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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Grand Opening of the Home Office of The Public Life Insurance Company, Was a Notable Event; Mr. Alfred Clover, Its General Manager, or Chairman of Its Board of Directors, Presided Over the Gathering. Many of Its Stockholders Being Present in Their New Home, 1400 West Washington Boulevard. Wednesday evening the Public Life Insurance Company, 1400 W. Washington boulevard, threw open to the public the doors of its new building. The meeting and speaking was held in the marble hall, which held almost two thousand stockholders. All of the head officials of the Public Life Insurance Company were on hand to greet its many friends and stockholders. The large hall was very beautifully decorated for the wonderful and history making occasion, with many rare and beautiful flowers. Mr. Alfred Clover, general manager, presided over the meeting and he never felt so happy in his life before as he did at that very time before starting up the great meeting or gathering. An orchestra played the Star Spangled Banner and everybody stood up and joined in singing that good old song which is so dearly loved by all true Americans. Little Miss La Vergne Hassmann, with the greatest simplicity, sang a lovely solo and then Mr. Clover was introduced as the chairman of the meeting by Hon. George B. Gillespie, one of the leading and most prominent attorneys of Springfield, Ill., who paid a high tribute to Mr. Clover as an honest, upright and straight forward insurance man and he declared that Mr. Clover deserves great credit for building the Public Life Insurance Company up from nothing in the past three of four years until today it stands forth as one of the best and greatest life insurance companies in the United States. As Mr. Clover arose to speak and preside over the wonderful gathering of its many stockholders, for be it remembered that many of its stockholders are colored men and women and they were present and freely mingled with the stockholders of the opposite race and not the slightest attempt on the part of any one was made to draw the "color line"; was CELEBRATE FREDERICK DOUGLASS DAY 1923 Call to Afro-Americans by race organization for another annual observance of birth of famous advocate of full liberty and equality for his race, and of race making a fight for itself. Boston, Mass.-Fellow-Afro-Americans:-At the start of the New Year, your National Equal Rights League extends cordial greetings to all. Stout hearts and steady hands are the needs of our American elements as we face prejudice, proscription and persecution for a race still strong in our native land. The fatal debacle on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, against which the League fought till the last, has left us without any measure of federal legislation, leaving the League to invite, as the old year 1922 closed, officers of the anti-lynching organizations to conference for unity of program against oppression. This, then, is a time for consecration and inspiration. No such tremendous wrongs as oppress so large a nominally free group can ever be mitigated except by the common spirit and concerted action of its own millions from within out. History shows that in all great races or successful loudly greeted by each and every one present and some minutes passed away before he was able to start in to speak. Mr. Clover freely let it be known that those who were the happiest and the proudest moments in his life and as in the future as in the past that he would labor early and late and that with the assistance of its officials and more than seven thousand stockholders that the Public Life Insurance Company would continue for many years to come to travel on the royal road to success and prosperity. He read many letters and telegrams of congratulations from many of his prominent warm friends from all parts of this country, heartily congratulating him over the unbounded and the wonderful success which has followed in the pathway of the Public Life Insurance Company. Mr. Louis Marowetz, president of the Public Life Insurance Company; Mr. J. E. Welch, first vice-president; Mr. A. L. Linder, second vice-president; Mr. Kuhne, third vice-president; Mr. Brundage, the successful contractor who constructed the new building for the Public Life Insurance Company, which costs more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Dr. D. G. Boges, Dr. Wm. F. Schaare, chairman of the medical board of the Public Life Insurance Company; Mr. M. J. St. George, chief counsel; Mr. A. L. Williams, associate counsel and one of its directors who always stands close to Mr. Clover and never fails him; Dr. James R. White, who fought for his country on the battlefields of France with the old Eighth Regiment of Illinois, and Alderman Charles G. Hendricks were among the leading speakers. It is well worth anyone's time to pay a visit to the new home office of the Public Life Insurance Company, for it is one of the finest buildings of its kind in the United States. groups strength for the struggle has come most from the altars of their noble dead in memory's shrines. Fortunately we had in Frederick Douglass heroic personage battling from days of color chattel slavery far into those of greatest color freedom and equal rights. His career represents the whole gamut of our needs in liberty, rights and public privilege. Summoned recollection and recital of his deeds will afford inspiration, while the length, consistency and racial independence of his career invoke conscription for the race fight. So the National Equal Rights League calls upon Afro-Americans in every place to again hold public annual exercises on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1923, in observance of the 106th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, chattel slave, self-freed man, antislavery orator, editor, publisher and advocate on his own account, recruiter of race soldier to kill slavery, adviser to presidents, federal officeholder, U. S. Minister, premier advocate of liberty and rights without regard to race or color. In honesty of respect for Douglass the League asks for a chain of observances by Afro-American bodies or committees, for be it known that Douglass' distinctive contribution to THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURADY, JANUARY 27, 1923 C. W. his race's liberty and history was his breaking away from the larger fight under the leadership of friends outside his race, and leading a fight for and by the race itself, on "its own hook". This principle cost him the most in sacrifice and struggle, and is what his career most stands for after the day he moved to Rochester and established "The North Star". To truly honor him an observance needs be held under organized Afro-American auspices. This historic, this Douglass' principle, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow" which alone will give us "a place in the sun" of full citizenship, or of history, is the foundation stone of the Equal Rights League. Hence we invite formation of branches for this and other race chronicles. For race unity's sake, the League urges an "Equal Rights Committee" everywhere, if not an actual branch league, all to be affiliated with the League in friendly spirit. It suggests all Lincoln Observances be Sunday, February 11, to separate the events. Let Douglass' Day of 1923 mark a movement for more unison, fraternity and handclasp among ourselves as units of this oppressed group. M. A. N. Shaw, President. Wm. Monroe Trotter, Secretary. 