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Bishop W. Sampson Brooks Secured More Than Two Thousand Dollars in Chicago to Aid Him in His Missionary or Educational Work in Africa. Several of His Wealthy White Friends in the East Have Contributed Ten Thousand Dollars to Buy Books and Other Literature for the Natives of That Country. So Far He Has Raised Thirty-Two Thousand Dollars of the Fifty Thousand Dollars, Which He Wants to Take Back With Him in December. BISHOP BROOKS HAS ALREADY CONSTRUCTED A COLLEGE AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL AT MONROVIA, LIBERIA, WHICH COST SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND IT IS FULLY PAID FOR. TUESDAY MORNING, PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FROM THIS CITY, JULIUS F. TAYLOR ENJOYED BREAKFAST WITH HIM AT THE VINCENNES HOTEL. Monday evening Bishop W. Sampon Brooks held his farewell meeting at Quinn Chapel. A large number of earnest men and women were present to greet Bishop Brooks. Presiding Elder N. J. McCracken offered the opening prayer. Rev Owens, assistant pastor, delivered some timely remarks and then without further ado Rev. H. E. Stewart, the honest and straight-ironward pastor of Quinn Chapel, introduced Bishop Brooks, who was warmly received when he arose to deliver his famous lecture on "Africa." He related a most wonderful and highly interesting story in connection with the many different tribes of Africa—their habits and their present backward mode of civilization, but before starting in to do so he related how he had struggled on up from the pastorship of a little church in northern Minnesota with less than 20 members, until he was elected one of the bishops of his church in 1920, at the general conference held at St. Louis, Mo.; that prior to being elected bishop of the 16th Episcopal district, for more than 20 years he had pastored many of the leading A. M. E. churches in all parts of this country, east, west, north and south, that he had cleared the debts of seventy-five thousand dollars each which had been hanging over the heads of the members of St. Paul's Church, St. Louis, Mo., and over the heads of the members of Bethel Church, Baltimore, Md., for many years; that long before he had been selected one of the bishops of his church he had made two long tours through Europe, even through Africa. Bishop Brooks went on to state that at the present time there are one hundred and ten million native born Africans in Africa who are classed as heathands and that there are forty million Mohammedans in Africa, making a total population of one hundred and fifty million people who must be civilized and converted to the religion of the cross; that the dark continent is five thousand miles long and four thousand miles wide; that traveling on a railroad train at the rate of five hundred miles every 24 hours, ten days will be consumed in traveling through it from end to end. That its climate is very mild all the year round; that the rainy season generally lasts six months—from May 1 to November 1; that Africa, being located right under the hot equator, no one is forced to make the slightest provisions for cold weather; THE BROAD AX that the vast majority of the natives, both men and women, travel around devoid of all clothing; that rice and all kinds of food products are brought forth by the hand of nature without the least labor on the part of the natives. Bishop Brooks further stated at that point that owing to the great shifting of humanity and civilization itself casting the Africans onto the West coast of Africa, where they were not compelled to labor in any manner, shape or form in order to exist caused them to lose everything except the Masonic sign. There are right now six hundred different tribes in Africa speaking more than one hundred distinct languages. Bishop Brooks let it be known right there and then that people should not go to Africa to live unless they are able to contribute towards its support and if you have nothing to give in the way of money, do not go there, for Africa has untold millions of its own who are poor indeed; who must be civilized and Christianized; that it will take many hundreds of years to accomplish that gigantic task; that all the people over the globe who are not civilized do not count for anything; that Africa must have schoolhouses everywhere; that its natives must be educated. It was stated by Bishop Brooks that all the students of Africa who receive their education in other countries never return back to their native land; that education and civilization are two separate and distinct propositions; that any person may be educated and not civilized; that civilization rounds out and places a large amount of polish upon all persons which cannot be acquired by education alone and as long as there is one black man down in Africa I am down, so that it is the solemn duty for all of us to strive so that Africa will become a great civilization force. The middle of last October Bishop Brooks laid the cornerstone for the Monrovia College and Industrial Training School at Monrovia, Liberia. The building is one hundred and fifty feet long by sixty-two feet wide; is three and a half stories high; is constructed of concrete and wooden blocks. It cost seventy-five thousand dollars and Bishop Brooks does not owe one dollar on it. All the work in connection with its construction was performed by heathens. At the laying of the cornerstone many of the natives walked hundreds of miles from all parts of Africa in order to be present on that history-making occasion J. B. Member of the City Council from the Thirty-Second Ward; Member of Its Finance Committee, Who Is One of the Most Popular City Fathers, and Republican Candidate for One of the Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago. ```markdown ``` and as about three per cent of the natives are civilized they laid down on the altar eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars to assist Bishop Brooks in his great educational and church work in Africa. Bishop Brooks has been back in this country about ten weeks and so far he has raised thirty-two thousand dollars of the fifty thousand dollars which he wants to take back with him when he leaves in December. Some of his wealthy white friends in the east have presented him with ten thousand dollars to be used to buy books and so on for his educational work in Africa. Bishop Brooks spent two weeks in this city collecting money in the interest of his work and he raised more than two thousand dollars. The amount he raised the first week was reported in the last issue of this newspaper and in closing up his efforts in that direction he raised the following sums from the churches not mentioned before: St. John's Church, $41; Rev. Maloney pastor; Morgan Park A. M. E. Church, Rev. W. E. Walden pastor, $51.20; A. M. E. Church, Maywood, Ill. Rev. W. H. Thomas pastor, $105; Coppin Chapel 43rd and south Wabash Ave., Rev. J. D. Cotton pastor, $75. Bishop Brooks held his last or farewell meeting Monday evening at Old Quinn Chapel, the mother church, and he raised $500, which was the largest amount that any church contributed in the middle or in the northwest. Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Stewart and their dutiful sons donated $25 to HON. JOHN H. LYLE The City Council from the Thirty- its Finance Committee, Who is C y Fathers, and Republican Car ers of the Municipal Court of Chi Bishop Brooks to aid him in his great uplift work and one young lady be- longing to Quinn Chapel presented Bishop Brooks with her diamond finger ring requesting him to sell it and use the money in his great work for his Lord and Master. Every once in awhile throughout his lecture-Bishop Brooks would stop and exclaim, "So and so is the case, Editor Taylor," and when he was ready to call for some money he had no trouble in lifting some money right out of our hip pocket. As stated in these columns many times before that for more than twenty years that Bishop Brooks has been one of our warmest friends; that he is the right Bishop in the right place, and that we have unbounded faith in his honesty of purpose and that he is accomplishing a lasting work for the redemption of Africa. EARLY ACTION EXPECTED ON ANTI-LYMCHING-BILL After the passage of the Tariff Bill, the United States Senate took up for consideration on August 23, the Bonus Bill. On August 21, there appeared a special despatch in the New York Evening Post stating that the debate on the Bonus would probably be ended within ten days, and that a conference was to be held during the week of the twentieth between President Harding and leaders of both houses, of the Congress to determine on the legislative program for the remainder of this session. The National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People has maintained from the very beginning that the Senate must pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill before this session of Congress adjourns, and particularly before the November elections. The Negro vote of the country is united on the matter of anti-lynching legislation as it has never been united on any other issue. That sentiment and especially the feeling of resentment because of the failure of Congress to act earlier must be kept alive. Our most potent and effective weapon is the vote, and that weapon must be used to the utmost. That the leaders of Congress might know the overwhelming demand for passage of the Dyer Bill at this session of Congress, the N. A. A. C. P. immediately upon receipt of the information regarding the conference on other measures to be considered by the Senate, immediately telegraphed twenty-five of its largest branches located in strategic political centers asking that telegrams be sent to the Senators from their states by the branches, other organizations and individuals, both white and colored, and that these branches get in touch with all towns within a radius of two hundred miles to secure similar action in these states. In this way a maximum of pressure was secured at a minimum of cost. At the same time President Harding was wired, and all of the leaders of the Senate were written, setting forth the urgent necessity of consideration of and vote upon the Dyer Bill as soon as the Bonus Bill was disposed of. Important and influential men of prominence were wired to the same el- BOOK CHAT BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. By Ludwig Lewisohn, Published by Messrs. Boni and Liverright, New York City. Price $3.00. Postage, 10 cents extra. "Up Stream" is called by its author "An American Chronicle." It discloses not Negro, but Jewish, discrimination, relating the life of a young Jew, born in Germany but coming to this country when eight years of age. His family settled in Charleston, S. C., where young Lewisohn went to school and college and where he first tasted, though only to a slight extent, race prejudice. He was not included in a college fraternity, and after graduation he was not permitted by the president of its board to teach in a private school where his scholarship had led to his appointment. But he thought little of this. He had taken his Americanism very seriously, believing that America gave equal opportunity to all. With this belief in his heart he went to New York in studied at his chief university and prepared himself to teach English literature. When he had finished the work for his doctorate he was assured by the professor under whom he had done the most of his work that he had better give up his plan. "A recent experience has shown me" the professor wrote, "how terribly hard it is for a man of Jewish birth to get a good position. I had always suspected that it was a matter worth considering but I had not known how widespread and strong it was. While we shall be glad to do anything we can for you, I cannot help feeling that the chances are going to be greatly against you." "I sat in my boarding-house," Lewis-oinsho says, "playing with the letter. I seemed to have no feeling at all for the moment. By the light of a sunbeam that fell in I saw that the picture of my parents on the mantlepiece was very dusty. I got up and wiped the dust off carefully. Gradually an erie, lost feeling came over me. fect, with the request that they use their influence in urging action by the Senate. Press releases were sent to secure pressure from that important source. Certain of the Senators who are to lead the fight for the bill were reached by long distance telephone and were impressed with the necessity of bestirring themselves. In all of these and other ways was action urged. As a result there is a strong possibility of favorable action. James Weldon Johnson, who had left the city only a few days to get a much needed rest and vacation before this situation arose, was advised of this new development and immediately arranged to go to Washington to remain until soma definite action was taken. Before leaving, Johnson said: "May I appeal once more to those who have so loyally met crisis after crisis in this fight to once again bombard their Senators with telegrams 5 CENTS per copy an Two His Mis- veral of ve Con- oks and Country. Dollars Wants to ARY WHITE OVING- N OF THE EXECU- TEE OF THE NA- CIATION FOR THE T OF COLORED * * * I ate nothing until evening when I went into 'a bakery and, catching sight of myself in a mirror, noted with dull objectivity my dark hair, my melancholy eyes, my unmistakably Semitic nose. * * * An outcast. * * * A sentence arose in my mind which I have remembered and used ever since. So long as there is discrimination there is exile." Lewisohn is very desirous that we should understand what this rebuff meant to him. It was not a matter of a young man out of a job. It was a spiritual thing. His psychical life was Aryan, through and through, and he was forbidden the entrance he desired into Aryan life. One's first reaction to the book is of amazement that such comparatively slight discrimination should mean so much. Lewisohn was welcomed at the University in Charleston, his ability recognized, his friends cordial. What if, when he looked in the glass and saw his dark eyes, he had also seen a darkness of skin, and had found that when he set foot in the university he was told to take his place with the freight and the dogs. Compared to the ambitious colored youth of Charleston, of whom the writer never speaks, his lot was Paradise. But one should not judge from this standard. It is the sensitiveness of the spirit, not the extent of the persecution, that counts; and the man who wrote "Up Stream" is a man of great sensitiveness, one who writes with extraordinary beauty, a noble spirit loving the land of his adoption but learning to hate it for its hypocrisy. It is worth while reading this story. I can think of no American writer, except Du Bois, who uses English with such power and yet with such rhythmic beauty. And Du Bois has given us no such complete chronicle of his life. Ludwig Lewisohn is coming into his own, and his influence as an American must be kindly, in sympathy with those who struggle against discrimination. We need such people in the United States. urging that the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill be passed before this session of Congress ends. I know that you have worked faithfully and well, but we are now covering what I hope and believe to be the last lap of the journey. Send a telegram to each of the Senators from your state. Get every organization in your city, colored and white, to send one. Get your pastor and church to send one. Get your lodge to send one. Get every man and woman you can to send one. There ought to be one hundred thousand telegrams to pour into Washington to let the Senate know that the entire country is aroused and will accept no excuse for failure to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill." Mrs. Abe Kinney, accompanied by her daughter, Minnie Kinney, are in the city and will spend some time as the guest of their son and brother, T. J. Kinney, 3142 Calmuel avenue. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 9, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago ii. Under Act of March 8, 1879. HOW WE MUST OVERCOME Most of the trouble today is caused by the evil in the hearts of the people. It is not so much the economic situation as it is the social lack of equilibrium. The great forces in the world revolve around the human aspirations, ambitions and dispositions of the people. Today we are threatened with an almost social eclipse. The marauding hand of the despot in the social world it at the throo of every man's fireside. Women and men it seems are rushing pell-mell down the wide road to human destruction, and the pity of it is, there seems to be no power on earth able to stop this onrush of maddened devility. The very atmosphere seems electrically charged with the rotten deception that makes slaves out of the very stoutest among us. Immorality seems to be the present popular game played by men and women against whom no one heretofore would suspect of the least deviation of moral rectitude. Something must be done to stimulate a potential moral'prowess in the children of a desperate age such as this fs. The home needs the help of the church and the Sunday School at their best; Truth must become the foundation stone, and every gracious impulse must be seized on speedily if we would cause a halt to the present spirit of moral decay which is becoming so manifest. Every force for the good of a nobler humanity must become allied with a superhuman propaganda to battle against the Satanic devilment of mankind. We have got to try to make a real heaven on earth to take the place of the mushroom hell that is beginning to engulf and swallow us alive. We must stop our emotionalism and resort more to the preachments of sober conduct, making our intelligence a worthy handmaiden to our religion and professions of Christianity. We are to erect the temple of God more in the hearts of mortals than is the feelings and im- ```markdown ``` [Name] HON. MICHAEL ROSENBERG Successful Business Man; Member of the Constitution of Illinois, and Candidate for One of the Sanitary District of Chicago. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN aginations. Decency and the good order must be the great fortress for our salvation. Professing this and professing that, with herculean efforts to live true to the principles of what is professed spell only hypocrisy and human degradation. Long sermons, mournful prayers, unsupported by righteous deeds, do not aid moral sobriety. Howling pretenses sustained only by deception weakens our moral fabric. America—the land of the free and the home of the brave—has not a representative in congress. It is not at all creditable to a party that has so long enjoyed the unanimous support of a race not to have vastly much more consideration than it has heretofore received. We do not dispute the fact that we have not been as interested in our own as we have been in the interests of those who walk into office by our We must build our tower of faith in the confidence and belief in one another always superinduced by the noblest spirit. Pure lives, spotless character, virtue and the rest of it can alone make heaven in the hearts of mankind. NO POLITICAL BUNGLING WITH THE NEW NEGRO The present administration has the opportunity to make itself secure with the Negro vote in the north by passing the Dyer bill. If, by some kind of political indifference, it should allow this great opportunity to pass and the Dyer bill is defeated, then it is good-bye to the hopes of Republicanism in America. We have been watching the spirit of the politician for many long days, and we are of the opinion that the Republican party takes the Negro voter for a sure thing in the face of the hurricanes of hell it has let unmercifully rain down upon the luckless head of the race. There is a wide difference between the young Negroes of the present and the past. We know that it has held the Negro voter with a few jobs, and the promises of others, and promised legislation that would help to remove the hand of the tyrant off our necks. It is today not jobs as much as it is favorable legislation that we are demanding. The Negro h is been played with quite long enough. For more than a decade we have been without a representative in the halls of congress. It is a shame upon the grand old party that a race controlling over a billion of dollars of wealth in grand 1930 er of the Constitutional Conven- ate for One of the Trustees of ago. BISHOP W. SAMPSON BROOKS America—the land of the free and the home of the brave—has not a representative in congress. It is not at all creditable to a party that has so long enjoyed the unanimous support of a race not to have vastly much more consideration than it has heretofore received. We do not dispute the fact that we have not been as interested in our own as we have been in the interests of those who walk into office by our consolidated vote. Let the big mouth, mushy politician come among us and throw a few bouquets at some of the race, and we throw a double fit in shooting ourselves hoarse for him. If a few well-chosen fellows are given preferment, that is their bait to catch the rest of us. But we must not lose sight of the fact that we are to be delivered bag and baggage over to the politician for what the well-chosen fellows are given. It may all be in the game of politics that a people's interests are jeopardized for the good of a faithful bunch of fellows who bask in the glorious favor of the heads of the party. This applies to local, state and national politics. It is no more the old time faithful well-meaning Negro who turned a somersault with his hat in his hand whenever a white man shot the bull to him. We thank God for living in an age when the stalwart young manhood of the race mounts high, exercising an intelligence in the affairs of the land that will not take bungling for business. The politician hereafter will have to take the whole race into sober, serious consideration. He will have to sign up and keep a covenant that he has embodied in the principle of his campaign. A new order for a new day is to become the rule and to make good with the rising tide of young voters of the Negro race is the only way the Republican party can expect our political consideration. EMINENT DIVINE WILL SPEAK AT BERANE BAPTIST CHURCH, MONDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 4TH, AT 8:30 P. M. Rev. Charles S. Morris, upon whose shoulders fell the oratorical mantle of the jambed Frederick Douglass, will speak. His subject will be: "I Tremble for the Future of Our Country When I Remember That God Is Just, and That His Mercy Will Not Endure Always." Dr. Morris has a host of stalwart friends in Chicago who still cherish fresh in their memory the great work he fostered in the Windy City during the great World's Fair in 1893, viza Colored People's Day at the World's Pair. It was in Festival Hall that he put on the great program of which Hon. Frederick Douglass was the