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Echoes and Re-echoes of the Long to Be Remembered Memorial Services in Honor of the Memory of the Late Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, Which Were Held Recently at the Wendell Phillips High School. THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC FOLLOWED SUIT AND HELD MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HIS HONOR AT DES MOINES IOWA, LAST WEEK. THE BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF BISHOP FALLOWS WHICH WAS HEAVILY DRAPED WITH AMERICAN BUNTING WAS IN EVIDENCE DURING THE MEMORIAL EXERCISES AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL, WAS SECURED THROUGH THE COURTESY OF REV. E. J. SONNE BY THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER. REV. JOHN FOSTER, ASSOCIATE RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH, THE LATE BISHOP FALLOWS' CHURCH, AND HIS DAUGHTER, MISS ALICE K. FALLOWS, IN A LETTER WHICH APPEARS IN THESE COLUMNS HEARTILY THANKS MR. JULIUS F. TAYLOR AND THE OTHERS WHO ASSISTED IN THE MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF HER LATE FATHER, BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS. the Friday afternoon after the fifth of the late Bishop Samuel Fall while sitting in the law offices Attorney Walter M. Farmer 184 Washington street, and after he finished reading our first article Bishop Fallows, which appeared these columns Saturday, September 9, we both started up a long conversation over his death and the great the colored people had sustained his passing out, that since his deture, that the colored people in our city have a mighty few white hands to boldly and manfully plead or cause outside of the Honorable Rick H. O'Donnell, that the lead-colored people living in this city should without delay take steps at ease to hold memorial services in honor of his sainted and blessed memorial and with that burning thought all in our minds we parted for the ending. THE BROAD AX the late Bishop Fallows and at the expiration of that time Mr. Farmer strongly labored under the impression that it was high time for the colored people of Chicago to take some action in the matter and we firmly decided to go right ahead and wait no longer for the leading leaders of the colored people to see what they would propose to do in the way of conducting memorial exercises in honor of his memory three or four years from now or at some other time in the far distant future. The following gentlemen were invited to join hands with us and assist to make the memorial exercises long to be remembered: Active Committee—Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Chairman; Hon. Edward B. Green, Hon. Walter M. Farmer, Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Mr. M. T. Bailey, Secretary. Committee on Memorials—Brig. Gen. Franklin A. Denison, Chairman; Mr. R. S. Abbott, Mr. A. L. Williams, Hon. John H. Lyle, Dr. A. W. Williams, Mr. Morris Lewis. The following gentlemen were heartily invited to serve as honoury vice presidents; Dr. W. F. Garnett, Hon. Charles M. Foell, Dr. J. M. Burrell, Dr. Edward S. Miller, Mr. Anthony Overton, Dr. J. W. McDowell, Mr. N. C. Langston, Mr. William L. Marin, Hon. Edward H. Wright, Hon. Louis B. Anderson, Hon. S. B. Turner, Hon. George T. Kersey, Mr. T. Arnold Hill, Mr. Harvey A. Watkine, Major John R. Lynch, Dr. R. C. Giles, Rev. W. S. Braddan, Major A. E. Patterson, Hon. James A. Scott, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Rev. S. E. J. Wasson, Rev. John W. Robinson, Rev. L. K. Williams, Rev. G. R. Bryant, Rev. S. L. Birt, Rev. W. A. Blackwell, Hon. J. Gray Lucas, Mr. John N. Blackshear, Capt. R. A. J. Shaw, Hon. Daniel Ryan, Dr. M. A. Majors, Hon. W. W. Maxwell, Hon. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922 72 Hon. Benjamin E. Cohen, Republican candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago for the new two-year term, was born in the great city of Chicago May 15th, 1885, graduating with honors from its common and High Public Schools. Later on Mr. Cohen entered the Northwestern Law College and in 1906 he successfully graduated from it with the highest honors. Shortly after that year he began the Frank S. Righirem, Hon. George B. Holmes, Hon. Emmett Whealan, Hon. Thomas F. Byrne, Hon. George M. Maypole, Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer, Hon. Patrick J. Carr, Hon. Matt. A. Mueller, Hon. James H. Lawley, A. H. H. Roberts, Hon. Warren B. Douglas, Mr. George R. Arthur, Mr. S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. Charles A. Griffin, Rev. Moses H. Jackson, Mr. Jesse Binga, Mr. Sandy W. Trice, Hon. Michael Rosenberg, Hon. Samuel Alschuler, Hon. Edward J. Hughes, Hon. Edward J. Glackin, Hon. John R. Newcomer, Hon. John Richardson, Hon. Howard W. Hayes, Hon. Wells M. Cook, Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Hon. John F. Haas, Hon. Benj. E. Cohen, Hon. Daniel P. Trude, Hon. Samuel A. Ettleson, Hon. James W. Breen, Hon. William L. O'Connell, Hon. Oscar De Priest, Hon. John F. Devine, Hon. Joseph F. Haas, Hon. Adolph Marks, Hon. George F. Leibrandt, Hon. John P. Gibbons, Hon. William R. Fetzer, Hon. Anton J. Cermak, Hon. Dennis J. Egan, Hon. George F. Harding Dr. J. Frank Armstrong, Dr. M. R Bibb, Hon. Miles J. Devine, Hon John H. Passmore, Hon. Robert R Levy, Hon W. E. Mollison. After all of the above mentioned gentlemen had been invited to join in active practice of his chosen profession and from that time to the present he has met with great success in the field of law. For some time his law offices have been located in the City Hall Square Building, 139 North Clark street and he resides with his family at 3215 Douglas Blvd. He has thousands of friends among all classes of his fellow citizens who will be highly delighted to see him become one of the the memorial services and assist to share in the honors several short-sighted and narrow-minded colored Republicans thought that some one should have been permitted or requested to deliver a strong Republican speech as they are unable to see or behold any good in any meeting wherein the colored people are concerned unless it can be transferred into a political meeting. It is true that many prominent politicians, Republican and Decomratic, occupied seats on the platform and in the audience, but as chairman of the memorial services, not one of them were permitted to stand up and utter one word in behalf of their candidacy for any office within the gift of the people residing in this city, county or state. Several other colored men who never have in the past and never will amount to anything, were heard to remark that 'Old Taylor must be trying to drive or force all the colored people over into the Democratic party.' That is another statement which is absolutely devoid of all truth. Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell, who is a strong Republican, requested us to call on the Hon. Edward F. Dume and see if he would not consent to speak at the memorial ser- new Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago. Mr. Cohen honorably served as a private in the Tank Corps, United States Army in the World War for democracy. He is an honored member of the Press Club, the Elks, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and member of the Tank Corps Post of the American Legion. Both men and women can vote for him Tuesday, November 7. services as he had while serving as governor of Illinois selected Bishop Fallows as chairman of the Illinois Commission, then to steer clear of criticism along political line we called on the Honorable Charles S. Deneen, also ex-governor of Illinois, to see if he would be present and talk for a few moments but Mr. Deneen had to be in Cleveland, Ohio, September 23 and 24, where he was made a 33d degree Mason and that important event in his life prevented him from being at the memorial services. If anyone will take the trouble to read over the list of honorary vice presidents they will find that about twenty out of more than eighty of the names selected are Democrats, leaving more than sixty Republicans, both white and colored. That politics was not in our mind nor on the mind of Mr. Farmer while assisting to select the honorary vice president. The memorial exercises in honor of the memory of Bishop Fallows at the Wendell Phillips high school were timely, for last week the Grand Army of the Republic, at Des Moines, Ia., held memorial services in his honor. One of its last acts was the adoption by solemn and rising acclamation of a memorial for Bishop Samuel (Continued on Page 2) BOOK CHAT—BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL-ORED PEOPLE. "THE STORY OF MANKIND" By Hendrik Van Loon. Published by Messrs. Boni & Liveright, New York City. Price $5.00. Postage 10c Extra. growth of the town and of money power so graphically and naturally described. The feudal lord, to go the crusade, needs money. Many people lived and died in the Middle Ages without ever seeing money and "Book Chat" has been devoted to books or essays that relate to the Negro or to race problems, but "The Story of Mankind" is an exception to this rule. There is nothing in it that relates to the black man save an excellent paragraph on Toussaint L'Ouverture and Haiti. It is, however, such a delightful book and it is so necessary to know the history of mankind, if we are to know the history of any portion of it, that we all ought to read what Mr. Van Loon has to say. And also what he has to draw, for