylor, Henry O. Tanner, Booker T. Washington. Learn all that there is to know about the people of your own race and it will make you hold your head just a bit higher, and carry your shoulders a little farther back, and your chest farther out than your chin. WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? By Dr. M. A. Majors It is such a pity that people as a rule even in very exclusive circles, people who have enjoyed university training give so much time to the frivolous and worthless things. The cultivation of the intellect, reading good books, acquainting oneself with necessary detail, studying history, the drama, philosophy, a little chemistry, a little botany, a little metaphysics, perusing the great writings of the greatest writers is such a privilege, and from such momentary delights the noblest nature grows, and feeds on intellect ambrosia and fattens. The future of the colored race depends upon the kind of men and women we are today. If we are intellectually fit, and strive for the high mark of excellence then it follows that as the night the day our children will achieve much in the wake of excellencies in every thing we study to learn and know. Today seems to have caught everyone in the fringes of gaudy gloss. The beauty of thought seems to have become discredited by lazy minds who struggle for reputations around a card table, or on the ball room floor. If a worthy man should aspire to win the hand of a winsome lady, where in the devil could he go now days to look for her, who by every high incentive is to become the mother of his children? Conclusive seizures seem to have gotten the very best of us by the throat, and so numbed our moral stamina that we do not think of virtue any more as being the Gibraltar of our homes and firesides. We are becoming noted as champion whist players and lovely dancers, without any serious regard for intellectual spirit which is the very bedrock to race nobility. But who cares a rap for the men and women from college, the great whist angel or the dancing demon wins the booby. We have got to get away from some of these delightful pastimes, and find pleasure where reward to noble endeavors invite our talents. We have got to revive some of the decencies and respectable notions which once painted for us beautiful landscapes, and lured us to things that our mothers taught us to strive for. The conduct of other races is not fit for us to follow, and even if we did it would prove only to be a mirage, leading us only to a hell of torture and despair. The church must ever be our great refuge. We've got to renew our covenants, and start anew our journey toward a better prospect than the fearful excitements that have not offered much else than silly foolishness and gaiety. The praise that is worthy is only attained by manly sense and dignity of mind. The gaudy gloss of fortune only strikes the vulgar eye. The three graces should be the bulwark of the race while the cultivation of the intellect should ever engage our noblest nature. KNOW YOUR NEEDS By Dr. M. A. Majors Wanting only what you need and getting it as you need it; Has some frills I reckon and society has decreed it; But getting always what you want instead of what you need. Hasn't got a single frill society has decreed. You may not need the things you want, your taste may get along. With only just the things you need or else you may go wrong. I used to think I needed this and that and so and so. Until I learned it was my needs and not my wants to know. People do not get the things they think they want so bad. It wouldn't do for selfishness always makes people sad. So it's better far I reckon to get first what you need. For what you want you'd have to wait always and not succeed. HAPPY MEETING After more than twenty years, M. T. Bailey of Chicago and Prof. Joseph T. Whiting, teacher at Tuskegee Institute, met a few days ago at Tuskegee where M. T. Bailey went to be present at the unveiling of a monument to the memory of the late Booker T. Washington. Bailey and Whiting were schoolmates at the V. N. & I. I. of Petersburg, Va., and members of the graduating class of that Institute in 1900. Prof. Whiting is in charge of the Smith-Hayes Department of the educational work of Tuskegee as well as throughout the State of Alabama. M. T. Bailey is engaged in the real estate business at 3638 South State street. CELEBRATES Star of East Council of A. U. K. & D. of A., of which Mrs. Ida Simmons is most excellent queen, celebrated its anniversary on April 6th with a program and reception at Johnson's Hall 35th and State streets. A fine showing was made and the most excellent queen was praised for the work which the Council has done. Among the speakers of the evening were Daughters Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois; Serila Jackson, Nellie