chief speaker. Every person appearing in that great festival was a national star—Miss Hallie Q. Brown, elocutionist; Will Marion Cook, violinist; Madam Deserio Plato, prima douna; Harry Thacker Burleigh, harboret; Sidney Wcodard of Boston, tenor; J. Arth Freeman, tenor; Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet. It was a day of days for the Negro in America. Dr. Morris will reach Chicago with his band of singers next Saturday. He is enroute to Canada where he will speak and lecture on an elaborate scale. Monday night, Sept 4th, he will speak at Berean Baptist Church, 52nd and Dearborn streets. The committee having this lecture in charge invite the public to come out and hear this able man of the race. Admission is free—(M.) CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922 CHARLES (BETTER) STUMP, THE POOR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS BEEN SPENDING MUCH TIME IN TRAMPING AROUND THROUGH THE EAST AND SOUTH AND AT LAST HAS CHECKED UP FOR A STOP IN OLD CHICAGO. Chicago, IL—Dr. R. H. Boyd, of National Baptist Publishing Board fame, has passed into the Great Beyond. This information came to me last Saturday just as I was about to leave Philadelphia and I at once started out to find out just when the funeral would be, but when I got the proper information it was too late for me to start. He died on Wednesday. I did not learn of it until I went to see Dr. W. G. Parks Saturday afternoon. We shall miss him. Then comes the information that on account of the strike the National Baptist convention will not meet next week in Los Angeles, but will wait until the men get through striking, and then the Baptists will come together from all parts of the country and take up grave matters of interest to them all—I expect to be there and enter into them. Rev. Dr. A. M. Townsend is going right on with the work of constructing that great publishing house, and when it is finished the whole country will sit up and take notice. They are going to put in the building just $300,000, and that is worth while. The Baptists of the National Baptist convention are working today as just one, and you know when you get Baptists to pull together then something is bound to happen. But do you known that h-1 broke loose in New York and the old devil walked right into Col. Garvey's camp, and I am informed that the business has been split wide open, and if you don't watch before they are through with it there is something going to drap, and I will not be in the drapping, for I have never been in the thing. Now this is what happened: There was one man who was at the head of the American Negroes, and he stepped forward and declared that His Excellency, Honorable Marcus Garvey, President-General of the United Negro Improvement Association, and Provisional President of Africa, with a salary for the two positions alleged to aggregate $21,000 annually, was incapable to ruling, and that he had been shortsighted in his investments and just squandered the money of the people; that he had raised $144,000 for improvements in Africa and only $4,000 of that amount found its way to Africa and it would take judgment alone to tell where the other had gone. Big salaries and unwise investments had been the graveyards for a few thousand dollars. Honorable Marcus Garvey is the bandmaster, and the people love to follow the big horn blower, and believe me, honey, that black man has been blowing some horn, and people have followed him by the thousands. Preachers have left their pulpits, to leave Jesus and follow Garvey, and every one of them has fal'n by the wayside. There is poor Rev. J. D. Brooks — took, Garvey instead of Jesus Christ; became one of the most cussing men in the country, and the next thing I heard Garvey had him inside looking out through little cracks, praying to God to deliver him from "THE I AM ALL MIGHTY," and to get him out of jail. Then he went into court and got judgment for his salary, I am told, and he is now no longer connected with that great organization. Now, if you want to know the rest just call on the Rev. Mr. Eason, who has been preaching Garveyism, and at the session last week he was tried, convicted by the Garvey court, expelled from the order, and when he got straight and brought suit against his Lord and Master Garvey in the same court, of course Garvey was turned spark clean free, and was not even told to "Go in peace and sin no more." Eason was the sinner and Garvey the saint, but I am told that Eason has received a charter for another organization which will be purely American, and told Garvey he could go where it was perpetual summer and the wind was never known to blow, and I am looking through geography to find out just where that unknown clime is. I have devoted enough space to that stuff for this time, but now permit me to tell you that I have been going some since I wrote you that last letter you read from me, and I am going some more in a few days, so you just look and listen and get the information for yourself. Do you remember that I attended the National Negro Business League in Norfolk? It was some meeting, believe me, honey. I told you about it last week and then I went to Richmond after looking into Hampton Institute and seeing the big people there. It was a fine look in, and Major Allen Washington was one more busy man, and that head cook there did not give me a very good impression of his highness, but there must be some odd sheep in the flock and he was that one. I had the pleasure of being in charge of Fifth Street Baptist Church for one whole day, and at the close I got my walking papers and a check for my day's work. Monday morning, bright and early, I got myself together and made it out to Hanover where I found a most remarkable institution, the Manual Labor School of Virginia for Boys. This is an institution for the purpose of giving the boy who has side-stepped to the right or left, and they strive to get his feet back in the straight path. This is an opportunity institution, and at the head is Thomas J. Edwards, an excellent young man, and he is doing a fine work. I am going to tell you all about him one of these days. I am going to make a special write-up of the institution. Then off to Washington in the evening, and this time was spent with that remarkable race man, Dr. W. H. Jernagin, president of the National Race Congress and who is willing to spend all of his money and time for the development of his own people. He was spending sleepless nights over his people. Just now, it comes to light, that there is to be placed over our soldiers a white man to succeed Dr. O. J. W. Scott, chaplain retired. I wish others would join him in this fight. If you want the information, just drop a line to Dr. W. H. Jernagin, 1341 Third street N. W. Washington, D. C., and he will gladly tell you about it. The next morning he had me to accompany him to Baltimore to meet a Baptist Association. I enjoyed the trip very much. Called to see the widow of the late Daniel A. Murphy, who was connected with the Afro-American, and she is getting along nicely. I also called on Mrs. John Hurst, and her name is Mrs. K. Bertha Hurst. She was sick in bed, but improving. I had the pleasure of meeting many friends in Baltimore, and left there after talking to the Baltimore Bishop Timber, Dr. A. L. Gaines, and he is in the next race and there to win. Off then for Philadelphia, where I spent just one night, and then on to New York, stopping with one of the next bishops of the A. M. E. Church, Dr. M. W. Thornton, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church. He shook my lily black hand and assured me that I was welcome to his home then and all the time. Out to see New