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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Almost Three Hundred and Forty Aldermanic Candidates in the Various Wards Throughout the City, Many of Them Being Good, Bad and Indifferent; Some of Them Never Being Heard of One Hundred Feet Away From Where They Reside, Are Endeavoring to Storm the City Hall and Bust Into the City Council. Owing to the recent sudden downfall of the Thompson political machine which for a long time absolutely ruled or lorded it over this big town from soup to nuts, left many of the Democratic and Republican aldermen who were a live part of the machine, hanging up in the cold air and the result that almost three hundred and forty aldermanic candidates from the various wards are endeavoring to storm the city hall and burst into the city council. Many of them are good, bad and indifferent and many of those would-be aldermen have never been heard of one hundred feet away from where they reside. It does seem to us that the voters residing in the new fifty wards will at this coming election brush politics aside and in every instance vote for the best men to represent them in the city council, for under the new fifty ward plan there will only be one alderman and the voters must be very careful and not elect a block-head nor a dummy to represent them in that important capacity. As stated above, only one alderman can be elected to the City Council from each of the fifty wards and each and every one of the following aldermen expects to be re-elected to it on Tuesday, Feb. 27, from their respective wards: Aldermen John Coughlin, 1st Ward; Louis B. Anderson, Second Ward; Robert R. Jackson, Third Ward; U. S. Schwartz, Fourth Ward; Charles S. Eaton, Fifth Ward; Guy Guernsey, Sixth Ward; Ross A. Woodhull, Seventh Ward; Sheldon W. Grovien and Guy Madderon, Ninth Ward; ERADICATION OF LYNCHING SEEN One-Fourth As Many Victims Now As Thirty Years Ago Area Also Steadily Shrinks Forty Year Record Shows Hopeful Trend, Says Interracial Commission (To the Broad Ax) Atlanta, Ga. (Special)—That the lynching evil is steadily being reduced, both as to numbers and area, and that its eradication is only a matter of years, is the substance of a statement given out by the Commission on Interracial Co-operation as the result of a careful study of the lynching record for the past forty years. During that period, the statement points out, lynchings have occurred in forty-four States, in as many as thirty-three in a single year, (1892), and in an average of twenty-one states a year, whereas in 1921 only thirteen states had lynchings and in 1922 only ten. This indicates that the habit is being gradually pushed off the map. The number of victims also has steadily decreased, with slight variations, from the high mark of 255 in 1892 to 57 last year, the latter figure being only about half the annual average for the forty year period, which was 109. In addition, it is pointed out that there has been a Timothy A. Hogan and John A. Richert, Eleventh Ward;Robert J. Mulcahy, Twelfth Ward;Joseph B. McDonough, Thirteenth Ward;William R. O'Toole, Fourteenth Ward;Thomas F. Byrne, Fifteenth Ward;Scott M. Hogan and Terence F. Moran, Sixteenth Ward;John H. Lyle, Seventeenth Ward;Ben. S. Wilson, Nineteenth Ward;Henry L. Fick, Twentieth Ward;Dennis A. Horan, Twenty-first Ward;Joseph Cepak, Twenty-second Ward;Joseph O. Kostner, Twenty-third Ward;John Powers, Twenty-fifth Ward;John J. Touhy, Twenty-seventh Ward;George M. Maypole, Twenty-eighth Ward;Samuel O. Shaffer, Twenty-ninth Ward;John S. Clark, Thirtieth Ward;Thomas P. Devereux and Stankey S. Walkowiak, Thirty-first Ward;Joseph Higgins Smith, Thirty-second Ward;Edward J. Kaindl, Thirty-fourth Ward;Oscar H. Olsen, Thirty-fifth Ward;John P. Garner, Thirty-seventh Ward;Max Adamowski, Thirty-eighth Ward;Christ A. Jensen, Fortieth Ward;Edward R. Armitage, Forty-first Ward;Charles J. Agnew and Dorsey R. Crowe, Forty-second Ward;Arthur F. Albert and Leo C. Klein, Forty-third Ward;Thomas O. Wallace, Forty-fourth Ward;John Haderlein and Leo M. Brieske, Forty-fifth Ward;Thomas R. Caspers, Forty-seventh Ward;Frank J. Link, Forty-eighth Ward;E. I. Frankhauser, Forty-ninth Ward. Each and every one of the above mentioned aldermen have in the past served the city well and they honestly feel that they are highly deserving of re-election to the City Council. notable decrease in the lynching habit in the states where it still persists. Last year's record represents a decrease of 27 per cent from the forty year annual average of 79 for the same ten states. The figures for certain states where special efforts have been made to curb lynchings are cited as particularly encouraging in their assurance that the habit can be overcome when public sentiment and law unite against it. For example, Alabama