Burbouge, representatives from the Juvenile Department, and Dr. Simmons. TO ATTEND DISPLAY Hon. William H. Fields of St. Louis, Mo., national grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A. is expected to be in the city on the 24th of April to be present at the military display and drill under the auspices of the Chicago Councils, Col. J. W. Hall and his staff, at Eighth Regiment Armory. Hon. Fields is now visiting Columbus, Ohio; Newport News, Va., and New York City. TO TOUR MICHIGAN Charles Satchell Morris, Jr., the youngest platform orator, a brilliant speaker, is in great demand and is to leave in'a few days for various cities in Michigan to speak. He recently returned from a ten days trip. Morris is a senior student at the University of Chicago and is stopping at 4450 Prairie avenue. COMING TO CITY Prof. Clement Richardson, president, The Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo., is expected in the city about April 27th to spend a few days with friends. The Lincoln Institute Club of which Hon. Walter M. Farmer, attorney, is president, is preparing to entertain Prof. Richardson during his stay in the city. MRS. MARTIN IMPROVED Mrs. Jennie Martin, 3556 State street, well known in fraternal organization is very much improved and able to be among her many friends after weeks of illness which has confined her to her bed and home. OFFICERS INSTALLED Officers of The Joint Building Association of U. B. F. & S. M. T. were installed on Sunday afternoon at Bailey's Hall, M. T. Bailey performing the ceremony. The association is forging ahead with J. B. Street as president. NOW OPEN The season of lot selling in Morgan Park is open and activities begun by The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State st. Almost any terms may be had for the purchasing of a home in this beautiful suburb by consulting representatives. 101 HON. CHARLES RINGER Nominated on the Republican Ticket for Treasurer of Cook County with the Great Aid of The Broad Ax. ARE YOU HAPPY? By Dr. M. A. Majors There must be a great deal of unhappiness in the world because we see so much criticism and general unrest among the people. The courts, the prisons, the reforms, and the manifestation of discontent, scruppulous ambitions to rise, inclinations to cheat, a dogged disposition to steal, aggravated and disgruntled impulses to go wrong, and to follow the downward path of sin and folly. Murder, lust, ugly touches of degradation in every fashion and form, spite, jealousies, the wrath of hate multiplied into a thousand hideous shapes, these all help tell how desperately the human heart is assaulted and marauded and by the ugly and miserable of human kind. Why should not every one be happy. There is more than enough of every good thing for every person in the world. If every person was on the same basis as to truth and right-ness there would be but very little misery and unhappiness in the world. It is the work of the church to bring about this happy condition. To blot out sin and iniquity and breathe a Christ love into the hearts of mortals. CERMAK GETS NUPTIAL KNOT TIED FOR COLORED COUPLE Believing that all aldermen are magistrates, a colored couple approached Ald. Anton J. Cermak in the aldermanic lounge Monday, presented their marriage license, and asked him to marry them. Cermak hurried to the council chamber, where a law enforcement meeting was in progress. He corralled the Rev. Howard Agnew Johnston, president of the Chicago Church federation, who married the couple, with Ald. Cermak, Olsen and Caspers as witnesses. It was enough to make an old he black tom cat real sick at the stomach to behold Old Uncle Tommy THE MEMORIAL R. A. HON. MICHAEL ROSENBERG Nominated for One of the Trustees of the Sanit Chicago. Nominated for One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago. standing up by the side of a colored couple waiting to get married. Col. Cermak, who has no love in his thirty-five dollar heart for colored people might as well put this one great truth in his thirty-five dollar pipe and smoke it, namely, that he never will be able to induce the better class of colored people to vote for him, even for Pound Master--Editor. BACK FROM TUSKEGEE The special party of Chicagoans who attended the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the late Booker T. Washington or University Institute, Ala., have returned to the city much pleased with the trip exercises held and the accommodations received at the Institute. Among those in this party were Doctors George Cleveland Hall, John W. Lewis, C. V. Dudley, G. A. Thompson, Bert Anderson, S. E. McDonaldson and Mrs. S. E. McDonaldson; Gentlemen: Claude A. Barnette, Negro Associated Press; John H. Weaver, Hogg Seeley; John B. Hawley, Ruben Brimm, A. L. Jackson, Chicago Defender; George