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Twenty-Two out of the Twenty-Eight Candidates Commended to the Voters of this City and County Through the Columns of This Newspaper, Won Out at the Primaries, Tuesday, April 11. No Other Newspaper in this City, Daily or Weekly, can Approach that Record in this Respect. This Just Simply Proves that The Broad Ax is the King Bee Among all the Newspapers in Chicago. It seems very hard for the newspaper boys and the big and small fry politicians and all the wise guys to understand how it happens that we always manage to pick so many real winners among the Republicans and Democrats at the primaries and at the elections which follow. Many of them are willing to admit or confess that it is a rare accomplishment to be able to do so. Some claim that we either tote a lucky stone or a rabbit's foot around in our vest pocket which turns the trick all the time, but in all truthfulness we can say that we do nothing of the kind. All that we do is to simply pick the majority of the live winners. This fact was well proven or established at the recent primaries for twenty-two candidates out of thirty candidates who were highly commended to the voters residing in this city and county through the columns of this newspaper, won out at the primaries with flying colors and the following are the names of the lucky candidates who made home runs at that time. Hon. Martin B. Madden, re-nominated for Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois; more than three thousand extra copies of The Broad Ax, Saturday, April 8, were distributed by Hon. Oscar De Priest, throughout the Second and Third Wards in the interest of Congressman Madden and Hon. S.B. Turner distributed five hundred extra copies of the paper of that same date in the First Ward and with almost four thousand extra copies of this newspaper being freely scattered in among the colored people in that district it enabled Hon. Charles Ringer to run clear over Hon. Wallace G. Clark for the nomination for County Treasurer and flatten him out as thin as a thin pan cake. The other lucky candidates who were loyally supported by this paper were: Hon. Patrick J. Carr, nominated for County Treasurer, Hon. Albert Nowak, for the fourth time nominated for County Commissioner, Hon. Michael K. Sheridan, nominated for member of the Board of In the present crisis it is apparent that no opportunity on a momentous occasion should be lost, nor should we ever be derelict to champion the cause of the race. At the unveiling of the monument erected as a suitable memorial to Dr. Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, Dr. George C. Hall was on the program to speak out of the fullness of his heart the great love he bore our great character. Dr. George Cleveland Hall was introduced by Dr. Moton who said that few men had known Dr. Washington so intimately as the colored physician who was about to address the gathering. Dr. Hall paid warm tribute to Booker T. Washington for his integrity and sincerity, his attachment to freedom and truth, his earnest endeavor to do good, his purity of public principles, and his serene submission to the will of God. Dr. Hall referred to Dr. Washington as "The king of practical thinkers and observers"—a man who knew that practically all the trouble in the world comes from not knowing the truth, which makes men free. "Let down your bucket where you are," a slogan with which Booker T. Washington thrilled the world in 1895, was quoted by Dr. Hall as the epitome of Tuskegee educational work which has changed a crying race to a trying race and has instilled in the minds of men the dignity of labor. Washington had faith in the THE BROAD AX Saturday, April 8, five hundred extra copies of The Broad Ax were freely distributed among the colored people residing in his district and right there and then it was all over for Congressman Sproul but the shouting. No other newspaper in this city, daily or weekly, selected as many live winning candidates at the primaries as The Broad Ax, which is all powerful and unconquerable. good sense of the American people," said Dr. Hall. "He opened the door of hope and knowledge to his people. He showed that the Negro could produce a man whom Anglo-Saxons delighted to honor. He did things. We grew by industry. Work dominated his career. He recognized only the nobility of labor and character. He was a supreme judge of human nature. He lived to see the justice of all the leading principles that he advocated." Hall's Epigrams Among the epigrammatic tributes paid by Dr. Hall to the departed educator, his close friend, in the course of his speech may be mentioned the following: Dr. Hall, in developing the idea that Dr. Washington's life should be an inspiration to the young men and women of his race called the attention of the students to the fact that they possessed better educational advantages than were offered the future founder of the institute when he was a youth. About seven years ago, 1915, when we held a great memorial meeting at Lincoln Center out of love and respect for Dr. Washington, to sorrow and attempt to pay him tribute at his death. Dr. Hall presided over that CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY APRIL 22, 1922. [Name] ```markdown ``` HON. P. J. CARR, TREASURER OF COOK COUNTY, IS NOT SPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILURE OF THE PEOPLE TO RECEIVE THEIR BILLS FOR TAXES For some years in the past, the vast majority of the tax payers in this city and county, have always received their bills for taxes on or about the first of March, which would give them ample time to get their money together and pay their bills on or before the first day of May, in order to avoid the one per cent penalty, which is added on each dollar and the interest on it after May 1. Owing to the fact that there has Owing to the fact that there has been such a long delay in getting the great meeting, and Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley, and Hon. S. Laing Williams, all now dead, were on the program. It was a great heart and soul demonstration and on that day several leaves were added to the chapter on Negro history. The great speech made by Dr. Hall on the occasion of the unveiling of the great Booker T. Washington monument will ring down the ages. Perhaps the greatest thing he said, or any one might say of Dr. Washington, was that "he did not and never had subscribed to the doctrine of inferiority of his race." The doctor recognized the opportune moment had come and he did not let it go by default, so he turned dramatically around so that he could look into the very face of the Southern heart. Josephus Daniels, a great man who had held perhaps the most conspicuous position in the Wilson cabinet, and spoke slowly with emphasis the words that put all races and colors on the same equality when he said of his friend: "He did never compromise nor subscribe to any doctrine that made one race superior to another race." tax bills into the hands of the people, it has created much confusion and excitement around the County Treasurer's office and Hon. Patrick J. Carr, one of the best public officials in Cook County, has requested us to inform the many readers of this paper, that he is not responsible in the slightest degree, for the long delay in mailing out the bills for taxes to their rightful owners; that the Tax Commission, which fixes the rate of taxation, was more than one month behind in its work and after the rate had been fixed, the books were held up by the members of the Board of Assessors for a much longer period than in the past and it was almost the middle of April, before the books be- THE AMATEUR MINSTREL SHOW AND DANCE, HELD AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY MONDAY EVENING, FAR SURPASSED ALL OF ITS FORMER SHOWS. Monday evening the far famed Amateur Minstrel Boys held forth at the Eighth Regiment Armory which was crowded from end to end and more than three thousand people were present, representing the best class of colored men and women residing in this city. Its 26th annual show and dance was given for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home, and a handsome sum of money will be turned over to it. All in all, it was the best show so far given by the Amateur Minstrels. All the songs were very fine, in our humble opinion. "I Ain't Givin' Nothin' Away," by