with a yearly average of eight lynchings for the forty years, has cut the number to two. Tennessee, with an average of six, had but two last year, and a total of only five in the last four years. Oklahoma and South Carolina, each with an average of four, had but one each in 1922. Louisiana, with an average of nine, has cut the record to three. North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky, each averaging from two to five victims per year for forty years past, had not a single one in 1922. It was pointed out that in several states special legislation has been enacted and found very helpful in curbing lynching, among the most effective measures being a state constabulary under the control of the governor, as in Alabama and Tennessee, and provision for the removal of officers who surrender prisoners to mobs, as in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky and South Carolina. These two measures consistently applied, says the Commission, will make it possible for any state to reduce lynching, to the vanishing point. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923 M. B. Member of the City Council from the Old Fourteenth Ward Who Has Always Had the Courage and the Manhood to Stand Up for His Colored Constituents, Who Is Headed for Re-Election to It from the New Twenty-Eighth Ward. COLORED PEOPLE ASK FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF GARVEY A letter has been made public by a committee of Negroes which urged Attorney General Daugherty to put the Universal Negro Improvement Association and its leader, Marcus Garvey, out of business. It accuses the Negro World of "sedulously and continually seeking to arouse ill-feeling between the races." The letter asks a thorough investigation of the Association and action at once on an indictment against Garvey, charging him with the use of the mails to defraud. In connection with the death of Rev. J. W. H. Eason, a former Garveyite, the letter requests Mr. Daugherty to ascertain whether Eason was assassinated as the result of an interstate conspiracy emanating from New York. It quotes one section of the constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association as follows: "No one shall be received by the potentate and his consort who has been convicted of felony, except such crime or felony was committed in the interest of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Communities League." Those alleged to have signed the latter are Harry H. Pace, John E. Nail, Julia P. Coleman, William Pickens, Chandler Owen, Robert W. Bagnal, George H. Harris. Despite the bad weather condition of the weather on last Sunday, many visitors from the city were in Morgan Park visiting with their friends and overlooking the many sites for sale. Among those seen were Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Glanton, Messrs. William Bell and William Washington. HON. GEORGE M. MAYPOLE KU KLUX KLAN IN THE SOUTH The Columbus, Ohio Dispatch through special correspondence from Washington, D. C., has worked out an elaborate article on Ku Klux Klan in which it describes certain opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in the South as the result of its causing Negroes to migrate. The article reads in part as follows: "By calling his organization the Ku Klux Klan, 'Col.' William J. Simmons, the originator of the new order, capitalized civil war reconstruction sentiment in certain Southern communities. At the outset his Klan appealed to many people who apprehended trouble with colored soldiers returning from the world war. Ideas imbibed abroad made some of the colored men more ambitious socially. White neighbors resented the change in the Negro. In Texas there was "bad blood" between white and colored communities. All of these race animosities helped the Ku Klux Klan campaign in its early stages. Frightened Negroes left Ku Klux Klan States by the thousands. Many of them went to the North and West. Some counties in Georgia were almost depopulated of Negroes." The 1920 census returns indicate plainly the drift of the colored population since the Invisible Empire became a menace. The increase in the Negro population of Georgia from 1900 to 1910 for instance, was 13.7 per cent, whereas from 1910 to 1920 it dropped to 2.5 per cent, far below the increase due. At the beginning of the Ku Klux Movement, Florida was quickly organized and many Negroes frightened or actually mistreated. The increase there from 1900 to 1910 was 33.8 per cent, but that went down to 6.7 per cent from 1910 to 1920. Alabama was Ku Klux ridden for several years. Her Negro population increased 9.8 per cent from 1900 to 1910, but decreased 0.8 per cent from 1910 to 1920. From 1900 to 1910 the Negroes of Mississippi increased 11.2 per cent, but from 1910 to 1920 they decreased 7.4 per cent. In Louisiana the