the book has 158 illustrations, some of them full page, nine of them colored. It is written for young people but it will be read. I am confident, chiefly by their elders. Certainly when it goes into a home the parents will be found only too anxious to read it aloud or to pour over it after the children are in bed. Its sprightly style makes it irresistible. Take this ending of the chapter on the Holy Roman Empire. After describing Charlemange's crowning by Pope Leo III as Emperor, Van Loon shows the downfall of that empire and of how Napoleon, eight hundred years later, placed the crown on his own head in the presence of another Pope, and proclaimed himself heir to the traditions of Charlemange. "For history," the author says, "is the same as life. The more things change the more they remain the same." The chapter on the Age of the Great Religious Controversies begins like this: "The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the age of religious controversy. If you will notice you will find that almost everybody around you is forever 'talking economies' and discussing wages and hours of labor and strikes in their relation to the life of the community, for that is the main topic of interest of our own time. The poor little children of the year 1600 or 1650 fared worse. They never heard anything but 'religion'. Their heads were filled with 'predestination,' 'transubstantiation,' 'free will,' and a hundred other queer words expressing obscure points of 'the true faith,' whether Catholic or Protestant. For tolerance is of very recent origin, and even the people of our so-called 'modern world' are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much." The chapter that attracted me the most is the one upon the medieval town. Never before have I seen the SPECIAL NOTICE We have before us, the report of the Chicago Commission on "Race Relations," or in other words the commission which was appointed by former Governor Frank O. Lowden, shortly after the so called Race Riots in this city in 1919, and this coming Sunday afternoon, we expect to familiarize ourselves with its contents, and bring forth an article on its merits for the next issue of The Broad Ax. 5 CENTS per copy Remem- Memory Which os High BY MARY WHITE AIRMAN OF THE RECTORS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR AGEMENT OF COL- growth of the town and of money power so graphically and naturally described. The feudal lord, to go the crusade, needs money. Many people lived and died in the Middle Ages without ever seeing money and he must borrow this money as he has only goods. But once he borrows of the petty trader outside his gates he gets into his clutches. On his return he must pay up, which he rarely does, or give some power to the men from whom he has borrowed. They, in return, demand a council of their own, the right to manage their civil affairs without interference from the castle. And the lord of the castle usually has to give in or go without the money he so much wants. And so the town about the castle grows, and it grows new thought, life, industry—for Van Loon has little belief that a peasantry would ever exhibit progress. His chapter ends: "Meanwhile his lordship, in the dreary and drafty halls of his castle, saw all this upstart splendor and regretted the day when first he had signed away a single one of his sovereign rights and prerogatives. But he was helpless. The townpeople with their well-filled strong boxes snapped their fingers at him. They were free men, fully prepared to hold what they had gained by the sweat of their brow and after a struggle which had lasted for more than ten generations." There are two things that in the last chapter we are especially told to remember: The first is that "The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery (the great war) was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is slower than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders. * * * A human being with the mind of a sixteenth century tradesman driving a 1921 Rolls-Royce is still a human being with the mind of a sixteenth century tradesman." And the second is this: "Every generation must fight the goodgift anew or perish as those sluggish animals of the prehistoric world have perished." Before closing this "Book Chat" I have two things I want to say to my readers. One is that "Book Chat" is sent out now to the colored press, not every week but every two weeks. The other is, that the proposed volume of "Book Chat" for the year 1922 will not be printed as the demand has not been sufficient to warrant it. was unintentionally omitted from the list of the prominent gentlemen who occupied seats on the platform at the Wendell Phillips High School, during the memorial services in honor of the late Bishop Samuel Fallows. COLORED GIRLS GRADUATE FROM LAW AT HUNTER, COL. New York City.—Miss Anna Jones Robinson, aged 24, and Miss Enid F. Thorpe, aged 25, was graduated from the Law Department of Hunter College here. It is said that these are the first colored women to be given a degree by this institution. Both of them taught school in Harlem while attending the law school. --- Echoes and Re-echoes of the Long to Be Remembered Memorial Services in Honor of the Memory of the Late Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, Which Were Held Recently at the Wendell Phillips High School. THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC FOLLOWED SUIT AND HELD MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HIS HONOR AT DES MOINES IOWA, LAST WEEK. THE BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF BISHOP FALLOWS WHICH WAS HEAVILY DRAPED WITH AMERICAN BUNTING WAS IN EVIDENCE DURING THE MEMORIAL EXERCISES AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL, WAS SECURED THROUGH THE COURTESY OF REV. E. J. SONNE BY THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER. REV. JOHN FOSTER, ASSOCIATE RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH THE LATE BISHOP FALLOWS' CHURCH, AND HIS DAUGHTER, MISS ALICE K. FALLOWS, IN A LETTER WHICH APPEARS IN THESE COLUMNS HEARTILY THANKS MR. JULIUS F. TAYLOR AND THE OTHERS WHO ASSISTED IN THE MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF HER LATE FATHER, BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS. Read The Broad Ax and be happy Echoes of the L Were H School. THE GRAND ARMY LIC FOLLOWED MEMORIAL SERVICE OR AT DES MOIN WEEK. THE BEAUTIFUL BISHOP FALLO HEAVILY DRAFT ICAN BUNTING DURING THE MCISES AT THE W HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH THE REV. E. J. SONN OF THIS PAPER. REV. JOHN FOSTER RECTOR OF S FORMED EPISODE THE LATE BISHOP CHURCH, AND MISS ALICE K. FASTER WHICH AP COLUMNS HE AT MR. JULIUS F. THE OTHERS WHO A MEMORIAL SERIES OF HER LATE SAMUEL FALLO The Friday afternoon after the death of the late Bishop Samuel Fallow, while sitting in the law offices of Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington street, and after he had finished reading our first article on Bishop Fallows, which appeared in these columns Saturday, September 9, we both started up a long conversation over his death and the great loss the colored people had sustained in his passing out, that since his departure, that the colored people in this city have a mighty few white friends to boldly and manfully plead their cause outside of the Honorable Patrick H. O'Donnell, that the leading colored people living in this city should without delay take steps at once to hold memorial services in honor of his sainted and blessed memory and with that burning thought still in our minds we parted for the evening. On Saturday morning, September 9, we both were still of the same opinion and right there and then we suggested to Mr. Farmer that we had better wait for a while before we attempted to make the slightest move in that direction for we honestly felt that the leading colored ministers, the leading colored politicians, the leading colored business men, the leading big colored newspaper owners and editors and that the leading colored citizens in general would never rest contented until they had highly resolved to make some kind of a move in the way of attempting to honor the memory of the late Bishop Fallows, who had accomplished so much during his long and useful life in behall of the colored race. So almost another week passed away from that time and still no outward effort was put forth by the most distinguished and the most leading colored citizens to hold memorial services in honor of the memory of THE BROAD AX the late Bishop Fallows and at the expiration of that time Mr. Farmer strongly labored under the impression that it was high time for the colored people of Chicago to take some action in the matter and we firmly decided to go right ahead and wait no longer for the leading leaders of the colored people to see what they would propose to do in the way of conducting memorial exercises in honor of his memory three or four years from now or at some other time in the far distant future. The following gentlemen were invited to join hands with us and assist to make the memorial exercises long to be remembered: Active Committee—Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Chairman; Hon. Edward B. Green, Hon. Walter M. Farmer, Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Mr. M. T. Bailey, Secretary. Committee on Memorials—Brig. Gen. Franklin A. Denison. Chairman; M. R. S. Abbott, Mr. A. L. Williams, Hon. John H. Lyle, Dr. A. W. Williams, Mr. Morris