The Broad Ax

Down With the Proposed New Constitution for the State of Illinois for It Is a Delusion and a Snare and If the People of This State on December 12th Vote in Favor of Its Adoption They Will Rivet a Loadstone or Chain Around Their Necks and a Heavy Burden Upon Their Shoulders Which They Will Be Unable to Shake Off for the Next One Hundred Years to Come AN ABLE AND LOGICAL ARTICLE IN OPPOSITION TO THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, BY MR. CHARLES C. ROE, MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO BAR, AND ONE OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEYS FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Read The Broad Ax and be happy Vol. XXVIII. Down State of the People of Its A Around Shoulder for the AN ABLE AND LO OPPOSITION TO OF THE NEW O MR. CHARLES O THE CHICAGO THE ASSISTA FOR THE BOAR When we elected a Constitutional Convention it was because we thought that it was necessary to bring the basic law of Illinois into line with the progressive thought of the age, and it was because of that reason that the adoption of a new constitution mat with ready response. After nearly two years of debate, a new constitution has been submitted to the voters of this state for their approval, and an election will be held by the people to determine whether the proposed draft of the constitution, as submitted by the members of the convention, shall be approved and become the new constitution of the state of Illinois. A special election to vote on this question takes place on December 12, 1922. After a careful perusal of the proposed constitution my objections are as follows: It limits the right of citizens charged with crime to be admitted to bail by investing judges of our courts with discretionary power. Under the present law of this state, and of every state in the Union, and of the-United States under our federal law, any person charged with crime, other than murder, has a legal right to be admitted to bail pending his trial; but under this proposed new constitution such personal liberty would be taken away from him and the writ of habeas corpus would be abrogated, because where the judge is given discretion the court cannot interfere with the discretion unless it be of such a character as to indicate gross injustice. It permits the trial of an individual on a criminal charge without previously showing a cause or indictment of such charge by grand jury. This is unheard of among the Anglo-Saxon people and is not along progressive lines, and tends to reduce the people to personal servitude to the whims and caprices of the attorney-general of the state, who is authorized by the new constitution to file an information against any person he may see fit without making any showing of probable cause. It has taken away from the people of Cook County and the city of Chicago their proportionate share of representation in the senate and limits Cook County forever to but one-third of the membership of the state senate, even if the county of Cook should became so great in population as to outnumber all the rest of the state, and although it has now over 47 percent of the population of the entire states Cook county, including the city of Chicago, under the new constitution, will be entitled to but two members out of the nine members of the new Supreme court of the state of Illinois. It takes away from the people, through their representatives in the THE BROAD AX regular assembly, the right to legislate concerning the practice and pleadings in our courts and gives this right to the Supreme court, which is a delegation of power unheard of among English-speaking peoples. The Supreme court is authorized to appoint judges under the new constitution, and the people would have no right to elect their own judiciaries, which would be appointed by the seven members of the Supreme court who were elected outside of Cook County and the city of Chicago, and would place in a foreign body the selection of judges to preside over the courts in the city of Chicago and Cook county. It has placed in the hands of the Supreme Court the appointment, through its selection, of from five to six hundred office holders and attaches of these various courts which it is in power to create. Under the new constitution the Supreme court will become a political organization, and it will become an office brokerage bureau, and its appointees would be determined by the political complexion of the court. Business and individuals will become burdened with income taxes and preference will be given to owners of intangible property (stocks and bonds), and exempts from taxation the owners of desmenues under the guise of forest culture; and fixes the limitation of the exemption given to the poor at $1,000 for the head of a family and $500 for an unmarried person, the effect of which will be to require every laboring man, working girl, stenographer, and scrubwoman at present wages to file income tax reports and claims for exemption. The income tax on earnings from business, professions, and rents, under the new constitution, could be graduated progressively upward, while the income tax on stocks and bonds, must be uniform, thus discriminating in favor of the stockholders and bondholders of the state as against the business, professional, and working people. When this Constitutional Convention was elected there was express instructions given to many of the members of this convention to provide and incorporate in the new constitution provision for the creation by the legislature of the initiative and referendum, which, in spite of this express understanding, this convention was so dominated by the money power that it has failed entirely to include any provision for the creation by the people of the state of Illinois of any initiative legislation, and refuses to the people the referendum for the approval of any iniquitous legislation that might be passed by subsequent general assemblies after the adoption of this proposed new constitution. Cook county would have but two members out of the nine members of the new Supreme court of the state of Illinois, although it has now nearly one-half of the population of the state, and will in a few years have a great deal more than one-half of the population of the state, thus discriminating against the people of the metropolis of the state in favor of the people down-state. It provides that in any future constitutional convention, that no matter what the popula- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1922 [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. tion of Cook county and Chicago might be, it could only have 45 out of 121 members of any new constitutional convention that might be called either ten years from now or one hundred years from now. No provision is made in this constitution for the many progressive ideas of the times; such as old age pensions, etc. This new constitution permits the reading of selections from any version of the old or new testament in the public schools without comment by the teachers. This is in direct opposition to the wishes of two large and influential bodies of our people—the Roman Catholics and the Jews. Selections from the new testament of all versions reflecting upon the Jew could be made by teachers if they so saw fit, and from the Roman-Catholic version there could be selections made to Protestants that would be distasteful, and from the Protestant version there could be selections that would be distasteful and would result in ill feeling on the part of the Roman Catholics, and would be very detrimental to the proper training of our children. Ever since the foundation of this great American republic, it has been the purpose of the people to keep the church and state separate, and to keep religion out of our public schools; and since the foundation of the state of Illinois, over 100 years, it has been unlawful to read selections from the old and new testament in the public schools. With the large number of public school teachers of all religious faiths and nationalities, it is quite likely that there would be fanatics among all branches of religious thought, who would be authorized to select such parts of the old and new testament from any version they saw fit to emphasize their unreasonable and fapatical views, and to force them upon HON. CHARLES C. ROE