34 Cornhill, Boston. Attorney A. L. Williams continues to kick up some dust in his race for the nomination for alderman of the Second Ward, and he and his many friends feel that he will be a winner at the primaries Tuesday, February 27. HON. SCOTT M. HOGAN City Council, from the old 31st day, February 27, be re-elected the new 16th Ward SOCIETY TO SEE NEGRO THEATER OPENING Original Brand of Jazz Dancing Will Serve to Amuse Elite on Jan. 29. The society world will amuse itself with a new kind of jazz very soon—or, rather, with the original brand of jazz. The opening of the Negro Folk Theater, set for Monday evening, January 29, at the Avenue Theater, Indiana avenue and Thirty-first street, is to be attended by scores of the men and women who have occupied boxes at the opera during the current season. The plays which will be given during the weeks following the opening performances include a jazz "Salome," a jazz "Everyman" and dear Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors," all jazzed up with a circus tent scene, a Negro jazz band and many other features to relieve the strain of the classic. A beautiful professional Negro actress, Miss Evelyn Preer, will take the title role in "Salome," the opening performance, which is to be an invitational affair. Professional Negro actors from New York and Chicago are rehearsing for the repertory, one of the men having just arrived from London, where he played a Negro part with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. There's to be lots of fun in all this, with no taint of the highbrow or the over-intellectual about it—just wonderful color and music and laughter. A group of prominent white people and Negroes are sponsoring the season's performances. Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis is most interested, and Prof. Frederick Starr lends his distinguished name to the venture. Sherwood Anderson, the novelist, who is interested wherever there is a promise of gales of fun, is also one of the sponsors. Raymond O'Neil, who has directed plays in America and Europe, and has done some brilliant things in vivid staging, is the director of the company. Tickets for the performances and further information may be obtained from Mrs. Jessie Jones, 102 E. Thirty-fifth street. Douglas 0719. The following prominent society folks will be present at the opening of the Avenue Theater, Indiana avenue and 31st street, Monday evening, Jan. 29, to witness Oscar Wilde's "Salome": Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Cyrus H. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Neilson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis, Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Peterson, and Morton D. Hull. Notable Race Progress in 1922—Better Schools at Center of Program INTERRACIAL COMMISSION ACTIVE Best People of State Cooperate, Including Governor and Other Officials Louisville, Ky.—(Special to The Broad Ax)—Notable progress in the betterment of conditions for colored people and in the improvement of race relations was made in Kentucky last year, according to reports presented at the recent annual meeting in this city of the State Commission on Interracial Cooperation. This Commission is headed by the Governor, and its membership of eighty, half of them THE COLORED PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES REPUDIATE "BACK TO AFRICA" MOVEMENT, SAYS PROFESSOR WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS. "CRISIS" EDITOR DECLARES MARCUS GARVEY AGITATION A PRODUCT OF LOTHROP STODDARD TYPE OF PROPAGANDA, CHARGES GARVEY NEGOTIATED WITH KU KLUX KLAN The bubble of Garveyism is burst in the United States, according to Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of The Crisis," who writes in the February Century Magazine on the "Back to Africa" movement of Marcus Garvey. American Negroes have not joined the Garvey movement in large numbers, asserts Dr. DuBois, and the Garvey movement represents a West Indian rather than an American Negro attempt to deal with the race problem. The Garvey ventures have cost his followers, chiefly from the British Island of Jamaica, to close $1,000,000, estimates Dr. DuBois, of which about $800,000 was lost in the failure of the Black Star Line of steamships. Of the attitude of American Negroes toward the Garvey movement, as of the Booker T. Washington program relinquishing political action, Dr. DuBois writes: "It is no ordinary tribute to American Negro poise and common sense and ability to choose and reject leadership, that neither of these programs has been able to hold them. One of the most singular proofs of this is that the latest support of Garveyism is from the notorious Ku Klux Klan. When Garvey saw his Black Star Line disappear, his West Indian membership fall off, and his American listeners grow increasingly critical, he flew South to consult the Grand Cyclops of the Invisible Empire. Whether the initiative came from him or from the colored, is made up of representative leaders in all lines, including the State Superintendent of Education, who is one of its most sympathetic members. It will be seen, therefore, that it is a most influential body, capable of bringing things to pass. The work is directed by Dr. James Bond, a colored leader of ability and fine spirit, who has had the sympathy and cooperation of the best people of the State. The efforts of the Commission during the past year were largely directed toward better school facilities for Negroes. Remarkable results were attained, including the following: A $125,000 high school addition, a new school, and the improvement of others, in Louisville; a $100,000 high school in Lexington; enlargement of high school at Richmond; new buildings at Mayfield, Jackson, La Grange and other points; participation in proceeds of school bond issues in Bowling Green, Owensboro and Middlesboro; and additional teachers and increased salaries in certain places. The Director was asked by the State Superintendent of Education to outline a program for the betterment of the Negro school system of the State, and suggested the appointment of a colored supervisor, the raising of the State Normal to college grade, and the establishment of a new State Normal Klan is not known, but probably the Klan invited him. They were indeed birds of a feather, believing in titles, fummery, and mumbo-jumbo, and handling much gullible money." Declaring that the Garvey type of agitation is the counterblast to the "white supremacy" propaganda enunciated by Lothrop Stoddard, Dr. Du Bois warns that in both lie the seeds of hate and of war. "Here is Garvey yelling to life, from the black side, a race consciousness which leaps to meet Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard and other worshippers of the great white race. It is symptomatic and portentous. If with a greater and more gitted and efficient Garvey it sometimes blazes to real flame, it means world war and eternal hate and blood. It means the setting of the world clock back a thousand years. And yet the world's Garveys are not solely to blame, but rather every worshipper of race superiority and human inequality. On the other hand, back of all this lurks the quieter, more successful, more insistent, and hopeful fact. Races are living together. They are buying and selling, marrying and rearing children, laughing and crying. They are fighting mobs and lynchers and those that enslave and despise, and they have not yet failed in that fight. Their faith in their ultimate and complete triumph are these homes, this business block, this church, duplicated a hundred thousand times in a nation of twelve million. Here, then, are the two future paths, outlined with a certain sullen dimness in the world's blood-crimson twilight, and yet to be descried easily by those with the seeing hearts. Which path will America choose?" This