Lewis. The following gentlemen were heartily invited to serve as honorary vice presidents: Dr. W. F. Garnett, Hon. Charles M. Foell, Dr. J. M. Burrell, Dr. Edward S. Miller, Mr. Anthony Overton, Dr. J. W. McDowell, Mr. N. C. Langston, Mr. William L. Martin, Hon. Edward H. Wright, Hon. Louis B. Anderson, Hon. S. B. Turner, Hon. George T. Kersey, Mr. T. Arnold Hill, Mr. Harvey A. Watkins, Major John R. Lynch, Dr. R. C. Giles, Rev. W. S. Braddan, Major A. E. Patterson, Hon. James A. Scott, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Rev. S. E. J. Watson, Rev. John W. Robinson, Rev. L. K. Williams, Rev. G. R. Bryant, Rev. S. L. Birt, Rev. W. A Blackwell, Hon. J. Gray Lucas, Mr John N. Blackshear, Capt. R. A. J. Shaw, Hon. Daniel Ryan, Dr. M. A Majors, Hon. W. W. Maxwell, Hon CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922 72 Hon. Benjamin E. Cohen, Republican candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago for the new two-year term, was born in the great city of Chicago May 15th, 1885, graduating with honors from its common and High Public Schools. Later on Mr. Cohen entered the Northwestern Law College and in 1906 he successfully graduated from it with the highest honors. Shortly after that year he began the Frank S. Righeimer, Hon. George B. Holmes, Hon. Emmett Whealan, Hon. Thomas F. Byrne, Hon. George M. Maypole, Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer, Hon. Patrick J. Carr, Hon. Matt. A. Mueller, Hon. James H. Lawley, Hon. A. H. Roberts, Hon. Warren B. Douglas, Mr. George R. Arthur, Mr. S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. Charles A. Griffin, Rev. Moses H. Jackson, Mr. Jesse Binga, Mr. Sandy W. Trice, Hon. Michael Rosenberg, Hon. Samuel Alschuler, Hon. Edward J. Hughes, Hon. Edward J. Glackin, Hon. John R. Newcomer, Hon. John Richardson, Hon. Howard W. Hayes, Hon. Wells M. Cook, Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Hon. John F. Haas, Hon. Benj. E. Cohen, Hon. Daniel P. Trude, Hon. Samuel A. Ettleson, Hon. James W. Breen, Hon. William L. O'Connell, Hon. Oscar De Priest, Hon. John F. Devine, Hon. Joseph F. Haas, Hon. Adolph Marks, Hon. George F. Leibrandt, Hon. John P. Gibbons, Hon. William R. Fetzer, Hon. Anton J. Cermak, Hon. Dennis J. Egan, Hon. George F. Harding, Dr. J. Frank Armstrong, Dr. M. R Bibb, Hon. Miles J. Devine, Hon John H. Passmore, Hon. Robert R. Levy, Hon. W. E. Mollison After all of the above mentioned active practice of his chosen profession and from that time to the present he has met with great success in the field of law. For some time his law offices have been located in the City Hall Square Building, 139 North Clark street and he resides with his family at 3215 Douglas Blvd. He has thousands of friends among all classes of his fellow citizens who will be highly delighted to see him become one of the the memorial services and assist to share in the honors several short-sighted and narrow-minded colored Republicans thought that some one should have been permitted or requested to deliver a strong Republican speech as they are unable to see or behold any good in any meeting wherein the colored people are concerned unless it can be transferred into a political meeting. It is true that many prominent politicians, Republican and Decomatic, occupied seats on the platform and in the audience, but as chairman of the memorial services, not one of them were permitted to stand up and utter one word in behalf of their candidacy for any office within the gift of the people residing in this city, county or state. Several other colored men who never have in the past and never will amount to anything, were heard to remark that 'Old Taylor must be trying to drive or force all the colored people over into the Democratic party.' That is another statement which is absolutely devoid of all truth. Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell, who is a strong Republican, requested us to call on the Hon. Edward F. Dume and see if he would not consent to speak at the memorial ser- new Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago. Mr. Cohen honorably served as a private in the Tank Corps, United States Army in the World.War for democracy. He is an honored member of the Press Club, the Elks, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and member of the Tank Corps Post of the American Legion. Both men and women can vote for him Tuesday, November 7. vices as he had while serving as governor of Illinois selected Bishop Fallows as chairman of the Illinois Commission, then to steer clear of criticism along political line we called on the Honorable Charles S. Deneen, also ex-governor of Illinois, to see if he would be present and talk for a few moments but Mr. Deneen had to be in Cleveland, Ohio, September 23 and 24, where he was made a 33d degree Mason and that important event in his life prevented him from being present at the memorial services. If anyone will take the trouble to read over the list of honorary vice presidents they will find that about twenty out of more than eighty of the names selected are Democrats, leaving more than sixty Republicans, both white and colored. That politics was not in our mind nor on the mind of Mr. Farmer while assisting to select the honorary vice president. The memorial exercises in honor of the memory of Bishop Fallows at the Wendell Phillips high school were timely, for last week the Grand Army of the Republic, at Des Moines, Ia., held memorial services in his honor. One of its last acts was the adoption by solemn and rising acclamation of a memorial for Bishop Samuel (Continued on Page 2) BOOK CHAT—BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL-ORED PEOPLE. "THE STORY OF MANKIND" By Hendrik Van Loon. Published by Messrs. Boni & Liveright, New York City. Price $5.00. Postage 10c Extra. growth of the town and of money power so graphically and naturally described. The feudal lord, to go the crusade, needs money. Many people lived and died in the Middle Ages without ever seeing money and "Book Chat" has been devoted to books or essays that relate to the Negro or to race problems, but "The Story of Mankind" is an exception to this rule. There is nothing in it that relates to the black man save an excellent paragraph on Toussaint L'Ouverture and Haiti. It is, however, such a delightful book and it is so necessary to know the history of mankind, if we are to know the history of any portion of it, that we all ought to read what Mr. Van Loon has to say. And also he has to draw, for the book has 158 illustrations, some of them full page, nine of them colored. It is written for young people but it will be read. I am confident, chiefly by their elders. Certainly when it goes into a home the parents will be found only too anxious to read it aloud or to pour over it after the children are in bed. Its sprightly style makes it irresistible. Take this ending of the chapter on the Holy Roman Empire. After describing Charlemange's crowning by Pope Leo III as Emperor. Van Loon shows the downfall of that empire and of how Napoleon, eight hundred years later, placed the crown on his own head in the presence of another Pope, and proclaimed himself heir to the traditions of Charlemange. "For history," the author says, "is the same as life. The more things change the more they remain the same." The chapter on the Age of the Great Religious Controversies begins like this: "The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the age of religious controversy. If you will notice you will find that almost everybody around you is forever 'talking economics' and discussing wages and hours of labor and strikes in their relation to the life of the community, for that is the main topic of interest of our own time. The poor little children of the year 1600 or 1650 fared worse. They never heard anything but 'religion'. Their heads were filled with 'predestination', 'transubstantiation', 'free will', and a hundred other queer words expressing obscure points of 'the true faith', whether Catholic or Protestant. For tolerance is of very recent origin, and even the people of our so-called 'modern world' are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much." The chapter that attracted me the most is the one upon the medieval town. Never before have I seen the SPECIAL NOTICE We have before us, the report of the Chicago Commission on "Race Relations," or in other words the commission which was appointed by former Governor Frank O. Lowden, shortly after the so called Race Riots in this city in 1919, and this coming Sunday afternoon, we expect to familiarize ourselves with its contents, and bring forth an article on its merits for the next issue of The Broad Ax. BEG YOUR PARDON In the last issue of this newspaper, the name of Hon. John P. Gibbons 5 CENTS per copy Remem- Memory Which os High BY MARY WHITE HAIRMAN OF THE RECTORS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR AGEMENT OF COL- growth of the town and of money power so graphically and naturally described. The feudal lord, to go the crusade, needs money. Many people lived and died in the Middle Ages without ever seeing money and he must borrow this money as he has only goods. But once he borrows of the petty trader outside his gates he gets into his clutches. On his return he must pay up, which he rarely does, or give some power to the men from whom he has borrowed. They, in return, demand a council of their own, the right to manage their civil affairs without interference from the