children whose parents would not wish them to be so instructed; and if for no other reason than that the new constitution permits to be read in the public schools of this state selections from any version of the new and old testament, it should be defeated. It centralizes the power of government at the expense of popular majorities and undermines the principals or majority rule. It denies home rule to Chicago. It will interfere seriously with the future progress of Chicago in its power to issue bonds for municipal projects, on income-producing utilities. It will prevent legislation by initiative of the people and it has many other dangerous innovations upon the present constitution which are unheard of and would be too long to discuss in this short communication. For weeks and months the state has been flooded by the proponents of the new constitution with arguments favoring its adoption. Where the money is coming from to pay this vast expense no one knows, but we have our ideas. This new constitution may contain some provisions which are good, but it contains so many bad things that it should be defeated. It provides that "the truth, when published with good motives and for justifiable ends, is a sufficient defense" in trials for libels, civil or criminal. This would permit newspapers to publish all sorts of lies and libels rulous to profession and character, and to escape damages by publishing (after the damage had been done) the truth. The people of Illinois want a new constitution, but we want one that will reflect the progressive spirit of the times and until we can secure such a constitution let us hold fast to that which we have. LET "OTHER MAN" HAVE HIS WIFE Wife Confessed Love for Rival, Says Veteran Who Wins Divorce Los Angeles, Cal.—"She told me she loved the other man better than she did me. I let her have him." Forest Tyrrell, an overseas soldier, concluded his statement of why his home was broken up with these words and Judge Summerfield granted him a decree of divorce. The other man, according to the wife, seemed to wield an influence over Mrs. Leona May Tyrrell. She begged her husband to help her break the spell. When the other man looked at her, she said her brain was in a whirl. She was unable to resist him. Mrs. Tyrrell crept back to her husband and he thought the spell had been broken, but the man again crossed her path and she went away with him. Mr. Tyrrell found them together, and then she confessed her love for the "other man." [The chances are ten to one that Mrs. Tyrrell put the spell on the other man and that she had an evil eye for him, and that the other man understood her and was able to handle her much better in every way than the husband whom she deserted.—Editor.] Honorable John H. Ryan, Re-elected to the Legislature in the State of Washington Honorable John H. Ryan, who successfully conducts a weekly newspaper at Tacoma, Wash., was at the late election re-elected to the legislature of that state on the farmers' labor ticket. Mr. Ryan has the honor of being the only Colored man elected to a legislative body in that body of the extreme west. ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES OF THE LATE ELECTION. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE RECOMMENDED AND URGED THE VOTERS RESIDING IN THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS TO ELECT THOMAS M. CRAINE TO CONGRESS AND DEFEAT HON. ELLIOTT W. SPROUL. THE BROAD AX, SUPPORTED CONGRESSMAN SPROUL, AND DEFEATED THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. A SPLENDID JOKE ON THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD. ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND POLITICIANS IN THE CITY HALL OR COUNTY BUILDING HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT UNTIL A FEW DAYS PRIOR TO THE LAST ELECTION. Prior to the late election, November 7, some mighty funny things happened and among them were that in many instances the voters paid not the slightest attention to the suggestions or recommendations of the old Chicago Tribune, for it tried its level best to defeat Hon. Elliott W. Sproul in his race for re-election to Congress from the Third Congressional District of Illinois and it supported Mr. Thomas M. Craine, Democrat, but this newspaper loyally supported Congressman Sproul and he won out and the Chicago Tribune was defeated in that instance by The Broad Ax. That same newspaper urged the voters residing in the 11th Senatorial District of Illinois to elect Hon. William H. Cruden to the state senate and this newspaper advised the voters in that district to elect Hon. Frank J. Ryan to the state senate and he was elected so this newspaper scored two big points over the Chicago Tribune. One week before the late election a half baked preacher, representing the greatest weekly newspaper in the world called on one of the candidates seeking re-election to one of the most important positions in Cook County, being located in the County Building and the would-be preacher endeavored to secure an advertisement from him. It so happened that the writer was engaged in conversation with that prominent politician at the time that the so-called preacher approached him and he was requested to state his business very briefly and right to the point and the one-horse preacher went on to state "that his newspaper was the greatest weekly newspaper in the world, that it had more than two hundred and fifty thousand circulation, that he wanted seven dollars per inch per issue for an advertisement." When he had finished talking, looked over its political advertisements and he only ran across five small cuts stuck away down in several corners of the paper and they were so black with real black ink that it was very hard to tell whether they represented white men or colored men and the preacher stated that they represented white men and that prominent politician simply responded, "is that so?" At that point that big politician brought a copy of The Broad Ax, of October 28, which contained twenty-five beautiful half tone cuts of all the leading candidates both Democrats 5 CENTS per copy for the e and If in Favor or Chain on Their take Off ECHOES OF THE ON. THE CHICAGO COMMENDED AND OTERS RESIDING IN CONGRESSIONAL DIS INOIS TO ELECT CRAINE TO CON- DEFEAT HON. EL- DUL. THE BROAD SED CONGRESSMAN DEFEATED THE UNE. E ON THE GREAT- NEWSPAPER IN THE E OF THE MOST PUBLIC OFFICIALS MANS IN THE CITY CITY BUILDING HAD ED OF IT UNTIL A OR TO THE LAST and Republicans in this city and county and the prominent politician strongly intimated that all of the live and the biggest politicians or candidates seemed to be using Mr. Taylor's newspaper to reach the colored voters and that it contained the finest and the cleanest cuts of any newspaper in this city and in every respect it is a real live newspaper and finally the prominent politician capped the climax "when he asked the preacher if his greatest weekly newspaper in the world was published in Chicago" and the preacher responded by saying, "Yes, sir, it is published right here in this city." Then the politician said, "Is that so? I have never heard of it before, but I have heard of the Broad Ax," and in winding up the conversation the big politician said, "Come in and see me next week, and I will see what I can do for you, but do not bank on securing a write-up or an advertisement from me," and after the preacher representing the greatest weekly newspaper in the world had departed from his rooms, the big politician locked the main door leading into them and he pulled out a roll of money big enough to choke ten horses and he said, "Friend, Taylor, one thousand dollars of this roll will be expended in buying the misses a new fur coat and after I have finished paying a few other bills, my money will be mighty scarce, but here is a brand new one hundred dollar bill for you and do the best you can for me for it. After tucking the one hundred dollar bill away we almost rolled down all the steps from the 10th floor to the main floor in the county building. Years ago when this newspaper first began to treat Democrats who were friendly inclined toward the colored people fairly through its columns the colored editors and owners of the other newspapers in this city hounded us as an old "Nigger Democrat," they laboring under the impression that by calling us a "Nigger Democrat" that in time would kill us off but at the late election the greatest weekly newspaper in the world and the heads of the other colored newspapers in this city raked in all the money that they possibly could from the Democratic candidates which enabled them to buy some new black silk or satin dresses for their wives or lady friends. 