Mr. Floyd Cardwell, and "Better Days Will Come Again," by Mr. Charles W. Settles, were the best of all the songs, so finely rendered. The jokes were catchy and up-to-date and they caught the vast crowd, who greatly enjoyed their hits. The following are officers and members of the Amateur Minstrel ```markdown ``` gan to be transferred to the County Treasurer and with no books, no bills could be sent out. Hence the long delay on the part of the people in receiving their bills for taxes. Mr. Carr further states that all who fail to receive their bills for taxes, before the first day of May, that the penalty of one per cent will be waived. It can be said to the credit of County Treasurer Carr, and Hon. Jacob Lindheimer, his able assistant treasurer, and his great army of polite and efficient clerks, are doing everything in their power to make it possible for the people to promptly pay their taxes without the loss of much time. Club: Officers: Lewis V. Berry, president; Harry H. Horsley, vice-president; Rush Yerby, secretary; Geo A. Turnbull, assistant secretary; Wm H. Washington, music director; Maj R. R. Jackson, stage director; O. C. Daniels, assistant stage director. Members: Samuel Alston, Lewis V. Berry, Eugene Burdette, Wm. G. Carroll, Floyd Cardwell, Andrew Childress, Meredith Conley, Howard Cornwell, F. L. Cuffee, O. C. Daniels, Jack Doyle, Isaac W. Dunlap, H. Geo. Davenport, R. Offore Edwards, Chas. C. Fielding, B. J. Fernandis, Lawrence Harrison, R. H. Hardin Jr. Reginald Hardin, Geo. S. Harris, David H. Hawley, M. W. Hawley H. H. Horsley, Macon Huggins, Maj R. R. Jackson, Wm. H. Jackson, W. J. Kelley, D. R. Lawrence, Clarence Lee, Bernard B. Lewis, Clarence Mayo, D. A. McGowan, Forest A. McCoo Jr., Ernest Oldham, Geo Proctor, Oscar Randall, Leonard Roane, Chas. Settles, Geo. A. Turnbull, Howard B. Thompson, Frank Waring, Wm. H. Washington, Elliot Washington, Edmond G. White, Geo R. Woodson, Julius Wrights, Isaac T. Yarbrough, Rush N. Verby. By Mary White Ovington "CIVILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INQUIRY BY THIRTY AMERICANS" Edited by Harold E. Stearns. Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York City. Price $5.00. Postage 20 cents extra. This ponderous volume is made up of thirty essays on various phases of life in America. It is the essay on Racial Minorities that we want to consider. The essay is written by Geroid Tanquary Robinson, a Virginian by birth, at present a member of the editorial staff of the Freeman. He opens his article as follows: chose to drive the to replace them in with African tribes native state had been like as the Indians in the natural course African warrior war while the Indian ch the military oppose economic servant eventually gained r virtue of this fact. terference and star however, are fast which was picturesization." Of California's Japanese, we hear "At bottom the fornia Land Law "In America the race problem is not only without answer, it is even without formulation. In the face of ordinary economic, political and religious difficulties people habitually formulate creeds which give a kind of rhyme or reason to their actions; but where inter-racial relations are concerned, the leaders go pussyfooting all around the fundamental question, while the emotions of the masses translate themselves into action, and action back again into emotion, with less consideration of means and ends than one expects of the maddest bomb thrower." This is an enlivening beginning and Mr. Robinson keeps up our appreciative interest to the end of his thirty pages. His racial minorities include the Negro, the Indian, the Jew and the Asiatic. He has no solution of the Negro question, but he does give a few important conclusions: That the inherent inferiority of any human race has never been established by historical, biological or psychological evidence. That economic competition is an important factor in race prejudice. That an improvement in the economic and social condition of a minority race does not prepare the way to race fusion but has just the opposite effect. That the race problem has probably never been solved by a direct attack upon it. That as a separate problem it seems insoluble in the United States. This does not get us very far, perhaps, but the article is an interesting argument, and calls, as Seligmann's "Negro Faces America" called, for a thorough study of racial conditions. There is an interesting comparison between the United States' treatment of the Indian and the Negro. We have often been told that the Negro was naturally more submissive than the Indian, who refused to be a slave, but Robinson points out that the settler in the United States wanted land from the Indian rather than labor. "If the early white settlers had so desired, they, of course, could have enslaved a considerable portion of the Indian population, just as the Spaniards did in regions farther to the southward. However, the American Honorary Members: Ald. L. B. Anderson, Hon. Oscar De Priest, Jesse Binga, Horace Bronson, Geo. E. Maxfield, Howell J. Holmes. Prof. and Mrs. Aaron E. Malone, of St. Louis, Mo., after an extensive trip through the west, arrived in this city Monday evening in time to attend the famous Amateur Minstrel Show at the Eighth Regiment Armory. While in the city they were royally entertained by some of their warm friends. They departed Tuesday evening for New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C. They were accompanied by Mrs. Breedlove, also of St. Louis, Mo. 5 CENTS per copy es Com- Through the Pri- in this record in road Ax Chicago. CHAT chose to drive the Indians inland, and to replace them in certain regions with African tribesmen who in their native state had been perhaps as warlike as the Indians themselves. Thus in the natural course of events the African warrior was lost in the slave, while the Indian chief continued to be the military opponent rather than the economic servant of exploitation, and eventually gained romantic interest by virtue of this fact." Government interference and standardized schools, however, are fast destroying that which was picturesque in Indian civilization." Of California's treatment of the Japanese, we hear that: "At bottom the spirit of the California Land Laws is more than a little like that of a Georgia lynching." Of the Jewish racial minority, the writer thinks race prejudice comes largely from jealously of the Jew as a competitor, and he points to the increase in 1,500,000 in 1906 to 3,300,000 in 1918 in the Jewish population. The whole book with its thirty authors is a severe arraignment of civilization in the United States. Not much is left of our conceit when we are through. We learn from Spingarn (our Major Spingarn), from Britten, from Stearns, and from Robert H. Lowie of the inadequacy, often the stupidity, of our education. The colleges have destroyed pretty much all scholarship. Our great historians, for instance, Motley, Prescott, Bancroft, Parkman, did not write within university walls. And if we fall in education we are close to nonentities in art, in music and in the drama. Van Wyk Brooks has a good word to say for our poetry. He loves the young, exhuberant freeversifiers of today. H. L. Mencken handles the subject of politics and leaves not a reputation behind. The book gives us an impression of a very crude, loud-voiced, unlovely land. This is partly because the more democratic we get the more conventional we become. Behold one of the paradoxes of life! To be a good fellow, a good sport—the goal of American endeavor—you must never do anything original. You must follow the custom of the country, if you won't do this, and if, like a certain college freshman, you refuse to wear a prescribed freshman's cap, you must not expect your college president to protect you against torture, you must accept his dictum that you wear the cap or leave the college. This is the most damaging note in the book. Think, if all diversity leaves the world, if everyone dresses like everyone else, (they do that pretty much already), if we all play the same games, read the same books, laugh at the same jokes, eat the same food and weep at the same sorrows. All America cut on just the same pattern! It is something to have our stupidly revealed to us as it is in this volume on Civilization in the United States. HE IS STILL READY TO FIGHT FOR HIS POLITICAL VIEWS Attorney Augustus L. Williams made a brilliant fight in his ward and district. Although he lost for representative he won the 2nd Ward for the Crowe-Brundage candidates, and made good his threat to the Deneen organization that he would keep Hon. Warren B. Douglas home from the Legislature. He offered to bet Hon. Roy O. West $500 to that end. Mr. Williams is being highly spoken of by the leaders of both the Crowe and Brundage faction as the logical leader of his ward. No. 31 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday de. this city since July 15th, 1899, = t missing one single issne. Re- ~ publicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- - testants, Single Taxers, Priests, inf- _ dels or apyone else can have their say “as long as their language is proper "and responsibility is fixed. “The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose ‘Watform is broad enough for all, ever ‘aiming the editorial right to speak as own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of ‘the paper. 