castle. And the lord of the castle usually has to give in or go without the money he so much wants. And so the town about the castle grows, and is it grows new thought, life, industry—for Van Loon has little belief that a peasantry would ever exhibit progress. His chapter ends: "Meanwhile his lordship, in the dreary and drafty halls of his castle, saw all this upstart splendor and regretted the day when first he had signed away a single one of his sovereign rights and prerogatives. But he was helpless. The townpeople with their well-filled strong boxes snapped their fingers at him. They were free men, fully prepared to hold what they had gained by the sweat of their brow and after a struggle which had lasted for more than ten generations." There are two things that in the last chapter we are especially told to remember: The first is that "The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery (the great war) was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is slower than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders. * * * A human being with the mind of a sixteenth century tradesman driving a 1921 Rolls-Royce is still a human being with the mind of a sixteenth century tradesman." And the second is this: "Every generation must fight the good fight anew or perish as those sluggish animals of the prehistoric world have perish." Before closing this "Book Chat" I have two things I want to say to my readers. One is that "Book Chat" is sent out now to the colored press, not every week but every two weeks. The other is, that the proposed volume of "Book Chat" for the year 1922 will not be printed as the demand has not been sufficient to warrant it. was unintentionally omitted from the list of the prominent gentlemen who occupied seats on the platform at the Wendell Phillips High School, during the memorial services in honor of the late Bishop Samuel Fallows. COLORED GIRLS GRADUATE FROM LAW AT HUNTER, COL New York City.—Miss Anna Jones Robinson, aged 24, and Miss Enid F. Thorpe, aged 25, was graduated from the Law Department of Hunter College here. It is said that these are the first colored women to be given a degree by this institution. Both of them taught school in Harlem while attending the law school. M. Honorable Member of the City Council from the Old 32nd Ward and Republican Candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. 62U6 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, II. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS October 7, 1922 Vol. XXVIII. No. 3 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago. ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. HOMER FOLKS TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF URBAN LEAGUE President of National Social Work Conference to Open Annual Meeting of Urban League Homer Folks. President of the National Conference of Social Work which holds its fifteenth anniversary next year, will speak at the opening session of the Urban League conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., Tuesday night. October 17th, on "Social Problems in America During 1922." Dr Carter Goodwin Woodson, editor of "The Journal of Negro History," will follow him with an address on the subject, "How These Manifestations Have Affected Negro Life." Other speakers to appear at the conference include Roscoe C. Brown of the U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.; Ernest T. Attwell of the Community Service; W. W. Alexander, Director of the Inter-Racial Commission; J. O. Houze, Employment Manager of the eleven plants of the National Malleable Castings Company; Dr. A. Clayton Powell of New York, Miss Nannie Burroughs of Washington, James H. Robinson of Cincinnati, A. L. Manly of Philadelphia, E. A. Carter of Louisville, Jesse O. Thomas of Atlanta, W. J. Woodlin of Columbus, and many others. Subjects for discussion include "Housing," "Health," "The Church in Social Work" and the "Industrial Outlook of the Negro." The program calls for visits to the large industrial plants of the Carnegie Steel Corporation and other corporations. Delegates are expected from more than forty cities throughout the country from Tampa, Fla., to Milwaukee and Detroit and from Boston and Cambridge to Los Angeles. I M. H. HON. MICHAEL K. SHERIDAN The People's Candidate for Election for Member of the Board of Assessors, of Cook County; Both Men and Women Can Vote for Him. NO TAXING OFFICIAL IN THE TOWN OF LAKE If any one will take the trouble to observe where the members of the Board of Assessors of Cook County and the members of the Board of Review reside, they will learn that at least two of those taxing officials reside on the west side, one in Blue Island, one on the northwest side, one on the Gold Coast on the north side and two on the south side, east of State street. papers, as an honest, successful, clean cut business man, was elected as a member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County from the 31st ward, and as a member of that board he lowered the values of property of both white and colored people residing along Dearborn street, Federal street, Ada street, and in other sections of the city where the poorer classes of people reside, in order to enable them to pay for their little homes and the heavy taxes which are continually being imposed upon them, and Ma Shiridan revised the real estate That the people residing in the 29th 30th, 31st and 32nd wards, and in all parts of the Town of Lake, including Englewood and all the other territories near unto it, have no taxing official to raise their voice in their behali, on the Board of Review or the Board of Assessors of Cook County. In 1912 Hon. Michael K. Sheridan, who has always been highly endorsed by the leading daily and weekly news- Social workers, industrial personnel workers, students of problems of race contacts, and interested citizens, white and colored, are requested to signify their intention to be present by writing to Eugene Kinckle Jones Executive Secretary, at the League's headquarters, 127 East 23rd street, New York, N. Y., or John T. Clark Executive Secretary, Pittsburgh Urban League, 518 Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. RACES SEPARATED AT BOYS STATE SCHOOL St. Charles, Ill.—Colored and white boys are being separated in cottages at the state school for boys here, according to a new plan announced. The new system was undertaken, it is stated, not as a discrimination against colored boys, but to bring about improved discipline. papers, as an honest, successful, clean cut business man, was elected as a member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County from the 31st ward, and as a member of that board he lowered the values of property of both white and colored people residing along Dearborn street, Federal street, Ada street, and in other sections of the city where the poorer classes of people reside, in order to enable them to pay for their little homes and the heavy taxes which are continually being imposed upon them, and Mr. Sheridan raised the real estate values among the millionaires, so that they would be forced to stand their just share of taxation. Therefore, as Mr. Sheridan has in the past proven his friendship for the small taxpayers they should, regardless of their political affiliations, on Tuesday, November 7, cheerfully assist to elect him as one of the members of the Board of Assessors of Cook County. THE KISS On, thou fairest of fair mortals. Your eyes are as bright as a thousand silvery sies on a moonlit night; Your beauty is as fresh and revealing As a thousand hidden mysteries. Your lips. Oh! God, they are You are my nighttime nightmares; The realization of a perfect day. I dream of holding you tenderly in my arms, But awake only to grasp the empty air, The kiss you gave and the thousand you promised. CHILDREN SURPRISED The children of the Enterprise Institute, of which Rev. J. W. McDaniel is president, 514 Aldine square, rendered a splendid program on last Friday afternoon in honor of members of the board, faculty and visitors. Among the visiting speakers were Rev. C. H. Clark, pastor of Ebenezene Baptist Church; Rev. S. E. J. Watson, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Temple; M. T. Bailey, 3638 State street, and Prof. W. H. Bowen, dean of the school. After the program, refreshments were served. The refreshments were donated to the children by Mrs. H. B. Sweet of Augusta, Ga., sister of Mrs. N. B. Newland, matron. E. M. CLEAVES SELECTED AS ONE OF THE DEPUTY CORONERS OF COOK COUNTY The first of this week. Hon. Edward H. Wright, Republican Committee of the Second Ward, secured the appointment of Mr. E. M. Cleaves, who is secretary of Mr. E. M. publican organization of that ward as Deputy Coroner of Cook County. Mr. Cleaves had, prior to that time, been connected with the office of Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson Corporation Counsel of Chicago and the many friends of Mr. Cheves, feel sure that he will make good in his new position. MANY IN MORGAN PARK There were many visitors from the city and out of town in Morgan Park on last Sunday and during the week. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Wolfscale. Mesdames Nettie Anderson, Pannie E. Walker, J. H. Burney, C. R. Saunders of Memphis, Tenn., E. Yarbrough, C. L. Thompson and Pearl Love-Payne and her little niece; Messrs. Thomas McNealy, S. Butler, Chas. Mitchell, Hays and Frazer Thornton. CHICAGO, ILL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922 THE LATE BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS (Concluded from Page 1) L. Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal church of Chicago, past chaplain in chief of the Grand Army, who died at his home on Sept. 5. It was read by Comrade John B. Inman, of Springfield, Ill. Memorial to Bishop Fallows "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" it states, and continues: "Comrade Samuel L. Fallows, the renowned ecclesiastic; the internationally known orator. A man whose life was dedicated to the uplifting of the down trodden humanity and for the redemption of the sin sick from the darkness of unbelief into the life and liberty of the sons of God." The Following Letter and Note Speak for. Themselves Alice K. Fallows 1618 W. Adams St. Chicago October 3, 1922 Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher "The Broad Ax," 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Illinois. My dear Mr. Taylor: It is my very great pleasure to be delegated to the very pleasant duty on behalf of Bishop Samuel Fallowes family and the Vestry and Members of the St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church, of acknowledging the very great honor done to our beloved Bishop's memory by the colored people of Chicago in the memorial services held at the Wendell Phillips High School on the Sunday afternoon of September the twenty-fourth. The very excellent program was a wonderful tribute to our great leader and we would like to especially mention: the magnificent part played by your people in appreciation of their lifelong friend. Much as you know of his wondrous support of his colored friends, there were many additional and private expressions of friendship which throbbed with a fervor that could only come from a great heart of love for his fellowman. Your very fine tribute to his memory is deeply and lastingly appreciated and we want it to be distinctly understood that the wonderful friendship which he had for the colored people, especially of Chicago, is sustained in the hearts of all his family and people of St. Pauls. Your address was inspirational and left nothing to be added to its fine spirit of eulogy. I cannot close without giving some acknowledgement of the magnificent singing and the various and well chosen selections were fully in keeping with every part of a great service. I wish to add my hearty endorsement of all that Dr. Foster has said for me and to tell you once more how grateful we all are for the beautiful meeting you arranged in father's honor and how greatly we enjoyed the program and how fine we thought your tribute was. It is good to have the full account in the paper so that we can send it to our friends. I think the sound of that wonderful music will ring through our memory all our days. As stated above, the beautiful portrait exhibited of Bishop Fellows, at memorial exercises at the Wendell Phillips High School, was secured by the writer from the Rev Edward J. Sonne, pastor of the Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church, 70th street and Yale avenue, and at this time we wish to heartily thank Rev. Sonne for his courtesy in that direction. No collection was taken up during the memorial exercises to deny the expenses incident thereto, and the following gentlemen contributed equal amounts for that purpose. Hon. Robert R. Jackson, Hon. Walter M. Farmer, Hon. James G. Cotter, Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Hon. Thomas F. Byrne and Hon. Emmett Whaelan, Mr. Whaelan, against our objection, insisted upon joining in and contributing his little mite in that direction, stating that he and Bishop Fallows associated together as directors of the Home for Friendless Children, and that he felt highly honored to be permitted to be present and join in the memorial exercises in honor of Bishop Fallows. (Re-Published by Request) The Following Address By Julius F. Taylor, Who Presided At The Memorial Services In Honor Of Bishop Fallows My good friends, we are still standing, with bowed heads, in the presence or within the shadow of the Honored and the departed dead, and on this beautiful sabbath afternoon, we are assembled within these walls, for the sole purpose of paying our homage or grief stricken tribute, to the imperishable memory of the late Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, who recently peacefully closed his eyes in death, at his home in this city. A city in which he had labored for more than fifty years, for its upbuilding and advancement; he was one of its monumental pillars in its civic, religious and educational development. He was one of the most distinguished many sided personages on the American continent. His breast was always full of the milk of human kindness for his fellow men, regardless of their race or their religious convictions. He was one of the greatest intellectual giants, that has so far been cast upon the shores of time; He was one of the rarest masterpieces or products of an all wise and merciful God. His fertile and ponderous brain, which never ceased from its activities enabled him to successfully labor in many lines of endeavor, at the same time assisting him to become a great pulpiter, university educator, a patriotic soldier, who gallantly fought in the war of the rebellion, for the freedom of the slaves and the preservation of the union. He was an author and newspaper editor of great ability. His name richly deserves to be written in pure burnished gold, high up on the wall of the hall of fame, along by the side of the names of Abraham Lincoln who liberated more than four million slaves with one stroke of his mighty pen; the immortal Frederick Douglass, the matchless orator, diplomat and statesman who was one of the foremost leaders in the great anti-slavery struggle or movement in this country; the illustrious Charles Sumner, author of the civil rights bill: Henry Ward Beecher, the great anti-slavery clergyman; Wendell Phillips, the fiery and eloquent orator, who rocked this mighty nation to and fro, over the slavery question; William Lloyd Garrison, who was dragged through the streets of Boston, with a rope around his neck, for contending for the immediate emancipation of the slaves; last but not the least, E. P. Lovejoy, who lost his life for advocating through the columns of his little weekly newspaper, the liberation of four million slaves from the house of bondage. Bishop Fallows, who was a humanitarian in the broadest sense or meaning of that word, from the cradle to the grave, never faltered in his loyalty and out spoken friendship for the colored race. He presided over the great peace meeting held at Bethel church the first part of December 1906 shortly after the late United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina had delivered a lecture in this city in which he attempted to array the better class of white and colored people against each other. The golden words of wisdom which fell from the lips of Bishop Fallows, at that time restored peace and harmony between the two races, and out of respect to his memory, that peace and harmony must continue to reign supreme between the white and colored race, residing in the great city of Chicago. In 1913, Hon. Edward F. Dunne, at that time Governor of the great state of Illinois, selected Bishop Fallows, to serve as chairman of the Illinois Commission, which enabled the colored people in this state to celebrate their fifty years of freedom in 1915, which was further evidence of the undying friendship of Bishop Fallows, for the colored race. It was our great pleasure to be well acquainted with him and he possessed a charming personality, to such an extent that no one could refrain from falling in love with him. He always felt highly pleased to be regarded as one of the champions and uncompromising friends of the race of which the speaker is an humble member. In September, 1921, he was induced through our solicitation, to deliver an address from this platform in the interest of the Fort Dearborg Hospital, and that was his last public address to the Colored people of Chicago. My kind and loving friends, I firmly believe, deep down in the bottom of my warm and liberty loving heart; that when the angel of death summoned Bishop Fallows, to move on up into a higher and better realm where he would be free from all pain and sorrow, where he could continue his labors in behalf of a nobler and a greater humanity! That he was able to walk with a steady tread to the river of the dead; conscious of a work well done, conscious of a victory won; to whose everlasting fame, no stain will ever cling in the presence of the great king of the universe. May his sweet and kindly soul repose in peace throughout eternity! M. HON. P. J. CARR The Best and by Far the Most Progressive and Up-To-Date Treasurer that Cook County Has Ever Had and His Legions of Warm Friends Feel Dead Sure That He Will Be Elected to His Present Position Tuesday, November 7. PRESS LAUDS CARR Return of County Treasurer of More Interest on Public Funds Than Any Predecessor Wins Praise of Great Dailies. Interest earnings of $654,419.90 in single fiscal year or about $100,000.00 more than had been produced during a similar period by any of his predecessors. This was the yield on the public moneys gained during the first twelve months of his administration by P. J. Carr, Treasurer of Cook County. Every penny of this sum was returned by him to the public account. The achievement is especially