The Broad Ax
Saturday, January 20, 1923
Chicago, Illinois
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Hon. Arthur C. Lueder, the Extremely Popular Postmaster of Chicago Has Become the Deneen-Brundage and Crowe, Primary Candidate for Mayor of This City; and There Will be a Hand to Hand Fight, Knocking Down and Dragging Out Between Him and Mayor William Hale Thompson, and As the Fur Will Fly in Every Direction It Is Mighty Hard to Tell at This Time, Which Way the Old Republican Political Cat Will Jump.
HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER, ONE OF THE HONORABLE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE APPELLATE COURT OF COOK COUNTY, HAS BEEN SELECTED BY THE UNITED DEMOCRACY TO MAKE THE RACE FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO, AND HIS LEGIONS OF WARM FRIENDS LOOK UPON HIM AS A REAL LIVE WINNER.
HON. WILLIAM A. CUNNEA, WHO WAS REALLY ELECTED STATE'S ATTORNEY OF COOK COUNTY IN 1912 AND WAS FLIM FLAMMED SOME WAY OR OTHER OUT OF THE OFFICE, HAS BEEN UNITED UPON BY THE SOCIALIST AND LABOR PARTY TO MAKE THE RACE FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO.
The political pot between the republicans and the old-time democrats has just started into boil in good shape and it will continue to boil and run over on the sides until after the primaries Tuesday, Feb. 27th, and the main election, the first part of April. For the past four or five weeks it seemed that all the big and the tinnhorn and the small fry politicians, both democratic and republican, were absolutely dead to the world, then at last they all kinder woke up and shook themselves together, as it were, and started in to spar for good positions on the political checkerboard and finally, after much cross-firing, the leading republican chiefs who are bitterly opposed to, Mayor William Hale Thompson—namely, Hons. Charles S. Deneen, Robert E. Crowe, Edward J. Brundage and Medill McCormick, and their other political associates—came to a flat showdown and united upon Hon. Arthur C. Lueder, the present popular postmaster of Chicago, to make the race at the primaries against Hon. William Hale Thompson for mayor of Chicago.
Hon. Charles S. Deneen and Hon. Robert E. Crowe who largely owes his present political prominence to Mayor William Hale Thompson, and Brundage and their followers, will make a desperate effort to unhorse Mayor Thompson, and permit him to hang high and dry with his political feet dangling high up in the air, and his political opponents are figuring day and night how to land on him with some sharp up-
per and lower cuts and knock him out for the count, and it is clearly evident that there will be a whole lot of political throat-cutting, knocking down and dragging out on the part of the very bitter republican factions between now and primary day and mighty hot times are ahead for the big bosses of the Grand Old Party in this city.
For some years Mr. Lueder has been successfully engaged in the real estate business and many times in the past he has been highly honored by those who are engaged in that line of business. He has held the offices of secretary of the Chicago Real Estate board and secretary, director, and treasurer of the Cook County board. He also has been secretary of the secretaries' association of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. And he is a member of the Real Estate Association of Illinois and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. For many years he has had his own offices at 40 North Dearborn street.
He also is a member of a large number of clubs and fraternal organizations. Among them are the Society of Santiago de Cuba, the Hamilton club, the Mystic Shrine, the German club, the Elks, the Oriental consistory, the Association of Commerce, the Modern Woodmen, the Chicago Turners, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Lincoln club, the National Union, the Royal League, the North American Union, and Chicago Historical society. In 1904 Mr. Lueder was happily united in marriage to Miss Martha R.
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1923
Prominent Mason, and as the Head and Front of the "Red Caps" in This City He Is Accomplishing a Great and Lasting Work in Their Behalf.
Prominent Mason, and as the Head and Front of the "Red Caps" in This City He Is Accomplishing a Great and Lasting Work in Their Behalf.
Miller and moved from Elmhurst to Chicago. The family residence is at 3832 Rokeby street. There are two children—Roland G., 18 years old, and Ruth Helen, 13 years old.
He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, having served with the First Illinois regiment.
As stated before, Mr. Lueder is very popular and Mayor Thompson will be forced to work early and late in order to put him out of the running for mayor of Chicago.
HARVARD BARS THE COL-
ORED MAN
President Lowell Held Responsible
When Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr., was refused admittance to Harvard last June because of the decision that all freshmen must live in the freshman dormitories and Negroes are not to be admitted to the freshman dormitories, a number of Harvard graduates, including Moorfield Storey, former private secretary to Charles Sumner, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association; Charles C. Burlingham, former president of the New York Board of Education; Edward Eyre Hunt, who was in charge of the American Relief Work in Antwerp and later during the war was secretary to the President's Conference on Unemployment, sent in a memorial which read in part as follows:
MR. SANDY W. TRICE
"So far as we can learn, the policy of exclusion is based on the fact that residence in Freshman Halls is now compulsory and the opinion that as men from the South and Southwest come to Harvard in considerable numbers they should not be compelled to room or eat with colored men.
"We respectfully submit that these are not sufficient reasons for abandoning the long and honorable tradition of Harvard College."
When Mr. Bruce learned that it was necessary to make reservation some time in advance in order to be sure of admission to Harvard, he applied to the registrar and President Lowell answered as follows:
"Dear Mr. Bruce: Your letter to the registrar about your son has been given me. I am sorry to have to tell you that, in the Freshman Halls, where residence is compulsory, we have felt from the beginning the necessity of not including colored men. To the other dormitories and dining rooms they are admitted freely, but in the freshman halls I am sure you will understand why, from the beginning, we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together."
Mr. Bruce, after a time, answered in a scathing letter in which he contrasted his opinion of Harvard with the fact of President Lowell's letter. Mr. Bruce's letter in part is as follows:
"The policy of compulsory residence in Freshman Halls is costly indeed if
it is the thing that constrains Harvard to enter open-eyed and brusque upon a policy of racial discrimination.