5 ¢ Subscriptions must be paid in ad- _ Six Months .......-.-.+-+-++-S1.00 ‘Advertising rates made known on application. ‘Address all communication to... THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St, Chicago, Ill : Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR ‘Eéitor and Publisher Associate Editor DRM. A. MAJORS 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 ee April 22, 1922 Vol XXVIL No. 31 ———— atered 2s Second-Class Matter, Aug. a9, 1902. at the Post Office at Chicago, TL Under Act of March 8, 1879. SOME FEW FACTS ABOUT THE COLORED RACE By Dr. M. A. Majors ‘Long before the Civil War quite 2 number of colored men of America graduated from England's most fam- ous universities. Dr. Martin R. Delaney finished his medical course in England, and wrote hhis thesis in Latin. It was an answer to the Duke of Argyle “Origin of! Races and Color.” He came back to the United States and was brevetted a major in the U. S. Army. ; ae All of the colored men that were with John Brown in his raid at Har- pers Ferry are now dead. Hap. Geo. L. Knox is a remarkable example of racial ambition. Without ever having attended a school or college has acquired 2 fund of knowl- edge by close proximity to young men of the universities that make him indeed interesting to any class ill siemesiigiie-elidenna. Both the Ferguson boys, Charlie and Henry, were graduates of Fisk University in the seventies. They went to Texas where each of them were prominent in politics and filled very responsible offices. They have been dead many years. ’ —— Hon. James Madison Vance became ‘an eminent lawyer at the bar in New ‘Orleans. He was the prominent col- ‘red man who seconded the nomina- tion of Gov. McKinley at the Na- ‘tional Republican Convention for President. ‘Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor and owner of The Broad Ax is not pub- lishing a great large paper, but he is a ; 4 ‘Re-Nominated for Clerk of the County Court of __ Position in November. Ey i i ia ‘Re-Nominated for Clerk ‘County Court of Cock County Tw WWike Fesls Dood Stxd of His Rekloction to Pi Promet _ Pesition in November. See RS eS oe ee ee aM ee ta Pace ee : ‘ : ; ae / bi —— oe . ~oe oe es a : | . Re-Nominated for the State Senate from the Third Senatorial Denn of titinek publishing a truthful paper, earnest in) The great team of Williams and jits preachments; intelligent in every| Walker, famous actors has again line, and strong for his race... [been united in death. Let us see, ae! 'there: is Ada Overton Walker, Tom Dr. Allen A. Wesley is perhaps the|Brown, Bob Cole and Johnson, his frst colored military surgeon to be-|first pal, Earnest Hogan, Billie Ker- long to the American Society of mili-|sands, J. Ed Green, Prof. William acre geee Reese Europe, Flora Batson and ei dozens of other stars of first mag- Ex-congressman Geo. W. Murray, |nitude all crossed over to the other Hon. John R. Lynch, ex-pay master|side. Gee, but they must be having ‘of the U. S. Army, and Hon. Richard |@ good time in heaven! T. Greener, Ex-consul and minister — plenipotentiary for the United States reno” for Ae unued Sutq|THE TIME FOR GENERAL fare united to the progressive life of CLEANING 18 HERE the race in all its efforts to go for- —— ward, By M. A. Majors Mr. Jesse Binga was the first col- ow atid Laeiegele eo ee Samer the chance to make good in spite of the ridiculous sentiment some mangy Col. Franklin A. Denison has been|pigmy hearts hold dear. We may a city ee Speers prove if we choose to do so, and there corporation counsel, a colonel in the|;.., great World War in France, and is| st *2¥ easton why we should not, now Assistant Attorney General of|that our homes, our hearts, our dee Shan ick ‘Tlkiie. morals and our notions of true living Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Wash- ington, D. C., is an honor graduate of Oberlin College. Several times she has gone across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the world’s Women Con- gress. So versed is she in many lan- guages especially in French, Spanish, German and Latin, she has been able to address the peoples of Europe. Mr. Anthony Overton is a man of very excellent qualities. He is study- jing the commercial spirit of the age, and is engaged in putting his theory into practice so much so that it re- quires about fifty others of his race to help him attend to his very large ane growing business. Mr. Henry Davis Middleton is mak- ing a study of the interesting life of torian, dramatist, etc. HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELSON The great team of Williams and Walker, famous actors has again been united in death. Let us see, there’ is Ada Overton Walker, Tom Brown, Bob Cole and Johnson, his first pal, Earnest Hogan, Billie Ker- sands, J. Ed Green, Prof. William Reese Europe, Flora Batson and dozens of other stars of first mag- nitude all crossed over to the other side. Gee, but they must be having a good time in heaven! THE TIME FOR GENERAL CLEANING IS HERE By M. A. Majors We are not to forget that we have the chance to make good in spite o' the ridiculous sentiment some mangy pigmy hearts hold dear. We may prove if we choose to do so, and there isn't any reason why we should not, that our homes, our hearts, our oe and our notions of true living are just as clean as any other race of people in Chicago or anywhere eos greet eoseod is osen'eaibe on that will call for a general clean- ing up of our surroundings, our homes, our front yards, and our back yards. Fronts should have fresh paint, grass should be grown and kept properly cut, stoops and veran- das should be frequently scrubbed. Brick walks freshened with red paint, windows kept clean, flowers culti- vated, nice shades and window drap- ings to take the place of ragged and badly worn ones, and new lights put in where there are broken ones. Then, we are not to lose sight of the fact that our children should be kept clean, that they may appear de- cent, and especially along the boule- vards. Ragged, dirty children do not speak well for a race of people abused as much as we are and often justly so. Sitting in windows and conversing with people down on the street, talking loud and laughing boisterously on the street cars or in public places, and making oneself seen by ugly uncouth conduct and general harangues that mean noth- ing at all. Very often Sunday mornings we take especial pride in observing how well behaved our nice little boys and girls are on the street cars, on their way to-Sunday school. We notice with what kindly interest the white passengers look at them as they get on of off the cars, along Indiana ave. This, makes our heart swell with pride when we see what efforts the mothers are making to have their children appear so neat and tidy. Finally, we are to organize neigh- borhood clubs in every two blocks for interchange of opinions, and to give timAy aid to those who are not so circumstanced in life as we are. To get better acquainted, and to get closer 'to each other for mutual un- derstanding and for the general good of the races. BEING COMPLIMENTED Dr. George Cleveland Hall, a prom- inent physician “and surgeon of this city and well known, is being com- plimented by his many friends in and out of the city for the excellent ad- dress delivered a few days ago at Tuskegee Institute, Ala, at the un- veiling of a monument to the mem- ory of