York the next day I had the pleasure of meeting President N. W. Collier, of the ancient city and of the Florida Normal and Industrial School. He is the president and they are doing great work in St Augustine. He is up there in New York getting some money for the work. I also met Hon. C. H. Anderson, the business man of the race. He is a wonder, and a great man. Next found me in company with Miss Ruth Bradley, of Kansas City, Kan. I am sure you will remember this wonderful young woman. I am here to tell you that New York is some place, and if you don't watch you may lose your head, your pants, your money at any corner or in the middle of the block. I will not tell you my experience in the city this time. Visited the plant of the New York Age. They have a wonderful plant there. Fred R. Moore is the editor and he is a scholar and a gentleman. I note that Emmett J. Scott declares that he did not bow at the feet of Hon. Marcus Garvey and get the degree or some other title or what not. He has no time for such stuff as that. He is a real busy man. I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop. I have been back through Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, and I am now in big Chicago, but I will be away from here when you read this letter. I am praying God to put President Warren G. Harding on the right track, and if he fails then it is good night for the party at the next enection. We are going to seek men and not parties in the future. The man who will do the right thing, I care not if he happens to be on the devil's ticket, we will give him a vote. You may write to me at 1116 Washington boulevard, Kansas City, Kan CHARLES E. STUMP. LEAVES FOR HOME Miss Jeannete Reeves has returned to her home in Winchester, Ky., after persuading special work at the University of Chicago during the summer. While in the city Miss Reeves was the guest of Mrs. Nettie Anderson and Miss Ruth C. Baskin, 3234 Vernon avenue. M. J. HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN Member of Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois who lately returned to Washington, D. C., from an official trip to the Old World. GET THE CHILDREN READY On Tuesday, September 5th, approximately 600,000 children will assemble in the public and parochial schools of Chicago to begin their work for the coming school year. Because of the assembling in the schools of this city of so large a number of children, it is of first importance that they should start the school year in good health. It also is equally important that the parents of these children should have them payically ready and fit for beginning their school work. They will not have time, however, to make a careful examination, and it is certain that the children will have opportunities for mingling together before they are seen by the school doctor. Because this is true there are some things the parents should do along the lines of protecting the health of school children generally and of preventing the spread of contagious diseases. SNATCHES MASK OFF KU KLUX Austin, Tex. — The trial of Edgar Shelton, charged with disturbing re- The records of the Department of Health show that shortly after the opening of the schools there is a marked rise in the number of cases of the communicable diseases. It is perfectly natural-and to be expected. We are beginning to understand better than ever before the important fact that persons, not things, are responsible for the spread of disease. Most of the communicable diseases are conveyed by contact. This means by the mingling of the sick with the well. If only every pupil who will ether the schools on the opening day were free from contagion there would be no increase of the communicable diseases as the result of opening the schools. It is quite certain, however, that there will be a few in every school with diphtheria germs in the nose or throat; there will be a few who have recently recovered from a slight attack of scarlet fever and with the germs still present in the throat or nose; there will be a few who have not entirely recovered from whooping cough; there will be some who have not been properly protected by vaccination against smallpox, and there will be some with coughs and colds, and these are infectious. The school health officers and field nurses will be at the schools on opening day and will quickly examine the children as they enter the schools. WON ANTON A SERMAK Member of the City Council from the Twelfth Ward; Member of Its Finance Committee; Successful Real Estate Dealer; Baseball Fan, and the People's Candidate for President of the Board of Cook County Commissioners. They will not have time, however, to make a careful examination, and it is certain that the children will have opportunities for mingling together before they are seen by the school doctor. Because this is true there are some things the parents should do along the lines of protecting the health of school children generally and of preventing the spread of contagious diseases. SNATCHES MASK OFF KU KLUX Austin, Tex. — The trial of Edgar Shelton, charged with disturbing religious worship in an attempt to unmask a Klu Klus Klansman, who, with four other Klansmen, visited a South Austin Baptist revival meeting, for the purpose of presenting a cash donation to the pastor, resulted in a verdict of NOT GUILTY by a jury in the Travis County Court. The jury was out less than one-half hour. Shelton is said to be a graduate of the University of Texas and was recently appointed an assistant instructor in the University of Illinois. Shelton was a member of the church choir. Witnesses testified that the first Klansmen, masked and robed, entered the tent in which the revival was being held, just before the close of the service. When they approached the pulpit, Shelton, it was testified, attempted to pull the mask from the face of one of the Klansmen. The Klansman, it was testified, struck Shelton a blow, knocking him down. There was a general exodus of the congregation of 400 people. Before any serious injuries could be inflicted, two Deputy Sheriffs appeared on the scene and took Shelton into custody. It was also brought out at the trial that the visit of the Klansmen was not unexpected by the pastor, as several days prior to the visit request was made that they be permitted to visit the revival tent and tender a cash donation. J DR. ADENA C. E. MINOTT Founder of the Cilo School of Mental Science and Character Analysis, Who Will Be Tendered a Farewell Reception Saturday Afternoon, September-9. Almost six years ago Dr. Adena C. E. Minott came to this great city from New York City, where she is well and favorably known, and established a branch of her mental science school at 3543 South State street, which she successfully conducted at that number until the first part of June, 1921. From that time on to the present she has been located at the Vincennes Apartments, 615 East 36th street. As a metaphysician and efficiency expert, Dr. Minott has no superior. Owing to the continual increase of her business in New York City, she has finally decided to permanently reside there in the future and on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 9th, many of her friends and former students will give a farewell reception in her honor at the Unity Club, 3140 Indiana avenue. Miss Jennie Lawrence will serve as chairman of the affair. She MR. JESSE BINGA, PRESIDENT OF THE BINGA STATE BANK HAS RETURNED HOME AFTER A PLEASANT TOUR THROUGH THE EAST. Tuesday morning Mr. Jesse Binga, president of the Binga State Bank, after attending the sessions of the National Negro Business League at Norfolk, Va., and after visiting many other interesting points