"It is my deliberate opinion that some of these young men who, like my son, are after all Negroes by election, will nullify the policy of exclusion so far as they themselves are concerned, by simply not confessing themselves members of the proscribed group. Neither a mental nor a blood test will expose that helpful duplicity With respect to these individuals (and they outnumber popular estimates), may not the policy of exclusion have the curious effect of promoting that very amalgamation of races which the white North vies with (Continued on Page 2)
MR. VIRGIL WILLIAMS PAID
HIS OWN WAY ON HIS WEST
ERN TRIP WITH ALD. LOUIS
B. ANDERSON TWO YEARS AGO
Some evil-minded person has started the report in the Second Ward to the effect that Mr. Virgil Williamus, Republican candidate for Alderman of that ward, that in 1921, at the time that he made the pleasure trip with Alderman Louis B. Anderson and the other city fathers all through the West, that Alderman Anderson paid his way, or his expenses, which is not true, for Mr. Williams paid his own way and spent a large bunch of money with those whom he came in contact with while going and coming on that memorable Western trip.
BOOK CHAT, BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE.
With the new year we are all making resolutions and a resolution that I wish the readers of Book Chat would make, is to read more books. Newspapers and magazines are all very well in their way, for recording of transient happenings we could not do without them, but after all the challenge to thought comes chiefly with the leisure, deliberate turning over of the pages of a book. In a good light, settled back in a comfortable chair, we take our time mulling over the reasoning of the essayist or following the fate of the hero. There is no loneliness to one who knows the companionship of books.
I have, for over a year now, pointed out the important books upon the Negro question and urged my readers to buy them, when they could. I like to think that the book shelves in many homes are growing in number and that publishers are learning that there is a purchasing Negro-public. But there are other means of getting at books than the buying of each one desired. There are book clubs and libraries.
To take the public library first. It should be the business of the colored citizen of a town that has a free public library (a really free one) to see that new books on the Negro are bought for it. This, I think any one will find who has tried, is not usually difficult. First, you want to be a good borrower. I mean a steady borrower of books who does not let the volumes become overdue but returns them on time. Having established yourself as a responsible reader, you have only to call the attention of the librarian to the book you want to have her anxious to buy it for you. Librarians are only too glad to find intelligent borrowers. The stories the librarians can tell of unintelligent borrowers are legion; so when they find someone who reads book reviews, who knows of the latest volume on an important subject they want to oblige that person if they possibly can. Back of them is a Board that may prove parsimonious, but be sure the librarian counts as meat and
PRAISES FROM LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA
The Soaring Eagle, published at Los Angeles, Cal, which has become the leading race publication on the Pacific Coast, has the following to say in connection with the Twenty-seventh Anniversary edition of The Broad Ax:
"Our old-time visitor, The Broad Ax, Chicago, Ill, came to our desk resplendant in its glory, as a king-pin in journalism. The Christmas edition is a creditable achievement."
drink the intelligent demand by the public for serious literature. The N. A. A. C. P. will shortly publish a list of the books that I have reviewed in Book Chat. By sending a two cent stamp, this list will be mailed to you. Why not take such a list into your public library, see what books the library has purchased and what are missing, and endeavor to have the missing books ordered? It would help you and the reading of the books would educate the public.
The second method of getting books is through Books Lovers' Clubs. I imagine such clubs have existed ever since books were printed. Book Lovers pool their resources, and buying books, exchange them one with another. People are especially given to this who live in small places. Supposing this past year, you have lived where there was no public library, have wanted especially to read "Dark Water," "The Book of Negro Verse," "Birthright," "White and Black," "The Soul of John Brown," and "Harlem Shadows," and have had only two dollars in your pocket-book. The way to compass your desire is to get five other people, equally desirous of reading these volumes and equally imprecuous. Then let each buy a volume and your library is complete. It is a lending library, only one volume remaining with you at the last, but it has given you what you desired and has added to the education of six people. Incidentally it will lead to much good fellowship.
No one should be invited into a Book Lovers' Club who does not value books, and who does not appreciate the sacredness of their ownership. To borrow a book and not to return it, this is one of the seven deadly sins and the most common of the seven! Keep such people out of a Book Lovers' Club—that is, if there are enough people left in the world to form a club with. Sir Walter Scott's old squib still holds true. On lending a book he said: "And please return it, for I find that while many of my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good book-keepers."
You have our sincerest thanks for the high compliment, Editor Bass.—Editor.
The Chicago Board Ax, which has an unbroken record of more than a quarter of a century, came forth last week with its annual special edition, and, as usual, it was a great one. The veteran editor, Julius F. Taylor, has our heartiest congratulations. — The Advocate, Portland, Ore. Thanks! thanks! Editor, Cannadr
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January 20, 1923
Vol. XXVIII No. 18
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HARVARD BARS THE
COLORED MAN
(Concluded from Page 1)
the white South in affecting to dread
“To proscribe a youth because of hi
race is a procedure as novel at Har
vard until your administration as it i
unscientific. ;
“The differences in racial excellencé
consist in the comparative numbers o
individuals to be found in the highe:
reaches of the vast curve upward o!
human quality and serviceability. And
to assess the relative values of the
several stocks of mankind en masse
is, one must concede, an exceedingly
delicate and difficult, indeed perilous
task.”
It remains to be seen what President
Lowell's answer to this charge will
be. Unquestionably, the responsibility
js onetty squarely upon his shoulders.
President Lowell has responded tc
the letter of Mr. Bruce's in part as
iollows:
“I am sorry that you do not fee
the reasonableness of our position
about the freshman dormitories. It is
not a departure from the past to re
fuse to compel white and colored mer
to room in tig same building. We
‘owe to the colored man the same op
portunities for education that we d
to the white man, but we do not ow:
to him to force him and the whit
into social relations that are not o
may not be mutually congenial.”
Mr. Bruce, who lives at Kendal
Va, is the son of Blanche Kels
Bruce, former registrar of the Unite
States Treasury. He was a member 0
the class of 1902, won membership it
the Phi Beta Kappa and was choser
class orator. The son is preparing
to enter Harvard at Phillips Exete:
academy.
It seems to be up to Presiden
Lowell to prove that he is not wor
shiping at the feet of southern race
prejudice.
LITTLE SIGNS OF PROGRESS
By Dr. M. A. Majors
There are some signs that we are
making steady progress. We gather
at places in very large numbers to
hear a recital. Music says Shakes-
peare hath charms to soothe the
savage breast. But on the chief essen-
tials we also may be found in large
numbers sometimes. Whenever a
question arises that holds racial inter-
est we will give a large attendance
It is a bit unfortunate that the com-
mercial call does not find us so great-
ly enthused, .and yet there could no!
possibly be an interest greater than
commerce, a thing in which we are
lacking. Funerals, weddings, parties
dances follow the lead of church in-
tereste, in this latter regard we: sur-
pass all other races, but in the matter:
of commercial activities we are the las
race in the line of march which it
such a great pity. It will for many
years °> come take — something
greater than thunder and lightning tc
Jar awake to the chief ideal of per-
manent development and progress.