the late Booker T. Washing- ton. . CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY APRIL 22, 1922, — — ———— sf ON SOUTHERN TOUR Harrison M. Gilliean, a member of the National Negro Press Associa- ee tion, is now on a southern tour of the te south in interest of The Overton Hy- be: “1 gienic Mfg. Co., of this city. Mr. Gil- ee? liean was among the many Chicago- ¥ jans at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., a few SES Ps SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Be Samuel Foster, 4144 Prairie Ave., Le who has been quite ill for several Ps months, is somewhat improved. Aas SS ee, Ps TO MAKE GOOD SHOWING pa Officers and members of the vari- 4] |ous Councils at Evanston, Morgan | |_| Park and other suburbs are expected f= J [to attend the great military display | |to be given April 24th at Eighth Regi- | |ment Armory by the various Coun- = | {cils of A. U.K. & D. of A. of Chi- ee ce S| eee Pees TEACHERS COMING _ Several teachers at The Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute of Peterburg, Va, are to come to the city at the close of the school year in June and enter the University of Chicago during the summer session. ON ACTIVE DUTY Rev. T. L. Scott, pastor of Grant's A.M. E. Chapel, 4600 Evans ave., who has spent much time out of the city conducting revival meetings, has just returned from Tennessee and several other southern states where he did a great work in the religious field. BAILEY IN SUBURBS M. T. Bailey, president of The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State St., is now on the job every Sunday in Morgan Park where he expects to be of much assistance to those wishing to locate in Morgan Park and other suburbs. Mr. Bailey will go into the Park during the week by appoint- ment. FORGING AHEAD The Virginia Society met on April 19th in its regular monthly meeting lat headquarters, 3638 S. Siate St, jwhere they held an interesting meet- ‘ing. Several new members were add- led to the roll. CHIPS Col. Otis B. Duncan, commanding the Eighth Regiment of Ilinoig, with headquarters at Springfield, spent sev- jeral days of this week in this city. eee Hon. Oscar De Priest and Hon. Louis B. Anderson, returned home ‘Tuesday from a confidential trip or mission to Washington, D. C. cee Dr. and Mrs. Walter N. Thomas, 499 E. 45th place, are still expressing their thanks to old man Dr. Stork, for presenting them recently with a nice little baby girl, and Miss Ines is named in honor of Dr. Thomas’ mother. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas are now the proud and happy parents of three children, all girls. Many prominent former Texans, residing in this city, both ladies anc gentlemen, gave a banquet Wednes day evening, April 19, at the Appo- mattox Club, 3632 Grand Boulevard in honor of Mr. J. R. E. Lee, Ex- tension Secretary of the National Ur- ban League. The delightful affair was in charge of the following com- mittee: Dr. Monroe A. Majors, Mr J. Gray Lucas, Mrs. Edith Woodlee, ‘Mr. Benjamin T. Knox, Mrs. Elvie |Stewart, Dr. Spencer C. Dickerson, Mrs. A. V. Musgrove, Col. Franklin A. Denison, Dr. Benjamin R. Bluitt, Mrs. Ada S. McKinley. ) sae eee WHITE MILLIONAIRE L E FT HER $175,000. New York City—After four years’ litigation, Mrs. Cora Nelson-Brooks has won the right to one-third of the estate of the late William A. Den- neston, white, millionaire, valued at $175,000. Denneston had cut his sister.and niece off with one dollar each. They contested the will. The Judge de- cided Denneston was sane and had a right to leave his money to whom he pleased. PRESIDENT HARDING NAMES COLORED POSTMASTER Des Moines, Ia—John A. Baker, a former Justice of the Peace, has re- ceived appointment from the Presi- dent as postmaster of Buxton. Mr. Baker was in Des Moines last week attending the postmasters’ school where he received instructions in his various duties to perform. It is also gratifying to know that a lady assist- ant has been appointed, making two colored postoffice officials. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Montgomery have removed from 223 E. 31st street, to 4810 Indiana avenue, in the new Fourth Ward. Mrs. Montgomery will still continue to serve: as Presi~ dent of the Women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club. SIGNS OF SPRING According to the calendar spring was officially ushered in on Marc!:_ 2ist, although the temperature was more like February or mid-winter than spring. Despite this fact, how- ever, there are even in a great big city like Chicago many unmistakable signs of the approaching open air season. eee And some of these signs that in- dicate the coming of springtime are pethaps more noticeable to health of- — than they are to the average citizen. Long before the boys get jout their marbles or their baseball jbats, which are essentially carly spring pastimes, there are other man- ifestations which indicate in no an- certain way the departing of “Old Man Winter.” see For example, the Department mail is beginning to be pretty well loaded up with complaints as to beating rugs on back porches: complaints concerning piles of unsightly rubbish the accumulations of the winter, in back yards, courts and areaways; also letters from anxious housewives inquiring as to what the law is which would compel landlords to clean up and re-decorate their apartments. And, finally, complaints as to condi- | tions in the alleys, some of which have been neglected during the wine ter months and are sadly in need of renovation. All these indicate an awakening of the springtime spirit, of the return of the good old outdoor season, which is always preceded by a prevalence in most communities of “cleanacitis.” In fact every house- wife is more or less inoculated with this particular germ during the early spring months. eee Then another sign of spring is the spiny of garden and flower | seeds to be seen in the store and shop win- dows of those who deal in these com- modities. People of outdoor tenden- cies and thrifty habits are already planning a garden and getting ready for the planting season. cee The Department of Health for many years has advocated back yard and vacant lot gardens for city dwellers. It has done so for the reason that there is distinctly a health side to gardening. Most city people do not get enough outdoor air and exercise. The back yard or vacant lot garden will help to supply this need. And outdoor air and exercise in the form of gardening tend to promote bodily health and vigor. The economic side is well understood. There is a whole lot of satisfaction in seeing upon your own table fresh garden products that you have tended and raised yourself and the enjoyment of them amply re- pays for all the labor and money ex- pended. eee It’s a fine idea, too, to have the children interested in the garden, es- pecially those that are big enough to be of some service in helping to keep it free from weeds and cultivating the things that grow ‘therein. For a young person tending a garden dur- ing the growing season, it is as val- uable as 2 course for the same length of time would be in the eighth grade or high school. It helps to broaden the understanding and to reveal to a young and receptive mind any of na- ture’s valuable and interesting secrets. So, as the springtime is at hand | and with it ‘clean up, paint up and brighten: up time is also here, let us) all get ready for it. Nothing could | be more fitting, now that the season |: is here when nature is ready to| brighten and beautify the world in| which we live, than that we also should be ready and willing to do our | share towards brightening and beau- iifying the communities in which we ive. piace And this is why we should get in jouch with the spirit of spring; get eady for a city wide clean up and I WONDER By M. A. Majors T wonder who in spite of goodness first discredited my skin! J wonder what was benefited! What “reward there was to win? Was it color that excited perfidy and hatefulness? There is so much strife without it, and a love for all I guess. I wonder’ if a human color claims the + first place in the heart. I wonder if a noble impulse ever turns to flaming dart. There are hearts that have been broken, yes, without a single blow, : There are words which left unspoken leave our .world filled up -with woe. ALD. MAYPOLE PRESENTED WITH DIAMOND STAR Aldermen of all factions united Tuegday night in