R. Arthur, executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; E. Davidson Washington, Mrs. George W. Holt, Mrs. R. E. R. Cross; Missile Lilia McElroy, Stella Zimmerman, P. C. Vincent, R. B. Nichols, public school teachers of Gary, Ind.; M. T. Bailey, C. L. McKenzie, Col. W. R. Cowan, real estate brokers. BIG DOINGS AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY You are cordially invited to attend the Ladies Military Display and reception given by the various Councils of A. U. K. & D. of A. of Chicago and the First Regiment of Illinois under the command of Col. J. Wesley Hall which will be reviewed by Commander-in-Chief, William Herbert Fields, and Most Excellent Queens at the Eighth Regiment Armory, Monday evening, April 24th. Admission 50 cents. Good music.-Adv. A. A. tees of the Sanitary District of | ee MMR ee —— ee | : a : — | Se ZZ HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY ReNominated for One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago. ee A DAY AT THE URBAN |entosiasti members. Call at the LEAGUE League office, 3032 South Wabash Few people realize the number and variety of calls which come into the Urhan League in the course of a day. From early in the morning, when peo- ple in search of work crowd its wait- ing rooms, until closing time in the evening, scarcely five minutes will pass without a call either in person or by telephone. All sorts of human problems come through its doors. In the very recent past it has conducted one man to a place where he could have his eye troubles looked after, another through its instrumentality was put on the read to happiness when a friendly guide took him to a specialist in artifi- Gil limbs, where he received a brand nts ‘x Another discharged her Seed!) maid and called pon the Tearut for a “cheerful” maid An- other wanted a salesman to introduce 2 colet_prepagation en the South Sco Through the salesman we suc- cclrd in creating and Gilling places a denoastrators as well, Still-an- «called forvmgmme iookine eich, with long black hair’ 40 sit as 3 novel for an advertising cut. Also through the League, free books were pro- vided by a school for 2 boy whose mother was out of work. This does not include requests for information, use of social service, Brary, conferences, etc, which make » no small part of the day's work at the League. This is work well worth while. __ It is the Kind of work which is ask- ing the interest, co-operation, and dol- lars, of the public in its membership campaign, May Ist to 10th. Mr. J. RE. Lee, Extension Secretary of the National Urban League is to be in the city April 13th to conduct the drive. The Executive Secretary of the local League branch asks all who believe in this work to participate in this drive. Service on committees, services as solicitors, boosting the League in daily conversation, all are possible ways of spreading informa- tion about the service of the League and increasing’ its usefulness as well 2s gaining its goal of $10,000 from eee s Z <e i ee . a eg - 2 aes é “ 1 ee, é HON. ALBERT NOWAK Re-nominated for. Commissioner of Cool Re-nominated for Commissioner of Cook County enthusiastic members. Call at the League office, 3032 South Wabash Avenue or telephone Calumet 0710 what you will do. DO IT NOW WHILE PLANS ARE BEING LAID. DEATH OF JOHN H. MURPHY AT BALTIMORE, MD.; HE WAS 81 YEARS OLD The middle of this week John H. Murphey, editor and publisher of the Afro-American in that city, came to the end of the road here on this earth. He was more than 81 years old at the time of his death, and was very active almost right up to his last hour on earth. He was one of the most prominent colored masons in the United States. Editor Murphey served as first sergeant in the 30th regiment of Mary- land volunteers, serving with General Grant in the Wilderness and at Peters- burg, and with General Sherman in North Carolina when General John- ston surrendered his whole Confeder- ate army. Funeral services were held from Bethel A. M. E. Church, of which Mr. Murphy was a prominent lay member. JACK JOHNSON, THE FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, WILL SOON BE THE HEADLINER AT THE AVENUE THEATER Starting Sunday, April 23, Jack Jobnsog, the famous globe trotter, ex- champion heavyweight prize fighter of the world and his all star vaudeville company, will hold forth at The Avenue Theater, Indiana Ave. and Sist St. Alll seats will be reserved, at popu- lar prices. Mr. Tom Norman, mana- ger of the Avenue Theater, hras been pulling some great and wonderful at- tractions to it, recently, and the thea- ter has been filled up chick ablock, to capacity houses, at each perform- ance and the moving pictures, in con- nection with the five big vaudeville acts or other novelties are all right ap to snuff. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE CRACK TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, CAME IN CONTACT WITH HON. AND MRS. JULIUS ROSENWALD AT THE UN- VEILING OF THE MONUMENT TO THE LATE DR. BOOKER T. WASH- _ INGTON AT TUSKEGEE INSTI- TUTE, ALABAMA. See, a ae ee and Mr. Rosenwald is making the Proper distribution of the money and rendering unto God the service and at the same time blessing humanity, and thousands of little children through the south can testify that this is true, and as they develop into manhood and womanhood they will praise ithe mame of Julius Rosenwald who ‘will never die, but will live on and on for the service he has rendered unto the people. In the statement to which I have put my name is expressed my opinion of one of the greatest men I have met since I have been in this part of the world and since God said “Let there be light” and it was done. “I am reminded in this that God don’t make mistakes but He knows human- ity, and selects the men He wants to use henee more of them should get where God can use them. T shave been hearing and hearing about Mr. Rosenwald, and I thought that he was a man that you could not reach with a ladder a thousand feet long, that he would have four or five private and other kind of secre- taries who would ask “What do you want to sec him about?” and then tell you it can't be done. You see where T am as I write you these few lines? Well, I came here to be at the une veiling of the mopument which I have been talking about before today or other days, for you have been reading what I said and how I said it. After the drill Monday afternoon, I noticed. a crowd of men around a little clean faced man who seemed full of life and as friendly as men get to be, hence .I sought to know who he was, and Dr. George C. Hall gave me an introduction to the friend- ly character, and to my surprise he extended his hand and expressed pleasure in meeting me. “Sure this is not that wealthy man, Julius Rosenwald I have been read- ing about,” I said to myself. and thought for a while that Dr. Hall was rying to play a practical joke on me, put it was not long before I dis- covered that he was not, and I wanted 1 shake again, but would not ask his, but just decided not to wash hat hand for a week, because it had yen in the hand of the man who had -ontributed so much for the Y. M. C. A. buildings throughout the coun- ry, the benefit of which is being en- oyed by so many young men. Then | thought of the hundreds of Rosen- wald rural schools throughout the outhland in which thousands’ of hhildren, are being trained for man- 100d and womanhood and others now cing erected. I just had to shout nd shout, and I believe in my soul hat I shouted all over Tuskegee In- titute campus, and some of the shout sot down in the town. God gave us Mr. Rosenwald, and hen He gave us a Booker T. Wash-| ngton to locate him, and just indi- ated where he should serve, and the | ervice has been gladly rendered. and ight by his side is to be found the eal queen, Mrs. Rosenwald, who is ust as friendly as her husband, and| cho is doing her part to bless the romanbood of America. She is not] nly a wealthy woman, but she is a ractical woman and is rendering ervice unto humanity. : Tt is wonderful how many great] ven—wealthy men, men of influence ho-are serving as trustees of Tus-| egee Institute, and -how readily they |, .y aside everything once a year and| nake their way to this place to trans- |, ct the business of the great school, | nd inspire the people with their mes- | age of hope and good cheer, and re- | arn home. These men are not paid, |, ut they pay. They pay their own |, silroad fare, and often the fares of | thers who will take the time to make | ne trip, and then return home feel-|, ng that they have done what God |; ould have them do and have gone |; snere God would have them go. Thousands of ergs crowded into |, uskegee town Institute to pay neir” respects to the work at the chool, and at the same time pay a ‘bute to that character who will live ; nand on as long as time, and then |, ito eternity, Booker T. Washington, | hose -brorize monument was un- ciled and will stand to inspire the outh with the idea that “I can follow |‘ im.” Then we léok at that other re- ; arkable servant of God and his peo- le, Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of | uskegee Institute, sage and leader of ; s people, and the uniting Tink be-| ho afe ‘by little uniting to ake America the garden spot of vilization, I am here, and I f Te SS naly ie? CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 ‘The speakers on the great day were Dr. Robert R. Moton, who presid ed, Tuskegee students, who rendere music, Dr. E. C. Morris, presiden of the National Payitist convention who read the scripture lesson; Bishoy Robert E. Jones, of