No matter what can be said to the
contrary we are yet following the
footsteps of the past shot to pieces
‘by manifestations of hypocrisy and
deceit, pretending to carry on certain
forms in which there is only emotion-
alism which takes us no where. A
bank, a large store, real estate, fife
insurances with a sprinkling of little
stores are evidences that speak very
eloquently. the trend of our small
‘effort, We find making money and
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HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON
The fighting Mayor of Chicago, who stands ready to wage a
successful fight against his bitter political foes or enemies,
and he confidentially feels that he already has them started
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investing it merely incidental to our
effort when it should be the chief con-
cern of all that live. Spending money
carelessly for things we really do not
need and with the other races makes
them stronger to combat whatever we
undertake in matters that tend to
make for real progress. If wisdom is
our lesson what else have angels
learned and what feeble efforts have
we made to learn this lesson?
The dignity of the race is at stake
when we depend upon the other races
to supply our needs. The future of
the race is at stake when we continue
to make other races rich by paying
back to them all that the race earns.
The status of the race is placed upon
a low level when we fail to build up
a commercial foundation for our
coming generation. We are making
very feeble efforts to carry forward the
very principle that has made all of the
aces great. If we are looking for-
ward to anything beyond just living to
eat, to wear fine clothes, die, and go
to heaven, we are leaving out of the
‘equation much of the very essential
to a human salvation. We make a lot
of bluster, rip and snort, and at nones-
sentials we are humdingers. They are
laughing at us everwhere because we
are content to pour our money into the
laps of luxury, posing as fashion plates,
when we could very very well supply
‘our own needs along all lines.
We have close within our grasp a
million dollars worth of church prop-
erty, and we do not own two dozen
pieces of business property in Chicago.
We are throwing away enough money
annually on having a good time which
tickles the other races to buy up three
city blocks, but we are a hell of a race
and we just must have a hell of a
good time before we die and go to
heaven or hell. Yet there are some
signs that we are making progress
slowly which means that two hundred
years from now we will have advanced
from a thoughtless people to thinkers
and doers instead of a lot of preten-
ders and hypocrites. ‘
Colored Women’s International
Council
In the current Southern Workman
(published by Hampton Institute)
Mrs. Booker T. Washington writes
of the recent organization of an inter-
national council of colored women
whose purpose it is to study conditions
of all women of the darfer races.
Courses of study are already in opera-
tion in certain communities. One
group is studying the condition of
women in Africa; another that of the
women of India. A committee on
education has planned a course o}
study for the clubs, schools, and lead-
fers in general. The heads of school:
and colleges are being urged tc
place in their curricula well-organizes
courses of study on the darker péople:
of the world along with the history
of,other races, For one to appreciate
himself he must know himself, anc
certainly for another to appreciate him,
there must be definite knowledge o!
his attainments and aspirations. Pride
in one’s self comes through racial con-
sciousness. Alreddy Porto’ Rican wo-
‘men have begun to exchange ideas
with Colored Americans, and there is
correspondence between women in
Liberia, South Africa, in the Philippine
Islands, in Haiti, in Brazil, and in
other countries. Another committee
will direct a study of social conditions
and political affairs, the object of the
Council being to bring about justice
and fair play for every woman in
every land.
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925
“EDUCATION IS SELF-EDUCA-
CATION”
Dr. Wallace Buttrick, President of
the General Educational Board,
Pays Tribute to Dr. Hol-
Ks B. Frissell
By Wm. Anthony Aery
Hampton, Va. — “You must light
your own torch” was the injunction
which was given many years ago by
Dr. Daniel Coit Gilman, president of
Johns Hopkins, when he gathered
twenty of the most promising young
men that he could find in the colleges
and brought them together in Balti-
more as a nucleus for a university
teaching staff, according to Dr. Wal-
lace Buttrick of New York, president
of the General Education Board, who
recently spoke at Hampton Institute
on “Education as Self-Education” and
paid tribute to the late Dr. Hollis B.
Frissell, principal of Hampton, with
whom he had been engaged for many
years in joint educational service.
Doctor Buttrick referred in detail
to the life-story of Michael Pupin,
well-known professor of electrical en-
gineering in Columbia University,
which has been appearing serially in
“Scribner's Magazine,” as illustrative
of the truth that men must learn to
use the opportunities which they
have, if they wish to become edu-
cated. Doctor Buttrick declared that,
although he has reached the age of
seventy, he has not begun to live in
the past. He reads fifty worth-while
books each year, although he has
greatly impaired eyesight. Doctor
Buttrick said: -
“Every educated person in the
world is seli-educated. You cannot
edygate anybody but yourself. No-
body can educate you. Teachers are
not necessary; libraries are not neces-
sary; laboratories and shops are not
necessary, though very important, ad-
junets, Education is the discipline of
your own power by yourself, the ac-
quiring of knowledge by and for your-
self.
“That only is true education which
is never finished. The educated man
and the educated woman is the man
or the woman who is able to say on
the 3lst day of December of any year,
‘I have learned more during these
past 365 days than during any other
365 days of my life.’
“Ever learning, ever straggling to-
ward the truth, ever struggling to-
ward the best in character, ever fight-
ing for the thing that is a little
higher and a little better and a little
more worth while—that is-what the
educated person is doing. _
“Education is a life process, and, if
there be a future life, its only attrac-
tion to us should be that we may
grow forever and be constantly fit-
ting ourselves for higher intelligence
and better service and deeper and
truer appreciation of all that God has
wrought and that God is.”
| The Right Rev. Bishop B. T. Tan-
‘ner, who was one of the greatest
divines connected with the A. M. E.
Church, closed his eyes in death after
a long and useful life, at his old home
at Philadelphia, Pa., last Sunday, where
his earthly remains were laid to rest.
Bishop Tanner was for many years
held in highest esteem by: all of the
officials of his church, Aside from the
members of his family, he has troops
of friends to lament his death.
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR
TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AX, AFTER LAY-
ING UP IN PORT IN CHICAGO FOR
THREE WEEKS WHILE UNDERGO.