program was accepted, the first two steps have already been taken, and the third is confidently expected next year. * * * The Director was asked to assist also in locating the eight colored summer Normals and was requested to address them all on the subject of interracial cooperation. He has taken the same message to the principal white colleges of the State and has been heard sympathetically everywhere. Some of these great schools have courses in interracial relations and plans are under way to put such courses in others. * * * Better playground facilities have been secured in Louisville, Mayfield and Jackson, and plans are under way for a municipal swimming pool in Louisville. Legal aid has been extended in certain cases, privilege of membership in the Strawberry Association has been secured for the Negroes of Warren County, a vigorous Health Week campaign was conducted, reaching 60,000 people, and one tense situation which threatened mob violence was cleared up. In addition to the State Interracial Commission, there are about seventy county committees in Kentucky, most of them functioning effectively. The method is that of frank conference and sympathetic cooperation. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to ... THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS January 27, 1923 Vol. XXVIII No. 19 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago. 1H. Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE MOORFIELD STOREYS, THE OVINGTONS AND THE JEWS The "Atlanta Independent" introduces its readers to the year 1923 by almost a whole page of pure rot, "denouncing" the N. A. A. C. P. and all its officers. It misrepresents the colored men and women of the organization, and even tries to insult the voluntary white workers. It roundly cusses Du Bois, Johnson, White and the others, and we do not intend to waste much time on the abuse which the "Independent" heaps upon these colored men; they have been cussed before; they are used to it. During all the thirteen years in which they have been building up the first national power of the American Negro, they have been abused—and some of them before that time even. And the queer thing is, that the cussing and abuse have not done them an accursed bit of good! It is surprising how many plain falsehoods are packed into this single page of the "Independent": 1. That the colored men and women of the organization are controlled and bossed by some white people or other, and that "not a single colored man or woman has or has ever had any voice whatsoever" in its control. 2. That people like Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey are in the Association because they have "color prejudice" and want to keep the Negro down!—As if any white person on earth who had brains enough even to desire to keep the Negro down, would not have too much sense to help the N. A. A. C. P. 3. That some Jews and other white people are making "profits" out of the Association. We would rather believe that the "Independent" was duped by the fellow who sent them this article, than to believe the article expresses the real views of that newspaper. The fellow who wrote the article is without influence in his own community, and the odd thing is, that no editor who knows him, would be willing to accept any kind of contribution from him We could believe that some enemy of the Negro race paid for that page in the "Atlanta Independent" in order to try to insult the few white friends whom the Negro can now count on, and so drive them away from the Negro's cause—If we did not know that almost any worth while enemy of the Negro would have more sense than to take his lies so plain and so ridiculously extreme that nobody would believe them. For example, take that first lie: That Du Bois and other colored men are being "themed" by somebody. are being bossed by the United States at least all of the intelligent colored people of the United States know that about all of the trouble Du Bois ever had in this world, arose from the fact that he will not be "bossed" in any degree either by white groups or colored ones. And it is very poor skill in a liar to cause a man of having the very "virtue" which nearly everybody else has been cussing him nearly all his life for not possessing; namely, the goodness to be "bossed and controlled." And it is much the same with the other colored men of the organization; some of them have left other and easier work because they would not be "owned and controlled." But lie No. 2, is the limit, and suggests to us that perhaps after all, the hired liar meant to cheat those who may have hired him by overdoing the thing, so that nobody could believe it: That Miss Ovington, for example, is --- actuated by "color prejudice" and a desire to hold the Negro down. What a queer Association for any white woman to get into, if she wants to do any harm to the Negro race—what queer books she has written on the subject—and what queer speeches she is always making. Think of it—she attacks the enemies of the Negro race more uncompromisingly than do the Negroes themselves, and certainly more boldly than the "Atlanta Independent" ever dared to do it. In the last ten years she has given more towards the advancement of the American Negro—without reward—than any other person, who has lived in that time; invaluable services, without a cent of pay, with added contributions in cold cash. And as for Moorfield Storey, another white person who must be very queer, if, as the "Independent" states, he means to "profit" by his connection with this Association, has given services that could not have been bought; he has rescued the editor of the "Independent" from residential segregation—from "grandfather clauses"—and while that paper was busy typing its scandalous little page, Moorfield Storey was busy trying to save its editor and all its readers from "pegnage" by pleading the Arkansas Cases before the Supreme Court without a cent of pay. When Storey rescued the "Atlanta Independent" staff from the awful dammation of residential segregation in Georgia, he did not receive from them or from anybody else, even a cent for his expenses from Boston to Washington and back. And, besides this inestimable indirect giving, Moorfield Storey has given into the treasury of the N. A. A. C. P. in cash, more than six thousand dollars. The Association, then, has cost Moorfield Storey more in cash and services than it has cost any other person in their world, and Mary White Ovington has donated more in unpurchasable and devoted services than any other mortal. Perhaps the benevolent liar accused them of making "profits," just in order to give us a good chance to tell how much they have been giving. And lie No. 3, is about the nastiest of all. Why on earth should a Negro newspaper ever strike an attitude of hostility toward Jews? How can the Negro scorn the co-operation of the Jews? The only reason why a goodly number of leaders of the Jewish race can understand the Negro's struggle, is that experience, the only teacher, has made them know what race prejudice is. And one of the most creditable things in human nature is, that some Jews, wealthy and independent, have given the American Negro a lift by their services and their money through the N. A. A. C. P. About the only thing that saves us from disastrous effects of a lying page like that in the "Independent" is, that most of these white people have worked so long and so intimately with colored men and women, that they now know that although some colored folk, like some white folk, are venal, cheap-spirited, short-visioned and untruthful; still there are other kinds of Negroes. That is why the petty insult cannot shake their faith and loyalty nor