the Methodis Episcopal church, who prayed; Hon- orable Josephus Daniels, who was one time secretary of the United States Navy, who spoke, and I miean he spoke and it was a great speech. Dr. George Cleveland Hall of Chicago who spoke for us, and Dr. Wallace Butrick, chairman of the Educational Board, who spoke. If you will observe from this that there was a sandwich, and Dr. Hall was the meat of that sandwich, and he spoke for his race. I would like to have you hear just a few things he said, and I feel to give them to you in this letter, so here they are: “To say that Booker T. Washing- ton was conspicuous among the doers of good deeds; that he was in every relation of life one of the most kind and generous, as well as one of the most wise and prudent of men, is only to repeat wkat is known as widely as his name. Indeed his life was one of such intense interest, such ceaseless activity and varied experi- ence; his character so many sided, that in speaking of his life’s work, one is almost overwhelmed by the wealth of material from which to choose. “One of the most distinguishing traits of his character, as is in the character of every great man, was endurance, determination, courage chat nothing could battle, no obstacle however great could shake a determ- ination to succeed, but come what may a determination to reach tite sum- mit, though the ascent be most diffi- cult by the roadside. This trait of character was his most distinguishing one. How else could he explain the high places he reached—a man who was never in a university, except to icliver his message—or to receive ome high honor conferred by that, mong the greatest universities in the country. Determination of this kind nabled him to grow in power, in trength, in soul and in heart, until ye became the greatest character we oved to honor.” Dr. Hall said many good things. It was a high class address, and we were It proud of him. Dr. Buttrick paid jim a high tribute and I mean Booker . Washington. It was another jource of inspiration to all who heard jim. Dr. Buttrick was way over in china when he picked up a daily pa- er and saw where his personal riend Dr. Booker T. Washington had assed into the Great Beyond. The per did not say a colored man, or Negro, but spoke of him as one of America’s greatest men. To use his vords “Are there ten men in Ameri- a whose death would be featured on he first page of the leading journal f the Far East, half around the yorld." He related the story of Dr. Nashington’s wonderful life, and 1 vas real proud to hear it. All of this ook place in the chapel. There was ain. God stopped the rain long nough for the parade, and when all yere in the chapel it did do some aining. When the exercises were wer the rain was told to stop and he unveiling took place. Dr. Emmett J. Scott of Washing- on, D. C., the life Jong friend and ecretary to Dr. Booker T. Wash- ngton, presented the monument to he trustees in a wonderful address, jhich was received by Hon. William ;. Wilcox, chairman of the trustee oard, and then followed by Dr. Rob- rt R. Moton, and an address by a raduate of Tuskegee. 1906, Alvin J. feely. These men figure in history f a great plant. Hon. I. T. Mont- omery made the closing. prayer and | enediction, and the day passed into istory. Iam so glad I was here, and that met so many noted men and women f both races all anxious to take a/ art in honoring a man whose life, | hose service won him a high place | | American life, and whose name is | n inspiration to those who are to| low. Among my friends I was glad to! se Editor W. L. Porter of Knox-| lle, Editor William H. Steward, of | ouisville, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs |, f Washington, D. C, Mrs. Mary E.|, ethune, of Daytona, Florida, and . W. Collier of St. Augustine, Flori-| . i? I was the eating guest of Banker ad Mrs, Gover, and I shall have! ore, to tefl yon aboet this trie in| jother letter. obese es . CHARLES E. STUMP. | LYNCHING CONDEMNED BY TEXAS WOMEN Committee’ Organized to Promote Christian Principles in Race Relations jing is the black spot on America’ )|soul,” that “we have no security un less the law protects us,” and tha .|“taw and order must be maintaine fat all costs,” leading women from a .|parts of Texas met in Dallas a fe Jdays ago and organized for the pur pose of seeking a Christian solutio Jof the tangled problem’ of race rela tions. Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames o Georgetown was elected chairma Jand Mrs. John S. Turner of Dalla secretary. The membership of th committee embraces representative of the principal civie and religion organizations of the state, Mrs. Perc 'V. Pennybacker being a notable fig ture in the group. A strong address was drafted an¢ given to the public, recognizing the condition of the Negro in the south ‘as a community problem affecting the welfare of both races and demand- jing for its solution the application of the principles of humanity and jus- tice. An appeal was made for the rights of every child to a reasonable chance in fife and for a single stand- ard of morality that will protect the womanhood of all races. The women's committee will func- tion as a section of the Texas Com- mittee on Inter-Racial Co-operation, the purpose of which is to organize in every community where race re- lations constitute a serious problem a group of the best people to study local conditions and needs and deal with them intelligently and in a Chris- tian spirit. Dr. J. C. Hardy is chair- man of the State Committee. Tt was stated that in many communities the plan had averted threatened trouble and displaced acute situations by con- fidence and good will. ‘The Address Adopted by the Women Follows in Full “We, the members of the women’s section of the Texas State Commit- tee on Inter-Racial Co-operation, find ourselves overwhelmed with the op- portunity and the corresponding r-- sponsibility which we this day ace in sharing the task of bringing about better conditions and relations in the south between the white and Negro races. * * * We deplore the fact that the relations for the past fifty years have been such as to separate the two races through a lack of understand- ing on the part of both. We know that ignorance takes its toll in crime and inefficiency, that disease and death are no respecters of persons, but that they sweep across the boule- vards from the places of squalor and unsanitary living, to the best kept and most protected homes. We know also that crime ig not segregated and that its results are felt alike by all classes. “We are persuaded that our native southland can never reach its high- est destiny while any part of its peo- ple are ignorant, underfed and in- efficient. Therefore, together we must meet our task and seek to bring in 2 new day of better understanding. To this end we call attention to some of the underlying causes of present day ills: Prejudice “Recognizing the universal exist- ence of prejudice among people of different races, and deploring its exist- ence and its consequent unjust re- sults, we therefore are resolved thit the Negro should have a hearing in his own behalf, and further resolve that we shall not be content simply with being kindly disposed to the race, put that our good will shall reach to the effort to secure for its members justice in all things and opportunities for living the best life. We desire for the Negro, as for all men, per- onal and racial justice in private life and in the courts of the land. Womanhood “Realizing the great increase of nulattoes and knowing full well that no ‘race can rise above its woman- rood, we appeal for the protection of he chastity of the Negro woman and {eclare ourselves for the single stand- id of morality among this race as well as among our own. Childhood “Recognizing the right of every American child to be not only well orn, but to be given the opportunity or developing his fife to its fullest yossibility, we desire for the Negro hild better homes, better schools and ‘Lynching “Lynching is the black spot on America’s soul. So long as America jolds the record for its illegal taking f life, so long as the headlines of oreign papers carry in large letters America burns another Negro’ just o long will her shame be world-wide. We have no security unless the law otects us. Mob violence knows no e aS : gee : { i € a fA | bh N HON. MATT. |Re-Nominated for One of the | of Chicago. | A A HON. MATT. A. MUELLER Re-Nominated for One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago. Henry W. Grady, of our own south- land, we say, ‘Not in passion, -my countrymen, but in reason, not in narrowness but in breadth, may we solve this problem in calmness and in truth, and lifting its shadows, let perpetual sunshine pour down on two races walking together in peace and contentment." ” AMATEUR MINSTRELS MON- DAY THE 17TH | We can think at this writing of no ‘treat so rare within the reach of Chi- cagoans as the 26th Annual Show and Dance of the Amateur Minstrel Club at the 8th Regiment Armory, Easter Monday night. It looks now as though all previous records for at- tendance will be broken. Under the able leadership of President Lewis V. Berry, the splendid line-up of last year has been augmented by the ad- dition of several clever young stars. Among these are: Balancing Roane in a slack wire act; Davenport, “light- ning” crayon artist; and Lawrence and White in a “Mechanical Doll” act. Clarence Lee, the inimitable singing-dancing comedian is also in the line-up, featuring the “Barefoot Blues” in clever style. Gene Bur- dette, the promising young pianist comes to the club with his own