ING SOME IMPORTANT REPAIRS,
IS HITTING THE SOUTHERN RAIL
AGAIN.
Louisville, Ky. — Dr. George C.
Hall has chased them bugs out of my
head and make them close up their
‘hole behind them, and thentold me
I could teave Chicago, after being
held there for three weeks trying to’
get tid of them, This is indeed a
great world and we have some great’
men in this world and we are going to
make some more, for they are now in|
the imeubator getting ready to be’
hatched out.
I want to pay my respects to Dr.
George Cleveland Hall, and to Dr.’
S. H. Thompson, of Kansas City,
Kan,, and to thank Mrs, Ivie L. Stew-
art, my nurse, and her son, Charles
Stewart, Jr., a block off of the old
chip. It is wonderful how a boy can
partake of the works of his father.
‘That is, he has many ways like his
father and is a fine chap. But that is
not my talk when T come before you
with this letter.
What have you done for the world?
I am sorry that the last day I was in
Chicago I did not get to come in
‘touch with the press gang at the city
hall. Editor Taylor had arranged for
‘me to meet them, but J did not get
there in time to see these pen push-
ers—the mien who write the history
of Chicago every day, the men who
can look at you and tell you what
you are thinking about, and who can
express your thoughts better than
‘you can express them yourself, I am
‘sure that Editor Taylor thought if 1
could just get to see them I would
get better information and be able to
do more work and write better. He
did not tell me so, but he made a
broadcast hint, and I can take a hint.
Some of these men were willing to
enjoy baby sheep and lamb with me
and all the other good things which
are now mine. I came in touch with
the thinkers of Chicago, walked and
talked with them. Had the pleasure
of going to the home of Rev. F. W.
Penick, and coming in touch with him,
and cating one big dinner at his
home, and then got to meet others of
his guests. He is superintendent of
‘missions for the Baptists in Chicago,
‘and a man of great parts. He is do-
ing a great big work and is one more
busy man, sf
T find that they are getting ready to
elect a mayor for Chicago, and I am
told that there is going to be a
heluva time when it comes off, and
all classes of people are getting in
one of the lines, and I will be on
hand to tell you who wins.
I visited Olivet Baptist church, at-
tending a meeting of the secretaries
of the various departments of the
National Baptist convention and
heard their discussions. They are
getting ready to do some real work
in the National Baptist church in the
future. I am told that the presidents
are going to visit that point, and I
think it will be possible for me to
return, before going to the church
after the afternoon. President Wil-
liams and Pastor Williams will make
a tour in the interest of the conven-
tion work soon, and you will hear
from him. He is one of the highest
paid pastors in this country, and he
deserves all he gets. He works, and
is not spending his time in idleness.
It requires work to accomplish what
he has accomplished,
After visiting some friends and Dr.
J. M. Trice, a young physician from
‘Texas, but now a citizen of Chicago,
sent me a telephone to go down to
‘Maurice Rothschild’s and get me a
hat, and his mother met me down
town and went with me to the place.
An $8 John B. Stetson was placed on
my head, and I did not put up one
cent for it, and then followed many
presents after they learned that I
was bound to get away, and that the
Walker business was demanding
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HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER
Associate Justice of the Appellate Court of Cook County, who
stands very high in the estimation of all of his fellow citi-
zens, and Democratic candidate for Mayor of Chicago.
more room. But let me not get
mixed up on that. Dr. George C.
Hall presented me with a fine pres-
ent, and Editor Taylor placed a five-
Gols bill in my hand for a Christ-
‘mas present, and told me to come
again. He wanted to come to where.
T am willing to come again. One
cake was sent me by Mrs, Emma
Kennedy, grand royal matron of the
Order of Eastern Star, and then I
got my little self together, and made
it over to the Englewood station,
shaking the Chicago dust off my feet
for a while, and pulled out for this
place. Not for this place, but for In-
dianapolis, where T spent Sunday, the
guest of Rev, and Mrs. S. B. Butler
of Indianapolis and pastor of: the
Baptist church. He had an automo-
bile car carriage at the stable to
meet me and escort me to the place
where I was to stop, which was his
home.
T wish you could have seen those
young people greet me, and told me
to be at home. Sunday morning
found me at church, and there is
where I had to break thé bread and
tote the word. The people listened
attentively, and when I was through
they shook my black lily hand and
said they enjoyed the sermon. I
thanked them, for there was nothing
else for me to say. In the afternoon,
I spoke to men only, and at night I
took hold of the pulpit of that Baptist
church of which the Rev. Dr. Wes-
brook is pastor, and then about 3
o'clock Monday morning Dr. John A.
Gregg, president of Wilberforce Uni-
versity came for me to make the trip
to this place, and he was very kind
to do this. We were the guest of the
Rev. Dr. Charles Sumner Williams,
pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church,
and who is slated to be oné of the
bishops of his church. It was a fine
thing to come in touch with a big
hearted man like him and who has
worked from the ground up in his
church, and would make a fine addi-
tion to the Episcopal bench, and help
to work out the plans for a grand,
united front. He would make a good
bishop on the bench, and I hope the
A. M. E. church will see the- wisdom
in electing this wise young man.
In Louisville, I came to the home of
Editor William H. Steward, of the
American Baptist, and this paper has
been on the warpath for a long time,
fighting the battles of his churches,
of his race, and of his God. He is
indeed a remarkable man. I looked
and looked at him putting brains on
paper. He is the right man in the
right pew. He is the oldest editor in
service of the race today, and the
American Baptist is next to the oldest
paper, the oldest being the Christian
Recorder. Just think of it, this paper
has been published forty-four years
and has not missed an issue! Good
for that. The Louisville News has
the following to say about it:
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST
Last week the American Baptist was
forty-four years old. The age itself,
for a Negro newspaper, is remarkable.
But more remarkable is the fact that
in all those forty-four years the Amer-
ican Baptist never misged an issue.
That is a great record and few pub-
lications, white or otherwise, can make
that boast.
There is only one paper in the coun-
try older than the American Baptist,
and that is the Christian Recorder.
Mr. W. H, Steward, the editor, is a
remarkable man from many view-
points, and in this instance the paper
is really the mirror of the editor. The
News wishes both the editor and the
paper health, happiness and prosper-
ity.