a tribute to Ald. George M. Maypole of the Fourteenth Ward. At a dinner in the Hotel Sher- man they presented to him a gold star studded with diamonds. Ald. John Powers recalled the days when he served in the council with Ald. Stemnaiha Sta 3 = aS | eS . : : ‘eS < rz ‘ HON. ADOLPH MARKS Nominated for the State Senate from the First Senatorial Dis. trict of Illinois. PERSONAL ITEM Sa Miss Mary E. McDowell of the University of Chicago Settlement House is soon to leave for a tour of Europe in the interest of friendship between the women of various coun- ‘tries. Miss McDowell is a consistent friend of the Negro; she is chairman ‘of the Inter-racial Co-operative Com- mittee, and in that capacity had in- ‘terested herself in the establishment of day nurseries, the convalescent ‘eare so little offered to colored girls, the proper disposal of waste in the 2nd Ward as well as in the Stock- yards district where her Settlement is located. She is well thought of among the club women of the city, and there also has carried the gospel of understand- ing and good will. She has recom- mended books by and about Negroes for the reading of these club women, and when she has been invited to speak on the social situation, she has often refused to do so unless some representative colored speaker were invited to speak also. In. this way she has introduced the better repre- sentatives of the two races to each other. Such contact can not help be- ing educational to those who know Negroes only through hearsay and garbled newspaper stories of Negro crime and immorality. It is only fitting that as Miss Mc- Dowell soon leaves Chicago she should know that her interest and practical work is highly appreciated by those who benefit from it. MR. J. R. E. LEE ENTERTAINED IN BANQUET Mr. J. R. E. Lee, Extension Secre- tary of the National Urban League, was guest of honor at a banquet Wednesday, April 19, at the Appom- attox Club. Mr. Lee, who was for some years connected with Tuskegee Institute, part of that time being dean of its academic department, and later was principal of the Kansas City, Missouri High School, is a native of : 4 a ae 4 HON. HENRY HORNER Re-Nominated with a Large Majority to His Cr orable Judge of the Probate Court of Cook Re-Nominated with a Large Majority to His Credit as the To?” crable Judge of the Probate Court of Cook County. Texas. The banquet was tendered him by Texans and their friends, now living in Chicago. Mr. Lee will be in the city for a few weeks to direct the annual spring membership cam- paign of the Chicago Urban League, which is planning to raise $10,000 to carry on its program, between May Ist to 10th. Mr. Lee was highly grat- ified at this recognition from old friends, and he regards it as one in- dication at least of his cordial ep tion by the people of Chicago and a sign that his efforts to raise the $10 000 for the Urban League here wil go over big. KERSEY’S REMARKABLE RACE FOR THE LEGISLATURE Official Vote as Announced by te Board of Election Commissionen George T. Kersey, total vote 10714 A. H. Roberts, total ¥. + 0: Warren Douglas, tote! vote 74 Eugene Marshall, tote! vote, 58" A. L. Williams, total vots 20 Morris Lewis, total you. 45 Oliver Clark, total vote, > Douglas Carried the * Sonne Ward 2—Precincts 26, 4) i © + 51, $4, 56, 66, 67, 68, 0 Yui t Precincts 3, 7, & Roberts Carried the Following: Ward 2—Precinets 27, 28, 29, 0 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 3, 40, 42,4 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, @, 61. & 65, 72, 73. Ward 3-Precitcts None. Kersey Carried the Following: Ward 2—Precincts 36, 64, 75. Ward $—Precincts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 222 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Marshall Carried the Following: Ward 2—Precincts 56, 63, 65, 7,71. Ward 3—Precincts None. Williams Carried the Following: Ward 2—Precincts 43 Ward 3—Precincts None. Kersey and Roberts tied in the 35th Precingt and Roberts and Douglas tied in the 74th Precinct. Morrison Photo HON. EDWARD J. GLACKIN Re-Nominated to Make the Race for the State S Seventeenth Senatorial District of Illinois. Re-Nominated to Make the Race for the State Senate from the Seventeenth Senatorial District of Illinois. BEGIN "GOING" AND KEEP C Life's Prizes Belong to Those Who Get a Good Start and Refuse to Be Sidetracked. It isn't a good thing to see everything. Make "this one thing I do" your motto and keep on going. A few extra criticisms will only smart you up a little and supply the grit that keeps folks going. And hearing everything won't help you to advance, either. Suppose folks do complain. Remember, they wouldn't feel happy if they didn't have something to whine about. Let them whine. You're too busy to do anything but to keep on going. If you're ever going to lead, you must start going now. Every fellow is going to wear the blue ribbon one of these days. To excel, you must begin a youth to make good. Old-age problems are scarier than hen's teeth. The habit of success will spare you may a heartache. Thoughts of failure are the best means of insuring it. Vision that sees only life's promise, and will think only in terms of theory, vises from what threatens defeat able to cope with any circumstance it keeps on going—Grit. Elephants on Rampage Stories of how an elephant occasionally upsets a circus are not uncommon, but one rarely hears of an orgy of destruction like that which occurred in the Malay peninsula. A herd of wild elephants attacked a railway station, pulling down the stationmaster's kitchen and bathroom. They did the same to the clerk's quarters and then tackled the station while the office force looked on from trees. One elephant took off an automatic weighing machine as a souvenir of the raid, but finding it heavy, threw it down on the track. One of the elephants trumpeted the recall and they all went back into the jungle except one who fell in a well and had to be got out by human aid, but was not detained. By the time help arrived after a general telegraphic alarm the huge beasts had entirely disappeared. Worth Trying, Anyway. Cherful smiles not only help those who see them, but actually help those who smile them to accomplish more. Try it. 1 HON. MICHAEL K. SHERIDAN Nominated for Member of the Board of Assessor County Who Has Hundreds of Friends Among People in All Parts of This City; Who Will I Vote in Favor of His Election in November. Nominated for Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County Who Has Hundreds of Friends Among the Colored People in All Parts of This City; Who Will Record Their Votes in Favor of His Election in November. Nominated for Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County Who Has Hundreds of Friends Among the Colored People in All Parts of This City; Who Will Record Their Votes in Favor of His Election in November. for the State Senate from the District of Illinois. Rubber and Maple Sugar. An interesting parallel has been drawn between the different varieties of rubber trees in the tropics and those of maple trees in this country. Out of about 1,000 varieties of trees, all of which produce more or less rubber sap, only forty or fifty have been found whose product is considered commercially valuable. When a would-be cultivator of rubber goes to a tropical country and sets out a plantation of rubber trees, which the natives know do not belong to the right variety, he causes amused comment, such as would be excited by a South American who came to the United States and bored holes in soft maples with the expectation of obtaining sugar sap. Experience has shown that excellent rubber trees transplanted from their native habitat or other regions having apparently identical soil and climate may flourish in growth, yet lose their producing power. Rubber culture requires great expert knowledge. Largest Known Coin Probably the largest coin in the world is one belonging to Farren Zerbe, internationally famous expert on rare coins. It is a piece of stamped copper plate 10 inches square, and weighs $6\frac{1}{2}$ pounds. It has a value of "4 Daler" (the daler was a coin of varying value) stamped on it, and the date 1720. Such coins were commonly used in Sweden for some time during and after the wars of Charles XII. It is part of a collection of more than 30,000 specimens, representing mediums of exchange of all countries and periods from the earliest times to the present day. The total face, or original exchange, value of the collection is counted in millions, but no present value has ever been placed on it. 