break their co-operation. It must be said, too, not as a statement of policy nor as a thing valuable in itself, but merely as a fact in contradiction of the falsehood of the "Independent"—The colored element, not the white, controls the destiny of the N. A. A. C. P. The truth of the matter is, that there are not nearly enough white people in it, and it is always a problem how to get more of them more interested. So far, only the most liberal-minded whites can endorse the Association's program, and we know that no "race question" can ever be settled by one race alone. All the races concerned in any interracial matter must get together in some agreement before an abiding settlement can be reached. But meanwhile, the N. A. A. C. P. and the just cause of the American Negro will go forward with or without "The Atlanta Independent." (Signed) William Pickens New York City, January, 1923. N. A. A. C. P. PLACES WREATH ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STATUE At the Benjamin Franklin Memorial Celebration, held recently at Park Row, New York City, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was represented by Robert W. Bagnall, Director of Branches, who in placing a wreath, presented by his organization, said: "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People finds great pleasure in doing honor to the memory of Benjamin Franklin, who in addition to being a great American patriot, philosopher, inventor and diplomat, was also the president of the first society formed in America for the abolition of Slavery. His words to the United States Congress—"Liberty ought to be administered without distinction of color to all descriptions of people, and Congress should promote mercy and justice towards this distressed race"—might well be recalled as a salutary message to America today when sinister masked bands seek to spread denial of opportunity, and when the President of America's most hallowed university manifests a deplorable racial intolerance." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURADY, JANUARY 27, 1923 [Name] One of the Popular Commissioners of Cook County, Who Is Greatly Pleased With the Selection of Judge William E. Dever, by the United Democracy, for Mayor of Chicago, and He Will Assist in Every Way He Possibly Can to Land Him in the City Hall, at the April Election. LYNCHING MUST GO The annual report on lynching released by the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has attracted the same wide attention this year as usual. The Literary Digest sums up the comment by saying that, "Fifty-seven persons were lynched in this country in 1922. The fact that this figure is slightly less than those reported for 1921 and 1920 appeals to most commentators as less important than the report that there were fifty-eight instances in which officers of the law prevented lynching, and ten instances in which convictions carrying penitentiary sentences were secured against lynchers." But these ten convictions were secured in one county. —Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The same old point of view concerning the race problem is reflected by the lynchings which have taken place in the early part of this new year. One paper says, "How a few brutal and degenerate Negroes can and do bring an entire race into disrepute and in a measure justify the supremacy of white rule is shown by the recent events of Rosewood, Florida. The acts of colored desperados caused an uprising that resulted in a sanguinary battle, the burning of the Negro quarters, expulsion from the town, and the drawing of a dead line." The Nation, however, gives a slightly more accurate account of the Rosewood affair. Its issue of January 17th says, "One Negro was murdered because he carried in his wagon a Negro for whom the white mob was hunting. The two white men were shot from a Negro home to which they were setting fire. Next day twelve more Negro homes were burned while a crowd of more than a hundred men—more than Rosewood's entire male white population—looked on, and one Negro, who had gone to his employer for protection, was turned over to a mob which took him to the fresh graves of his mother and brother, killed in the previous fighting, and there shot him in cold blood. There has been no indication that the authorities of Levy County or of the State of Florida were even interested in the fate of these Negroes." The New York World also realizes that the Rosewood affair was inexcusable and quotes the Atlanta Constitution editorial on the murder of a 70 year old Negro man by drunken whites; "If an end is not put to this sort of thing, and if a small element of barbarian groups can disgrace the State by their cold blooded murders and escape punishment, the State will be fortunate if its loss is confined to the blacks who are leaving it; for the menace developed from these unwhipped criminals has become such as to frighten whites as well as blacks." Confirmation of the Constitution's opinion is to be found in the Ku Klux Klan affair in Louisiana where because of the kidnapping and murder of two white men, supposedly by members of the Ku Klux Klan, the National Guard was called out and a searching inquiry is under way. The fundamental of the situation is reached by the Bristol, Connecticut Press when it says, "That terrorism and the rifle are not to be depended on to protect and maintain white dominance grows plainer with passing time for the Negroes themselves can now secure arms and have no scruples against using them. As a solution of the race question force has failed. The equitable adjustment must come through other channels." HON. MAURICE F. KAVANAGH HARVARD AND THE NEGRO AGAIN Harvard is justly accused of creating or at least stimulating race prejudice by its attitude toward prospective students. Without reference to Negro papers which would be expected to present the attitude of the Harvard officials, the white newspapers come out plainly and distinctly in criticism of the president. The New York Globe for instance accuses the president of Harvard University of having done "As much as any man to stimulate race prejudice during the last few months. First his anti-Jewish policy and now his anti-Negro decision aid neither the university nor the country." The president's explanation of the reason why Jews were excluded was the increase of Jewish immigration but the New York Call reminds us, "The immigrant issue is not raised in the case of Harvard barring Negroes. It cannot be. It is a pure instance of race prejudice." The New York Post makes a very significant statement to the effect that the objection to the Negro does not come particularly from the southern students. "Only 18 of the 883 freshmen of last year were from the South. Southern students go to Harvard knowing the traditional New England feeling toward the Negro. If they continue to go, it is because, temporarily at least, they are willing to accept the principle of toleration. The objection that weighs with the Harvard authorities is the objection that comes from narrow-minded Northerners." The New York World goes still further and says, "What there has been at Harvard is a change of soul at the top." The New York Call agrees and continues, "Despite the austerity of Charles W. Eliot, he of the five-foot shelf of classics and the inborn New England aristocracy that was his, Harvard never had a race issue during his presidency. The thought comes to my mind that if Col. Theodore Roosevelt were alive Harvard would not be barring Negroes and Jews from the classrooms. T. R. would bang himself on the front pages of every newspaper in the land with broadsides attacking his alma mater-in a way that would dissolve race and color lines at Harvard and reduce President Lowell to the attitude of an educated jackass." MRS. DAVID M. MANSON SAFELY. ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY The many friends of Mrs. David M. Manson, 4422 Vincennes Ave., were shocked last week when it was learned that she had fallen a victim to the wave of Flu and Pneumonia that is now sweeping the city. For two weeks Mrs. Manson has been lying seriously ill, threatened with Pneumonia, but at this time is said to have safely passed the crisis, and now out of danger. Miss Lucy Manson of Cleveland, io, has been here during the past and will remain until Mrs. Manson has completely regained her usual good health. Hon. Edward D. Green, one of the big politicians of the Second Ward, left the city last evening for Hot Springs, Ark., where he will spend the next ten days. BOY, MAN KILLED, RAISE 1923 AUTO FATALITIES TO 42 Two Reckless Drivers Fined $100 Each Two deaths were added to the roll of automobile casualties Wednesday, bringing the year's total to 42. Jerome G. Steeve Jr., 8 years old, whose father is a prominent Board of Trade operator, living at 342 Park avenue, Highland Park, died in St. Francis hospital after being struck by the automobile owned and driven by Geo. W. Marquardt, retired jeweler of Evan- son. Emil Allison, 3223 Wilson avenue, was arrested by Irving Park police and booked on a charge of man-slaughter following the death of Carl Matson, 50 years old, 5704 North Crawford avenue. Matson was struck at Peterson and Virginia avenues Tuesday night and died in Swedish Covenant hospital. Takes Boy to Hospital Takes Boy to Hospital The Steever boy was struck by Marquardt's automobile in front of 904 Elmwood avenue, Evanston, where he was visiting with his mother. Marquardt, who lives at 930 Ridge avenue, Evanston, conveyed the injured lad to the Evanston hospital and surrendered himself to Evanston police, who ordered his appearance at the inqueust, which was held Thursday morning. Walter Hockelberg, resident of Hammond and driver of the Blue Line bus which killed 6 year old Norma Sporleder of Chicago Heights Tuesday night, was arrested Wednesday night by Hammond police and held pending the coroner's inquiry into the accident. Two Motorists Fined Fines of $100 and costs were assessed against two motorists Wednesday by Municipal court justices before whom they were arraigned on charges of driving while intoxicated and assault with a deadly weapon. Joseph Lieder, 8333 Oglesby avenue, whose car crashed into a heavy truck, was scored severely by Judge Dennis W. Sullivan when it was learned that Lieder was the father of eight children. "A father of eight children should respect the lives of others more than any one else," said Judge Sullivan. "A heavy fine will teach you that booze and gasoline don't mix." Frank Bittner, 1524 West Adams street, received similar punishment when Alexander Cook, 214 West 30th street, in a hearing before Judge Joseph Schulman, asserted that Bittner had driven into a crowd of persons alighting from a Wentworth avenue street car at West 30th street. Boy Injured; Driver Held Rudolph Lema, 7 years old, 1152 Cambridge street, was rescued from possible death by his father, Joseph Lemo, but suffered serious injuries when he was struck by an automobile driven by C. E. Weise, 7617 West 63d street, last night at Larrabee and Division streets. Weise will be arraigned in the Chicago avenue branch of the Municipal court this morning on a charge of assault with an automobile. Cognizance of the increasing number of automobile accidents and the small percentage of financial redress obtained by victims was taken by the council in a resolution introduced Wednesday by Alderman Dorsey R. Crowe. This directed the committee on police and Municipal courts to draft regulations requiring automobile owners to carry indemnity insurance. "More than 10,000 accidents, many of them fatal, result annually in Chicago from operation of automobiles," reads part of the resolution, "and many of the owners of automobiles no not carry indemnity automobile insurance and are not financially responsible, with the result that persons injured or whose property is damaged are unable to collect damages." Alderman Crowe highly deserves to be commended for endeavoring to do something to save the lives of the people of Chicago from being slaughtered by wholesale by half drunken automobile drivers. KLAN STALK INTO CHURCH GET MAN, DRAG HIM AWAY Witness Saw Two Inert Bodies on Truck Bastrope, La.—Louisiana has practically completed its open inquiry into the Ku Klux Klan of Morehouse parish. All that willing witnesses could tell, and all that could be forced from the lips of the sullen, deluded, unwilling ones, has been written into the official records. The interrogations of skillful prosecutors and the administration of the oath have brought forth a picture, a story of what has transpired in this parish. The evidence is to be recapitulated, condensed and abridged now, into a connected account of a carnival of terrorism and of murder, and laid before the grand jury for action. Only one more witness is to be heard, to complete the story of Klux rule in Morehouse parish. This is Leon L. K. Jones of Moselle, Miss., a traveling salesman. Saw Mob with Bodies Mr. Jones was the last man to see the hooded mob late at night with the bodies of Watt Daniel and Richards. His car was broken down in the night of Aug. 24 on a lonely road away up in the thick forest near Lake La Fourche. Mrs. Jones was with him, and as he worked in the dark on his car, he saw, at midnight, the black-hooded terrors pass by going toward the lake. He saw on the back of the truck which has taken so much attention at this hearing—the ownership of which may hang a man—the inert bodies of the two murdered victims. As soon as the hearing opens again, Attorney General Coco will make a statement laying the terrorism and murders at the door of the Ku Klux Klan of Morehouse parish. Calls Klan Menace Gov. J. M. Parker and Attorney General Coco want to lay the case of Morehouse parish and its murders and klan reign before, the American people, they say, in its larger importance. "This thing which has lifted its ugly head in Morehouse parish," says Attorney General Coco. "is a matter of terror, vital importance to all the people of this country.' Two witnesses were heard in the inquiry Thursday. Robt. D. Robinson, a farmer of Morehouse, up near the Arkansas line, told of a whipping he was given by the Ku Klux. It was on Sunday, June 18, 1922. Flog Him in Woods The black veiled, sombre robed "terrors" of Morehouse stalked solemnly into the church in the middle of the hour of worship, dragged him out into the woods, laid him down on the ground, and flogged him and told him to leave the parish and never come back any more. MISS KEYS IN MORGAN PARK Miss Martha J. Keys of Louisville, Ky., one of the greatest women evangelists in the A. M. E. connection, just closed a most successful revival at Grant's A. M. E. Church during which 159 confessions were made and more than $500 raised. Miss Keys is now conducting a two weeks' revival at Rev. Walden's Church in Morgan Park. M. T. Bailey of 3638 S. State St., has spent considerable time during the week along the north shore looking over property. [Name] DR. WALTER N. THOMAS One of the Leading and Most Popular M. D.'s on the South Side, Who Is Always Kept Very Busy in Looking After His Many Patients. One of the Leading and Most Popular M. D.'s on the South Side, Who Is Always Kept Very Busy in Looking After His Many Patients. RED CAPS GRAND OPENING The Red Caps Grand Opening on the evening of January 26, 1923, expects to be one of the events of the season. Through the graces of the President, Mr. Sandy W. Trice, the Honorable George T. Kersey will be the speaker of the evening. The Entertainment Committee will present such talent for the Musical Program as Miss Goldie Guy, pianist, from the Chicago Musical College, Miss Charlotte Page, violinist, of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and Mrs. Gladys Elaine Hoffman one of Chicago's young popular artists will render a selection of popular songs. Mason's Famous Excelsior Trio, Madam Bertha Dickerson Tyre, Dramatic Soprano, Madam Rosemond, Pianoist and Mezzo Sprano, and J. Taylor Brownlow, Basso and Reader. The doors of the Club will be open at nine o'clock P. M., and the officers and members wish not only to see old faces, but new ones as well so that they can see just what we are trying to do, not only for ourselves but for the community at large, so come early, and stay late, and enjoy the jazz of Delaware's Famous Orchestra. W. T. HALL, Chairman Publicity Committee WOMEN'S K. K. K. RAIDS STILL AND CAPTURES 2 MEN Oklahoma City, Okla.