“I have told you before today that
this world is full of damphules, and I
met one in Louisville. Some of these
ia AE
HON. ARTHUR C. LUEDER
Postmaster of Chicago and the Deneen-Crowe and Brundage,
Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago, who will put
up a stiff fight in order to knock out Mayor William Hale
Thompson at the Primaries, Tuesday, February 27.
fellows think they are educated and
the whole world should bow to them
Returning from the post office Mon-
day night in company with Editor
Steward, getting toward 10 o'clock, 3
young man, who seemingly thought
the world was turning, who had beer
to some unlawful keg, barrel or hogs.
head, was trying to occupy the whole
sidewalk. We were trying to give him
the right of way, when he staggered
over and asked: “Where is the
Courier-Journal?”
«I recognized the orator, the scholar
the poet, the—well “Know All,” Max-
well N. Hayson, the Boston man, and
you can tell a Boston man anywhere
but you can’t tell him much. He
looked at me and said, “This is my
old friend, Stump,” and then recog-
nized Mr. Steward, and proceeded to
read him a curtain lecture. It seemed
that at a meeting he had gotten his
history mixed and Editor Steward, for
information, asked the scholar a few
questions.
“You are the man who called me
in question the other day,” said Hay-
son to.the Editor, “and I want you
to know that I know my history; Iam
educated.”
“I have discovered that’ replied Mr.
Steward.
“I want you in the future to rever-
ence me, for when I speak it is the
Boston Transcript speaking. Do you
understand?”
“Yes, sir,” answered Editor Steward
to the Boston Transcript. “I like to
reverence men of ability.”
I just looked on, and the Educator
continued up the street, and I am go-
ing to took in the paper to see if the
Louisville police did not give him a
resting place for the night.
I had the pleasure of joining Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Sayles in the cele-
bration of their wedding anniversary.
It was an old Kentucky dinner. I
have known Mrs. Sayles since she was
knee high to a’ Junebug. I will bring
this letter to a stop for this week. 1
feel like I have been’in a cage, and am
out now, and you will hear from me.
If you desire to write to me, send your
letter to 222 North Roman street, New
Orleans, La. I will be there to the A.
M. E. conference.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
THE “RED CAPS” CONTINUE TO
FORGE THEIR WAY TO THE
FRONT IN CHICAGO
The Red Caps of Chicago wish to
announce that, on November 29, the
men of Northwestern, Polk Stree
and Illinois Central stations met anc
organized a Red Cap club, and elected
the following officers:
Sandy W. Trice, of Illinois Central
president,
B. F. Shepherd, of Polk Street
vice-president.
Otho Robinson, of Northwestern
treasurer.
_C. E, Hays, of Polk Street, secre
tary.
Directors: Samuel Harris, Charles
F. Johnson, W. T. Hall, Dr. Charle:
P. Johnson, B. Todd, B. F. Grahm.
Having purchased for their head-
quarters the old Appomattox club, at
3441 Wabash avenue, more recently
‘owned by the Railwaymen’s Interna-
tional Association. Aside from using
the club as an athletic and social cen.
ter for its members and patrons, it i
to be used generally for special lec
turing to the Red Caps along the line:
of proficiency and efficiency.
They will have their grand opening
Friday evening, January 26, in the
auditorium of club house, featuring ar
address by a prominent speaker; alsc
a special musical program by selec
talent.
“UNDERGROUND RAILROAD”
MAN OF SLAVE DAYS
FAME DIES
Richmond, Ind.—The race has lost
one of its best friends in the death
of Major M. M. Lacey, of Fountain
City, recently. He led thousands of
slaves to freedom during the ante-
bellum days and was known as the
shrewdest “underground railroad” con-
ductor in the country.
His opposition to slavery developed
when he was a child living in Foun-
tain City and at the age of 11 years
he is credited with having conducted
his first group of five slaves from the
Ohio River to Canada. It is said that
his brother assisted Eliza Harris, the
original from whom “Uncle Tom's
Cabin” was adopted, across the Ohio
River to Ripley, O., and then to Foun-
tain City.
Levi Coffin’s home was the grand
central station’ of the system and La.
cey’s job was to conduct the slaves
from there to the next station in the
system, It is said that he assisted ap-
proximately 3,000 slaves in their flight
Northward and to freedom.
HE HUGGED HIM
In a Montreal town recently a
colored orchestra was playing at a
very swell white entertainment. A
richly dressed young man and his wife
entered. Attracted by the music he
looked at the band and suddenly said
to his wife, “My God, I believe that
is George.” He left her, walked
quickly to the orchestra stand, gave
‘one look and then the audience was
astounded by secing him rush up to
the blackest man in the bunch, grasp
‘his hand and hugged him. The people
‘thought he was crazy, and it turned
out that he was crazy, crazy with joy
for the black boy was from his old
home in Dayton, Ohio, and they had
spent many years together in school.
HAMPTON STUDENTS HONOR
MEMORY OF DR. B. T.
WASHINGTON
Hampton, Va—The Dunbar Liter-
ary and Debating Society, which is a
student organization at Hampton In-
stitute, recently entertained a large
number of men and women with 2
unique program—“A Booker T-
Washington Evening,” including 2
three-reel_motion-picture film, “Pil-
grimage to Tuskegee,” which gave a
very satisfactory presentation of
every-day life at Tuskegee as well as
a picture of Tuskegee on the occasion
of the unveiling of Charles Keck’s
heroic bronze statue of Dr, Booker
T. Washington.
‘Three Hampton Institute students—
Thomas F. Inge of Charlottesville,
Va., James N. Freeman, Jr,, of Kan-
sas City, Kan, and Wesley D. Elam
of Waverly, Va—spoke interestingly
and forcefully on “Washington at
Hampton,” “Washington at Tuske-
gee,” and “Washington’s Contribution
to the Negro Race.”
To thousands of present-day Negro
students Doctor Washington is 2
spiritual hero who created at Tuske-
gee an institution which is influencing
for good educational thought through-
out the world—a man whom white
and colored leaders delight to honor
for his intelligent and Christian serv-
ice.
Eugene Fields, 3608 South State
‘street, is back in the city from a trip
‘spent at Leavenworth and other cities
in Kansas with relatives and friends
during the Christmas and New Year
‘holidays.
C. W.
HON. SCOTT M. HOGAN
RABBI STEPHEN WISE DEFIES
K. K. K. AT ANNUAL MEET-
ING OF N. A. A. C. P.