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. Jane Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to ... THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Il. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS November 25, 1922 Vol. XXVIII No. 10 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 9, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. AUDACITY, VULGARITY, SEN- SUALITY AT WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL DANCING CLUB By Dr. M. A. Majors Accidently the writer saw through a window into the Antillies Hall, at 3524 Michigan avenue, some very disgusting, low, underworld stunts and, on making inquiry what club or society it was holding such a smutty orgy, was informed that it was the Wendell Phillips High School Dancing Club. We were told that some teacher acted as chaperon at their weekly dances. We stopped, struck dumb on learning that a teacher of our own race would allow such as we saw to be carried on in her presence. Any woman would blush for shame to see the ugly, low, nasty dances we saw done by boys and girls between 14 and 15 years of age, and supposed to be the representative element of the race in the high school. The sights we saw are indescribable and too low to dwell upon, and we wonder how in God's name a teacher can let such filth go on under her observation. After nearly sixty years we are greeted with new and startling surprises. Unwarranted degradation, the shadow of the old red light district, the grotesque insolence of everhorrifying spectacle marauding the minds of what we call tender youth enacted as if it was intended to destroy every possible human decency. If this school is to be allowed by the parents of the children, by the school authorities, and by the citizens, what need is there for education? What need have we to hope for better things? If the ugly debauch is to be encouraged we might close up our Sunday schools and find interesting pastime in forbidding goodness and respectability among people with a dark skin. If this High School Dancing Club is indorsed by the school authorities, it is a covenant with hell, born of the devil, and fostered to kill out of the ambitious hearts of our young men and women all that is noble and inspiring and that is respectable. This article is intended to reach our newspapers, preachers, politicians and civic clubs, hoping that a speedy investigation of this club shall be made and that it be disorganized for the glory of our children, the purity of our girls and the decency of our young manhood. We had but one thought in mind when our eyes beheld the surprising shocking lack of decency and the bold daring vulgarity of those children to call the police. WHY NOT HONOR IN PLACE OF DISHONOR? By Dr. M. A. Majors Is there a concerted action on the part of most white people to wring all of the Negro blood out of the American flag? What a calamity has come to the Negro race by the painstaking effort (it seems) at Washington to humble and humilate the 24th infantry, the very flower of the U. S. Army. For forty years this regiment has added lustre and raised the standards of valor and patriotism to army life, and years after years presidents who have adorned the White House have looked upon them as bulwarks to American safety. Under the present administration the achievements of this regiment are discredited, the men virtually disarmed, and sent to Georgia military training school under the order of the secretary of war, to be --- M. H. HON. MICHAEL ZIMMER The popular and efficient Superintendent of the Cook County Hospital, who would make a splendid Democratic candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1923 bulldozed and take insolent treatment from the Georgians, whose reputation for cruelty to Negroes is without a parallel in this country. A movement is on foot to petition the president, through our congressmen and U. S. senators; with a possible minimum of prospect of getting the president to rescind action, and restore the regiment to its former status. Should the president do this he will win the gratitude of all loyal citizens of the republic. SYMPATHY, JUSTICE AND OP PORTUNITY ARE DUE NEGRO CITIZENS President Lowell of Harvard and Other Leaders Speak at Hampton Meeting Boston, Mass.—That the so-called "Negro problem" should be studied "as a unique opportunity, an adventure, and a challenge to our democracy and our Christianity, which we should not fear, but for which rather we should give thanks" was the opinion expressed by Dr. James E. Gregg, principal of Hampton Institute, in his recent address, delivered in Old South Church, of which Dr. George A. Gordon is the pastor, at a meeting which was held under the auspices of the Hampton Association of Massachusetts and was presided over by W. Cameron Forbes. President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University declared that sympathy, justice and opportunity are due members of the Negro race. Mrs. Henry Lane Schmelz of Hampton, Va., a prominent Southern white woman who is chairman of the Woman's Inter-Racial Committee of Virginia, outlined the development and work of the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation throughout the South. "This adventure of enabling different races to live and work happily together bristles with difficulties," said Doctor Gregg. "The curse of slavery, even more hurtful to the white plantation owners and slave-breeders and slave-trainers and merchants in rum, molasses and cotton, who profited financially by it than to the Negro slaves themselves, has left us in the North as well as in the South a tradition of thoughtless injustice, a certain callousness to cruelty, that is amazing and shameful. "The fact that three score of our colored fellow-citizens are put to death by mobs every year is the most terrible evidence of this brutal lawlessness. Let me hasten to say that lawlessness has repeatedly been exemplified in the North as well as in the South, and that there are many white men and women of the South who feel the shame of lynching such as keenly as any people in the North. "Then there is still in most of the Southern States an inequality in educational privileges which cannot be defended. One state superintendent of public instruction reports that in 1920-21 the public expenditure for the education of white children was $39.26 per capita and for colored children $184 per capita. Teachers are often underpaid. School terms are often pitifully short. In every state in the South, however, the set of the current, educationally is toward the improvement of the Negro schools. "General Armstrong set out on this adventure of faith, hope and love more than fifty years ago when he established Hampton Institute as a school in which young men and women should be trained in head, heart and hand; in mind, conscience and will, for unpretentious, unselfish, trustworthy leadership—to go out and 'do as he said, a quiet work that shall make the land lurner and better." President Lowell Pleads for Justice President Lowell said: "We owe the Negro sympathy for the years of suffering he has endured and for the handicaps he has been placed under. His aspirations, yes, even his hopes, deserve our sympathy. It is only just that if we are to be of any help in printendent of the Cook County a splendid Democratic can-of Chicago in 1923 solving the Negro question, we should be first of all in sympathy with the man we are trying to aid. We owe the Negro justice, in every sense of the word. If guilty of a crime in the eyes of the law, he must be punished—but punished by criminal justice and not by the false standards of criminal justice set up by mob violence." Discussing the opportunity that should be given the Negro, President Lowell quoted Booker T. Washington's declaration that the Negro should be given the opportunity "to achieve anything he can prove himself capable of achieving." "The Negro should be given the opportunity to achieve an education and even a career," declared President Lowell. ANTI-LYNCHING SENTIMENT FAST GAINING GROUND Twenty-two Lynchers Indicted in Georgia This Year—Four Convicted, Fifteen to be Tried One Indicted in Prev.ous 37 Years Race Relations Committee Seeks Better Anti-Lynching Law—Emily Lutzie Associated to Atlanta Ga. (Special to The Broad Ax)—That there has been a surprising increase of anti-lynching sentiment in Georgia recently and a growing determination on the part of Georgia people that the sanctity of the law must be upheld, was clearly indicated in reports made to the State Committee on Race Relations in its recent semi-annual meeting in this city. It was pointed out that during the present year twenty-two indictments THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1922 Moffitt One of the most honorable and upright judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, who has legions of warm friends who would be highly delighted to see him enter the race for Mayor of Chicago in 1923 One of the most honorable and upright judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, who has legions of warm friends who would be highly delighted to see him enter the race for Mayor of Chicago in 1923 BOOK CHAT-BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. "NIGGER" By Clement Wood. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York City Price $2.00. Postage 10c extra. The theme of this new novel by Clement Wood is that the Negro is not permitted by the white man of Alabama, where the story is laid, to rise above the status of the title of the novel. Emancipation, the hope of the older generation, has not brought liberty to the younger. The old grandmother, before she dies, assures her husband that the emancipation of which he fondly dreamed is only to be found in Heaven. "You been lookin' for 'mancipation in de life w't is; but dis here 'mancipation ain' gwine come till de life to come." And judging from the fate of the colored people in the hook, she is exactly right. Out of a family of seven all, in one way or another, fail to live and win happiness. The soldier dying in France, the other soldier killed in America, the neer-do-well, the daughter nearly white who, for a time, goes "over the line" to return home with her baby, the tired drudges, these are her children. To all has come little but suffering. Naturally hers is the cry of the slave, that liberty can only come in another world. The picture of the white men and women in Mr. Wood's novel makes one understand the fate of the colored. No abolitionists ever painted the white southerners so cruelly as this son of Alabama. His whites are not only cruel to blacks. In his first novel "Mountain," he describes the father of the hero, a rich manufacturer, as cruelly beating his little son every morning, day after day, because he has committed a single act of indolence. It seems as though this author meant that we should get out have been returned against alleged lynchers and four convictions secured, carrying penitentiary sentences. Fifteen of these cases are still to be tried, most of them on the charge of murder, besides a number of damage suits growing out of injuries and losses inflicted by mobs. In one lynching case both the deputy sheriff and the chief of police are under indictment. The significance of these facts was emphasized by the statement that in the 37 years ending with 1921 there had been 430 lynchings in Georgia and that record of only one indictment in all that time had been found. The state and county race relations committees have been active in a number of recent cases, conducting investigations, securing evidence, and otherwise supporting local officials in their efforts to vindicate the law. The need of an effective anti-lynching law in the state was stressed and the responsibility for drafting and getting such a bill before the next legislature was delegated to a committee of eminent jurists headed by Judge Samuel B. Adams of Savannah. CORNER OF BOUNDARY OF MIDDLEMEN HON. HUGO PAM at honorable and upright judges of Rock County, who has legions of war highly delighted to see him ent Chicago in 1923 of our minds the picture of the kindly slaveholder, so popular with the earlier southern writers, and remember the overseer who fulfilled the law of the slaveholder and day after day beat the defenseless people within his power. The whites in Stribling's "Birthright" were cruel, but they had a touch of good nature. They did their cheating with a laugh. There is so laugh in "Nigger." From the time Jake and his family appear upon the scene until the last page, when the old man shivers, tortured by his memories, there is tragedy. "Utility," that might be the title of the story. It is futile for a Negro to be educated, it is futile for him to fight for his country, it is futile to attempt to be white. It is even futile to give up the struggle and be a "no account nigger," for to the ne'er-d-well Tom, the most alive of the figures, comes only sorrow. Don't expect to be anything but a "nigger," at least in Alabama. That is the gist of the story. It is evident that the author believes this will not be changed unless we have amalgamation. "As long as either race had as its ambition to remain itself there must be conflict. For equality meant sameness, oneness." So his light colored girl thinks, and, seeing only sorrow ahead, is tempted to kill her light colored child. Clement Wood has written a great tragedy; and it seems only just that in Birmingham, the city of Octavius Roy Cohen's ridiculous Negro sketches, we should have this dark picture. That it is unduly dark every Negro will feel. But it is a swiftly moving picture of suffering that flashes across the pages as a moving picture flashes across the screen. Sometimes it is pathetic, sometimes gigantic. No one can follow it in its swift motion and be unmoved. DEMOCRAT ELECTED IN NEW YORK New York City.—One colored candidate won in New York and his victory was a big surprise. Lawyer Henri W. Shields, Democratic aspirant from the 21st assembly district was sent to the legislature. Balden race Republican candidate, made a good run, but the general disaffection from the Republican ticket by colored voters caused his defeat by a few hundred. Oliver Randolph, the only colored candidate in New Jersey, was elected to the legislature, while Congressman Parker, who voted against the anti-lynching bill, met the dust. He was fought as bitterly by colored voters as was Layton of Delaware, who also bit the dust when Robert Nelson's cohorts took the field against him. Dupont suffered as a result. Harry E. Davis of Cleveland lost for the legislature. The terrific fight against Pomerene by the labor unions nullified whatever colored support he won. M. J. HON. MILES J. DEVINE THE MAN ABOUT TOWN Takes Up "The Black Man's Burden" From Various Standpoints States a Few Plain Facts That Can't Be Disputed I see by the Chicago Tribune, the arch enemy of the Negro, that a man by the name of P. W. Travis has asked the Federal Court to appoint a receiver for the Douglass National Bank, a race institution recently opened by several of our leading citizens without knowing or going into the merits of the case or the causes of his actions, I must say that it is a shame that a member of the race (and I understand that the man is named Chavers instead of Travis and that he was at one time connected with the bank until he had some financial troubles recently in one of our courts), should be so shortsighted and unfair as to try to injure this institution that is destined to do so much for the Negro in the commercial world. The men behind this bank are men who are financially situated so as to do for this bank whatever they promise to do. They are men of standing in the business and professional world. I have been told that this man Travis (or Chavers) is sore because he was ousted from the high and exalted position of president and is seeking to get his revenge. Such actions have done more to retard the progress of the Negro than any one thing: the "I can't and you shant" policy. Such Negroes ought to be driven out of the race, so that we can march on and keep step with the progressive races of the world. I wonder what has become of my good friend Bishop A. J. Carey. Before we elevated our friend to the high and exalted position of bishop in the great A. M. E. Church, we used to see him occasionally on