com- position “Underneath the Southern Moon,” featured by Major Jackson and the company. ‘Among other treats are Bobby Hardin's splendid rendition of “The Sheik” with ensemble; Floyd Card- well in “I Ain’t Givin’ Nothin’ Away” is a scream, as is also George Harris with “Vampin’ Liza Jane"; Fat Thompson's “Dapper Dan”; Meredith Conley’s “Pullman Porter Blues”; Charlie Fielding’s “Yoo Hoo”; Leon- ard Raone’s “Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes”; Charlie Settles’ “Better Days Will Come Again”; Tke Yarbrough’s “Granny”; Clarence Mayo's “Free, Single and Disen- gaged"; Geo. Proctor’s “Just Like a Rainbow"; S. Offorde Edwards’ ‘Love's Golden Lane,” and Andrew Childress’ “I Wonder If You Still Care for Me,” are’ all clever numbers and with the splendid ensemble by the entire Club composes a magnifi- cent program worth going far to pear; and then after the show—The Dance. If this is not what Chicago wants, please tell us what it does want. The entire net proceeds go to the Home for Aged Colored People. HOWARD TRACK TEAMS TRAINING HARD FOR PENN RELAY GAMES Washington, D. C—The Howard University Varsity and Freshman track teams are making great prep- aration for the coming Penn Reiay Games to be held on Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. on April 28th and 29th, 1922. The teams will be com- posed of eleven men who are to com- oad I F ly No"This Paper without the Least Wavering, Mastally, Steed This Paper without the Least Wavering, Manfully, by Him to the End. i pete in five different events. Last year the Varsity Relay Team was successful in winning the event in which it was entered. This year Howard has been entered in a faster jclass by the authorities in charge of the Penn Meet and will be compet- ‘ing against such schools as the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Notre Dame, Boston College, and a number of other colleges in that class. The ‘coaches at Howard realize that they must put forth every effort to have the men in thorough condition for the entrees. The Freshman Relay team to be entered in the Meet is doing exceptional work and the time being made by the team compares favorably with that of the Varsity Team. Howard is also entering a man in the Hammer throw, the Javelin and Discus throw. This man has re- markable ability in these three events and it is expected that he will win at least one of his events and place in each of them. His work with the hammer is close to 165 feet at each throw and 150 feet for the javelin and 154 feet for the discus. Much interest is being exhibited in the coming meet and everyone is ex- pecting Howard's representatives to make a good showing for the Uni- versity. HOWARD STUDENTS SHOW GREAT INTEREST IN STUDY OF ITALIAN Washington, D. C—The Howard University Library was recently pre- sented with a copy of the complete Latin and Italian works of Dante. The book is a critical text of the works of Dante and was issued under the auspices of the Italian Dante So- ciety of Italy. It is a volume of meerly. one thousand pages on India paper “with a binding of heavy board covered with leather and adorned with clasps,the binding being made to imitate that of a medieval book. The inscription on the fly-leaf of the book reads: “Presented by the Italians of the United States of America on the ini- tiative of Luigi Carnovale, Chicago, Illinois, in commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the death of Dante, September 14, 1921.” Tt is an interesting fact that with the opening of the spring quarter the Howard University has a class in both the college and evening school study- ing the Divine Comedy of Dante in Italian, and as fat as can be learned this is the first time that this sub- iect has been studied in a Negro col- lege. COLORED WOMAN SLAIN BY JEALOUS RIVAL May Mosley, 28 years old, 3207 Prairie avenue, was shot to death carly Thvrsday niorning by Catherine Talley. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. s are soft, silky hair that can be has made happy thousands of hair. It will do the same to and lifeless or if you have darn k of EXELENTO QUINING nge stores. 