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 malacany to plain, colorless woods and to metals. ```markdown ``` The Board of Assessors of Cook of Friends Among the Colored City; Who Will Record Their n in November. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, IS AT THIS TIME HEADED FOR WASHINGTON, D. C., AND OTHER POINTS IN THE EAST. Kittrell, North Carolina.—Another great man has fallen. We pause to note the death of John H. Murphy, editor-in-chief of the Afro-American, Baltimore, and one of the strong advocates of this race of ours. We are daily reminded that old and young, high and low, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, must some day answer to the call of death. It is so common, yet we cannot get used to its visiting our homes and robbing us of our dear ones. In the death of John Murphy, I have lost a friend, a brother, and the race shares in this loss. He lived well his life of 83 years, and they were 83 years of usefulness. I met him in 1896, at a session of the Baltimore conference in Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Washington, D. C., and next at the general conference the same year in Wilmington, N. C. I recall his enthusiasm, and how he contended for what he conceived to be right. It was also his first meeting of Charles Stewart. Stewart was going to the general conference, and his looks did not come up to what had been said about his ability to do things, and Mr. Murphy said they were not going to have him. Two men were reporting a sermon. One was knuckled down to it, while Stewart, the other reporter, was HON. EMMETT WHEALAN The Able and Wide Awake Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Cook County Commissioners Re-Nominated for One of the Commissioners Who Will Be Elected This Coming November. writing and at the same time looking around. "He is not doing a thing," said Murphy, "and we want the man who can do things." But when the paper came out next morning with the sermon as delivered, Murphy's mind was changed, and the two men became life long friends. I shared in this friendship, and I am still a friend to Stewart. He fought for his race. His whole life was spent in trying to place us where we belonged, and if he was your enemy there was no letting up. While in Tuskegee, I came in touch with some other men who invited me to visit them. There was Prof. N.W. Collier, who just paid my fare and carried me right on down to St. Augustine, and when he got me there, escorted me to the fountain of youth. I got some of the water, visited the oldest house in the United States, and then left for the place where I am. Prof. N.W. Collier, A.B., is the president of the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute, located at this place, and the school is located there I said enemy, but Murphy was only an enemy to wrong doing and not to man. He would die for what he thought was right. The Afro-American will continue to furnish information. It is now in the hands of his sons, and they are uniting just like the works in a clock. Carl G. Murphy, is now the editor. He is a young man, well trained, and with an idea, Arnett Murphy is the business manager, and John Murphy has charge of the job department, and there is Mrs. L. S. Henry, who has been with the paper since its birth and will continue in her same position. When 1922 closes, it will have carried away as many of our real representative men as any year in the history of the world. It is already getting in its work, and I have nothing to say, for I think I am also slated to go with the others. If it should come, I am ready and willing to go. All is well. Dr. George Cleveland Hall, of Chicago has done his part, and has kept me lingering around these years. I would have dropped in last year if it had not been for him. I am still thinking about that big time I had in Tuskegee Institute, and the men who came to pay their tribute to Booker T. Washington, who was the wizard, the sage, of that great institution. I recall the great speeches to him on a silver tray, but he had to start from the bottom and work to the top. At times the road was rough, but he stuck to it. He got his bull dog hold, and today, see where he stands, and the whole world knows that he lives. I am real proud of this leader. It was a pleasure for me to shake hands with the secretary, Albion L. Holsey. Believe me, a man must know something to be the secretary of another man, and this is what I can say of Mr. Holsey. He is filling his place and doing it well. He stands in the front rank, and is inspiring other young men and women to prepare. I met many friends in company with Mr. Holsey. ```markdown ``` CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY APRIL 22, 1922 meant so much to me, and I had never seen my people as I saw them, and only one regret and that was the effort of Rev. Henry Allen Boyd to tell a joke without knowing the joke values. I am sure he will profit by this mistake and will never make another one. "Allen" is not the first man who ever made a mistake, and this one was just made at the wrong time and in the wrong place. He is a busy man and did not have time to think. that were made, and they are still ringing in my ear, and then I am looking at Dr. Robert R. Moton, the giant of the race, the intellectual giant, the man almost direct from Africa, who is making the world take notice, not by strutting around like a peacock, but by actual service. He is one man that we can all point to, with pride, and say, "There is one of the leaders of the age. Not a race leader, but a leader of men." Dr. Moton, took time to prepare for his work. He did not think that the world was standing still waiting for him, but he decided that he had just as well take time to reach his goal, and when he got there he would not be crowded out. He acted wise. Like Booker T. Washington, he got his training at Hampton, and he had to learn it too. It was not handed While in Tuskegee, I came in touch with some other men who invited me to visit them. There was Prof. N.W. Collier, who just paid my fare and carried me right on down to St. Augustine, and when he got me there, escorted me to the fountain of youth. I got some of the water, visited the oldest house in the United States, and then left for the place where I am. Prof. N. W. Collier, A.B., is the president of the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute, located at this place, and the school is located there on invitation from the Chamber of Commerce and the leading business and professional men of St. Augustine, who decided that the building of schools and the education of the youth was indeed a safe investment. Dr. Collier, was the man, and they sought him, got the trustees of the Baptist Academy, to consent to moving. The property was valued or placed at $50,000 and this whole amount has been raised in three years, and now they have on a great building program. I was at the school on Founders' Day, and enjoyed very much the exercises. They were many leading men there. I was paid a high tribute, for they elected me an honorary trustee of the school, and I am smiling until I am all smiles. Never had such a big place since I have been a member of this race. Now we are getting ready for the big things in the future. The National Negro Business League will meet in August in Norfolk; Va., and it promises to be a great big meeting. The National Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. congress will meet June 14, in New Orleans, and I am going to be there. It is going to be one more big meeting, and I wish that you were to be one of the persons there. It is worth while. The National Baptist convention will meet September 6, Los Angeles, Cal, and the program will be made in June in New Orleans. I expect to visit California in June. Would you like to make the trip with me? Now here I am in this part of the world, and as busy as can be keeping out of the way of work. I have been going some, and I am going some more. My next letter will come to you from Washington, D. C., and then I am going to Philadelphia, and have accepted an invitation to be with Miss Georgia Washington, May 4, at Mt. Meigs, Ala. I shall be delighted to have a line from you. You may