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The New Proposed Constitution of Illinois Overwhelmingly Defeated; Thereby Causing Mr. Justice Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Col. Edward H. Morris and Col. Robert S. Abbott, to Run to Cover in Order to Escape the Wrath of the People, Who Rose Up In Their Might, Against Those Who Were In Favor of Ramming the Outlandish Constitution Down the Throats of the People of Illinois Read The Broad Ax and be happy Vol. XXVIII. The Newwhelmin Hon. O Col. Ro to Escape Their M Rammin Throats Tuesday, December 12, was one of the greatest days in the lives of the people of Illinois; in fact, it was a history-making day, for on that day the vast majority of the true citizens of this state followed the advice of the writer who had from time to time urged them to rise up in their power or might and defeat the evil forces that were endeavoring to enslave them and reduce them to an everlasting bondage to the money power. It seemed that the people just closed their eyes and voted blindly against the proposed new constitution, which is evident that the people can tell a bad thing when they see it, for almost one million men and women recorded their votes in opposition to it while almost two hundred thousand shortsighted and lightheaded people voted in favor of its adoption, and when it was learned, early on Wednesday morning, that it was voted down, the Honorable Mr. Justice Orrin N. Carter, Col. Edward H. Morris and Col. Robert S. Abbott hot-footed to cover in order to escape the mighty wrath of the people, for it will be recalled that the Honorable Mr. Jus- DR. ROBERT R. MOTON MAKES TOUR OF GEORGIA IN INTEREST OF RACE RELATIONS Addresses 40,000 People Tuskegee Institute—Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and president of the National Negro Business League, has recently completed a "good-will tour" of the state of Georgia, upon which he covered 1,200 miles, visited fourteen cities and spoke to more than 40,000 colored and white citizens. The tour was made at the invitation of the leading citizens of both races, headed by Dr. W. H. Harris of Athens, Ga. Dr. Moton was accompanied by a party of twenty-five men of the race, including many prominent educators and business men of the country. The tour began in Atlanta, Ga., November 26, and closed in Columbus, Ga., Sunday, December 3. Among other cities visited, were Elberton, Washington, Athens, Waynesboro, Millen, Savannah, Brunswick, Waycross, Albany, Americus, Fort Valley and Macon. In each city Dr. Moton was given a most cordial reception by large audiences of colored and white people and in twelve of the cities the mayor either presided at the meeting or welcomed the party to the city. Dr. Moton's addresses were centered around the text, "Peace on Earth, Good Will Among Men." In treating this subject, Dr. Moton pointed out that absolute frankness, understanding, and sympathetic cooperation should characterize the dealing between the races; urged the members of his race to be proud of their race; to be industrious, and to be thrifty; deplored the fact that crime among Negroes gained access to the news columns more readily than THE BROAD AX tice Carter selected Col. Abbott as one of the colored members of his committee to assist to ram the obnoxious thing down the throats of the decent and highly honest people of Illinois, and it will be further recalled that the greatest weekly newspaper in the world slavishly followed the lead of Col. Morris and the Honorable Mr. Justice Carter, and strongly supported it editorially and otherwise through the columns of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world. It is said that the newspapermen who boosted it received a big bunch of real dough. Without receiving one extra dollar from any source, this newspaper went dead against it and it beat the Honorable Mr. Justice Carter, who should retire at the end of his present term as member of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1924, and his whole band of shouters and camp followers who marched under the banner of the new constitution for Illinois. Simply proving far beyond a reasonable doubt that The Broad Ax is more powerful when it comes down to politics than the greatest weekly newspaper in the world. racial achievements and made a sincere appeal to the white people to accord protection and absolute civic justice to the Negroes; at the same time pointing out many conditions, which he likened to "gravels in the shoes", and which frequently cause members of the Negro race to become discouraged. The "good-will tour" received the wholehearted co-operation of the state press. In each town the newspapers were very generous in reporting the activities of the meetings and several editors of the leading papers of the state were present at the meetings and published strong editorials endorsing the fundamentals emphasized by Dr. Moton and urging their readers to put into practice the principles of good will as set forth $b_1$ him. Dr. Moton's party made the trip in a steel Pullman car and was composed of the following persons: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 d One of the Many Successful and Prosperous Lawyers in This City Who Has Continued His Long Fight in Behalf of Fair Play and Justice for the Survivors of Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Race Riots in This City in 1919. cultural Extension Work, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Mr. Lester A. Walton of New York City (regular staff writer, New York World) MR. AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS Many Successful and Prosperous Lawyers Continued His Long Fight in Behalf of for the Survivors of Those Who Los the Race Riots in This City in 1919. Agricultural College, Albany, Ga. Dr. M. W. Reddick, Americus Inst titute, Americus, Ga. FINDS WIFE IS COLORED AND SUES FOR DIVORCE New York.