-Dressed in flowing blue robes and hoods, with white crosses covering their breasts, the ladies of the Ku Klux Klan began first open activities here Wednesday night by capturing a still in operation in a house four miles south of the city. The raid was spectacular. Twelve women, said to be an auxiliary body of the Ku Klux Klan, slipped quietly out of the city in automobiles, stole up to the house, overpowered two men still operators and held them until local authorities were called. The women made the capture without male aid until the police arrived. The women held the men, according to the police, the four heaviest of the women sitting on them. The prisoners are in the city jail and the still will be used as evidence to convict them. The Ladies of that section of the country are fast becoming real experts in running down the moonshine boys MR. VIRGIL WILLIAMS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD STILL REMAINS IN THE FIGHT Some of the boys and the camp followers and shouters residing in the Second Ward who are always ready and willing to follow or march under the banner of any candidate as long as they can pick up a few dimes in easy money and it is that class of would-be politicians who are contending that Mr. Virgil Williams will soon withdraw from the aldermanic race in that ward in favor of Alderman Louis B. Anderson, but Mr. Williams states that he will stick to the end and that he feels dead sure that he will win the nomination for alderman of the Second Ward. COMING TO CHICAGO Hon. William H. Fields of St. Louis, Mo., who is now on a fraternal trip to Columbus and Dayton. Ohio, will arrive in the city in time to be present at the Indoor Carnival given by A. U. K. & D. or A. on January 24th and 27th at Entertainer's Hall. Hon. Fields is national grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A. SAVES FOR THE SOUTH S. A. T. Watkins, attorney for The Douglas National Bank and the Pyramid Building and Loan Association, supreme attorney for K. of P. left the city during the week on legal business. While away he will visit Hot springs and Little Rock, Ark., and parts of Texas. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE HIGH STEP- PING REGULAR TRAVELING COR- RESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, CONTINUES TO ENJOY HIM- SELF WHILE WENDING HIS WAY THROUGH ALABAMA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE SOUTH. Birmingham, Ala.—Here | am way down in Alabama this week, but it is hard to tell where I will be when you read this letter, for at times I feel like 1 am at the stepping off place, that I have gone to the end of my trail, and soon I must report to our Heavenly Father for my assignment in heaven. ‘Time alone will let you know this, and I hope you will continue to pray for me, to the extent that when the end comes I will be on the right side of the fence and ready. I am getting away from all “cussing” and “cussing” people. The first Sunday after being dis- charged from the doctor, and by Dr. George Cleveland Hall, I spent it in Indianapolis, Ind., sérving the Lord, and this Sunday finds me down here in Alabama. I spent the day as busy as I could be, and went to bed at 2:30 o’Aock in the morning, and just about the time I was dreaming about good things, here comes along a honk, honk honk, and that was Dr. John A. Gregg, tthe president of Wilberforce Univer- sity, who heard that I was in the city, and he came to tote me to Louisville, with him, He got me out of bed, as- sisted me to the dressing business, and then we were in that honk honk, headed for the Pennsylvania stable, where we got on the iron horse, and made it for Louisville. We went right on to the home of William H. Steward, editor of the American Baptist, and he furnished enough for both of us to eat, and the Rev. Dr. Noah Wiliams, pastor of Quinn Chapel, and who is to be the next missionary secretary of the Af- rican Methodist Episcopal church, came with his automobile car carriage and toted us out to Simmons Univer- sity and from there to his home, and to the L. & N. stable where we left for Tuskegee Institute, and I remained right in the city until the next morn- ing and went to Frankfort, Ky., where I had an enjoyable time. Frankfort is the town where they make the laws for Kentucky, and we have some prosperous people there in that man’s town. I was able to sec some of them, and some only. I pur- chased some groceries for a man who had been or was sick, sent them over to him, and he did not know the source from which they came. He had just gotten into the church, and was baptized, and said that the Lord had sent them to him, Next found me at Clinton Street High school, and was cordially received by Prof. Spencer Blanton, who got his high up people together and had me to make a few stammering remarks. I was made to feel at home with them. The girls had me to be in their group meeting and there make some remarks, and then I went down to see some of the Frankfort brains. The first was to the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Brooks, but both were out. I met Mrs. Brooks’ father, and exchanged a few words with him about war times, and about the great fish he has caught in his life. He has : 2 ZS ty . a : o - H 4 = rs + 3 HON. ARTHUR C. LUEDER Postmaster of Chicago Who Will Put Up a Red Be Elected.Mayor of This City. si “ Postmaster of Chicago Who Will Put Up « Red Hot Fight To Be Elected, Mayor of This City. caught all except a whale and if you crowd him right close he can tell you a few whale stories, for he knows the fishing business to the extent that you can class him a college fish graduate. They call him “Uncle Jesse Hocker,” and he is one of the old timers in Frankfort—in fact one of the pillars of the city. Then I called on the Ellis girls. This is an interesting family. Three girls. Miss Mary Charles Ellis is the senior of the family. She is cultured and refined, but she selected the do- mestic life, and in this connection she has been almost all over the world. She is with the blue blood of Ken- tucky, and they have plenty of money. Miss Mary Charles has saved her money, and she has a neat little bank account right now, and has put a fine home at the disposal of the others. She took the old homestead, and made it over. A “fine two-story building, and all the improvements. Miss Marie Ellis, is the teacher, and she is a good teacher. She is not a great big woman, but she is large in brains, large in intellect and culture. She has been teaching a little bit. Then comes her sister. You will be- lieve me when I tell you that she is the housekeeper, and she knows that business. She is also a scholar. They call her Clint. In the house I met