Herbert K. Stockton Added to N. A.
A. C. P. Board of Directors
Mary B. Talbert Reports on Work of
Anti-Lynching Crusaders
Phillip G. Peabody Gives $1,000 to
Association
Culminating in a night mass meet-
ing in the town hall, New York City,
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held its annual meeting last evening. In the elections, a new member was added to the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors, Mr. Herbert K. Stockton of the law firm of Haight, Smith, Griffin and Deming, whose brief on the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill was instrumental in procuring a favorable report on the measure by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Branch efforts against segregation in schools in Philadelphia, Boston and elsewhere, and the fight against the Ku Klux Klan and the "Birth of a Nation" film were recited by delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, at the afternoon meeting in the Russell Sage Foundation building.
At the night mass meeting the speakers were Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, Spingarn medallist for 1922 and leader of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; Dan Kelly, a white Texan, who was sent to Kirvin, Texas, by the N. A. A. C. P. to investigate the burning to death of three Negroes; and James Weldon Johnson, who reported on the fight for the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill and asserted a renewed fight for its enactment would be carried on.
Rabbi Wise, in the course of his address, uttered a stinging rebuke and challenge to the Ku Klux Klan, and characterized as discreditable to the American people, the failure of the senate to enact the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill.
"I was warned against coming to this meeting," said Rabbi Wise. "I may say to you that I am indifferent to what any member of the Ku Klux Klan may say about me or about my people. Their hatred is my honor; their dispraise of my people is its coronation."
Rabbi Wise closed his address with an impassioned appeal that colored men, as well as white, continue undaunted the fight against oppression. He said:
foul and fiendish oath to America: "We shall be punished and under and by the law; but lynching portion of any man who lives under the Mrs. Mary B. Wise for the Anti-Lynchman all of their work has out drawing any or distributed and that th
HON. WILLIAM A. CUNNEA For many years law partner of the late Judge Thomas F. Scully and the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Chicago
For many years law partner of the late Judge Thomas F. Scully and the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Chicago
"I come to you tonight as a Jew and a Jewish teacher because I know as few men have had cause to know how injustice hurts, how it galls and how long continued oppression may degrade. I know—without uttering a word of bitterness or of hatred, for I feel none against my oppressors and my people's oppressors—my chief business in life is to move my people to stand erect, to lift their voices to the skies and to know that no matter what the world without may do to them they must keep their souls undefiled.
"I come to you tonight a son and teacher of one of the earliest and oldest races in history who have achieved high culture; I come to you the scion of a race which gave to the western world its Bible, old and new, its patriarchs, its kings, its prophets, its evangelists—the race which gave to the world Abraham and Moses and Elijah and Isaiah and Jesus and John and Paul, the race which gave to the world the things of the spirit by which it lives; and I say to you, members, sons and daughters of the newest, in many senses, of the races who have been suffered to emerge from the darkness, I bid you have courage and fear not. To you I speak the word of Isaiah to my people, 'Fear thou not, my servant; fear thou not, my servant.'
"There shall be a minimum of justice and liberty laid at your door, and on the other hand those Americans who, like you and me, love our country, who believe that America and even-handed justice must be interchangeable terms—we stand with you, we will support you, we will fight with you, lawfully in the American way, not in the lawless way of the lyncher; we will fight with you as men and women until this shame shall have been ended, until lynching shall forever have passed from the vocabulary and the life of the American people.
"And you, sons and daughters of the Negro race, will render a great service, a supreme service, to your and my America if instead of bowing your backs beneath the yoke of this foul and fiendish oppression, you say to America: "We are men; we mean to live as men. Our wrongdoers shall be punished and utterly punished under and by the processes of the law; but lynching shall not be the portion of any man, white or black, who lives under the American skies."
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert announced for the Anti-Lynching Crusaders, that all of their work had been done without drawing any of the funds contributed and that those funds were to
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1923
HON. ADELBERT H. ROBERTS, MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE FROM THE THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, STARTS ON THE WARPATH AFTER THE KU KLUX KLAN, HAS INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING BILL IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF THE LEGISLATURE.
A BILL
For An Act to Amend Sections 56 and 166 of Division 1 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, as amended, and to add Sections 22a, 25b and 56c to Division 1 thereof.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Sections 56 and 166 of Division 1 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, as amended, are amended and Sections 22a, 25b and 56c are added to Division 1 thereof, the amended and added sections to read as follows:
Section 56. Whoever wilfully disturbs the peace and quiet of any neighborhood or family, by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous or offensive carriage, threatening, traducing, quarreling, challenging to fight or fighting, or whoever shall carry concealed weapons, or in a threatening manner display any pistol, knife, slungshot, brass, steel or iron knuckles, or other deadly weapon, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.
However, in case any person being hooded, robed or masked so as to conceal his identity, wilfully disturbs the peace, and quiet of any neighborhood or family as herein provided, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Section 166. Whoever wilfully and without lawful authority forcibly or secretly confines or imprisons any other person within this state against his will, or forcibly carries or sends such person out of the state, or forcibly seizes or confines, or invigles, or kidnaps any other person, with the intent to cause such person to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state against his will, or to cause such person to be sent out of the state against his will, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or both.
be turned over intact and entire to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the anti-lynching campaign.
Before the close of the meeting, Mr. Johnson announced the gift by Mr. Philip Peabody of Boston of $1,000 to the N. A. A. C. P.
COLORED BOARDING SCHOOL
MATRONS STUDY AT
HAMPTON
Physical, Mental, Moral, and Social
Development Is Central Thought
of Three-Week Conference
The Dormitory Is a Training School
By Carrie Alberta Lyford
Director Home-Economic School,
Hampton Institute
Hampton, Va.—Twenty-one colored
women, representing twenty-one
schools in eleven states, recently
spent three weeks in conference at
Hampton Institute, where they studied
problems connected with the care of
young people in boarding schools.
In this group there were three deans of
women, eight matrons of girls' dormitories, one preceptress of a boy's dormitory, five matrons of boarding departments, one laundry matron, and three assistant matrons.
The subjects of the conference covered the entire range of the responsibilities of the matron in educational institutions.
The central thought of the Hampton Institute conference was the physical, mental, moral, and social development of the student and the part that dormitory life plays in this development.