Negroes increased 9.7 per cent, from 1900 to 1910 and decreased 1.9 per cent from 1910 to 1920. The migration of the Negro from a few of the Southern States became so heavy that farmers who depend on them to produce cotton joined a movement to counteract the mischief done by the Ku Klux Klan. In Atlanta a score of preachers conducted a very active campaign against the Klansmen on the ground that their activities were unjust, wicked and harmful to the community and State. This was led by the Rev. Plato T. Durham of Atlanta, a noted Methodist preacher, whose relatives had been connected with the old Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Durham has taken a very bold stand against the Invisible Empire. He has been helped by many descendants of the men of the first Klan, who resent the usurpation. Rev. J. F. Stephens, who for the past twenty-five years has been the leading Baptist preacher at Dry Branch and Macon, Ga., where he is field in the highest esteem, has for the past ten years been a constant subscriber to The Broad Ax, and he swears by it, the same as he swears by his Bible. FORWARD STRIDES MADE BY ALLIED INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORPORATION, SECOND QUARTERLY DIVIDEND DECLARED. Washington, D. C.—That great forward strides are being made by the Allied Industrial Finance Corporation was definitely shown from the reports of the President, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, and the Treasurer, Mr. John R. Hawkins, at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation held at the offices of the Corporation, 1901 Seventh Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. January 30, 1923. The reports of these two officers show that the Corporation has succeeded in having more than one-half of its first offerings of $250,000.00 worth of its stock subscribed for and enough paid in to have warranted the officers of the Corporation to decide that it would enter actively upon its program of giving financial assistance to Negro business enterprises beginning July 1, 1922. Large Amount of Business Handled The wisdom of the decision of the officers to have the Corporation begin active business on July 1, 1922 is shown by the fact that the investments made brought sufficient returns to enable the Directors to declare a quarterly dividend at the rate of eight per cent a year for the period July 1, through September 30, 1922. Upon the showing made according to the books of the Treasurer, the Directors have again voted to declare a second dividend payment at the rate of eight per cent a year for the second quarter October 1, through December 31, 1922. Stockholders Give Enthusiastic Approval to Program pivotal to Program The enthusiastic approval of the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation was evidenced by the re-election of the following men as Directors: Whitefield McKinlay, M. O. Dumas, John R. Hawkins, A. B. Jackson, Emmett J. Scott, A. M. Curtis, and Norman L. McGhee, of Washington, D.C.; S. W. Green, of New Orleans, La. T. H. Kihon, of Princess Anne, Maryland; Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio; E. C. Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa.; R. M. Fowler, Jr., of Atlantic City, New Jersey; J. B. Stubbs and S. G. Elbert, of Wilmington, Delaware. The strength of the Board of Directors was increased by the addition of Dr. George E. Cannon, a prominent physician, of Jersey City, New Jersey, who has taken leadership in many affairs affecting the colored people of New Jersey and the Nation. Vital Need for the Corporation Shown In speaking of the important service which the Allied Industrial Finance Corporation is rendering, Dr. N.A.A.C.P. MONTHLY MEETINGS The regular monthly meeting of the N.A.A.C.P. will be held Sunday, February 18th at 4:00 P. M. at the Chicago University of Music, 3672 S. Michigan Avenue, in celebration of the birthday of Frederick Douglass. Reports will be made by the Executive Secretary. A short musical program will precede the speaking. Attorney Chas. A. Wilson will preside, and the address on Frederick Douglass will be delivered by Dr. Carl. G. Roberts. Members and friends of the Asso- Members and friends of the Associa tion are invited to be present. Scott, the president, in his report to the stockholders stated: "Nothing more vividly indicates the need and necessity for a corporation such as the Allied than the experience which your officers have had in having brought before them so many investments opportunities of a worthy nature which have had to be turned down because all the available funds were already invested. In keeping with the program of the Corporation, the officers and directors have given careful and especial attention to the large number of applications for loans with which the Corporation has been deluged ever