Mrs. Brown, Miss Salina Mayo, the laughter of Prof. William H. Mayo, the man who put the Frankfort (Ky.) high school on the map, and failed in health. Miss Mayo is one of the finest domestic science teachers in this coun- try, and she is doing good work in the schools there. I was delighted to see her, and to meet others. Then over in South Frankfort, to eat some catings, at the home of Prof. Spencer Blanton. He was glad to have me. His wife was sick, but that remark- able servant of the people, Miss Mar- tha E, Williams, had finished her work in the school room and went over and cooked the meal assisted by a young woman, Speaking of Miss Williams, she is known the world over so to speak, as “Sonnie” and this is what she is called by her friends. She is a’ very young woman, but was in the organization of the Frankfort public schools in 1882, I. think. She was one of the first teachers and she is indeed a won- derful woman with a wonderful mind, and never too busy to serve the old people. She is a woman of service. At night I went to church where they were conducting a revival meeting. It was a nice stay in Frankfort, and I returned to Louisvile, and will not talk about that, for I made it to Nashville, and found Dr. Julian C. Caldwell waiting at the top of the steps to tote me over to the Millie E. Hale hos- Pita} to see Dr. Hale. He was glad to see me, and invited me to be pres- ent the next morning to an operation. Now about Dr. J. C. Caldwell. He rendered a wonderful service to his veople when he was secretary of the Allen Christian Endeavor League in THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURADY, JANUARY 27, 1923 this tountry, and they are calling for him fo return to that work. He made a wonderful official, and was a source of inspiration t the young people. I think the next general conference will return him, for they are sadly in need of a good man. I do not say anything about the present secretary for he is serving the best he can and” should have credit, but his can is not up to the now. Before I could get into the operat- ing room I had a call from President McKinzie, inviting me to speak to my young people. The young men and women from all parts of the country, who wanted to see me. Dr, McKinzie is a great educator and he is rendering such great service to our young people here, and there. You know Fisk University and for what it has stood for lo the many years. You know President Cravath ‘and for what he stood. You know of the famous Fisk Jubilee singers, and then you know of many of the grad- uates who are filling important posi- tions in this country. Pres. John Marques, of Oklahoma state school, was there, and he is a graduate of the school. I wish I could tell you about others. Then to visit Dr. A. M. Townsend, of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist con- vention. Them Baptists are going to erect one more building, and they are working on it daily, pushing it to com- pletion. It was their desire to have it ready by September, but I fear it will not be. I will have to tell you about them in another letter. Met the building committee and heard them go over the plans and specifica- ‘tions, and the contract with the con- tractor. Wonderful is the work being done by thé Baptists of the National ‘Baptist Convention, and I am so proud of Dr. L. K. Williams, the president, and Dr. AJ M. Townsend, secretary of ‘the Publishing Board. They are get- ting out some great literature, and they have two strong Bible men, Dr. J. T. Brown, and Dr. S. N. Vass, and ‘this tells you the kind of literature they are turning out. A trip to Walden University brought ‘me in touch with President Davis and /his strong men and women who are assisting him. 1 will have to talk about it another time, I did not get anything to make me cuss or fume at the mouth, so I am just going right along. I am here writing this letter in the home of one of the most re- markable women of the race, Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle. I have had some- thing to say about her before, and will talk about her another time. She is at the head of the Calanthe. Look out for my other letter. You must get ready for heaven, and then get-ready for some of the big summer meetings which are to follow. 1 will have to talk to you about them. CHARLES E. STUMP. Historic Knife. ‘The Camavalet museum recently re celved what Is said to be the knife of the guillotine used in Paris during the French Revolution and the subse quent Reign of Terror, and which served to decapitate Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and thousands ef others. It was a gift to the mu seum from @ Belgian collector. The relic is said to have been in the pos session of the fumily of Samson, the famous executioner of the French Rew elution, for several generations. Victoria's Record Reign, Queen Victoria's was the longest reign in English history. It lasted 68 years. She ascended the throne in 1837 and died in 190i, at the age of eighty-one years, The next longest reign was that of her grandfather, George III, who was on the throne 50 years, though he became hopelessly insane nine years before his death, and his eldest son, afterward George IV, became prince regent. Edward I's reign lasted 50 years and Eliza- beth's 44. Darkness Was Night to Chickens. Chickeus are sensible the world around. Over in Australia and New Zealand, not long ago, they went to roost when a total eclipse of the sun came on. The eclipse started in the forenoon, and it doubtless seemed a short working day to the mystified opuitry. Theirs not to question why. however. theirs but to go to rest as well-behaved and healthy. fowls had been accustomed ever to do. Reasons for Architect. Whether~it be the bullding of @ modest home or the latest mastodon of the hotel world, the American ar chitect is the ideal supervisor for the Job. Artistic yet practical, farseeing but thorough, unprejudiced and faith ful to his employer, he is skilled in everything but the manner of building ap his own bank account—Cleveland News-Leader. An Essay on Frogs. ‘The Chicago bourd of education hae caused @ classic essay to he immortal ized in type. It’s about frogs and was written by a young Norwegian. The essay: “What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he stand he sit, al- most. When he hop he fly, almost, He ain't got no sense, hardly. He ain't got no tall hardly, elther. When he sit he sit on what he ain't got, almost.” Figured Wood for Furniture, From the very earliest days of fur niture, through the Middle ages, to the present ‘ine fizured wood for fur. giture has found favor. First Loncon Bridge, ‘The first stone bridge over the ‘Thames at London was completed in 1209 and built with rows of houses forming a street. On it stood the chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury. ‘The present bridge, about one hun- dred feet farther up the river, was designed by John Rennie and built by his sons in 182581; length 928 feet, width 65 feet, 56 feet above the river. America’s Pi» Lines, At one time or anol \er almost every barrel of ofl producer in the United States * ivels throust a pipeline. The flow of oll in the fifty thousand miles of pipe line never stops. Different grades of oll are separated from one another by “headers.” which are merely partitions of water three feet Jong. Scheie the Cine” Robert's father has an office with all equipments a modern office has. Robert has been told their different fuses. When he came home from school after being in the second class, he sald: “Daddy, 1 think our school must be an old-fashioned one, It makes you do your adding by hand.” Useful Flycatchers. Flycatchers are gray birds. ‘They always perch on the tips of twigs, for their food consists of gnats. Watch one sweep out gracefully, selze an in- sect that {s next to invisible to our eyes, then soar gracefully back to the perch. You can tell a flycatcher by his flight if by nothing else. Presence. I should be sorely afrald to live my Ufe withont God's presence, but to feel he is by my side just now as much as you are, that is the very Joy of my heart.