—Alleging that his wife had forgotten to supply him with her family genealogical tree, and had therefore kept from him her knowledge that she possessed Negro blood, one John Stovall, a white insurance broker of 2261 Andrews avenue, Bronx, has broken into the newspaper columns by seeking before Supreme Court Justice Faber of Brooklyn to have his marriage annulled. The Stovalls have been married and living together for a year. They were evidently fairly successful in their negotiations of the rocky road of matrimony until old ubiquitous mother-in-law sprang the coup in the traditional fight between son's wife and son's mother and handed Cupid the count by her revelation that Mrs. Stovall was of Negro blood. Mrs. Stovall, who is only 20 years old, takes the position through her attorney, that nobody had ever questioned her as to her race ties and she had felt no obligation to boast of her possession of the blood of the Pharaohs. Justice Faber directed that the case be tried next month. In the meantime speculation is rife as to whether the courts will stand the burden if every wife and every husband with the least drop of Negro blood in their veins were sued for separation. It is said that thousands of light-colored people are at present "passing" and that somewhere between one and two millions apparently white people have colored blood in their veins. MR. AND MRS. JESSE BINGA WILL GIVE THEIR ANNUAL TWILIGHT PARTY AT THE VINCENNES HOTEL CHRISTMAS EVENING. For several years past the best and the leading colored people in this city look forward with much pleasure to the notable event of the winter season; namely, the twilight party, given by Banker and Mrs. Jesse Binga. This year it will outlip the former twilight parties given by them in the way of some new, novel features. It will begin promptly at 5:30 P. M. It will be strictly formal. 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MAJORS December 16, 1922 Vol. XXVIII No. 13 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago. II. Under Act of March 8, 1879. PERRY W. HOWARD BITTERLY FOUGHT TO DEFEAT THE PASSAGE OF THE DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. Astounding revelation of the activity of Perry W. Howard in an effort to defeat the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill has been made at the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which made public the text of a letter written by Mr. Howard to Senator T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware. This letter was dated November 23, 1922, just three days after the opening of the special session and at the time when every effort was being made to have the bill brought up and pushed. In this letter Mr. Howard declares he has "blood in his eyes" for the N. A. A. C. P., which he calls a "Negro Democratic organization" and insists that no legislation ought to be enacted by reason of the N. A. A. C. P. or its sympathizers. Mr. Howard's letter is, in part, as follows: "I received your letter of November 22 upon my return from the West, where I have been almost the entire time since the close of the campaign." "I confess to you that I have blood in my eyes for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others who have used them with sinister designs to defeat some of the best friends that we have in particular and the nation in general. "The purpose of this letter is to call attention of you and other outstanding statesmen to the fact that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is purely a Negro, Democratic organization and has always been found on the side of the Democrats in the final analysis. This organization was used by Bob Nelson and others, and you owe your defeat to no other agency. I corrected the evil in Wilmington and if I could have gone into the Dover neighborhood on the following Monday, I could have saved the day, but I had an engagement to fill for Senator Frelinghuysen and you know it was impossible for me to do so. "Now, I may call attention to the fact that whatever legislation or whatever else is done for the colored people of this country ought certainly to be done and done promptly, but I insist that none of it ought to be done through or by reason of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or any of its sympathizers. "I therefore think that it should be the policy of the leaders of the party like you to absolutely ignore and give the back of your hand to such men as Nelson, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert L. Vann of Pittsburgh and others of their ilk. There should be no quarter; and while treating every colored man with fairness and looking well to the interest of our group, these political bolshevists should be annihilated as the basest of ingrates. "(Signed) PERRY W. HOWARD." In Mr. Howard's letter to Senator Du Pont, it was stated that copies were being sent to Senators Frelinghuysen, McCormick, Watson and Moses, also to Attorney General Daugherty, who, it is to be presumed, would be interested in the charge by Mr. Howard that Messrs. Nelson, Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson and Vann are "political bolshevist." Copies of Mr. Howard's letter were furthermore sent to Charles Adams, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and were circulated among prominent Republican senators. Mr. Howard's reference to his wife ingness to "save the day" in the Dover neighborhood will interest those colored readers who recall that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was instrumental in defeating Dr. Caleb R. Layton, Delaware's Republican representative, on the sole ground that he misrepresented his constituents by voting against the Dyer Anti-Lynch bill in the House of Representatives. The defeat of Dr. Layton, largely through the enthusiastic work of Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson, was regarded among colored people as well as among white politicians, as one of the most convincing demonstrations of solidarity and power ever evinced by colored voters in America. Delaware became an object lesson to the Republican party, showing the strong feeling among colored voters about the Dyer bill. It is presumably against this proud achievement of colored voters about the Dyer bill. It is presumably against this proud achievement of colored voters accomplished on the sole issue of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, that Mr. Perry Howard could have "saved the day." Mr. Howard was appointed to an office in the Department of Justice by President Harding. Mr. Howard is also a close personal friend of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. It was Senator Harrison who helped to defeat the Liberian Loan bill by stating that he had "information" that certain colored men were to benefit heavily financially by the passage of this legislation. In the same tenor as Mr. Perry W. Howard's letter was a paragraph widely circulated among the colored press asserting that a lobbying by the N. A. A. C. P. would hinder enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill because Republican leaders regarded the Association as a "Democratic ally with Socialistic tendencies." The colored people residing in all parts of this country should rise up as one man and call upon President Harding to remove Perry W. Howard from his present position, for he is an enemy and a rank traitor to the colored race.—Editor. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHILDREN'S BUREAU WASHINGTON, D. C. Chief of Children's Bureau Reports Studies of Unemployment, Child Dependency, and Porto Rican Conditions. "No one whose work is in the field of child welfare can look back on a period of unemployment without feeling that in the last analysis its burden falls very heavily on the shoulders of the children," says Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children's Bureau, in her annual report to the Secretary of Labor which has just been made public. The bureau studied the effects on children's welfare of the unemployment period last winter in a middle western and a New England city, and Miss Abbott states her conclusion that the lowered standard of care for children during such a period must result in permanent losses to the community. In these cities many families having two or more children were spending less than $50 a month, including store credits. In one of the cities a budget estimate of the amounts of food, clothing, fuel, and sundries required for families of different size and age had been prepared by a large manufacturing firm, and for half the families in which comparisons were made the average monthly receipts from all sources during the unemployment period, including relief, were less than 50 per cent of this estimate. Although work was very difficult to secure, nearly a third of the mothers included in the study had taken gainful employment; the mothers of 102 children under 6 years of age and of 154 between the ages of 6 and 13 were working outside their homes. A number of children under 16 had left school for employment after their own and many other fathers were out of work. Pensioning mothers, so that dependent children can be cared for in their own homes, has been generally accepted as a principle of public aid, according to the report. There is, however, much variation in the extent to which mothers' pension laws serve their purpose. But in the District of Columbia no such provision has been made. The Children's Bureau found that of 2,444 children under the supervision of the District Board of Children's Guardians in the course of a year, 982 came from homes in which the father was dead, was evading his responsibility, or was an innate of an institution, leaving the mother with the entire burden of family support and care. The report concludes that with some help many of these mothers could have maintained their homes and cared for their own children. In North Dakota and South Dakota, where the Children's Bureau made studies of dependent and delinquent children at the request of state commissions, a need was shown for the development of child-caring and protective work in rural and small-town communities. Children were found to be deprived of care by their normal guardians when their homes might have been preserved through financial assistance, or through such supervision as would safeguard the children's welfare. Among 414 children received under the permanent care of THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 1910 One of the Best Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County Who Has Faithfully Served the People in That Judicial Capacity for Many Years, and As the Holiday Season Is Fast Approaching He Extends the Season's Greetings to His Many Friends in This City and County. M. B. Former Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago Who Would Make An Ideal Candidate for Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County in 1923. various agencies in North Dakota only one had lost both parents by death, and many children were removed from the custody of their parents without court action or the authorization of a public agency. One of the important events of the year which the report records is the agreement by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws upon a uniform act for the support of children born out of wedlock, and the recommendation of this act to the states for adoption. It provides that the parents of such children owe them "maintenance, education, and support"—a provision which the report declares would be a long step forward in most of the states where the viewpoint of a century ago has been left on the statute books, though no legal action can provide "what every child needs, both a father and mother." Reporting on a year's survey of conditions affecting children in Porto Rico, Miss Abbott states that unemployment and underemployment are serious problems in that island. Three-fourths of the total value of its crops is supplied by sugar cane, coffee, and tobacco, and Porto Rico has the anomalous position of an agricultural country importing its food. Because of the specialization of crops and the density of population, periods of general unemployment have resulted in poverty such that many essentials in proper child care cannot be provided. The infant death rate in 1920 was 146 per thousand births, as compared with 86 in the United States birth-registration area. The island has signified its desire to be included in the benefits of the maternity and infancy act of 1921, and Miss Abbott declares that HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN It Judges of the Circuit Court of Coor- ally Served the People in That Judic- tion, and As the Holiday Season Is Fast a Season's Greetings to His Many Frien- d."the need of Federal assistance can not be doubted" Porto Rico has made great progress in education and general development since it became part of the United States, the report says. Illiteracy has been reduced from 80 per cent of the population 10 years of age and over to 55 per cent, but school facilities still exist for only half the children of school age. During its "Children's Year Survey" of the island the Children's Bureau sought means of developing activities for Porto Rican children by enlisting the co-operation of local agencies and bringing the island into closer contact with agencies in the states. Health education and organized play were introduced into the schools, infant welfare stations were established in various parts of the island, baby weeks were held, and interest was aroused in prevention of blindness and in care for the 10,000 homeless children who constitute a pressing problem. School athletic leagues were organized all over the island and the teaching of teamwork and fair play was made the object of a campaign for wholesome recreation. THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST Sunday afternoon, December 17, at 2:30 o'clock the Thirteenth Annual Essay Contest will be held at the Institutional Church, 3825 S. Dearborn street. Mr. B. W. Fitts, founder and manager, Mr. Frank W. Henry, Mr. C. Francis Stradford and Mr. Charles J. Jenkins, assistant. A great literary treat is in store for all those who will attend the contest. M. HON. SHERIDAN E. FRY the Municipal Court of Chicago Who candidate for Judge of the Superior C 23. THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL The situation of Cedar Hill, for many years the home of Frederick Douglass and now dedicated as a permanent memorial to him, is very beautiful. It is generally known that Cedar Hill came into the possession of Mrs. Douglass after her husband's death and that she, to use the words of a tablet that has been erected to her on its walls, "By heroic sacrifice retained it so that it could be used as a memorial to her beloved husband." Mrs. Douglass left the home to the Frederick Douglass Historical and Memorial Association, which a few years ago became an integral part of the National Association of Colored Women. For her work of raising money and overseeing the restoration of the place, Mrs. Mary Talbert of Buffalo the life-president of the Memorial Association, has recently been awarded the Spingarn medal by the Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The dedication of the home took place on a fair August day, the twelfth of the month. Mrs. Talbert presided and many who had self-sacrificingly given and worked in the cause made short speeches. The flag was raised by Frederick Douglass, 3rd, great grandson of Frederick Douglass. Cedar Hill is only a little over two miles from the Capitol and the Union Station and is easily reached either by street car or motor.—Caroline L. Hunt in the Southern Workman. COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR OLD TIME TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, DELIGHTS TO SPEND MUCH OF HIS TIME DOWN IN OLD TEXAS WHERE HE CAN FILL UP ON RICH EATING. Pelman, Texas.—Here I am way out in the country, taking in pure air, drinking milk, buttermilk, sweet milk cream milk, turning white or some other color, plenty mules, horses, cows, calves, hogs, chickens, turkeys, geese, lions, stallions, male cow—in fact I am surrounded by all that goes to make up prosperous and happy, healthy life in the country. I have seen chicken bodies jumping around looking for their heads, turkeys have given up their bodies for the dish, young cows have been placed on the altar for the ministers, opossums have been brought from their hiding places, and put in all their own gravy, with sweet potatoes on the side, in order that they could enter the ministry, gas has been burned freely in order to keep the ministers from walking, mules have pulled mule wagons—in fact there have been big doings in 'Pelham this week, and all because the North African Methodist Episcopal conference of Texas is meeting out here, presided over by Bishop William Decker Johnson, D. D., of Plains, Ga. I believe it is the first time in the history of the world that a conference has been held out in the country, and it is because Bishop Johnson is called the bishop of the common people, and he is willing to go anywhere, and not sit around the city and look wise. Look where I was when I wrote to you that other letter, and then I got myself together on the Cotton Belt made my way to Texarkana, remained over Saturday night and Sunday night and pulled out Monday morning for this place. I was booked to meet Bishop Johnson in Hubbard City, but that old iron horse just got off, and instead of us getting to Hubbard Monday evening at 6 o'clock got there Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock, and that was some late believe me honey. I remained there until about 9 o'clock and Bishop Johnson, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. L. M. Hughes got there and soon Bishop Johnson had some automobiles to tote us out in the country where this conference was to be held. I got out there in a jiffy so to speak, just 11 miles, and when the pastor came from another place he told me that I had been assigned to stop with a man, and he was a man every inch of him, W. M. Porter, a real farmer, and a man with plenty, including children, chickens, geese, and everything else. I wish you could have seen him. He is a man about 6 feet tall and high, and it would impress you that he had swallowed a rabbit and left his sticking on his upper lip. It was a young rabbit, believe me, honey. He was born in the country, got the benefit of a common school education, and then he began purchasing land. He saw in the Bible where some fellow said "It is not good for man to be alone," and he sought him a companion. He won the hand and heart of Miss Sarah Benjamon, who was a trained educated country girl. They started life together, and it was not long before business picked up and kept on picking up until the Lord had blessed their home with 11, and 10 are living right now. Both of them married under 30, and now they look like spring chickens—she looks as young as her daughters, and is just full of smiles all the time. It would not be possible for me to tell you all about this wonderful mother, but I was delighted to see just how she keeps so young, unless she has been to the fountain of perpetual youth. Now then, this man Porter, has been saving and saved, and now he has acres up in the hundreds, and then there are so many mules so many horses. He has a lion there that is the father of over 300 mules, and there is another lion who is young yet, but believe me he is going to be some father also. There are chickens, turkeys, and almost everything else. It is remarkable how this man is fixed. There was automobile car carriages, to tote me and Elmer Porter, who is a school young man, was the driver, and he seemed to take a delight in toting me around. Speaking of the children of Mr, Porter, he has one son who is a professor in Samuel Houston college, Austin, Prof. William Porter Jr., the son of his father, then there is Mrs. Minnie Hines, who is a teacher in the county, and then there are Elmer, a automobile student boy who toted us around; Cleo, the next girl, and Helen, the Prentist, who is the baby of them all, and the others I will not have time to tell you about, except Mrs. Laura Carroll, who is some musician, and I am reminded of another, Mrs. Callie Martin. But now, I was not in all this house alone, but there was Major R. R. Wright, of Philadelphia, Pa., president of the Citizens' and Southern Banking Company, of Philadelphia. Of course you know this old gentleman, because he spent fifty years in the school room as a teacher and college president, and then he retired to take to the business world. He is now president of the bank, and the people are buying stock in his bank, showing their confidence in him and the cause he represents. He is a great business man, and my room mate during his stay out here in the country. This bank represented by Major Wright has resources of $169,943,22 I don't know what they mean by this resource business, but it is something you banking business people will know all about. I find that I am sleeping with