since it actively began business. It has been difficult for the officers to sift out just which of the many applications should be favorably acted upon in view of the fact that there have been so many applications from worthy persons and concerns and the funds of the Corporation have never been sufficient to enable the officers to handle even a small part of the applications filed with us. As soon as funds were available in the treasury, all loans that could be provided for were placed." Growth of Corporation Means Greater Assistance for Negro Business Enterprises The above statement from the President of the Allied Industrial Finance Corporation points out in a very definite way just what a concern of this kind can do to assist Negro business enterprises. It is easily seen that when the Corporation has succeeded in placing larger amounts of its stock in the hands of the investing public, it will have at its disposal greater sums with which to give assistance to the many worth while Negro business enterprises, and it will not only be in position to render great service in connection with the economic progress of the race, but it will be able to pay larger dividends and become the great outstanding success which its stockholders are anxious that it shall be. Officers of the Corporation Re-Elected The Board of Directors of the Allied Industrial Finance Corporation met following the meeting of the stockholders and voted unanimously that the following men who had served as officers during the year 1922 be re-elected: Emmett J. Scott, President; A. M. Curtis, Vice President, Whitefield McKinlay, Chairman of the Board of Directors; John R. Hawkins, Treasurer; and Norman L. McGhee, Secretary. Alderman Louis B. Anderson is still confined to his home, 2821 S. Wabash Avenue, with illness. At the present time he is slowly on the mend and expects very shortly to start on his campaign for re-election to the City Council from the Second Ward. T. Arnold Hill, secretary of the Urban League, in this city, has opened up his aldermanic headquarters in the Red Caps Club rooms, 3441 S. Wabash Avenue, and Mr. Hill will make a desperate effort to break into the City Council from the Second Ward THE BROAD AX In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to ... THE BROAD AX $206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, II. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS February 10, 1923 Vol. XXVII No. 21 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at th: Post Office at Chicago 18. Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE MILK OF HUMAN KIND NESS: TO BE POLITE By Dr. M. A. Majors What object has one in view when he says howdy do, or shows certain forms of politeness? A great many people just pass along without any kind of salutation. A kind hearted man or woman always carry smiles fo rthose whom they know, and often for strangers whom they do not know. Some kind of assurance that you are appreciated as somebody is worth a good deal in this age of insincerity and snobbery. A pleasant greeting from friends is added joy to our lives filled with life's vicissitudes. We are living, it seems, in an age of indifference, and people are cold and stern without any reason whatever. Lifting one's hat to a lady is a token regarded as a method of honorable acknowledgment that she is a person with beautiful as well as noble qualities. For a lady to show kindly acknowledgment to a gentleman denotes that he has some sterling qualities. When no one bows to any one, or is not bowed to by any one they have reached a degradation almost without the pale of human respectability. Chicago is cursed with a great host of this kind of human trash. Where no one speaks or has the inclination to show that he or she has a mellow warmth in their hearts they have almost quit being human, and have gravitated to the low level of the brute creation. Always grinning and smiling, and bowing the writer does not mean in setting up the proposition of politeness. Refined and cultivated persons do not have to emphasize it. It is a part of them because it has become their second nature to be cordial and 1930 [Name] HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON Member of the City Council from the Old Secor Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New Third Member of the City Council from the Old Second Ward Who Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New Third Ward. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. Member of the City Council from Be Re-Elected to It from the Member of the City Council from the Old 14th Ward, Who Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New 32nd Ward. agreeable. They do not have to exert themselves or pull themselves up to these desirable qualities of mind and heart. HAMPTON ANNOUNCES ATH LETIC SCHEDULES Bib Track and Field Meet Will Be The brute, the fiend and the human rat does not exist; their's is a miserable lamentation of living. They seek not harmony but discord. They grunt with a gruffness out of tune with goodness, and they have no salvation even among their kind. They are the inventors of slang and they find themselves so far out of tune to decency and human happiness that they set up a new language only to be prostituted as the lamentations of their kind. They exalt in songs to express their wallings, they deport in the dance wreaking with the undulations of the lascivious degenerate to multiply the anomaly of their debased situation. A shrug, a gesture, outstretched or a shake of the hand, a smile, a pleasant look, a nod of the head or a polite bow—these tell the world a story worth while. These bring to the hungry heart surcease of weariness and sorrow, the nectar and honied joys of gracious living, these stimulate, soothe and reassure the gratitude of a noble humanity. Take away the greetings and the polite howdy do from humanity and this old world becomes a lie, and a frost. It is then fit only for the nobodies who represent nothing worthwhile. GIVEN SURPRISE William R. Franks of Lake Forest, Ill., was given a surprise birthday party on Saturday evening, Feb. 3, at the residence of the Baxters, 420 E. 48th place. Among those who enjoyed the evening were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cadwell, Mrs. Cora Franks, M. T. Baile y,Mrs. M. E. Norwood, Mr. and Mrs. H. Liston, E. W. Jackson and Miss L. H. Baxter, who acted as hostess. ```markdown ``` from the Old Second Ward Who from the New Third Ward. HON. JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH HAMPTON ANNOUNCES ATH- LETIC SCHEDULES Bib Track and Field Meet Will Be Held on May 19 By Gideon E. Smith Athletic Coach, Hampton Institute Hampton, Va.—The Hampton In- stitute Championship Track and Field Meet will be held on May 19 at Arm- strong Field. The 220-yard straight- away and the quarter-mile track are being kept in good condition. More space is being prepared for the field events. There were about 150 contestants in the first annual meet. This year a larger number is expected. The following colleges and schools were represented in 1922: Howard University, Virginia Union University, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, St. Paul Normal and Industrial Institute, Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C., Booker T. Washington High School, Norfolk, Va.; Bordentown Manual Training School, Bordentown, N. J.; Huntington High School, Newport News, aV.; Junior High School, Washington, D. C.; Armstrong High School, Washington, D. C.; Princess Anne Academy, Princess Anne, Md.; Norcom High School, Portsmouth, Va. The two high-jump records of 1922 are still remembered. Cook of Union cleared the bar at 5 feet, 10 inches in the collegiate; Drew of Dunbar, at 5 feet, 8% inches in the scholastic. Feature events for 1923 will be one-mile relays for colleges and high schools. Leading athletes of the country will be present on May 19. The Hampton Institute basketball schedule follows: February 9, Roanoke All-City Five, at Roanoke, Va. February 10, Bluefield Colored Institute, at Bluefield, W. Va.; February 17, Morehouse College, at Hampton; February 22, Lincoln University, at Hampton. The baseball schedule follows: April 13, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, at Petersburg; April 14, Virginia Union University, at Richmond; April 21, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, at Hampton; April 28, Virginia Union University at Hampton. The preliminary football schedule follows: October 20, St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, at Hampton; October 27, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, at Hampton, November 3, Lincoln University, at Lincoln; November 10, Shaw University, at Raleigh; November 17, Howard University, at Hampton; November 29, Virginia Union University, at Richmond. LINCOLN STATE BANK CON- TINUES TO FORGE ITS WAY TO THE FRONT None of the banks on the South Side and in fact, in any other section of the city, show any greater increase in deposits than the Lincoln State Bank. For at the close of business, December 29, 1922, its gain in deposits amounted to $148,463.63, which speaks volumes for the Lincoln State Bank and its conservative management. Hon. George F. Leibrandt; its president, freely predicts that good times and prosperity is right here to stay for a long time. S. A. T. Watkins, supreme attorney for the K. of P. throughout the United States, has returned to the city from the South where he spent some time on business. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923 CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, WHO IS ALWAYS TRAMPING FROM PLACE TO PLACE HAS BEEN ENJOYING THE HOT BATHS AT HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. Hot Springs, Arkansas.