noteworthy as it has been effected during an era of official wastefulness unparalleled in the history of Chicago. "Carr breaks all records," was the tenor of every newspaper report chronicling an accomplishment that redounded to the benefit of all the taxpayers. Briefly, here is what they said: Chicago Daily News: "Carr sets new record—interest total is largest in history." Chicago Evening Journal: "The establishment of 100 sub-stations by Mr. Carr for the convenience of taxpayers, together with the increased efficiency of his office, and the courteous and business-like service rendered, make an unprecedented record entitling him to election." Chicago American: "The efficient and courteous treatment accorded the public by the Treasurer of Cook ```markdown ``` A. B. HON. WALTER M. FARMER One of the Leading and Prominent Lawyers Rese Great City, Who Greatly Assisted to Arrang tails in Connection With the Memorial Servi to the Memory of the Late Bishop Fallow. One of the Leading and Prominent Lawyers Residing in This Great City, Who Greatly Assisted to Arrange All the Details in Connection With the Memorial Services in Honor to the Memory of the Late Bishop Failows. One of the Leading and Prominent Lawyers Residing in This Great City, Who Greatly Assisted to Arrange All the Details in Connection With the Memorial Services in Honor to the Memory of the Late Bishop Failows. Post Progressive and Up-To-Date City Has Ever Had and His Legions and Sure That He Will Be Elected tuesday, November 7. County, Mr. Carr, makes taxpaying almost a carr." Chicago Tribune: "Interest payments by County Treasurer Carr break all records." Chicago Evening Post: "All records for interest payments by all former Cook County Treasurers are surpassed by the administration of County Treasurer P. J. Car." In the extraordinary accomplishment thus extolled is found substantial proof of genuine effort to lighten the heavy burden of the taxpayers. Zeal for the public welfare has always marked Mr. Carr's career, whether as County Treasurer, Aleman or Sanitary District Trustee. A dual obligation rests upon the County Treasurer—namely, the collection of taxes and the distribution money collected to the various municipalities entitled to it. That is the entire extent of his duty under the law. He has absolutely nothing to say about how much the taxes shall be or how they shall be spent. All he does is gather the taxes and pay them out to the City the Sanitary District and various other bodies in accordance with fixed rates. But in handling the money between the time it is collected and paid out to the municipalities an efficient and honest County Treasurer may save the taxpayers a great deal of money by doing his utmost to secure for them the largest possible amount of interest on the funds in his custody and seeing to it that they get every penny of it. THE ment Lawyers Residing in This assisted to Arrange All the De- memorial Services in Honor Bishop Failows. re. ae pn ee Lao eS ae eS eg 3 Bers 3 ed | _ : ‘ ee WY - co) HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY blican Candidate for Re-Election As a Sanitary District of Chicago, Owing to th« Honorable Record Which He Has Made in H tion, Entitles Him to Re-Election on Tuesda: Lately Mr. Lawley Secured the Appointmen rude Brown, a Bright and Intelligent Young an to a Position in the Rooms of the Boar: Cook County. eae ener eraraaoieaas ace ea Sanitary District of Chicago, Owing to the Splendid and Honorable Record Which He Has Made in His Present Posi- tion, Entitles Him to Re-Election on Tuesday, November 7. Lately Mr. Lawley Secured the Appointment of Miss Gert- rude Brown, » Bright and Intelligent Young Colored Wom- an to a Position in the Rooms of the Board of Review of Cook County. BOUT THE KU KLUX KLANS)| Our Uncle Sam must be wondering if By W. Matthew B. Wadley | branding or the whipping is best (Copyrighted, 1922) ' orcigners, Jews, Catholics and Ne eroes, be wise he Ku Klux Klans, dissatisfied, ot tar and feathers for your hides, ome of these days must run for your lives. 2 be Knights of the Ku Klux Klans ‘ving to get the men together, ii ein ‘red pet cout Aywericans, pleas anny ae ve following. Hees, I will tell a why: Te 2 : ux Klans will never get no Fase, ney have fosica the world to be amazed. hat they have done to Negroes in childhood days owing they are daughters and sons of slaves. a 4 ne country never witnessed such a time before; orld’s war gave it a knockout blow. ith education and advancement. Ne- Toes swore nat he wouldn't be a slave no more. 5 -groes helped to whip the Germans a few years ago, 3r Democracy they hadn't seen be- fore. emocracy is good for évery man stead of Knights of the Ku Klux Klans. 6 : las, Texas, Ku Klux seem to be hard, anded Alex Johnson, a Negro, K. K. K, on his forehead: dnapped Fred D. Ball, Paul Jones. ‘press agent, to witness test. eas Ge. ye i f Ss as fa ee ha Ft ‘A E a) i LS ae: Ls WM TS ‘ Soe | re aos ce HON. ANTON J. CERMAK rong and Influential Member of the City Council, From the Old Twelfth Ward; Who i Putting Up a Stiff and Telling Fight, in His Race for President of the Board of Commis- sioners of Cook County. 7 Our Uncle Sam must be wondering if | branding or the whipping is best 7 No honors for the Ku Klux in mak- ing their stand. Negroes need the white race, to take him by the hand. Leading him toward the promised land, No whipping and giving the three K. brand. 3 The Lord giveth. and He taketh. The Negroes are Willingest fighters that ever lived. . Leaving France, bidding Allies good- bye, Bound for America—let the colors fy. 9 Knights of the Ku Kluxs, with torch in their hand, Wants to show foreigners, Jews, Catholics, Negroes, in bands, Must come out in the open, show their might; No tar or feathers, whipping, and branding at night. 0 After the World War everybody would have some peace— The promise of democracy. while the soldiers were in the east. Ku Klux Klans will never let them rest Until the government defeats them in the west. n King Kleagle Knights of the Ku Klux Klans Take the law im their own hands. You may have many thousands on the Texas border The United States of America still has law and order. A man always thinks he could do much better work if his environments were only better—but Milton was blind. ee | ee shad Bea ta ee pee a sone | Ess pam Sie B eceres eee _ ey j CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922 INR eee a ee ICHARLES F. § By Dr. M. A. Majors ® | As one passes through the second ‘ward whether it be along State Street Indiana Ave, he is impelled to ask }the question wherefore the great clec- }trie signs which all but makes it look like day. Who pays for this great ex- [pense of illumination? There is some business done by the people who use these great clectric signs, and to all jappearances our people must figure considerably in the affair. We sur- mise there is at least an outlay in dol- Jars amounting somewhere near fifty thousand or more per month. Bright Fights are costly more than one way to our seemingly improvident race. We ‘certainly must spend a lot of money at night in this great city, several times over the mere tost of lights to be sure. We pay for the hired atten- dants, we buy a lot of wet goods, eats, and we pay the rent of the place where these great signs are, besides give the man in business enough profit on his goods to” make him wealthy. These kind of people call it having a good time, spending their money which, to make, must in many. cases cost them vexation of spirit, humilia- tion, and sometimes degradation. Sporting life, the youngsters call it. Wonderful fun for the fool in his folly. Meeting a thousand disgusting scenes every night, at places where lewdness and vile distemper unfit a young man or woman for a decent fu- ture. These are the scenes that make ‘old men out of young men at twenty- five, and old worn out women at twen- ty-two, But the empty minded must have fun and foolishness for his philosophy. He must have mirth and music, wine, women, and song to wake up his few ounces of brains while he lives his little life bounded by the horizon of a lewd woman's dissipated eyes. The Primrose Path costs the dressed up fop all of his days in quest of joy. It takes his money, steals his soul, robs him of honor, and at last brings him to unbegrudging despair almost as ugly as hell. What can be done to check this onrush of moral decay among the young men and women of our race? The social organizations like the church seem to be losing caste, and the adventuress finds for herself a harvest duping the fool and dressing better than they do on the Gold Coast. The great white way in Chicago is the road to perdition. You can never convince the fool of his folly. He is never bright enough to see the point until it is too late. Every year finds an exodus of young men to Hot Springs to get their blood boiled out The knowledge so general among the laity on the relative and curative prop erties of 606, serums and intravenous medication is fearful to contemplate. Women who once were the pride of their old home town all marked, and seared by the yellow leaf of de- bauchery is too pitiable to think of. Nothing can be done, after a while the hat is passed around, and we have to bury them; that is about all we can do for these kind of worthless trash. The underworld, the night life, is ‘only a part of the ugly situation that is dragging the race down to ruin and hell. We cannot depend upon the church, nor religion to make people