in the East, arrived home by way of Idlewild, Mich., accompanying Mrs. Binga home, where she had been spending three or four weeks' vacation and her outing has done Mrs. Binga a world of good as she has been completely restored to the best of health and she never has looked any better than she does at the present time. Mr. Binga was greatly pleased with his trip through the East, and he states that the Colored people everywhere in the East are making steady progress. RECEPTION, WHIST PARTY AND GARDEN PARTY IN HONOR OF SEVERAL LADY VISITORS TO THIS CITY. Last Friday and Saturday, Mrs. Chester Farley, 5325 Indiana avenue, received in honor of Mrs. A. Jones of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. T. H. Dickson of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Georgia Jenkins of New York City; Mrs. Martin of Berkley, Cal.; Mrs. Alma Dorrill and Miss Alpha Maxwell of 4207 Prairie avenue. At the conclusion of the reception, whist was in order and Mrs. A. Jones of Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Martin of Berkley, Cal., won guests' prizes and Mrs. Gertie Chrisp won first prize. M. B. will be ably assisted by Mrs. Irene M. Gaines and Mrs. B. Lacey. A splendid program has been arranged by these ladies for the occasion. It will be participated in by Madane Anita Patti Brown, who will sing; Prof. F. Theodore Taylor, instrumental selection; Mrs. Bertha Williams Jordon, piano selection; Miss Carol McCoy, select reading; Prof. Charles Elgar, violin selection; speaking, by Mr. W. E. Mollison. The Ladies Saxophone Band will furnish the music, Mrs. Isabel Johnson, director. Major John R. Lynch, Mr. Anthony Overton, Mrs. Irene M. Gaines, Rev. Father John Henry Simons and Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, who compose the Western Advisory Board of the School of Mental Science, will all assist to make the affair most pleasant in every way. Dr. Minott has, during the length of time that she has resided in this city, made many friends, among its best and most substantial citizens, and they all join in wishing her a large amount of success in her former field of labor in New York City. Mrs. W. White, 4606 Indiana avenue, on Friday evening, gave a very delightful garden party in honor of many lady visitors to this city and whist was also part of the pleasure of the evening. Mrs. T. H. Dickson of St. Louis won the first prize. U. S. ATTORNEY-GENERAL DE NOUNCES THE KU KLUX Daugherty Terms It "A Distinct Menace to Decent Government Salem, Ore—United States Attorney-General Daugherty refers to the Ku Klux Klan as a "disfinct menace to decent government," in a letter to Gov. Olcott concerning the move against the Klan in Oregon. The letter replies to one from Gov. Olcott thanking the Federal department for its co-operation in the prosecuting of men said to be Klan members for alleged outrages in Jackson County. "I think you and your assistants are rendering a signal service to the public generally as well as to your own. State in endeavoring to stamp out a distinct menace to decent government," says Daugherty's letter. NO PLACE FOR A COLORED MAN Orators of our race are fond of telling audiences that there is no place in the economy of God and nature in which a colored man is not found. There are exceptions, however. Congressman Johnson of South Dakota plans to print on the fifth of each month a slacker list, an authentic record of draft dodgers during the war. The list for August 25 is interesting, ranging as it does, from Oklahoma and Texas to Massachu- CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922 The Popular and Up-to-Date Treasurer of Cook County, Who With His Thousands of Warm Friends Scattered Throughout This City and County Feel Dead Sure of His Election to His Present Position This Coming Fall. setts and Pennsylvania. There are on the list in round numbers, 5,100 names. Of this number one is that of a colored man. One out of 5,100 slackers. And they tell us that colored men are cowards! WOMAN ASKS VOTERS TO DE FEAT VARDAMAN Jackson, Miss.-Miss Belle Kearney, a defeated candidate for the democratic nomination for Senator from Mississippi, has issued a statement asking the voters of the State to defeat James K. VVardaman in the "run-off" primary on September 5. "The solid sense of the country would deplete that statesman like John Sharp Williams could be succeeded in the State by a demagogue of Vardaman's stripe." The Negro, too, does not want Vardaman in the Senate again. It is bad enough to tolerate Pat Harrison. They desire to take a chance on Hubert D. Stephens. Vardaman is a hindrance to the Negro and a disgrace to the Nation. WOMEN'S BROOMS ROUT KLANSMEN AT INITIATION Pittsburgh, Pa. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan were engaged in initiating several candidates on Duquesne Heights, highest spot in Pittsburgh, at midnight, when a crowd of men and women, armed with shotguns, clubs and brooms, appeared on the scene and members of the Klan and their novices escaped in waiting automobiles. Residents have formed a vigilance committee and asked the police department to stop Klan activities on the hilltops. The Popular and His Thousand and County tion This Co ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS AND LADIES IN SESSION The United Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World, with Dr. E. A. Williams of Cincinnati, president, met in its biennial session, Aug. 28th to 31st at Walters A. M. E. Zion Church, Monday, the opening day, public exercises were held and a splendid program rendered. The Juvenile department held its exercises on Wednesday afternoon and on Wednesday evening a reception was tendered the delegates at 3524 Michigan avenue. Thursday, after final business, the session closed with Dr. Williams paying a tribute to the local committee and to the officers of this city and state and predicting a bright future for them. TWO COLORED BOYS RRAVE LAKE DEATH; SAVE WHITE BOY Two 10-year-old Colored boys braved a heavy sea Sunday night and swam for more than 300 yards to the rescue of a white boy caught in the undertow at the 22nd street beach. The boy rescuers are Brewer MeGee, 11 West 17th street, and John Ransfor, 910 South State street. The rescued boy was taken to St. Luke's hospital, where he was unconscious for several hours. He is still unidentified. That was one brave act on the part of the two little Colored boys and each one of them should receive a diamond medal for their reward. Editor. M.-T. Bailey, president of the Bailey Realty Co. and manager of the Milton Mercantile Agency, 3638 State street, has moved from 3556 Giles avenue to 4114 Calmeth avenue, in the Third Ward. Mr. Bailey has lived for many years in the Second Ward and is a member of more than twenty-four, fraternal organizations and social clubs and is known from Maine to California, from the Gull Stream to the Arctic Region for his hospitality to the traveling stranger. He will make a hard fight for clean politics and good citizenship in the Third Ward. IN VIRGINIA J. B. Street, president of The Joint Building Association of U. B. F. & S./ M. T., worthy master of North Star Lodge and vice-president of the Virginia Society of Chicago, is now at Crewe, Va., his home town, after an absence of many years. While away, Mr. Street will visit Hampton Institute, his alma mater, Richmond, Norfolk and Petersburg, Va., Washington and New York. LEAVE FOR MINNEAPOLIS After spending some time in the city, the guest of her many friends who entertained in her honor from time to time, Mrs. Francis DeLeo of Minneapolis, Minn., has returned to her home and is contemplating on returning to the city to make this her home in the near future. N. PATRICK J. CALE Up-to-Date Treasurer of Cook Co d of Warm Friends Scattered Thro Feel Dead Sure of His Election to Timing Fall. HON. PATRICK J. CARR MRS. SMITH LEAVES Mrs. D. M. Smith of Covington, Ky., left the city Tuesday for her home after spending a delightful visit in this city with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Claybrook, 4820 Langley avenue. HERE ON VISIT Mrs. Mary J. Ford of Morrow, La. is in the city to spend some time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice E. Johnson, the wife of Lewis Johnson, 4231 Calumet avenue. WHITE SOLDIER DESERTS TO MARRY COLORED GIRL Omaha, Neb.