—Tennyson. A Fine G. G. R. C. Motto. “Make the most of the small Joys ont of life and they will pave the way to greater, Grasp every opportunity to help another, and your helpfulness will increase."—Our Dumb Animals. esd Quai ene ees Although phosphorus was discovered by Brandt in 1669 and exhibited to Charles IL as “a wonder of nature,” fr was not until 1834 that it was first used in the manufacture of matches. Real News, Hendline—“Hogs Decline.” That, young students of Journalism, is news, because it is unusual. It is not in the nature of hogs to decline anything. —Boston Transcript. Thought for the Day. Many a man who marries in haste has very little leisure for anything— Duluth Herald. Evening Thines Up. Things are about equal in this world. In a brass band it’s harder to play the piccolo than the bass drum, but it’s harder to carry the drum. Oi Qi Be ‘The Australian crane, one of the heaviest of known birds, has the small- est wing surface, yet it flies the long- est and most arduous journeys, and, with the exception of the éagle, rises the highest end sustains itself in the heights longest. Geing One Better. One of the brightest “stars” in “The Island King” at the Adelphi theater is Nancle Lovat. She sings and acta charmingly. T paid Miss Lovat 0 visit the other evening, and she asked me If I had heard this one.” I hadn't. ‘Two kiddies were engaged in « brag ging match. “My mummy's gone to the shops te pay some bills,” said Joan, proudly. “My mummy doem't have to,” sneered Doris. “The men come to the house for ours.” ‘Here is another of Miss Lovat’s stories. “George!” murmured the girl, as she nestled close to him, “cigars are noth- ing but a habit.” “Yes, and you've now broken one of my habits,” sald the young man, as he sadly withdrew the remains of a Havana from his pocket—London Tit Bits. Siteicattntessd Mikien aaa: Preventing the national forests in California from being defaced with advertising signs, an order recently iscued by the district forester xt San Francigco states that advertising signs in the 17 national forests of Califor- Bla must come down. Advertisements printed on rocks and trees are also to be effaced. According to the regu- lations of the forest service of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, such advertising is prohibited from all national forests without spe- ial permits, which are seldom issued. ‘Allover Lace Gown. ‘The all-over Ince gown seems to be & favorite just now, In white and black as well as various more or less high shades. To give a Ince gown a youthful touch. one designer = many narrow ruffes of chiffon In con- trasting color. four circling the skirt Another Nature Fake. Exchange—The bride's father, bors 2 years ago with long white beard and ~~ -rable mien, Jed her to the ab tar—Raston Frening ‘Transcript. Sees Tiree -Cohiantn- : ‘Telegrams were first sent under the sea by cable in 1850 between England and France. | . ) MADAM N. A. FRANKLIN-McCOY President and Treasurer of the Madam Franklin-McCoy Manu- facturing Company, of Houston, Tex., and Chicago, Ill., She Is One of the Best and Most Successful Business Women im the United States, " | ee st ; Fad ‘ad | : ‘ | 4 r 3 HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON Mayor of Chicago Who Has Tossed His Fighting Hat in the Ring and His Friends Freely Predict That He Will Be Re-elected Netra Rees 7 Sai eee eas mate eee ae 36" oe ai : ems fs een et wa oer ee a ep eR Met ed pate nS yee paiement gears FON (BIRT AO MSS per Ca deus ae Pat e bP Ce oe po ta poguess Ske Sean Ee eg: = ty ati noe ee ecoatene se ee - i at VISITS EVANSTON : Mrs, Lou Ella Young, D. G. M. N. G. of Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction, visited Evanston on last Thursday and installed the officers of the Household there in a public in- stallation. Mrs. Young was accom- panied by Mrs. Parthenia J. Brown, member of Household 44. TO GO TO SOUTH CAROLINA Many ministers from Iowa, Indiana and Ilinois are looking forward to leaving in a large delegation to be present at The Bishops Conference in South Carolina on February 11th. Chinch Bugs Cause Big Loss. Fully $46,000,000 worth of wheat, orn, oats, grain, sorghums and broom corn is destroyed annually by chinch bugs. which can withstand most cll-| matic conditions, fungous diseases and parasitic enemies. To Outward Seeming. Some people with great merit are very disgusting, others with great faults are very pleasing.—La Roche foucauld. Save ef Gheiteindeinn. | Mountaineering. for its own sake, 1s compa tively recent. Mont Blane, 15,781 feet high, was first ascended in 1786, and at that time writers had only expressions of horror for the attempt. Purpose. He is a weak man who cannot twist and weave the threads of his feeling— however fine, however tangled, .how- ‘ever strained, or however strong—into the great cable of purpose, by which he lies moored to his life of action— Donald G. Mitchell. : Today's Wise Word. ‘The tenderness of a faithful woman fsa refuge. It is a port after a storm, the rainbow after n teipest. Vy selon potie teenie ea ie Sas sesleniinegety eta Rea ae sees A eae ge rns PR he at eta iakieid Sate eee cee Re ce ns MRS. McCALL BETTER) Mrs. Sarah McCall, 3739 Elmwood Ave, is some better after being quite ill for several days. Mrs. McCall is the sister of Mrs. Eliza Jackson and is well known fraternally. MRS. LUCAS IMPROVED Mrs. Nicy Lucas, 1630 W. Wauseca Place, Morgan Park, is much improved and able to be out again after being Quite ill for some time. MRS. KILLION ILL Mrs. Louise Killion of 3142 Calumet Ave., is quite ill at Provident Hos- pital. Proper Test of Book. Do not believe that a book {s good, ff in re-“ing it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if ft does not aronse in thee most gener ous feelings —Lavater Where Custom Rules. Men commonly think according te thelr inclinations, speak according te their learning and Imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. ~Francis Bacon, ae ‘Those who think selfishness the short cut to Joy, find when they have gone as far as it will take them, that Joy Ik as for off nu ever —Exchange. Ever Think of That? ‘What's"the use of being an expert? ‘The faster a horse can run, the more they handicap him. Dissecting the Grumbler. Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usuak ly chronie—Donglas Jerrold. Speech and Knowledac_ Day unto day uttereth speech, and aight unto night shweth knowledge. 3 Ser te a ee ee eet ee eee Bees es BS ty) ee e Ae 5 toe ore ey SR eg ee aoe : ne A iia ie eye se Mees A ts Bate... eee eae aS ek Sy ree ih eS | REISE 25: code gigi Seren AES Soh OES ate eo Fino ees s te Ree races 5 set NERS Re eset Se ete a eh nara he eee ‘ 2 ae ee A puzzling feature about color bling ness is that many persons so afflicted are exnerts at matching colors, The Cat in Olden Times, Cats are supposed to have been first domesticated by the Egyptians; but the Greeks and Romans do not seem te have cared gnuch for them. Center of Human Hair Industry. Antwerp, Belgium, is the center of the human hair industry. Raw hair and Chinese hair, which has been bleached, dyed and prepared, is used in the manufacture of women’s hair nets. Hickory In Great Demand. ‘The weight of & piece of hickory te the best indication of its strength. 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