vee the preachers themselves are none too good. We have got to take greater pains with the little ones now under our care, and teach them as St. Paul’says they ought to be taught “in the fear and admonition of God.” Very little if anything can be done to turn the wayward youth of this generation back into paths of truth and righteousness. The Sunday school and the Christian home is our, only refuge. If there is no law that can put an end to this holocaust of sin and debauchery, then the race should get busy and devise some plan to drive the devil and his fallen angels from about the homes of the good people who are anxious that their children may come up under decent Scritcoment’ Surely if the ministry was worth a tinker's damn they would worry the life out of our aldermen. city council, mayor, and the judges of the courts. “If they stood truly for more than the money there is in keep- ing a church they would have long since gotten together, and by moral persuasion, and threats to the political life of the men in office, accomplished something for the proper conduct of the race. The second ward is pointed to, and held up as the dirty spot in Chicago. It is excused for being the dirty spot on the grounds wholly because it is dwned, and politically controlled by che Negro race. White people call it the black belt, and they bring and Mrs. George Chapman, 6142 S. Elizabeth street, and hc: sister, Mrs. Logan, are Visiting with relatives and friends in Louisville, Ky., their former home. They expect to return to their home in this city the first of the com- ing week. “HARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAD A BIG TIME WHILE ATTENDING THE A. M. E. CONFERENCE AT SAN FRAN- CISCO, CAL, WHICH WAS ABLY PRESIDED OVER BY BISHOP W. A. FOUNTAIN. San Francisco, Cal—If you will re call that this is the old town: tha has the chills sometimes, and as | walk the streets, get up and dows thie hills on the cable cars, and them beanpole cars, it is all I can do te keep my mouth from jumping out o my heart; fet I am here, the guest o Bishop W. A. Fountain, and the Cali. fornia-Airican Methodist Episcopal conference, and they are in touch with the throne, I am just letting them pray and I am trusting in God so if the earth gets chilly and goes to shaking it will not shake me into eternity. ¥ Of course you know I am not afraid, for heaven is my home, and heaven is a bétter place than this old world, yet for some reasons unknown to me Tam not homesick, and I still crave to remain here just a little longer. T am not joking when I tell you that I am proud that the 1920 gen- eral conference, held in St. Louis, ele- vated Dr. William A. Fountain, then president of Morris Brown University. the largest institution operated by the African Methodist Episcopal church, to the episcopacy. It was a tase of merit and fitness getting 3 hearing, and one of the strongest men in the race being placed in a po. sition where he can render great serv. ice to his race-and it is being ren. ef mee <7? hg x 2 a a = ’ ] re i HON. EMMETT WHAELAN The People’s Candidate for Re-election for County Commis- sioner, Who Was a Warm and Steadfast Friend of the Late Bishop Samuel Fallows. dered and you may just tell your read- ers that I said so, and I know what I am talking about. He does not rule his conference with an iron rod, but with love, with sympathy, and be- lieving that a man is a man and not a child and should be treated as a man. Hence we do not find threats, we do not find abuse,” but each man is given an opportunity to make his for- tune and to go to the top if he will, and if he goes to the bottom he will go there of his own free will and ac- cord. He is just going into the hearts of the people, and believe me when | tell you that it is only a question of a short time when he will be the popu- lar bishop of his conncetion. He is not only popular with his own peco- ple, but he is popular with the others. and everywhere he is received with ‘open arms. He will be much songht at the next general conference, yet it is hard to tell just which one of the districts will get him. I would like to see him go to the Fifth, but that is not mine to say, and I do not know what he would wish in this matter. Reaching town from where T was when I wrote to you the last time with my pen in hand and ink and paper on the table, I went to the A. M. E. parsonage, and was from there assigned to my stopping place, Mrs. Boyer, 1855 Pine street, and be- lieve me it was some place. I was goon in the opening of the Sth an- nual session of the California con- forence, Bishop W. A. Fountain pre- siding. I heard the opening prayers, the opening songs, the opening ser- mon, and then I heard Bishop speak right out in church. He furnished some good stuff in his address. I wish you could have been here to have heard that address of Bishop. Fountain for yourself. He was cer- tainly dealing in some religious mat- ters, some heavenly matters, and then he dealt with some earthly matters, and even touched the state and while he is not a politician, he said some few things that would cause those who: are in politics to take notice. He spoke right out in church to the re- publican party. I would like to just say to you a few things he said if] you will read them. Here they are: “If the republican party would stand for a square deal for every American citizen and the protection of human life property, it would be a blessing to sity and Chris- tian civilization. Now is the’ time ce we must with out ballots demand ‘it, for we are beginning to feel that we have paid the party in full with all interest, for the part it took with ‘our emancipation, which out blood ‘also helped to earn. We fought in our country’s wars, giving our lives for the protection of Old Glory. We pause now to ask. Is this heavenly ene truly the land of the free and the home of the brave? | “We are often criticized for our ‘persistence, but we are simply con- ‘tending for the right to stand up and be counted like men and women, ana not dealt with as Atildren, with a tot of empty promises.’ We have passed the childhood period, and we stand against discrimination, segregation and Jim Crowism in all their forms, and we have decided to fight it out, and our weapons will be the ballot directed against cowards, and if the republican Senate allows southern ee senators and their crowd to prevent them with their majority from passing the Dyer Anti-Lynch- ing bill, then the republicans say to the world we are cowards; and we will pause and ask, shall we continue to support it? + “I want that my people in this part of the country shall encourage our young people. The schools of California are opened to us, and w: must sce to it that more of our youns people graduate from the high schools If you would fill a place you must be prepared. Don't stand around and talk about wanting opportunity, when opportunities are as free as the water you drink, but the prepared ‘man ot woman must take hold of them, while the other fellow stands around com- plaining about the people who are succeeding and tries to kill someone to make a place for himself which Ihe is not worthy to fill “There is a brighter day ahead of ‘us. We complain about bunching us, but bunching has been a blessing. Bunching is why you have a man, F. M. Roberts, in the General Assembly; bunching has sent men of our race to the Legislatures in Illinois. Peinsyl- vania, New Y@k, West Virginia placed them in the council of Chi- ‘cago and other cities, and bunching is going to place us back in Congress and when we go there we are going to stay. I expect to see members of four race in Congress and the Legis- latures from Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkausas and even from Texas. Time will help bunching to tell the story.” You will agree with me that that Bishop has said some good things, and I take off my hat to him, and say he is just the stuff we need now. A man who is not afraid to speak out and will speak the truth instead of going over the country talking about the good white folks in the south(?), and other dead stuff. God bless the Bishop and may he live long to take up the work begun by such men as Grant, Arnett, Derrick and others of that class. They have had a great confference here, and I have had a big ay I did not get around much, but one evening I had the pleasure of going. over to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 898 42nd street, Oakland, which is just across the bay. Mrs. Johnson was at one time Iona Inez Nickerson, and a teacher in New Or- leans, but she accepted the hand of an aggressive young man in Oaklard and they have a beautiful home and doing weil. At her home I met Mrs. Ponce Barrios, who is one of the leading lights in this section of. the country, and she is a thinker. I did ot get to meet her husband, and then there was Mrs. Norene Davis of Kansas City, Mrs. Evans of To- a | ae: | : LP f | ! | aS 5 HON. MATT. A. MUELLER The Most Popular German-American Republican in This City or Cook County Who Will Be Re-Elected One of the Trustees of the Sanitary Distri:t of Chicago on Tuesday, November ae Both Men and Women Can Vote for Him. peka, and Rector David Wallace of ON THE GO the Oakland Episcopal Church, all — lof these did break bread together, and| _M. T. Bailey, president the Bailey Mr. MN. Johnson, the head of the| Realty Co., 3638 South State street, is house, came in before we were|being kept on the go in Morgan Park through. It was a great dinner. and|where