Dormitory management was considered from a business standpoint. Economy in purchase and in care of furnishings was emphasized. Methods of inventorying property and of securing insurance were explained. Business management of the foods department and of the dining rooms was discussed. Desirable correlations between the boarding department and the home-economics department, as well as with the school farm and other departments, were also discussed.
The conference methods included instruction by specialists, reports of present practices, observation, reference readings, and discussion of present-day problems. Free use was made of all the facilities of Hampton Institute. Visits were made in the neighborhood to study community activities in their relation to the development of the students.
In case any person being hooded, robed or masked so as to conceal his identity, violates any of the provisions of this section, he shall be fined not less than $500, nor more than $2,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than 5 years nor more than 14 years or both.
This section shall not extend to a parent taking his or her minor child, unless such parent is deprived of the right to have the custody of such child by the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 22a. Whoever, being hooded, robed or masked so as to conceal his identity, is guilty of an assault or an assault and battery, shall be fined not less that $100 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years or both.
Section 25b. Whoever, being hooded, robed or masked so as to conceal his identity, is guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, instrument or other thing, with an intent to inflict upon the person of another a bodily injury, where the circumstances of the assault show an abandoned and malignant heart, shall subject the offender to a fine not exceeding $2,000 nor less than $1,000 or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Section 56c. Whoever with an evil or wicked purpose appears in any public place hooded, robed or masked so as to conceal his identity, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the county jail, not less than six months nor more than a year, or both.
The above bill hits or strikes the nail right square on its head and by all means each and every member of the legislature should record his vote in favor of assisting Mr. Roberts in placing it on the statute books of the state of Illinois—Editor.
Special committee reports were made on care of girls, care of boys, furnishing of the dormitory, foods, table service, and laundry management
Conference Findings
"The dormitory should be regarded as a training school in which good living habits, high standards of conduct, efficiency in all activities, an appreciation of the value of time, and the ability to co-operate with others are acquired.
"The dress of the girls should be considered as affecting the character of the girls and as setting the standard of the school.
"Good health should be recognized as fundamental to good school work. An adequate diet should be provided. A well-equipped dining room is necessary for the establishment of good eating habits.
"The fundamentals of good social conduct should be practised in every department of school life. Good manners, honesty, fairness, good sportsmanship, and consideration of others should be insisted upon in all intercourse among the students.
"The rooms of the dormitory should all be well lighted and well ventilated and so adequately furnished as to be pleasing in appearance and convenient for living.
"It is desirable to have a well-furnished bedroom for each two girls, which is provided with closet or wardrobe, enough window space for good light and ventilation, shade curtains, and walls, ceiling and floor in good condition. Bathrooms should have an adequate number of showers, toilets and wash basins.
"The woman matron who can be an instructor and a counsellor for the boys, occupies an important place in an institution. She can give them help on questions of personal appearance, conduct, and care of rooms that will make their daily life while in school a valuable training for the future. Personal talks can be given to great advantage. Regular weekly talks that reach the entire group can also be made of interest and value. These talks should cover such subjects as health, self-control, trustworthiness, loyalty, politeness, and table manners."
Conference Personnel
The conference members present included Mrs. R. F. Blocker, Florida Normal and Industrial Institute, St. Augustine, Fla.; Mrs. A. M. Blount, Georgia State Industrial College, Savannah, Ga.; Mrs. Mary C. Booker, Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. R. L. Campbell, Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro, N. C.; Mrs. O. D. Councill.
State College, Orangeburg, S. C.; Mrs. Esther Brown Ewing, Calhoun School, Calhoun, Ala.; Miss Jennie K. Foster, St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, N. C.; Miss Lula J. Gambrell, Benedict College, Columbia, S.; Mrs. W. W. J. Hale, State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. H. E. Harris, Simmons University, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Era V. Hopewell, Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C.; Miss S. Beatrice Johnson, St. Paul's School, Lawrenceville, Va.; Miss Annie E. Kelly, Mississippi Industrial College, Holly Springs, Miss.; Mrs. Viola S. McGhee, Selma University, Selma, Ala.; Miss Rosetta Mason, Penn Normal and Industrial School, Frogmore, S. C.; Mrs. Sophia O. Moore, Fort Valley High and Industrial School, Fort Valley, Ga.; Mrs. Maria J. O'Connell, Morgan College, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Hattie A. Poe, Morris College, Sumter, S. C.; Miss Joanne O. Rayner, Elizabeth City State Normal, Elizabeth City, N. C.; Mrs. Willie D. Rush, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Hortensia R. Wells, Morris Brown University, Atlanta, Ga.
EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE APPEALS AGAINST THE SINGLE HARVARD COLOR LINE
Press Statement by Secretary Trotter Harvard '95, Sent to College Managers
Boston, Mass.—Following the specific rejection of Roscoe C. Bruce, Jr., son of the famous Harvard class orator, as a roofer in the Freshman dormitories at Harvard College because of race, the Secretary of the National Equal Rights League, who graduated from Harvard in 1895 with two degrees and membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, gave out a statement published in the Boston American, protesting this a wrong in principle, a violation of equal rights and of democracy, and a dangerous entering wedge of further color discrimination. The statement, which appealed to the president and governing authorities of Harvard to discontinue this practice, by which Harvard caters to prejudices in far distant states in violation of local law and custom, was sent to President Lowell and the Board of Directors and Overseers.
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY WOMAN'S CLUB
The first meeting of the new year was held at the residence of the president, 3710 Indiana avenue, lately. Dr. Mary F. Waring, vice-president, presided. Interesting remarks and plans for the year were made by the large number of members present. Mrs. Nora Lee spoke of the encouraging outlook for the Stradford Hotel. Mrs. Pearl Ross, late of Monrovia, Liberia, speaker of the day, told in a most interesting manner the work she and her late husband were doing in that far-off land. The meeting, January 17, was held at the home. The program consisted of music, quotations, current events, and reports of the various committees. Several new members were enrolled. Mrs. F. C. Blevins, hostess. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, president. Etta Johnson Jones, Secretary.
THEY ARE ON THE JOB ALL
THE TIME
Police Sergeant John Dohney, who has charge—or, rather, who is on duty in the City Council committee rooms, who always works and sleeps with one eye open, so that no one can put anything over on him, like his associates, Mr. Joseph Byrne and Robert Fleming, junior and senior clerks in the Council committee rooms, are $w^{11}$ liked and very popular with all of the city fathers, and at all times they are courteous—and attentive to all who have any business to transact in the City Council committee rooms.