State street and at some of our race gatherings. He was a power for good in our city and was always on the firing line, fighting for the uplift and advancement of his race. How, Bishop, we miss you and your able advice in our race struggles. We did not know when we elected you bishop that it meant that you would take no more interest in local affairs, if we had we possibly might have kept you waiting a few more days or at least until we got this new crowd that came up here during the world war, straightened out. In short, Bishop, don't forsake us now, we need you more now than at any other time. Do you hear me? I hope so. They tell me that the Regan's Colts are after the scalp of Jim Berwington for some statements he made in a circular in his feeble effort (in the recent campaign) to elect his bosom friend Charles Ringer county treasurer. I don't know how true it is and I do hope that it is false, but if it is true, I am not surprised. You all might remember the awful attack "Jim" made on Mayor Thompson during one of his campaigns, you may also recall the attack that he made on Mrs. Bertha Montgomery, because she dared to demand the money for her club members who was hired by Berwington to do some political work, before election day. The attack on the mayor was on a circular letter and the attack on Mrs. Montgomery was in a newspaper and on her personally. Both attacks came near causing "Jim" his life. The day after his attack on Thompson, two unknown men slipped up behind him and hit him on the head with a "black jack," and the friends of Mrs. Montgomery had to do everything within their power to keep her husband from resorting to a physical encounter. My advice to you "Jim" is to "cut out that stuff" and attend to your business, if you don't some day you may wish that you had taken my advice. Hear me before it is too late. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN and one of its ablest and most would make a tip-top candi- of Chicago in 1923 THE JAPANESE AND THE UNITED STATES The Memphis Commercial Appeal is very much exercised over the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court regarding the citizenship of Japanese. No comment being necessary, the following remarks are taken bodily from its issue November 18, 1922: "... It must appear that if the Government can refuse citizenship on the grounds of race and color it can also refuse citizenship for many other reasons. "... There should be few Protestants against the right of the Nation to choose its citizens, although it must be admitted that a bar based on race and color is weakened by the provisions admitting those of African descent. Since our descended Africans are of many different shades of color a considerable burden of fact may be placed on the courts of citizens disproving the claims of those of who might insist upon African descent. "We believe that rigid tests for good citizenship are more important than immigration restriction laws based entirely upon the quantity of immigrants admitted." This last sentence sums up the very prevalent attitude in the South and shows where the effort is made to rule out people of color—"rigid tests for good citizenship." Is this editorial a reminder of the past, or a hint of the future? Watch Tennessee. COL. YOUNG TO BE BURIED IN AMERICA. NATIONAL CEL EBRATION SUGGESTED Washington, D. C.-The War Department has announced that final arrangements have been completed for the return to the United States of the remains of Col. Charles Young, from Nigeria, in Africa. When the body arrives in America, appropriate services will be held in New York City, and in Washington, D. C., prior to the final burial in Arlington Cemetery, near Washington. The occasion of the burial of this distinguished American soldier will assume national proportions, and if the body does not arrive too far from the date, March 12, the birthday of Col. Young, will be suggested for the general observance. URBAN LEAGUE NOTES The Urban League has had a representative on the Joint Committee of School Affairs, which is exerting pressure upon the school scandal to push the investigation so that guilty or incompetent board members may be singled out and properly handled. The Urban League is the only colored organization to receive public mention in this connection. Race Commission Report Chicago newspapers should be complimented for the amount of space they have given particularly to the recommendations of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations. When a book of the extent and thoroughness of this report is available for public use, every minister, lawyer, doctor, labor leader, school teacher—in fact, all people who have to any degree or extent the responsibilities of leadership—should acquaint themselves with it one way or the other. The Chicago Urban League has a copy in its library and any interested persons may consult it at the League office. That Orchestra They practice twice a week—somewhere. Last Friday they allowed four of the Urban League staff to attend their rehearsal, on condition that they would not tell anybody about them. They pretty nearly mopped up on a selection from Wagner's Tannhauser. It is so hard to keep a secret, you know. School Affairs BOSTON ASKS LODGE TO PUT DYER BILL FIRST National Equal Rights League Asked Cabinet Officers to Urge Harding to Recommend Bill in Message If Not Done Urge Race to Petition For Mention in Regular Message Boston, Mass.—Pursuing its campaign to push forward the Dyer Bill for the extra session of Congress, especially to get President Harding behind the bill, the National Equal Rights League on Wednesday of last week sent an Armistice Day appeal to the President to recommend the bill in his message to the session as tribute to the Colored American soldier dead. Then Friday morning the League telegraphed, just prior to the meeting of the cabinet to hear the rough draft of the message on Friday, to Vice-President Coolidge of Massachusetts, Secretary of War Weeks of Massachusetts, Attorney-General Daugherty and Secretary of State Hughes who had just taken up the lynchings of Mexicans in Texas, asking each to urge the President to include the Dyer Bill in the message. It also telegraphed President Harding again, referring to the state department intervening for foreigners. Last night the league held a mass meeting in the Columbus Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church to hear Secretary Trotter report on the audience with the President on November 4th, when the petition for his naming the Dyer Bill in his call for the extra session with 10,000 signers from nearly 30 states was presented by a League delegation of eight, securing his assurance of aid to the bill. The audience endorsed the report and voted a telegraphic appeal to Senator Lodge which was sent this morning and read as follows: Mass meeting of your supporters under auspices of Equal Rights League in Zion Church last night voted to ask you as Chairman of the order of business committee and Republican leader to do your utmost for Dyer Bill being considered first and continuously till enacted. Mexican cases Louisiana Ku-Klux show need imperative.-M. A. N. Shaw, President. If President does not name Bill in message, League urges race to at once petition him to recommend it in regular message unless, it is passed at special session. The First Annual Charity Ball for the Benefit of The Old Folks' Home Was a Huge Success Monday evening a number of ladies interested in the Old Folks' Home held the first annual Charity Ball for its benefit at the Unity Club rooms, 10th Indiana avenue. The affair was well attended and it was a great financial success to the delight of all those who were interested in its success. There were progressive whist games down stairs, for those who did not care to dance, and seven prizes were hotly contested for by the many participants. The dance music, which was lively from beginning to end, was furnished by Watson's Orchestra. The following were the active officers and the members of the committee, who had charre of the affair, were: Mrs. C. L. Wilson, chairman; Mrs. Alice Caldwell, secretary; Mrs. Anna Davis, assistant secretary; Mrs. M. E. M. Clure, treasurer, who were ably assisted by ten or fifteen other ladies. The Old Folks Home is located at 4430-4432 Vincennes avenue, and its officers are as follows: Mrs. David M. McGowan, president; Mr. H. Horsley, vice-president; Dr. Charles L. Lewis, secretary; Dr. Lawrence Blanchet, treasurer; Miss Laura French, corresponding secretary and Mrs. Jane Dent, chairman of the house committee. As long as the members of the committees will render a strict account of the amount of money received and expended the charitably inclined public will do their part every time an annual hall is given for the Old Folks Home. MASKED "WHITE OWLS" LAT EST TO PARADE IN TEXAS Breckinridge, Tex.