-Love, blind love, played its true role last week when a white soldier married a colored girl of this city, and defied the law against "desertion" by remaining with her over the prescribed time and is now facing life sentence or death at the hands of a court martial at the local barracks. Holmer Homerickhouse, a soldier at Fort Des Moines, deserted the army and married a colored girl, Sadie Griffith. Rev. Saunders, a, colored minister of one of the churches of the Southeast section of the city, performed the ceremony. Rev. Saunders received a call from Capt. Williams of Fort Des Moines last Monday relative to the legality of the mar- ```markdown ``` MRS. SNOWDEN REMAINS Mrs. Leanna C. Snowden of Lexington, Ky., after attending the summer session at the University of Chicago, still remains with friends in the city and is at present at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Todd, 4850 Evans avenue. RETURNS TO ST. LOUIS Mrs. Mary Mahaley and Mrs. Pearl Williams, who spent several pleasant weeks in the city the guest of their mother and sisters in Morgan Park and the city, have returned to St. Louis, Mo., their home, much pleased with their stay. Dr. A. Walker Bibb, 358 East 35th street, corner Grand boulevard, has met with extraordinary success in the practice of his chosen profession and he is forging to the front and is ranking with the best physicians and surgeons in the city. He would make a mighty good catch for some marriageable sensible lady. Col. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger to Mayor William Hale Thompson and one of the big Shriners, arrived home last Saturday morning from Washington, D. C., where he attended the big Masonic doings and shook hands with President Harding. RR County, Who With throughout This City His Present Posi- ```markdown ``` riage. On Tuesday the minister received another telephone call to the same effect, asking him to appear at the court martial trial, which was Wednesday morning. The soldier disappeared from the fort and dunned civilian clothes only a few days before the marriage. They were living at 222 Southwest Second street peaceable until his matrimonial ship was upset by intruders, as he thought. The penalty in a case of desertion carries with it death in most cases. THREE HELD IN PLOT TO WRECK N. V. C. EXPRESS Three men charged with conspiring to wreck the Western Express, one of the fast New York to Chicago trains on the New York Central, were arrested early Thursday morning by Lieut. Michael Grady and his squad from the detective bureau. According to George Collins, chief special agent for the New York Central, upon whose information the arrests were made, the wrecking of the flyer, which was to have taken place Tuesday, was to be a continuance of the terrorist plot started with the Michigan Central wreck at Gary. The prisoners gave their names as Frank R. Hartman, 4217 Wentworth avenue; J. J. Boyle, 5120 Union avenue; and C. A. Lagham, 1848 Langley avenue. They were taken into custody at their homes. ```markdown ``` Mary Louise MADAM N. A. FRANKLIN-McCOY Founder and Head of the N. A. Franklin System of Beauty Culture and Manufacturing Company, Who Together With Her Many Able Assistants, Personally Supervise the Thorough Instruction of All the Students Taking the Course of Beauty Culture. Madam N. A. Franklin-McCoy, who, with the able assistance of her husband, Mr. W. L. McCoy, who is one of the keenest business men that the Colored race has so far produced, have for some years been successfully engaged in business in Houston, Tex. The Franklin-McCoy Manufacturing Company is composed of Madam N. A. Franklin-McCoy, president and treasurer; Mrs. Pansy Franklin, vice-president; Mr. W. L. McCoy, business manager. her own establishment: Hair grower, temple grower, pressing oil, hair tonic, shampoo soap, menthol salve, bleaching cream, skin rejuvenator, massage cream, vanishing cream, face powder, instant beautifier. Madam Franklin constantly employs seventeen to twenty young Colored women in her manufacturing establishment at Houston, Tex. As Chicago is the center of the universe and all railroads lead to it from Without any boasting, it can be truly said, that the Madam Franklin-School of Beauty Culture and Manufacturing company has become well and favorably known in all parts of this country and even beyond the confines of the United States. So far almost five hundred students have graduated from the Franklin School of Beauty Culture and they are located in many parts of this country. Two hundred and fifty of that number are located at Houston, Tex. Madam Franklin continues to make it possible for hundreds of Colored women to make an honest and independent living, by being able to master her system of beauty culture and handling her toilet articles or preparations, which are guaranteed to be absolutely pure, non-injurious to the face and scalp and they have no superior. Madam Franklin's twelve toilet articles or preparations, which follow, are all manufactured and put up in I 307 JU BEN HON. MEDILL McCORMICK United States Senator from Illinois, Who Is Wor Doing Everything in His Power to Secure the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill by the United United States Senator from Illinois, Who Is Working Hard and Doing Everything in His Power to Secure the Passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill by the United States Senate. her own establishment: Hair grower, temple grower, pressing oil, hair tonic, shampoo soap, menthol salve, bleaching cream, skin rejuvenator, massage cream, vanishing cream, face powder, instant beautifier. Madam Franklin constantly employs seventeen to twenty young Colored women in her manufacturing establishment at Houston, Tex. As Chicago is the center of the universe and all railroads lead to it from everywhere, Madam Franklin finally decided to make this city the central point for conducting the rapidly growing or increasing business and she has opened up a manufacturing business at 235 East 35th street, and she has established a beauty shop and school of beauty culture parlor at 3342 South State street. It is up to date and first class in every respect. So far Madam Franklin employs ten or twelve young Colored women in her two Chicago establishments and as time rolls on, she will increase that number. 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We have just published a booklet called "An Investor's Letters" which contains all of Ralph's and Bill's correspondence. You will find it very interesting and it may clear up some of the questions you have in your own mind about investment matters. We shall be glad to send "An Investor's Letters" free of charge or obligation to anyone who requests it. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government supervision 31st and South State Streets Riesphone Victory 4500 Says her hair was short, course and nappy before using this wonderful hair grower. Okly hair that can be easily dressed a happy thousands of women who ha will do the same for you. If you was or if you have dandruff and jitche ELENTO QUININE POMADE. May be mail for an receipt of ramps or coin. ANTEED- Write for Particular. NE COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia HEADWEAR, an eminence for dark, shallow skins, treatment of skin trouble. HARDING, JR. REAL ESTATE Modern Houses, Apartments Stores to Rent AGE GROVE AVE. 