write to me, care Mrs. Emily Gaines, 2323 North 27th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. CHARLES E. STUMP ```markdown ``` FRANKLIN'S COLD-AIR BATH Homely Philosopher Was One of the Earliest American Advocates of the Open Window. The cold bath in the morning is a social fetch that makes two clear divisions of mankind—the thoroughly virtuous who do not shrink from the full rigors and the Leadceians who play with the hot water tap. As a custom it may be peculiarly English, but one hears less of a variation of it that has respectable authority, says the Manchester Guardian. Benjamin Franklin, while representing the American colonies in London, wrote in one of his informing letters to a French correspondent that the "shock of cold water hath always appeared to me as too violent, and I have found it much more agreeable to my constitution to bathe in another element—I mean cold air. With this view I rise early almost every morning and sit in my chamber, without any clothes on whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to the season, either reading or writing. The practice is not in the least painful, but, on the contrary, agreeable, and if I return to bed afterward, before I dress myself, as it sometimes happens, I make a supplement to my night's rest of one or two hours of the most pleasing sleep that can be imagined. Franklin was sixty-two at the time. He had still to live twenty-two of the most active years of his extraordinary career, so that in his case cold-air baths seem to have done no harm. Franklin was before his time in his belief in fresh air, and he wrote some savage things about the "nerophobia that at present distresses weak minds and makes them choose to be stifled and poisoned rather than leave open the window of a bedchamber or put down the glass of a coach." FLOWER-POT AS BRIDEGROOM Unique Ceremony Which Transforms Chinese Girl Into a Full-Fledged and Privileged Widow. China is still a land of strange customs, one of the most curious being the ceremony of a flower-pot marriage. When the man whom a Chinese girl is to marry dies shortly before the date fixed for the wedding, the grief stricken bride-elect sometimes takes a vow never to marry. Should she do so, she goes through the ceremony of wedding an ordinary flower-pot. She is now considered a widow, and upon the parents of her intended husband fails the responsibility of maintaining her. Usually she goes to live with them. In many cases, especially where the family is poor, great sacrifices are necessary in order that the daughter-in-law (as she is now regarded) may be properly cared for. But the parents have no option in the matter. And, actually, they have no desire to shirk their responsibilities, for the faithfulness of the "widow" brings great honor to the bridegroom's family, it being considered quite a disgrace should the bride-elect not wish to go through the ceremony of marrying the flower-pot. In the days before China was a republic, the emperor, upon the facts being brought to his notice, had a handsome monument erected in commemoration of the "widow's" faithfulness. Old Krook Krook is the name of a rather prominent but most uncanny character in Dickens' novel, "Bleak House," which has much to do with the then dilatory procedure of the Court of Chancery. The system Dickens describes ceased to exist many years. Krook is the proprietor of a rag and bone warehouse, where everything seems to be bought and nothing sold. He is a grasping drunkard, who eventually dies of spontaneous combustion, that is, he is so saturated with liquor that he takes fire and is consumed. In a note to this chapter of "Bleak House" Dickens cites a case of spontaneous combustion that took place in Paris, France, and which, he said, was well verified by medical authority. It was probably from that case that Dickens obtained the idea which he made use of in describing Krook's wonderful death. Purpose. Ambition is more than a wish; it is desire intensified into determined purpose. All that is needed for the accomplishment of our ambitions is a desire so strong that we will sacrifice whatever may stand in the way of our success. The law of compensation never falls. If we would gain one thing we must give up another. How many people have you known who complain of failure through bad luck, when your own knowledge of them tells you that their downfall came through lack of really trying? They were not willing to forego pleasures or extravagances which interfered with their success. Cooking Chicken Old saying is, no one can eat a quail a day for 30 days. H. J. Jalmar, Baptist missionary in the Kongo, hasn't tested the quail theory. But he ate chicken three times a day for two years. Don't pity Jalmar for monotony of diet. Pity his wife, who had to plan the meals to make them attractive. She evolved 22 ways of preparing chicken. No man has a task as difficult as his wife has, in planning meals. Doubt it? Ask her. Beauty in the South In the South the crape myrtle becomes a small tree and turns a brilliant brunne almost or quite red, says the American Forestry Magazine. It is much grown for its summer and early fall flowers, but it also has value for the color of its ripening foliage on the approach of cold weather. M. HON. JOHN F. DEVINE Re-Nominated for Clerk of the Probate Court of Cook County. RECENT DEATHS AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN CHICAGO Geo. Wilson, 30, 4048 Indiana ave. Mazie Hillman, 27, 3216 Ellis ave. Carrie Johnson, 10, 458 Bowen ave. Major Walker, 61, 3743 Giles ave. John Hendricks, 46, 2959 Federal st. Fannie Depass, 24, 3981 Vernon ave. Robert Scott, 38, 3753 Indiana ave. Nancy Watts, 70, 4415 St. Lawrence ave. Kay Garrett, 28, 713 E. 43rd st. John McClane, 35, 2431 Dearborn. Emery Jones, 49, 1332 W. 109th st. Mary Dean, 58, 2046 Austin ave. Wm. Neels, 55, 15 E. 9th st. Cecil Wheeler, 4905 Federal st. Don Leachman, 37, 4506 State st. Wm. Wood, 21, 145 W. 35th st. John Houston, 53, 3210 S. Park ave. Ralph Brown, 32, 6221 S. Elizabeth st. Eliza Meyers, 53, 53 W. 34th st. Mary Seymour, 88, 3207 Prairie ave. Ant's Grip Is Businesslike. The small African warrior ant will permit his body to be torn from his head before he will let go the hold of his mandibles. A Souvenir. The Boston Transcript recently ran across this in a story: "She held out her hand and the young man took it and deported." Beulah Stuart, 21, 1717 W. Taylor st. Jefferson Evans, 17, 5003 S. State st. Herbert Williams, 23, 1652 Fulton st. Edw. Gaines, 59, 4719 S. State st. Ruth McCurray, 1, 1951 Fulton st. James Sinks, 25, 549 E. 37th st. Andrew Hood, 29, 4111 Indiana ave. Katie Hamilton, 34, La Grange, Ill. Watkins, 51, 3231 Wentworth Sarah Billinger, 40, 521 E. 37th pl. Ellen Harris, 21, 3161 Ellis ave. Gaynelle Rogers, 2, 2228 Dearborn st. Richard Moore, 58, 3617 Federal st. Addie Gaston, 32, 3227 S. Park ave. Robert Toliver, 56, 5240 Federal st. James Moss, 67, Olmstead, Ill. Lidel Perry, 56, 2523 W. Madison st. Fred Richardson, 27, 3143 Indiana. Lonnie Gibbs, 42, 3211 Wentworth ave. Archie Peck, Jr., 61. 4825 St. Lawrence ave. Sam'l Green, 64. 3853 Langley ave. Mollie Harris, 29. 4107 Vincennes ave. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit]. HON. ADELBERT H. ROBERTS Re-Nominated for Member of the Legislature from Senatorial District of Illinois. Co-Nominated for Member of the Legislature from the Third Senatorial District of Illinois. Cecil Wheeler, 4905 Federal st. Don Leachman, 37, 4506 State st. Wm. Wood, 21, 145 W. 35th st. John Houston, 53, 3210 S. Park ave. Ralph Brown, 32, 6221 S. Elizabeth st. Eliza Meyers, 53, 53 W. 34th st. Mary Seymour, 88, 3207 Prairie ave. Ant's Grip Is Businesslike. The small African warrior ant will permit his body to be torn from his head before he will let go the hold of his mandibles. A Souvenir. The Boston Transcript recently ran across this in a story: "She held out her hand and the young man took it and departed." Bird's Guard Our Trees We can spray orchards and shade trees with poisonous insecticides, but we would stand agast at the impossible task of spraying all the trees in all the woods, says the American Forestry Magazine. We must perforce depend on the natural enemies of insects to protect our forests. Fortunately, birds and other foes of insects, wherever their numbers are sufficient, act as effective forest guardians. Trial by Ordeal Trial by ordeal still exists in some parts of Japan. If a theft takes place in a household, all the servants are required to write a certain word with the same brush. The conscience is supposed to betray its workings in the waves of the ideographs written. Tracing an ideograph involves such an effort of muscular directness and undivided attention that this device often leends to the discovery of the gullity party. 