—Mexicans and Negroes are in terror here today following the parade Sunday night of a white-robed body of men comprising an organization known as the "White Owls." The organization is composed of white workmen. Approximately 300 persons took part in the demonstration. The parade is said to have been held in protest against the employment here of Negro and Mexican workmen while many white men are idle. As a result farmers are having great difficulty in securing Negroes for work in the cotton fields. Placards reading "We employ white people" are being distributed, for posting in store windows and industrial establishments. No acts of violence have been reported so far. ST. MARK M. E. CHURCH 50th St. and Webah Ave. Rev. John W. Robinson, Pastor Last Sunday morning there was an overflowing crowd at St. Mark church. The pastor preached a soul-stirring sermon from the subject "The Vacant Chair." Our hearts did burn while he talked with us by the way. The meetings were good throughout the day; four babies and two grown-ups were baptized. The Lyceum program was unexcelled, while the Epworth League and the evening service each were very good. Come to St. Mark, you are always welcome. MR. WALTER G. HENRY HAS SUCCEEDED THE LATE MICHAEL J. O'MALLEY AS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SECOND CLASS MAILING DIVISION OF THE CHICAGO POST OFFICE The first part of October the late Michael J. O'Malley, who was connected with the Chicago postoffice in various important official capacities, passed away after a short illness, and on the 14th of October he was succeeded by Mr. Walter G. Henry as superintendent of the second class mailing division. Mr. Henry has also been connected with the Chicago postoffice, and his promotion is very pleasing indeed to his large number of associates and wide circle of friends and he possesses an efficient amount of executive ability to make good in his present responsible position. MEET IN THIRD ANNIVERSARY Pilgrim Council 161, A. U. K. & D. of A., of which Dt. Rosa Lee Brown is most excellent queen and Dt. Willa Bell Thompson is worthy secretary, celebrated its third anniversary on Nov. 18th at Bailey's Hall with a splendid program and the serving of all kinds of refreshments at the close of the program. Many words of praise were spoken on behalf of the success of the council under its present leadership. Among those speaking were Dt. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois; Dt. Henrietta Dean, secretary, Egypt Council; Dt. Ida Simmons, most excellent queen of Star of East Council, and other Sir Knights and Daughters. The hall was filled to its capacity and a full orchestra furnished the music for the occasion. HONORS STATE GRAND PRINCESS Mrs. George E. Harding, state grand princess of S. M. T. of Illinois and jurisdiction, and princess of Queen City Temple No. 10, was honored on Nov. 15th at The Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 3201 Wabash Ave., with a program and reception by Queen City Temple No. 10. Mrs. Elizabeth Rochon was chairman of the committee and R. W. Wells acted as master of ceremonies. Addresses were made by Hons. B. J. Lucas and B. G. Clanton; Mesdames Eliza Jackson, Lou Ella Young, Serilda Jackson, Ella L Holmes, Ida Simmons, Hattie Champion, Nellie Burbridge. An elaborate repast was served in the dining hall at the close of the program. BACK FROM TENNESSEE Rev. T. L. Scott, pastor of Grant's A. M. E. Church, 4600 Evans avenue filled his pulpit on last Sunday, after being absent for about a month. Rev Scott conducted a two weeks' revival at Avery A. M. E. Chapel at Memphis Tenn., and he then spent a day with friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. Claybrooks on their spacious estate at Topaz, Ark Leaving Topaz, he attended the West Tennessee Conference for a week at Clarksville, Tenn., and visited with Bishop A. J. Carey. MAKE LARGE DONATION The Baptist Women's Congress, of which Mrs. Katie L. Cosby is president, donated in its last monthly meeting, Nov. 16th to the Enterprise Institute, 502-16 Aldine square, 140 cans of canned goods, preserves, sugar, and other provisions, which will greatly aid the Institution. Rev. J. W. McDaniel is president and financial agent and Mrs. M. B. Newland is matron of the school and are grateful to the Congress for the donation. GOES TO ST. LOUIS Prof. C. T. Rogers, well known as a missionary worker in the states of Iowa and Minnesota, and who has spent several weeks in the city, left the first of the week for St. Louis, Mo., and will also visit Iowa, returning to Chicago about the first of the year looking forward to establishing business headquarters here. LOSES HOME BY FIRE L. M. Robinson of 11306 S. Elizabeth street, Morgan Park, suffered a great loss when his home and the contents were destroyed by fire a few days ago. This is the third time Mr. Robinson has experienced the same loss at the same address and he has the sympathy of his many friends. TO VISIT MOTHER John B. Lucas, 1630 Wauseca street, Morgan Park, left the city the first of the week for Gayoville, La., where he will spend three or four weeks with his mother and other relatives after an absence of more than twelve years. GOES HOME Mrs. Anna Morris has returned to her home in Indiana Harbor, Ind., after a week spent in the city with relatives, having been called-here on account of the death of her aunt, the late Mrs. Anna Northington. Subscribe for the Broad Ax. Two dollars for one year, $1 for six months. Sent to any address in the United States. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1922 CHARLES E. (BETTER) STUMP, THE OLD-TIME REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS BEEN GREATLY ENJOYING HIMSELF DOWN IN TEXAS AND ARKANSAS. THE LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON THE LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas. — The Baptists of Arkansas held their big convention last week in Pine Bluff, and elected Rev. J. J. R. Jamison, of Menecea, to succeed Dr. Elias Camp Morris, of Helena, as president of the convention, a thing which they had not dreamed of, but they have elected a good man. He is a graduate of the Arkansas Baptist college, and served as first vice-president of the convention. He has made a good start, and I am of the opinion that all of Arkansas Baptists will rally to his support and make his administration a success. "If we are to have men, we must make them," declared Dr. Joseph A. Booker, "and this is a case of putting our young men to the front." Now that was a great big meeting in many respects, and they had some few visitors there, but it seemed that all Arkansas turned out. The convention opened on Wednesday, and remained in session until last Sunday night, and on Thursday they had memorial services for Dr. E. C. Morris, which took up almost a whole day. He had many friends and all desired to have something to say. The memorial address, however, was delivered by the man who is to succeed Dr. Morris as president of the National Baptist convention, Dr. L. K. Williams, of Chicago, the pastor of Olivet Baptist church. This intellectual giant, came all the way from Chicago on invitation of the Morris family, and he delivered a great address. In this address he lost sight of himself, and could only see Dr. Morris and Jesus Christ. In the delivery of that wonderful address, Dr. Williams went right into the hearts of the people. He did not make a campaign speech, but delivered an eulogy, for that is what he came for. So many people declared him to be the proper man. Now then there came another candidate, Dr. P. James Bryant, who declared that he would be elected president of the National Baptist convention, and went so far as to say that as sure as he was standing there he was just that sure to be elected. I am sure that the votes in December will take