money every night. I don't know when I have seen so many rich farmers since I have been in the world. They are just doing things. I am here to tell you. Now there is Tom Cook, and he is some pumpkins. You would not think it by looking at him, but honey, he has some home, and I believe in my soul that he has a thousand chickens, turkeys, hogs, geese, horses, mules, and all the other things that goes to make things good. He has sons and daughters, somet of them married and some to be married, and then he has them in school, and his wife, like Mrs. Porter, one of the finest women I have ever seen. Then I came in contact with Squire Porter, whose heart is as big as his stomach and his pocketbook larger than combined. He is a man from ville, and he is a leader among and he is a cotton buyer as well as a cotton raiser. They have one more good show out here. It is a Rosenwald school, and honey they have a building, and there is Prof. T. J. Douglass, who is the head of the school, and he is well educated, and the same can be said of those associated with him, Miss Juanita Huckaby, Mrs. Allie Cook and Mrs. S. J. Frazier, and they are doing the work I tell you honey. Now about the male cow, I wish you could have seen him wanting to fight with me. He snorted, threw dirt over his back, and puffed and groaned, and even got down on the ground, and I just looked at that old gentleman and told him to come on as I was ready for him, and I intended to knock the devil and hell out of him. We were just to have a heliya time. Now Bishop William Decker Johnson is doing a great work out here, and he is inspiring the youth. I don't know when I have seen. He spoke to the ministers and people on "Hankering Cause." He said among other things: "The great trouble in getting forward in this world is not so much in finding the forward path as in removing the hindering causes that lie in the path. And to this end reason is the specific power of the mind to which we must appeal in discovering what the hindering causes are, and where they lie. In this we see at once, man superior over the brute creation, instinct is the last appeal of the brute in removing an obstacle from his path. That failing, the obstacle remains. He must remove the obstacle just as his forebear has done for ten thousand thousand years. The brute has no adaptability, no tact, no reason, no sense of progress. On the other hand, man has reason to guide, he mends the error of his ways, and profits by his mistakes." Now along this line he made a wonderful address. He is just going into the hearts of the people. Rev. Dr. R. S. Jenkins is the secretary of the conference, and he is going to be the next general secretary of the General conference in Louisville, and from there he is going to the episcopacy. I wish you could, just see how; he is loved by the ministers down here. I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop. God bless you. Write to me next at Poro college, St. Louis, Mo. —CHARLES E. STUMP. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN Takes Up the Black Man's Burden from Various Standpoints Presents a Few Facts That Can't Be Disputed by Anybody A few weeks ago I had an engagement down in the loop with a friend, so I dressed up in my "Sunday clothes"; and, in my way of thinking, I was "looking good." I got on a State street car and found a good seat right by a woman of my race. She was a good-looking "sealskin brown." As soon as I sat down she began to get restless and twisted about in her seat and gazed upon my "frame" like she was disgusted because I dared to sit down by her. Finally she became so upset about it that she politely got up and walked just a few seats ahead of where she was seated and placed her "carcass" right down beside a "red-face," "flannel-mouth" Irishman. As soon as she got settled in her seat and commenced to "look pretty," and began to chew the mouthful of Wrigley's chewing gum that she carried in her mouth, the Irishman began rolling his big red eyes at her as if he could throw her off the car. This is not the first time that I have noticed the "sistern pulling off that some stunt." Now, girls, "cut out such stuff." You had better treat your race right, because when a crisis comes you have got to certainly look to them for protection. Hear me! Well, then! * * * Do you know that selling "moonshine" is getting to be a common occurrence in this city? I know several persons who have given up their jobs to sell that "man-killing stuff." It is getting to be a common occurrence these days to see young men and women drunk on our streets with it, and it is hard to find a young man who hasn't a bottle of it in his pocket or that you can't get the odor from his breath. I don't know what will be the end of our younger generation. In the language of one of our ablest preachers, whom I had the pleasure to hear a few Sundays ago, who said, during his sermon: "If some of our women who are giving birth to our future generation are going to saturate their children with 'moonshine' while they "LYNCH LAW MUST GO" By Dr. M. A. Majors I was about 1890 that John Mitchell adopted as his slogan, "Lynch law must. At that time the Richmond Planet was the most radical and outspoken Negro journal in America, and would have been at that time the leading newspaper had not the Freeman shown up better in versatility, "Bruce Grit" (Ida Wells) letters in the Memphis Watchman helped to form a trio, each thundering against "Judge Lynch." Sometimes we think God must have steeled the hearts and minds of those who were foremost in the early newspaper fights against lynching. Edward Elder Cooper, W. Allison Sweney and Wm. Milton Lewis, all of the Freeman, ever and anon fired a broadside, and then coming from hundreds of newspapers of less importance were a constant fusiliade. Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, who, for many years, cherished an opinion that the place for the Negro was Africa, often sounded the death knell of "Judge Lynch" in the volumes of the Voice, which he published as the Voice of Missions, but the better and more thoughtful among us realized that it was the "voice" of Turner. The Texas Searchlight, Texas Freeman, Victoria Guide, Dallas Express, Chicago Conservator, Topeka Call, Washington Bee, Florida Sentinel, Cleveland Plaindealer, St. Paul Appeal, Southwestern Christian Advocate, St. Joseph Mirror and the Omaha Bee all performed herculean tasks against the south and its lynching spirit. The New York Age, edited by T. Thomas Fortune, situated so near the big heart of the world, fired Krupp explosives, while Mr. Fortune contributed to other newspaper and magazines with a big heart overburdened with the trials and miseries of his race. Sometimes our greatest Negro. Frederick Douglass, would threaten the Republican party for leaving the Negro in the house of his enemies unprotected and undergoing the slow process of annihilation. Bishops Arnett Smith, Grant P. Petty, Dr. J. C. Price, Attorney R. C. O. Benjamin, W. Calvin Chase, Editor J. E. King, Wm. M. McDonald, N. Cuney, Charles N. Love, R. Wright Thompson, Hon. John Mercer Langston, George Williams and Dr. Wm. J. Simmons all were ever on the firing line preaching eloquent truths against the brutal tyranny and oppression of the Southland's wickedness. Fighting, as we fought in those days, while it informed the race of the treachery and marauding spirit of the white men, did not stop the blood-thirsty mob. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota have been violated by the blood-maddened mob; Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma. are carrying them before they are born, then we may expect a race of 'moonshiners.'" What chance has a race composed of "moonshiners" got with the white man? Why they will be a joke for the civilized world. Race prejudice against the Negro is getting worse all over the world, and it is these men of our own country who are spreading it. Produce a bunch of "moonshiners" and you will show me a weak set of men and women. Take my advice and don't drink that poison. It is eating the life blood out of you. This "ain't" no joke, folks—it's plain truths. Do you get me? *** Who was it that introduced the idea of holding these "breakfast dances"? I would certainly like to know. I was on the street car the other day on my way down town and I met a gang of "cabaret fans" and gamblers on their way to a "breakfast dance." I asked them what was the advantage of going to a "breakfast dance" instead of the dances that are given during evenings, and they replied that the married women whose husbands worked in the day and the gamblers and those men among us who have "sworn not to ever work," could see each other without any cause for alarm or danger. Now, friends, if that is true, cut out the "breakfast dance." I was of the opinion that they were given for men who worked at night and could not get off to attend regular dances. If you don't take my advice now, some of these beautiful, sunshine mornings, when the dew drops are fresh upon the flowers, and the birds are chanting in the trees, that husband whom you think is at work or out on the road on his way to the Golden Gate, California, is going to appear at one of these "breakfast dances" just when you are "doing your stuff" and then there will be a job for the coroner of Cook county. Do you get me! I hope so. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN. each have had its trial out of court by "Judge Lynch." The south has done its utmost to show to the rest of the country that equal and exact justice to all men, and special privileges to none, written in the constitution, is a lie. The fury and cowardice of mob law overleaps all human bounds in sickening, blood-curdling orgies of murder when the savagery in fiends takes the place of reason in man. Every vestige of civilization is blotted out and incarnate devilry hell-swept with every low ugliness of lust of demons. DOINGS AT THE APOPMATTOX CLUB Monday, December 25, 8:30 P. M.—Christmas party and dance; members and lady guests. Tuesday afternoon, December 19, 2:30 P. M.—Ladies' whist; special prizes; luncheon; for the ladies of the families of members. Friday afternoon, December 29, 2:00 to 6:00 P. M.—Annual Children's Christmas party, Mrs. Hazel Thompson Davis, directing; committee: Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, Mrs. D. A. A. McGowan, Mrs. D. B. Hawley, Mrs. J. W. Woodlee, Mrs. F. E. Anderson, Mrs. L. B. Trent. Sunday, December 31, beginning at 10:00 P. M.—Annual New Year's evening cabaret; special entertaining; dancing; midnight lunch-eon; members and lady guests only; all tables reserved; reservations must be made in advance; reservation, including luncheon, $1.50. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES Rev. H. E. Stewart will deliver the sermon Sunday morning and right. The special Christmas message will be delivered Sunday morning, December 24, at 10:45 A. M., at which time the choir will render special music. A big midnight service Christmas Eve at 12:05 o'clock. The subject will be "The Prince of Peace"—a three-reel sacred movie. The revival now in progress at Quinn is bringing good results. Old-fashioned conversions and many reclaimed. Prof. Deas and wife are conducting the singing. The pastor is preparing to give a series of sacred moving pictures at the church, Friday evenings, from 4:30 to 5:30 P. M. No admission. NEW SUBSCRIBER TO THE BROAD AX Among the new subscribers to The Broad Ax is Mr. W. D. Cain, of Waco, Tex., who is the grand recorder, F. A. M., Texas jurisdiction, and editor of The Masonic Quarterly. It will therefore be noted that Brother Cain is one of the most prominent Masons in the Long Star state. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 [Name not visible] Prominent Mason and One of the Colored Leaders of the Deneen Faction of the Republican Party Who Holds Down a Responsible Clerkship in the Rooms of the Chief Clerk of the Municipal Court of Chicago. MRS. HARDING HONORED Mrs. Georgia E. Harding, state grand princess of Illinois of S. M. T. was honored at a reception given by the S. M. T. at the Chicago College of Music, 37th street and Michigan avenue, Thanksgiving evening. A splendid program was rendered with Mrs. Serilda Jackson acting as mistress of ceremonies. Around the banquet table laid in the dining hall, J. B. Street, president of the Joint Building Association of U. B. F. and S. M. T. acted as taster. Other speakers of the evening were Mesdames Eliza Jackson, Maggie T. Pryor, Ella Watkins, Idim Simmons, Elizabeth Rochon, Rebecca Johnson and Rosa Foucha; Messrs. R. W. Wells, M. T. Bailey and H. D. Smith. ST. MARK M. E. CHURCH 50th Street and Wabash Avenue Rev. John W. Robinson, Pastor Last Sunday morning the pastor preached a lovely sermon to a large and appreciative audience. Services were good and well attended throughout the day. Rev. H. B. Mays, pastor of Bismarck, N. D., preached at the evening service. Pastor will preach next Sunday both at the morning and evening services. Lyceum at 5 P. M. Attend our services. RETURN PLEASED Wm. H. Terrell and Prince A. Glanton who attended the session of The National Baptist Convention, inc., at St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 6th, have returned pleased over the election of Dr. L. K. Williams of Olivet Baptist Church as president, for which election they gave their undivided support. A large reception will be given in honor of Dr. Williams at the church on Friday evening, Dec. 15th, at which time the