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COMERFORD, Treasurer CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 BILL is a good substantial citizen who, like many of us, had, up to a short time ago, never saved his money systematically. CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY APRIL 22, 1922. that's nothing short of slavery. If you'll save—you'll have. Start a savings account in this bank today and add to it each pay day. & SAVINGS BANK son Streets Chicago ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle and Jackson Streets Chicago [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing forward, set against a plain background. The man's face is clearly visible, with a neutral expression. The image is oval-shaped with a white border.]] Who Is This? Office Phones: Main 1612, 1854 W. G. Anderson 184 W. Washington St., Cor. Wells Suite 603, Firmenich Bldg. Residence: 3354 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6845 CHICAGO Fireworks Development. Few industries have shown more development within a century than that of making fireworks. The fireworks makers have not only made important contributions to the art themselves, but have taken advantage of many discoveries and refinements made by others in chemistry and mechanics. The colors given to fireworks are produced by mineral salts, copper being made to produce green and blue; barium, green; sodium, yellow; calcium, red, and strontium, crimson. These salts are arranged in combination with meal gunpowder and the recipes for star compositions, rockets, squibs, roman candles and the like are almost without number. Among the "set pieces" are portraits, lettered designs, "fixed suns", fountains, palm trees, mosaic work and ships. First Method of Advertising. In Old Testament times, when the countries bordering on the Nile, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers were the center of trade, the Carthaginians used to sail along the Mediterranean with a boatload of their manufactures which they would unload on the coast of Lybia, and having lighted a bonfire near the goods, returned to their ships. The inhabitants, knowing by the bonfire that the Carthaginians had something to sell, would come out of their city to inspect it. Then they would pile up gold near the merchandise and retire into the city. The Carthaginians would land again, examine the gold, and if in their judgment it was equal in value to the goods they left, they would take it and sail away. This bonfire custom is the first method of advertising of which history tells. Hint to Precautious Take a piece of heavy copper wire 11 inches long and bend it in the shape of a hairpin. Lock the door, leaving the key in the lock, then place the curved angle of the wire over the shank or spindle back of the knob and put the two ends of the wire through the head of the key. The key cannot be pushed out nor turned. This is a light device which one can carry in a handbag if so desired and use in hotel rooms when traveling. Molasses on the Water During a hurricane in the West Indies the tank steamship Philip Publicer, carrying molasses in bulk, pumped overboard 280,000 gallons of the liquid to smooth off the seas and break their force. The action of the molasses on the water seemed to have the same effect as oil—Ship News. How Arizona City Got Name Phoenix, Arkl, was built near the well-defined ruins of an ancient pueblo. Darell Duppa, a scholar who was with the men who chose the spot, said: "Let us call it Phoenix, for here, upon the old, a new city shall rise," and told them of the bird in mythology called Phoenix which arose from its own ashes. Notary Publci 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 Reservoir Is Beautiful Spot, With Stately Homes That Seem to Arise From the Water. What the Brooklyn bridge is to the resident of Brooklyn the reservoir is to the middle uptown New Yorker—a refreshing and beautiful place for a brisk walk, says the New York Sun. The reservoir, particularly the upper one, with a path on the brink, is a place of romance. Across the water rise stately houses; they seem almost on the edge of the water, like the houses of Venice. Sometimes the water is a sheet of ice. One day it seemed like a stretch of gray taffeta, with inserts of blue crepe where the wind rippled the patches of water that remained. Close to the shore broken bits of ice tinkled continually against a stretch of solid ice, with the sound of sleigh bells. But in summer there is another aspect to the reservoir. Horseback riders gallop around in fetching costumes, while the water sparkles in the sun. But there is one point at a certain hour that lifts you out of New York, out of America, out of the world. The point is the western stretch of the southern side. The hour is sunset. The magic is produced by the fountain, a thin, high sweep of spray painted with rainbow shades by the setting sun. Up goes the stream, swirling into a gigantic feather in the gentle hands of the breeze. Suddenly the rainbow appears, to vanish as the wind swings the spray in another direction, to reappear again for a few breath-catching seconds. The spray sweeps here and there, covering you for an instant. The sun leaves it for a moment and the fountain becomes a bridal vell. Out comes the sun and the fountain flashes into glory. Timepieces Royal Hobby. Louis XVI had a passion for timepieces, and it is said that he had so difficult a time in adjusting his clocks and watches that he reflected on the "absurdity of his having attempted to bring men to anything like uniformity of belief in matters of faith when he could not make any two of his timepieces agree with each other." On one occasion his royal chef at his wits end for variety in his dishes said: "I really do not know what to do, unless it be to serve up your majesty a fricassee of watches." A Dog's Devotion Lovers of dogs will be interested in the story told at an inquest at the London hospital on the body of a man who committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window. In a letter written just before his death he wrote: "My dog Teddy follows me about. He knows things are very bad with me. I do hope he will be taken care of. As I pace up and down my room he walks with me." A witness said that the dog was very fond of his master and always seemed to understand when he was worried and in trouble. MONTREAL BURGER CHAMPIONS Attorney-At-Law Netary Public FUNERAL DIRECTORS ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 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. 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS PHONE MAIN 2314 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 8364 CHICAGO Formerly Assistant Attorney General State of Illinois Res. 3046 Grand Boul. Boug. 4887 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 16-17 Phone: Douglas 8381 CHICAGO 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 Wanted Advertising Solicitor 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 C West Englewood Trust & Savings Bank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $500,000.00 OFFICI John Bain, President Michael Maisel, Vice-Pres. Edw. C. Barry, Cashier The Cranford A 3600 WABAS The finest building ever opened Steam heat, electric lights, Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey OFFICERS A. President Maisel, Vice-Pres. Barry, Cashier Arthur C. Utesch, Assoc. W. Merle Fisher, Assoc. and Tru Cranford Apartment 3600 WABASH AVENUE building ever opened to Colored tenants in heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble en 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Wa OFFICERS John Bain, President Arthur C. Utesch, Asst. Cashier Michael Maisel, Vice-Pres. W. Merle Fisher, Asst. Cashier Edw. C. Barry, Cashier and Trust Officer 100 The Cranford Apartment Bldg. The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington St. FUNERAL DIRECT AL DIRECTORS CHICAGO ```markdown ``` ```markdown ```