MANY IN SUBURBS
On last Sunday, despite the cold weather, there were many visitors in Morgan Park visiting with their friends. Among these were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sawyer, who spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Johnson; Miss Willena Ellison, who was the guest of Mrs. J. D. Edwards, 1308 West 109th place.
HOLDS INSTALLATION
Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet avenue, D. G. M. N. G. of Eden Grand District Household of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction, visited Aurora on last Friday evening and held the installation of officers of the household there. The exercises were public and were largely attended.
GOES TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Rev. H. W. Jameson, national grand master of U. B. F. & S. M. T. of the world, after attending the public installation held in the city on January 9, left during the week for southern Illinois much pleased with his trip.
Wm. Washington, owner of the Washington Confectionery, 15 West 36th street, is at Albia, Iowa, and will spend some time with relatives after a long absence.
HON. ADELBERT H. ROBERTS Member of the Legislature of Illinois from the Third Senatorial District, Who Has Started on the Warpath After the Ku Klux Klan.
U. B. F. & S. M. T. IN BIG MEETING
The public installation of U. B. F & S. M. T. was held on Tuesday evening, January 9, at the Union Masonic Hall, 3956 South State street, under the auspices of the Joint Building Association of which J. B. Street is president.
There were about 1,000 members and friends of the organization present at this time to witness the exercises. An exhibition drill was given by the Lily of the Valley drill team, under command of Capt. Shaw. The principal address was made by Rev. H. W. Jameson, national grand master of U. B. F. & S. M. T. of the world. Others who spoke were Dr. E. G. Covington of Bloomington, state medical examiner; J. B. Street; Mesdames Minnie M. Robinson, Lillie Nelson, Lou Ella Young, Eliza Jackson, Katie L. Cosby and Lettie McClain. Officers of U. B. F. were installed by H. D. Smith, past master of Illinois Lodge; S. M. Officers were installed by Mrs. Georgia E. Harding, state grand princess, Beautiful Gates Royal House; Mrs. Ella L. Holmes, past state grand princess; Mrs. Eliza Jackson, past and present Princess Council; Mrs. Jennie E. Lewis, national grand empress of the world. On behalf of the committee, Rev. Jameson, Dr. Covington and B. Street were presented with flowers by M. T. Bailey, secretary of North Star Lodge No. 57. J. B. Street was also presented with a check in behalf of North Star Lodge, of which he is worthy master. Everyone left the hall much inspired by the great work being done by the Joint Building Association.
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME
3256 Rhodes Avenue
The board of directors met early in January. A letter of appreciation from the girls for the wonderful dinner given them by the board on Christmas Day was read.
Plans to extend the activities of the home were made with Dr. Fannie Emanuel, chairman. Fifteen girls were enrolled in the group of girl scouts, with Mrs. Lida Stewart in command. Mrs. Stewart is the only commissioned race woman in the state.
Non-resident girls are cordially invited to join.
Mrs. Belle Roberts, the motherly superintendent, takes a kindly interest in all of the girls and is building up quite a large free employment bureau. The membership roll of regular and associate members is steadily increasing.
Mrs. Clara Johnson, president.
Mrs. Irene B. Moore.
Recording Secretary.
LYNCHING AND STATES'
RIGHTS
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia has expressed disappointment at the failure of Congress to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. In a letter to the N. A. A. C. P. he says:
"The States have had ample opportunity to pass laws for the suppression of this evil, and have failed to take adequate steps. I very much hope that now the States will exercise their rights, but I have little hope that this will be the case. I cannot believe that the Federal Government can long delay taking cognizance of the situation, and indeed I hope they will not. Certain it is that the Federal Government should do something, if the States in the future fail as in the past."
The Bristol (Virginia) Herald-
Illinois from the Third Senatorial on the Warpath After the Ku
Courier, commenting upon the letter, makes the following significant statement:
"Defeat of the Dyer bill left the States free to deal with the lynching evil. It made it incumbent upon the States to justify their rights by putting forth greater efforts to suppress the evil. There are at present no indications that any State is making this effort to justify its rights and convince Congress that it can put down mob lawlessness without Federal assistance. So far as appearances go, what the States insist upon is the right to allow mobs to operate without fear of punishment."
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Mason, Gary, Ind., with their sister, Mrs. Sophy Gibson Andersen, Peoria, III., were holiday guests of their uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Davin. 3710 Indiana avenue.
Mrs. Mason has recently joined her husband to become his law partner. She is a graduate of Harvard university and has been an efficient government employee in the Department of Forestry at Washington, D. C., for a number of years. She is also an active member of the board of directors of the Y. W. C. A. of Washington.
Miss Hallie Q. Brown, president of the National Association of Colored Women; Mrs. Daisy Lampkins, national organizer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. Estelle Davis, state president of Ohio; Miss N. Crutcher, state president of Kentucky; Mrs. Edith Stewart, state president of Illinois, and Mrs. Myrtle Todd Cook, Kansas City, editor of the National Association Notes, were the out-of-town delegates to the Mississippi Valley Industrial Conference, January 5 and 6. They were the recipients of many pleasant club affairs.
Miss Brown put her great educational program before a large number of women. She was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Stewart while in the city.
HOLDING GREAT REVIVAL
One of the greatest revivals ever conducted by a woman is being held at Grant A. M. E. Church, 4600 Evans avenue, by Miss Martha J. Keys of Louisville, Ky. Miss Keys is recognized as one of the greatest evangelists in the connection and during her three weeks' services at the church there have been more than 100 accessions. On Sunday afternoon, January 21, at 3:30, Miss Keys will speak to women only. In the evening, in her farewell address, she will speak on "Heaven." Everyone should hear this woman.
BUSY BUSY
M. T. Bailey, of the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 South State street, has been kept quite busy during the past week in and out of the city looking after matters for clients.
IN THE WEST
Mrs. Lillian Holland, 19 East 31st street, is at Los Angeles, Cal., where she will remain for eight months in search of better health. Mrs. Holland is the daughter of Mrs. Dora Cannon, well known fraternally.
LEAVES FOR CANADA
Thornton Cherry has returned to Chatham, Canada, his home, after spending several pleasant days in the city with his cousin, Archie E. Pinckney, 4114 Calumet avenue.
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