entire Baptist family and friends are invited. SPEND DAY IN SUBURBS Mrs. Odell Hughley and daughters spent last Sunday in Morgan Park the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Jenkins, 1121 W. 112th Place, brother-in-law and sister of Mrs. Hughley, Mesdames P. A. Glanton and Ella M. Glanton were also visitors in the Park last Sunday spending much time with friends. BUSINESS INCREASES The business of the Bailey Realty Co. and Milton Mercantile Agency at 3638 South State street, of which M.T. Bailey is president and general manager, is increasing and coming from almost all parts of the United States. The increase is the outgrowth of efficiency used in the handling of all business coming in their offices. IN FINAL MEETING The Virginia Society will hold its final meeting for the year on Wednesday evening, Dec. 20th at 3638 S. State St., at which time it is hoped that all Virginians will attend and bring their friends with them. ENROUTE TO VIRGINIA John T. Pannell of Morgan Park, left the city during the week for Richmond, Va., where he will spend considerable time adjusting matters of importance. While in the state, Mr. Pannell will spend several days in visiting other cities. MR. A. A. TODD n and One of the Colored Leaders of the Republican Party Who Holds Dow the Rooms of the Chief Clerk of the GOES TO OHIO Prof. C. T. Rogers left for Cleveland, Ohio a few days ago where he will begin a series of lectures on next Sunday. Prof. Rogers spent much time in the city during the past week. Mrs. Sydnor, mother of Mrs. Carrie Warner, 3822 Calumet avenue, left the first of this week for her home in St. Louis, Mo. George O. Jones, head of the George O. Jones Undertaking Co., 1904 West Lake street, is one of the best and most progressive colored business men on the west side and all of his patrons always receive a square deal from him. 一 Mr. Ernest H. Williamson, 5121-5125 South State street, continues in the lead as the most up-to-date funeral director on the south side. His extensive establishment is complete in every department and he transacts business with all of his patrons on the square. Color Blindness Puzzles Color Blindness Puzzles. A puzzling feature about color blindness is that many persons so afflicted are experts at matching colors. Small Ambition The man who is entirely satisfied with himself wants but little here be low—Boston Transcript. "The Iron Gzar." "The Iron Ciar" was a name given to Nicholas I, who ruled Russia from 1825 to 1855. Selfishness Never Brought Joy. Those who think selfishness the short cut to joy, find when they have gone as far as it will take them, that joy is as far off as ever.—Exchange. Mrs. Carrie Warner, 3822 Calumet avenue, enjoyed her Thanksgiving Turkey Thursday, November 30th, at her summer home at Idlewild, Mich., where she superintended some improvements on it. To Outward Seeming. Some people with great merit are very disgusting, others with great faults are very pleasing—La Roche foucauld. Emotions Act on the Stomach. Emotions, such as sudden fright, act on the human stomach, causing it to alter in shape. Thought for the Day. There is more religion in some men's science than there is science in some men's religion. Newton Leads Town Names The commonest of all place names in England is Newton, which occurs no fewer than 72 times in different parts of the country. Figured Wood for Furniture. From the very earliest days of furniture, through the Middle ages, to the present time figured wood for furniture has found favor. Where Custom Rules. Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. —Francis Bacon. PARIS MODES IN FORMAL APPAREL Decorative Trimmings Influence Styles, Fashion Correspondent Says. GOWNS MUST BE ENLIVENED Crisp Flowers or Vivid Girdles Are Employed to Enhance the Attractiveness of Milady's Frocks for Evening Wear. Paris promises a winter season of lavish decoration, observes a fashion writer in the New York Times. If one's frock be somber, it must be enlivened with crisp flowers or a vivid girdle. If your evening gown be stately, let it slip off either one or both shoulders, and hold it securely with straps of tiny flowers that glitter with silver or gold. If one's suit seems the least bit businesslike, it should be embroidered with steel beads or strips of fur in a vermicelli pattern. Above all things one must avoid the oblivious, and have one's frock beruffed where ruffles might least be expected, or beribboned and gavly buttoned in unusual design. As an expression of the vivacity of his costumes, Worth has chosen the tassel, which may seem old-fashioned, but which really has gone through many stages of rejuvenation. They are used alone or in groups, of large dimensions or of small, of silk, of satin, of metal or beads, but in every case they are the natural complement of the gown they adorn. Especially lovely ones are made of blades of metal, which are used on street frocks, and one evening gown boasts three long tassels of ruhed crystal. Brandt hangs tassels by slim cords or finely wrought chains and tops them with exquite embroidery or braid of a contrasting shade. And with the prevailing vogue for superficialities of trimming, ribbons have gayly come into their own. They offer width to slim skirt lines and width to abbreviated hems. Encrusted with wee flowers, or variously braided, they wind their gala way between bobbed tresses or crown more stately collures. By attaching countless narrow satin ribbons to the shoulder and catching them together at the waist and guiding them gracefully to the wrist, where they are caught by a silver cloth wristband. Martial et Armand have created an otherwise simple evening frock for the jeune fille. When silk ribbon is padded and attached to either side of a silk skirt it lends the soft folds sufficient weight to attempt a graceful fit. First Longon Bridge. The first stone bridge over the Thames at London was completed in 1200 and built with rows of houses forming a street. On it stood the chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury. The present bridge, about one hundred feet farther up the river, was designed by John Rennie and built by his sons in 1827-31; length 928 feet, width 65 feet, 56 feet above the river. Chinch Bugs Cause Big Loss Fully $46,000,000 worth of wheat, corn, oats, grain, sorghus and broom corn is destroyed annually by chinch bugs, which can withstand most climatic conditions, fungous diseases and parasitic enemies. There's the Trouble "Sedentary workers need a hearty breakfast." They do. But poor as they are, they are too proud to accept charity."-Hartford Times. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, FIRES INTO THE LEADERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THEIR ABANDONMENT OF THE DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. Christmas SAVINGS CLUB The Club will continue for 50 weeks, when checks will be mailed to all members for the amount of their deposits with $3\%$ interest added where payments have been made according to schedule. Join our Christmas Savings Club and solve the Christmas financial problem for next year. Payments may be made in varying sums according to the accompanying schedule. James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on his return to New York from Washington, made the following statement on the abandonment of the Dyer bill by the Republican party: "The fight for the enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill was abandoned by the Republican majority on Monday, December 4, in the last hours of the extra session of Congress. The bill had been called up for consideration on Tuesday, November 28. It immediately became the object of a filibuster on the part of southern Democrats, which was the most naked and brutal exhibition of its kind ever made in the Senate. A filibuster is generally carried on under some sort of disguise, but Senator Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader, stated plainly and bluntly that the purpose of the filibuster was to prevent any consideration whatsoever of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill and that the Democratic side would not allow any government business whatever to be carried on until the Republicans agreed to abandon the bill not only during the extra session but even during the short session. "The filibuster was carried on from Tuesday through Saturday, December 2, during which time the southern Democrats would not even allow the adoption of the record of the Senate's proceedings. Finally, on Saturday night, a caucus of Republican Senators was held, which was largely attended, and the question of the abandonment of the bill was discussed hotly for more than two hours. The attendance at the caucus dwindled until there were some twenty-two or twenty-three Senators left. A vote was then taken and the majority agreed to abandon the bill. There were nine Senators who voted to keep up the fight until March 4, if necessary. Among these was Senator Shortridge, who has charge of the bill and who led the fight on the floor. "Before the Republican caucus, the secretary conferred with Senators Lodge, Curtis and Watson, the three men holding the fate of the bill in their hands, urging them not to surrender on the terms laid down by the Democratic filibusterers. Those terms were that the bill be not only dropped in the special session, but dropped as well for the entire term of the Sixty-seventh Congress. "Imediately after publication in the newspapers of the outcome of the caucus, the secretary telegraphed to these three Senators inquiring if he had not received their promise that the bill would not be abandoned on Senator Underwood's terms. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who was elected by the colored voters of his state on the sole issue of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, denied by letter ever having made such a promise to the secretary. It was Senator Lodge Purpose. He is a weak man who cannot twist and weave the threads of his feeling—however fine, however tangled, however strained, or however strong—into the great cable of purpose, by which he lies moored to his life of action. Donald G. Mitchell. Christ SAVING Open Your Christmas Regular Payment 11th, 1922. The Club will continue for mailed to all members for the 3% interest added where paym to schedule. Join our Christmas Savings financial problem for next yes Payments may be made in accompanying schedule: CLASS 5—First week 5c, second week 10c. Increase each weekly payment 5c and receive in 50 $63.75 weeks..... CLASS 5-A—First week $2.50, second week $2.45. Decrease each weekly payment 5c and receive in 50 weeks..... CLASS 10—First week 10c, second week 20c. Increase each weekly payment 10c and receive $127.50 in 50 weeks..... CLASS 10A—First week $5.00, second week $4.90. Decrease each weekly payment 10c and receive in 50 weeks..... Plus 3% Interest f ALEXANDER FLOWER, President SAMUEL F. FLOWER, Vice-President Roosevelt Capital and Surv GRAND BOULEVARD A Telephone Douglas 2 who announced in the Senate, on the morning of December 4, the Republican party's abject surrender. "The colored people will not be deceived by appearances. They can see and they know the actual fight was made by the southern Democrats against the bill rather than by the Republicans in its behalf. The southern Democrats roared like lions and the Republicans laid down like scared 'possums. The efforts of Senator Shortridge was sincere and earnest, but outside of the support he received from Senator Willis, Senator New and Senator Edge, not a Republican Senator opened his mouth in actual support. A few Senators, including Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania, McNary, Capper and Gooding, expressed their willingness to keep up the fight until March 4th if necessary, but the mass of the Republican Senators displayed no particular interest in the bill. It is this attitude that the colored people will especially resent, perhaps even more than the failure of the bill to be passed. If the Republican senatorial leaders think the Negro will be satisfied merely because they allowed the southern Democrats to "put themselves on record," they are mistaken. The Republicans should also have put themselves on record. This they failed to do. "The unsuccessful fight to have the Dyer bill enacted into law at this time is not, however, without its fruits. "First of all, lynching as a national shame and the facts about lynching have been put before the American people. In fact, lynching has been made not only a national but an international issue and such a question cannot die until it is rightly settled once for all. "Second, the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill became the center of concerted mass action by colored people such as has never before taken place in the United States. Colored voters defeated, on this issue alone, three men who voted against it in the House of Representatives—one in Delaware, one in New Jersey, and one in Wisconsin. So doing, colored people have become conscious of their political power. "Third, colored voters have gone a great step toward political emancipation from allegiance on historical grounds to any one party. The fate of the Dyer bill, coming as a culmination of a series of disappointments under the present administration, completely rids the Negro of the old idea that he must now, henceforth and forevermore, vote the Republican ticket merely for historic reasons. 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