he is lending every assistance you will believe me when I tell you T|to those interested in buying suitable enjoyed it. : sites for homes during a special sale I met the wonderful musical Brown |of lots in this rapidly thriving suburb. family, and 1 will tell you all about| —— them in my next letter. Things are HAS PLEASANT TRIP looking bright. The next session of — the conference will go right where} Mrs. Dollie A. Plackman, 10 West the National Baptist Convention will|47th street, has just returned from a go, Los Angeles. Cal. I hope you will| very pleasant trip to Henderson, Ky., be there to see them elect delegates. | where she spent some time with her I have met many friends out here in| father, Rev. L. Posey, and other rela~ this part of the-country, and Ihave | tives. promised to return before Christ. = Wish you could make the trip with IN CITY me. — I think I will have to bring this} Mrs. C. R. Saunders of Memphis, letter to a stap for this week. but you |Tenn., is:spending: some time in the may look out for the next one. city the guest of Mrs. E. Yarbrough, CHARLES E. STUMP. |450 West 36th street, and her daugh- Dr. M. A. Majors will leave today (Oct. 7th), for the South, visiting Nashville, Franklin and Coluumbia, Tenn. He will join Mrs. Majors at Franklin and after a few days hunt- ing and fishing will return to Chicago fon the 15th of October, coming by way of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louis- ville and Cleveland. In 1886 Dr. Ma- jorjs graduated at Meharry with high honors. He has not visited Nashville [since his school days. ENTERTAIN FOR CHILDREN Mrs. Sallie McCamey of Morgan Park, entertained on last Wednesday evening at lier home about one hun- dred children. in honor of her three grandchildren, Jessie, Almeria and Lee McCamey of North Little Rock, Ark. who are visiting relatives with hile: enttleas Sn the cite, | 4 . HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN The Honorable Member of Congress from the Fi et ere eae ae Be Sees come Home Coming at ‘endell Phillips on October 20. The eee ot Congres hoe he sional District of Iinois, Who Will Be Tendered a Wel- cates Heme Sean et ee onde Fhitiee ik Tae on October RETURN TO NASHVILLE Mrs. Pauline Jones and her little daughter have returned to Nashville, ‘Tenn., their home town, after spend- jing several months in the city with friends. AT SPRINGS FOR HEALTH en | Miss Jennie MacCamey, 3728 Giles avenue. is at Hot Springs, Ark. where she hopes to recover her health. Dr. Adena C. E. Minott, who has ‘resided in this city for the past six years, on Saturday evening. leit for |New York City, her former home, where she will continue to conduct her Mental Science School. GEORGE F. HARDING, JR. 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This marvelous preparation is QUININE POMADE SECA SEIN See See eee eae cream that cS ‘Femoves blemishes Seeehe eee Ses eee ee qeereme eS SSS ES EXELENTO prepaseions fate NOWT EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY ATLANTA, GEORGIA AGENTS WANTED. EVERY WHERE An Essay on Froge. ‘The Chicago board of education has caused 2 classic essay to be immortal Jed in type. It's about frogs and was written by a young Norwezian. The essay: “What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he stand he sit. al- most. When he hop he fis, almost. He ain't got no sense, hardiy. He aio't got no tall hardiy, either. When he sit he sit on what he aln't got, almost.” Phone Main 2017 oa A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND : COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. ‘CHICAGO Residence 3655 Prairie Ave. Phone Dougias 9133 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 J: GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law - (204 East 35th Street Chicago Corner Indiana Ave., Second Floor. Not All So Bad. Unusually candid is an advertising merchant in Lennox, 8. D. He says: “We don't claim that other people are chests and lars. We don't judge evershody else by ourscivea."—Boe- = ie Fish has always been one of the Fish has alas been ane 0 B ¥ . WHAT IS A gi “SAVINGS ACCOUNT” It’s piling “one doiiar upon fH 5 sistently—not the initial de- jf posit, but the regular system- eae atic saving that develops the [its real spirit of thrift and char- acter. @) * ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK a Galle an Jacheon Streets Chicago Dore it break off or fall out? Is it dry and wiry? Have you scalp disease, or more than « normal amount ot fandrult? 1f So, you should act at once, begin using MADAME F X. A. FRANKLIN'S HAIR GROWER It matters not receela You should bat became alecouraged and sive EAM |p terse giving my Hair Grower a trial Tt bas pro 4 moted an abundant growth of heir for thousands and « sl will do the same for you. Falso teach my System by Teall or by person. Write for information and terms aes MY SPECIAL OFFER ‘To those desiring to try my wonderfal Hair Prepara- SS ; tions Twill’ mail, om request, 5 SIX WEEKS" TRIAL ‘ TREATMENT, consisting of Shampoo, Halr Grower 5 nd Pressing Oil, with full instructions how to use the Sime, for oly $110. One trial treatment. will con= Vince you of its value. ‘Make all orders to E MADAME N. A. FRANKLIN ‘onser am Beare past Dent, 8. 5342 Se. State ‘eet 8.805 Prairie Ave ‘cmicawer tue *ousTon. TEXAS SERRE EERE REE EERE EEE ERE E EE EEE REE ht JAS. B. McCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer ESTABLISHED 1877 Telephone Oakland 1550 5100 Federal Street CHICAGO VOTE FOR Benjamin E. Cohen Republican Candidate for Judge of Municipal Court (NEW 2-YEAR TERM) Election Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 1922 Polls Open 6 a. m. to 4 p. m. Cor Our Tus Sumscrnow Base amp Man. It 20 THE BROAD AX $1.00 vor 6 Mowrms 6206 8. Elisabeth Street, Chicago, IL 3 ‘$2007 Tuas © | JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter my name a» 2 mbecriber to THE BROAD AX_I encose herewith Two Dollars, the annual subseriptions to same, or One ‘Dollar for six months. Aha Ba aa nS i ete aie ‘Dae Semte—___________ | HOWARD'S FOOTBALL PROS- PECTS BRIGHT Already at Howard things are be- sinning to take definite shape with respect to the coring football pro- gram. Coach Morrison began prac- tice in earnest on September 15th, with a fine bunch of “huskies.” Quite a large number of ‘the “old warriors” have not returned as yet but during the coming week practically al! will have reported. With the old boys back in togs and the splendid recruits from the Freshman squad of last year, the prospects for a winning team for Howard's 1922 season seem bright. HOME AGAIN Mrs. Amelia McGavock, 4425 South Dearborn street, is home again after spending more than ten months at Batavia, Ohio, at the bedside of her only sister, who recently passed away. MRS. NORTHINGTON IM- PROVING » Mrs. Annie Northington of 2916 South State street, who has been con- fined at Provident Hospital for sev- eral weeks on account of illness, is improving slowly. BACK FROM THE EAST William M. Gales, a representative of the Overton Hygienic Mfg. Co.. is back irom the east after spending two pleasant weeks in New York City with friends on his vacation. “Fifty-four Ferty, or Fight” “Fifty-four Forty, or Fight,” was « @y adopted during the northwestern Boundary discussion by those who die approved of yielding our clalms to the territory short of 54 degrees 40 minutes of latitude between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean. CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922 Figures in Wood. Figures in wood have various sources. These may be grouped in those due to structure, those caused by color variation or pigmentation, and to combination of the two, says the American Forestry Magazine ‘These again may be classified as nor mal and abnormal or pathologic. By normal is meant the natural condition of the wood of a sound tree. In the abnormal or pathologic are to be found the peculiar distortions and colora- tons resulting from disease, the at tucks of insects and activities of va rious agencies not a part of the regu lar life processes of the trees. ‘The Busk Passes the Buck. An Americanization incident of the West is related: A Piute Indian with @ stick and white paint raised do- Jar bill and passed it on a Chinaman, who paid a gambling debt to an Amer fean with it. The American was an rested—New ork Morning Tele graph. Sack Sew Gunpiies cf ivery, | Genuine ivory is exceedingly scarce, and many hunters left Seattle Inst summer to prospect the Yukon and Norton sound tundras for mastodon tusks, says the Scientific American. Another source of supply is the Behr tng sea walrus and narwal. — | Altar Lights Burn 50 Years. For 50 years seven lights have burned day and night in front of a statue of the Blessed Virgin in one of the Catholic churches in Chicago. ‘These lights commemorate the escape of the edifice from destruction in the great fire of 1871. Mephistopheles. ‘The name Mephistopheles, is from he Greek, and it means “He who lover Rot light.” ‘Ths name was given to a Satanic personage of the Middie ages, ‘who in the Faust legend is appointed te obey Faust's commands, according to the terms on which the latter has ‘s0ld bis soul to Satan. a > ~ 2 Sakic — Pe a eT a ya se: pe =—— ae - fae - a i ot ee a. , oe Se ee | k FS Ae ae eer ees NS re rE ea Tt ac Swear ta ES SA ee ee ge merry | ch. Sv Lae 5 E : | { / i j ‘ ‘ be i | ee E a ~ Fh jee a Se m3 Po ee ee ee A ma as ae EES Mths | Ernest H. 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