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ILLINOIS TRUST & SAV La Salle and Jackson Streets IS YOUR HAIR SHOR ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle jackson Streets Chicago IS YOUR HAIR SHORT OR THIN? Does it break off or fall out? Is it dry and wiry? Have you scalp disease or more than a normal amount of dandruff you should act at once, begin using MADAME N. A. FRANKLIN'S Hair GROWER. It matters not how many Hair Preparations you have tried without having them work. It is better to give up before giving my Hair Grower a glue. It has mooted an abundant growth of hair for thousands and will do the same for you. I also teach my System by percussion by percussion and terms today. MY SPECIAL OFFER To those desired to try my wonderful Hair Preparations I will mail, on request, a SIX WEEKS' TRIAL TREATMENT, consisting of Shampoo, Hair Grower and Conditioner, for $1.10. For the same, for only $1.10. One trial treatment will convince you of its value. Make all orders to MADAME Dept. B. 3542 Ss. State CHICAGO, ILL. Gorgets. How many staff officers wearing red tabs know that the correct name for their tabs is "gorgets"? Gorgets were worn centuries ago, when warriors were clad in shining armor. The original gorget was a breastplate. Then followed a small plate like an amulet, worn round the neck. This developed into the gorget now worn by staff officers on the collar. TE Res. 3646 J. Corner Mother had carefully spelled out Lincoln's address, inscribed on the cannon ball in front of the monument in Lincoln park . . . "All men are created free and equal," she read. . . Her small son pondered the problem for a long time, then said: "Ve winnen, muver, how is tey borned?"—Chicago American. New Harmony in Postry. In the sweet chorus of modern poetry one may hear a strange new harmony. It is the life of our time, evoking its own music; constraining the poetic spirit to utter its own message. The peculiar beauty of the contemporary poetry, with its fresh and varied charm, grows from that; and in that, too, its vitality is assured. Its art has the deep sanction of loyalty; its loyalty draws inspiration from the living.—Mary C. Sturgeon. were, is discovered that beings, be in their own les are put to of them as they are sweet peas, for e in company, the mignonette, and shirley poppy Nothing in Old Theory. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week. If there is anything to be got by it.—Dickens. Latest New York Fad. New York has a man engaged in what he says is a painful occupation, who appears in the city directory as a tattooer of dogs. Inquiry reveals the fact that many owners and fanciers of dogs have their names tattooed on the dog's skin. "What a treat good-looking people are! How they ought to be when the generality is so place—good looks, when their essence, are as often good spirit looking out the nary eyes, nose and h Veneerings" by Sir Harry Much Sand Needed for A little less than 2,000 to sand is used in the United St. year in making glass, according to the experts of the geological survey. Plain sand constitutes from 60 to 75 per cent of the body of all glass, so that our eyes are full of sand most of the time, whether peering through spectacles or gazing out of the office window. Skeleton Found With Dagger in Ribs With a Jewelled dagger thrust between his ribs just below the heart, the skeleton of a man was found in a very ancient terra-cotta tomb by workmen who digging the foundations for a villa at Sirmione, on the Lake of Barda, Italy. Further excavations brought to light other tombs of the same kind. Sirmione, which in the days of the Roman empire was a favorite resort of wealthy Romans, is now a fishing village on a narrow promontory which projects into the lake. In the neighborhood is the so-called Grotte di Catullo, the considerable remains of a Roman building said to have been the country house of Catullus, the famous lyric poet of Rome. --- Lincoln's Address. New Harmony in Poetry. Upwards of 50 per cent of the world's cork is produced in Spain and Portugal. The finest is grown in various parts of the 'provincies of Seville, Badajoz, Cudiz, Huelva, Barcelona and Salamanca. The age of maturity varies in different parts of the same tree. From eight to nine years is required by the trunk, from ten to eleven years for the first branches and from eleven to twelve years for the second branches. Sounds Travel Farthest in Darkness. Sounds can generally be heard much farther by night than oy day; sometimes ten or even twenty times as far. One reason in that the air at night contains, as a rule, few eddies and other local disturbances, such as break up the sound waves by day. Moreover, on calm, clear nights the vertical distribution of temperature near the earth is often the reverse of that occurring by day, and as the effect of bending the sound as downward instead of upward. Will Grow in Tree. One of the first flowers to greet us in the spring and one that blooms along into early summer, is the dainty Giant or Great chickweed, says the American Forestry Magazine. One cannot pass this species of chickweed without noticing its pretty white flowers. Sometimes the seeds of this plant will find their way into some crotch of a tree. Then we have the pleasure of seeing a fine specimen flourishing quite a distance up from terra firme, and often doing better than those on the ground. City on civilization's outskirts On the upper Parana silver, which separates Paraguay from Argentina, is a town called Pousada. "This," says a traveler, "is the last outpost of civiliza- tion on the Alto Parana," face to face with primitive forest, wild Indiana, the unexplored center of South America, and yet it is reached by a broad-gauge railroad, has a fine medea $800,000 hotel, three big department stores and the best hospital in northern Argentina." Bound about are great plantations and old Jesuit ruins.—New York Evening Post. THE FEDERAL BANK OF MIDDLE EAST UNITED STATES TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 8351 Res. 3646 Grand Boul. Phone Douglas 4592 Advice Free Corner Indiana Ave., Second Floor Woman's sphere is the home; man's fear is that the landlord will raise the rent on it.-Boston Transcript. Height of Insomnia. "Confound it! This insomnia is getting worse. Can't even sleep when it's time to get up!" Those Icy Mountains. There's many a man in Greenland who is honest as the day is long because there they have six-month nights. IN VIRGINIA W. J. Crawley, 526 E. 36th street, has gone to Virginia to spend a two weeks' vacation in his old home towns. "Jerry Builders." Jerry built may be derived from the jury mast, a temporary must erected on ships in time of emergency. An other derivation is from the gypsy expression, jery, meaning anything contemptible. For Writers to Ponder Over. No commonplace is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one's self of it into a book; for once trapped into a book, then the book can be put into the fire and all will be well—Herman Melville. Nothing in Old Theory. Latest New York Fad. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASGLASS OIL OPEN DAY & NIGHT Ernest H. Williamson UNDERTAKER 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 worry, time and money. 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Walter M. 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