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Kenneth's mother had been to the hospital and Kenneth was waiting impatiently for her return. The day of her homecoming he took a chair up to the window and watched every auto pass with his little nose flattened against the window pane. Suddenly an auto pulled up, his mother looked out and waved, and Kenneth dashed madly out to the steps to greet her. Mother was overjoyed at seeing him, she began to cry, and Kenneth looked at her and said: "Ooh, mother dear, aln't you all well yet?" Oldest American Newspaper The New York Globe was founded on December 9, 1793, by Noah Webster, as the "American Minerva." It was renamed "The Commercial Advertiser" on October 7, 1797 and was again changed to "The Globe and Commercial Advertiser" on February 1, 1804. This is the oldest daily newspaper still in existence in America. A weekly paper, the New Hampshire Gazette, was established in 1756 and is still published. The Hartford Courant was established as a weekly, the Connecticut Courant, in 1764, and is now a daily. Picturesque Sight One of the most picturesque sights in the world is the elephants at work in the city of Rangoon, at the mouth of the Irrawaddy river, where the logs artive. At Rangoon the logs float in at an undisturbed inlet. Here they are released from their inclosing boom chains. Then elephants take the logs out of the water and pile in the mill yards such logs as are not required for immediate sawing, and which may need to be stored for one or more years. Mountain of Sulphur. By looking on a map of the South seas, one can find the New Hebrides, about 900 miles east of Queensland, Australia, and southeast of the Solomons. At the north end of the group is an island, called Vanua Lava. This island is a mountain, a big one, 1,600 feet high and covering an area of 100 square miles. But the remarkable thing about it is that it is composed wholly of sulphur. Nothing like it is to be found anywhere in the world. Good "Grain" Results Artificial "graining" of wood has been practiced for a long time and some of the results obtained by the modern methods of printing from a master roll of real wood are remarkably realistic, says the American Forestry Magazine. Through this means it is possible to impart a good imitation of malagany to plain, colorless woods and to metals. Really Serious Herrers Nothing that is admittedly and unmistakably horrible matters very much, because it frightens people into seeking a remedy; the serious horrors are those which seem entirely respectable and normal to respectable and normal men.—Bernard Shaw. ILLINOIS TRUST La Salle and Jack 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 Moons of the Planets. Moons of the Planets. A moon is an attendant that circles about the planet of a sun. It is the satellite of a satellite. The distinction between moon and planet is not one of size. Two moons in the solar system—Titan of Saturn and Ganymede of Jupiter—are larger than the planet Mercury, and rival the planet Mars. Many moons exceed the asteroids, or tiny planets. A satellite is held in sway by both sun and planet. It is ruled by two masters, and of these the sun is always the stronger partner. For Violin Backs When any figure appears on a smooth surface as though in relief, it is called mottle, says the American Forestry Magazine. The fiddle-back mottle appears a series of hills and valleys and derives its name from the common use of maple with such figures in making the backs of violins. Destructive Volcanic Outburst Destructive Volcanic Outburst Rising to a height of 13,000 feet, only a few miles from Kilauea, is the great volcano of Mauna Loa, which has intermittent eruptions, the last one of great violence beginning in October, 1919, and continuing for five months, the flow coming from a split in the mountain far down upon its flank. The black rolls of treacle lava flowed for miles through the sand flats, forests and bare rock slopes, finally emptying into the sea, where giant clouds of steam rose day and night. Myriads of sea fish were killed by the boiling water. Easy. "George, you should get married," advised the married man. "It is wonderful to have a home waiting for you when you return at night. There is ecstacy in caring for a garden and a lawn; you can raise a dog from a pup, children adorable and no trouble at all, a wife is an inspiration, and even if she does get suspicious you can always talk her out of it." "I could if I could lie like you can." said the bachelor, thoughtfully. —Wayside Tales. Mean Much to Nature Lover Mean Much to Nature Lover. The bird upon the tree utters the meaning of the wind—a voice of the grass and the wild wind, words of the green leaf; they speak through that slender tone. . . Nor is it necessary that it should be a song; a few short notes in the sharp spring morning are sufficient to stir the heart.—Jeffries. Dolly in the "Faucet." Mildred had lived all her five eventful years in the city, and on so her first visit to the country everything was strange and interesting to her, but nothing seemed to fascinate her as did drawing water from the open well. While watching one day her dolly slipped from her hand over the top of the curb into the water. As it went out of sight she ran screaming to her mother: "Oh, mamma, mamma; my dolly failed in the—in the faucet." ```markdown ``` MINISTRY OF JUDICIAL REPRESENTATION FUNERAL DIRECTORS 5121 ERNEST H. 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