some of the conceit out of him. There are many Baptists aspiring for the position. Dr. Bryant reminds me so much of the Kaiser, "God and Me." But you watch all of this. Among the other fellows who come to the front and say that God wants them to lead the Baptists, is the Rev W. H. Moses, the wonderful dreamer of New York. I think this must be one of his dreams and a dream without God. For God would never make a mistake like that. He knows the street and number of all his saints, and I think he would never go to New York and pick out the man who has been a miserable failure in everything else and ask him to lead the Baptists of America. The man who tried to tear the National Baptist convention into threads and consign it to the devil so to speak, the man who thun- dered out against Dr. E. C. Morris and all his followers; the man who spoke out of his coat, shirt and collar in Chicago trying to tear up the convention, and then tell that same man to lead it. If God has such a thing in mind, the men who make up the next session of the National Baptist convention in St. Louis have not been told that by God, and Rev. Moses will have to continue to dream. But let me tell you that I have been moving some since I wrote to you last week. I have been in this state, and I am now on the line of Texas and Arkansas, the first place in this country to have a public human barbecue, and they had another one not long ago. A place that I think is next door to hell, yet there are some real good people down here from both races, but then hell is to play down here. They have some law and order, and then they have some of the other thing, and I believe that there are men here who stand for right, men who stand for law, men who believe in the punishment of criminals. They have arrested, indicted and have for trial nine men who took part in the last burning, and the trial will be soon, and we are going to watch the result. I know it will be hard to get a conviction, yet strange things happen at times in this world, and who knows but these men may be convicted by a jury of twelve white men, and I say white men, for none other are going to try them. I will be on the watch wagon and will tell you what happens to them. The trial is to be next month. I had the pleasure of seeing Bishop I. N. Ross in Little Rock at shorter college. He was getting ready for his conferences which are now being held, and he is going to do a big work down here. His home is in Washington, D. C., and was in company with his wife, who is going the conference rounds with him. The first conference was held in Fort Smith, and they are going to hold one here this week. A good place to hold a conference. Great good will be accomplished by these people. I am sure that you are pleased with the progress that is being made by our people, and the men that we have given to the world. Some of our great men have passed on, but we are still producing others who will take up where they left off and carry things right on. Booker T. Washington was a great man in his life time. He was proud to give to the world a life, but that life was transferred to another world, and God had right in His storehouse Dr. Robert R. Moton, of Hampton, Va., who stepped right in the harness, and the world knows today that we have a Moton. He has spoken right out in church for us in this country, and he is right now in a place they call Europe speaking for us, and he has said some real things, sometimes that will stand the test. He believes in us, and does not hesitate to tell the other fellow about us. He is speaking for us at times and places where we cannot speak, and every time he opens his mouth he is making friends for the whole race. We are all proud of Dr. Robert R. Moton, although you will find here and there some little two by cipher who will try to make the world notice him by speaking against a man like Dr. Moton, but it is like the dog barking at the moon. The dog is dead, but the moon continues to shine. So Dr. Moton will continue to do good. He will be like the sun, go right on to bless humanity. You see some of them fellows they call astronomers have been saying that there were spots on the sun, and the sun has never stopped for a moment to deny or affirm the allegation, but has just been going right on sending forth its rays to bless humanity. Of course in a world like this there are fools, and then there are damphules, and there will be all the time. Get in the band wagon and be some thing else. They had an election, but then there will be other elections. I say this to get away from them other things. The National Negro Business League is taking on new life, and is doing great things just now. They are getting ready to do more practical work, and Secretary A. L. Holsey is getting around doing things. I don't know who the organizer is or what he is doing, but he must be a great man. Charles H. Anderson, of Florida, retired as treasurer, and they are getting things in good shape. Mr. Anderson was a great banker and a business man. C. C. Spaulding is treasurer of the league, and John L. Webb is, I think, chairman of the executive committee. Berry O'Kelly is one of the live wires in the convention. I shall have more to say about the plans after January 1. I think the next session will be held in Hot Springs, and if it is I want you to be there, for it is going to be a great meeting. Get ready for the National Baptist convention, December 6, in St. Louis. I am going to stop at Poro College, during the session of the convention, and you may address me there. I am now in Texas as you read this letter, and next week will attend a conference in Hillsboro, Texas, and from there to St. Louis. Hickory in Great Demand Hickory in Great Demand. The weight of a piece of hickory is the best indication of its strength. It is said that 100,000,000 board feet a year are consumed in the making of tool handles, including golf tools. Kindness and Light Give us to awake with smiles, give us to labor smiling. As the sun lightens the world, so let our loving kindness make bright this house of our habituation.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Essentials for Happiness. The grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, something to love and something to hope for. Candid Information Doc (after exam.)—"Don't worry about your liver trouble, you can live to be sixyears with it. And as to the leaking heart valve, you can carry that around easily until you're eighty, but the kidney disease, that's worse. I'll surely bring you to the grave inside of a year." FROM THE ORIENT FROM THE ORIENT Dresses and Wraps Embroidered in Winsome Designs. Arab's Costume Affords Color Inspirations; Originality and Charm Appeal to Fashion Devotees. Fashions are steadily becoming more artistic than they have been for many long years. Color, writes a fashion correspondent in the New York Tribune, is at last beginning to receive the attention which it deserves. Designers in their enthusiasm are searching in unusual and hitherto unthought-of places for inspiration. A wave of Russian peasant art has just swept the country. Before that there was the Egyptian invasion, as well as the Chinese, the Japanese and the Spanish influence. Now something new has appeared in Paris in the form of dresses and wraps embroidered by Algerian native workers in designs taken from the Orient. These dresses have been put on the market by several designers. Each dress is seemingly as extraordinary as its inspiration, but it is just its originality and Oriental charm that will appeal to the fashion devotee always in search of something different. If one is seeking color inspiration a wonderful place to find it is in the Arab's costume. The brilliant colors that these dark-skinned people love and wear so well are mellowed by the scorching African sun until they have become fabrics of rare beauty. Even the tents of these desert people are striped in bold colors which have been mellowed by time and the elements to unusual and beautiful tones. There are few women, no matter how great their love of color, who 100 Dress Called Prophet's Banner. It is Made of Green Silk Embroidered in Gold. would care to depart so far from conventional dress as to adopt in their entirety all the colors portrayed in the Arab's garb, but, used with discretion, charming effects may be achieved. For instance, an old ivory tint that combines beautifully with blue—a shade of blue frequently seen in a faded cotton fabric that, in its original color, was a strong French blue. Then there are the beautiful tawny gold shades which so often appear in the Arab's turban. These are most attractive used in combination with red and purple. BERTHA HAS SQUARE CORNERS Decoration Hangs in Ripples Over the Shoulders; Round Collar Is Popular Article. A bertha which is being featured has square corners, which hang in ripples over the shoulders. This is a pleasant change from the round variety so prevalent recently. An attractive model combines both types. It is round across the back and to the shoulder line where it funs into a square bib effect and hangs down over the front of the frock. The round collar attached to a straight front vest is the most popular article. Another good number is the round collar and cuff set in eyeletter work. It is said that the long square collar is vying in popularity with the rounded type. Trimming on Hats Stuffed balls in all colors of velvet are seen on hats. Fuschia color is the newest, but many soft felt outing hats are trimmed with groups of all colored balls. Autumn Sports Skirts. Autumn fabrics for sports skirts include attractive tweed and homespun in smart striped and cross-barred designs in contrasting colors. Concelt Net of Real Value. Conceit may puff a man up for a moment, but never for a long time. It is a mighty poor substitute for that real knowledge of self which values at actual worth. The world has use for only the genuine article. V V Whether the beaded robe be simple or as decorative as the model illustrated above, a ribbon saah gives a longer line, emphasizing the vogue for the panel below the hemline. This girdle of moire ribbon is simply tied with ends of uneven lengths. Sahes have come into their own again, particularly for the straight-line frock which requires this additional touch to create the unevenness of the hem, so desirable in costumes this season. AMONG NEW EVENING CLOAKS Late Fashions Are Gorgeous in Material and Decorative in Outline; Collars Are Higher. Very gorgeous are the new evening cloaks. Gorgeous in material and curiously decorative in outline. The idea of the top of a garment being tight and the lower part very full is gaining favor every day, according to a fashion authority in the Boston Globe. We find it exploited in coats, wraps and dresses. But it is in the world of evening mantles that we find this idea most prominent. Over the shoulders the rich materials are drawn so tight that they mold the form; then—perhaps half way down—there comes a sudden flare. It is a picturesque fashion but not altogether comfortable because the tight top confines the arms, still it is the "latest thing" and the chic Parisiennes look upon it with eyes of favor. A beautiful mantle was a symphony in copper tints and rich browns. The shaped top was literally covered with copper and dull gold embroideries and the red-brown chiffon velvet which formed the gigantic flounce was set into these embroideries and at the lower edge caught in to form a sort of puff. Then there was a regal looking collar of dark mink and linings of copper-red satin. This was a wonderful model, a riot of autumnal tints, and it represents everything that is new in the world of fashion. Collars get higher and higher and the Medici designs are great favorites. For coats and wraps these collars may be made of fur or of the material—provided the latter be thick and very supple. THE LARGE HAT IS DOOMED Broad, Flapping Headgear Must Give Way to That of Medium and the Small Size. Everywhere one hears a great deal about the large hat. In fact, manufacturers have placed so much importance on wide-brimmed models that women are led to believe that the small hat is about to pass from fashion. This however, is not true, says a fashion writer in the New York Tribune. In fact, the small hat will be far in the lead as soon as the time comes to wear coats with high, muffling collars. One logical reason for the present popularity of the wide-brimmed type is that it is difficult to get away from the midsummer models that so becoming shadowed the face. Another is the fact that the prevailing silhouette always influences the shape of hats. Long skirts require broad-brimmed models, while short skirts require smaller ones. The momentary craze for large hats might be attributed to the sudden popularity of long skirts. Dressmakers already feel that they cannot make the very long skirt a permanent fashion. 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Sa ipa he tsp oan Se 7 . a —— ‘State —____. TU SS? a ] A JACKET WITHOUT SLEEVES French Maker Devises Interesting Gar. ‘Ment to Be Worn With After. Seatbelt ‘Many of the most important dress makers disclaim any effort toward the sensatioual silhouette. To meet the demand for new styles they vary the! characteristic lines by beautiful fab ‘rics, striking colors and trimming de talls. Chanel has made no basic changes im the styles which she exploits. Her dresses are straightline,, many of them with beautiful embroideries. She ‘uses laces profusely. Among her pret- tlest models are some frocks of flow. ered silks, the flowers scattered over @ plain background in the form of large motifs. These silks are veiled with lace, giving an extremely pleas. ‘ing effect. Several of her afternoon Gresses are accompanied by little sleeveless jackets. Such models fre quently carry Russian embroideries. ‘The greatest change in the models made by Callot.is in the colorings There is a -considerable showing of paler shades of biue and rose. She bas given preference to these paler hues over the rich oriental shades which she used last season. She also ased many silks In pompadour effects Other than in color Callot has donr practically nothing new in the way of fashions, There are untsual variation= of old themes. This designer uses em broideries, ribbons and laces even more profusely than she has in the past. CAPE SLEEVES ARE POPULAR Flowing Armeovering Is Shown in Many Fashion Houses; Gauntlet Cuffh Are in Evidence. Sleeves are varied and interesting they are frequently long and ‘fitted to the arm, and they are often absent entirely from dance frocks. They have &@ penchant for being long, open and nanging. Cape sleeves are popular In many fashion houses, and frequently we haye the addition of a long, hang- ing cuff. Gauntlet cuffs appear on models in nearly all collections. Worth shows them, on a black broadcloth coat, made of bright embroidery and lined with Hudson seal. Patou's new sleeve is tight at wrist and shoulder and swells a little toward the elbow. He often adds a turned-back cuff just below the elbow. Lanvin shows an immense bishop's sieeve in softest crepe de chine. . THE LONG RIBBON STREAMERS . | hi; | Pi)’ Na See F ery | mai i= | | fPadiating trom the center of the crown of her hat over the brim with short lengths in front, lengthening to ward the back are ribbon streamers, row upon row. At the back, the stream. ers reach to the very hem of the skirt, fantened in at the waistline te give an effect charming and distinctive. The dahlias which trim the crown of the hat and the girdle are made of very Narrow ribbon, row upon row, sur- founding a tiny button, f ee ee Darkness Was Night to Chickens. Chickeus ure sensible the world around. Over in Australia and New Zealand, wot lang ago, they went to Toost when a toflil eclipse of the sun caine on. ‘The eclipse started in the fornoon, und it doubtless seemed a Short working day to the mystified opiutrs. ‘Theirs not to question why, however. theiys but to go to rest as well-behaved and healthy fowls had been accustomed ever to do, Daily Thought. Nothing so bard bat search wil nd it out.—Herrick. , a oy ad we : ee 5 : = S | es —— 2 = i eal a ef ey Sings a ata n ie ee da eg eee a ee. fy ee. SSS : ae eB Ue "a ERNEST el if | BLT PELy IO aR roa RTT. ave es nee ee ae AS Fae = ore s | | Fe ial , | 2 | eo aa | s f 4 J Sa aden mee a oe | Ernest H. Williamson UNDERTAKER | Day Light Chapel, capacity 200, Outside Ventilation—Organ and Organist Free— eeenegmen sation 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS PHONE MAIN 2216 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO | Phone Main 2017 | A. L. 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