—I wish you could have been down here to have seen them dedicate the Pythian Temple, or the Pythian Sanitarium and Bathhouse, erected, and remodeled by the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, and if there is to be found any more world, just include it, for this organization is as big as the world and from their contribution to heaven and hell, their borders have been greatly extended. I want to take off my hat, my head and my skull, to that wonderful leader of men, Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, from New Orleans, who is one of the greatest diplomats in America, and a man who can bring things to pass. He is a boy in size, but honey, that little body is all brains, and doing brains at that. I came all the way here to see what they were going to do. for I had heard so much talk about that wonderful building, and its fineness, and I have just seen all for myself. $389,000 in a building owned by us, erected by us. We had our architect, we had Windham Brothers as contractors, and they belong to us, and all the workmen belonged to us, and I have never seen a building with so much work, and marble work at that. But then we are advancing with the age, and you must not be surprised at any thing that happens to us now these days. I had the pleasure of reaching town on time to see what was going on, and I called over the hello box to converse with Mrs. Elrene Phord-Falconer, the young woman who made her mark as a writer of that thing you call shorthand stenography or sometimes else. She can reach up and get the words as they fall out of your lips and put them on paper, as fast as they can fall out. But when she met William H. Falconer his words instead of falling on paper, fell in her heart, and they grew there until one day there was a wedding march to the tune, and a preacher was there and representing God, he said "What God hath joined together let no human being, or any other kind of being put part except it be God." Now, they started the journey of life together. The first of their marriage life was spent in Ohio, some other part of it in Memphis, Tenn. and now he is the inspector of agents and organizations of the Woodmen of Union, and I will tell you about this organization later. Now then, the day of the dedication and the laying of the cornerstone, the people came from all directions. Supreme Worthy Counselor of Calanthe, Ernest G. Tidrington was on hand, and acted as master of ceremonies. He made one more telling address. He was there to hold up the right business hand of Supreme Chancellor Green. These two men are working side by side, one of the Knights and the other, over the Calanthe. Tidrington is indeed a fine man and he has the confidence of the women of this country. They all understand him and they are willing to follow his lead. He acted as Master of ceremonies, while Dr. C. M. Wade, the man who pointed out the possibilities of the Knight of the Knights, and showed him how important it was to invest in something in this place so near hell that the water comes up out of the earth already hot and ready to the cooling, but it will cure disease and keep you that much longer out of the hot place and keep your tongue from burning up, so you will be able to cry for mercy. Dr. Wade is a wonderful character and a valuable man in the order. His real value to the race is not known now and may not be until he crosses over. He has served well in his day and I am real proud of him. There was music and it was real sho nuf music, and then came the dedicatory address by the sire, by the acrobat, by the great orator of the race, by the entertainer from entertainersville, Colonel Roscoe Conklin Simmons, from Chicago, or I should have said U. W. A. He was in his glory and made a characteristic address. I will be glad to tell you about this but space will not allow me. We have it, and you can go just as soon as it is completed which will be in March as I see it now. I had the pleasure of dipping in this hell hot water in the Woodmen of Union bath house and hospital. Now you put it down that I told you that this is one more organization, and John L. Webb, has put it on the map and it is here to stay. Do you know John L. Webb? He is the supreme custodian, which other people call supreme secretary and treasurer; then he is the treasurer of the National Negro Business League—he is an architect, he is a business genius and he is just showing to the world how well he can do business in the same old stand. I think I will just take my next letter and talk to you about this organization. This is the one I told you that William H. Falconer is connected with, and they have one more fine bathhouse and hospital, and all the members with ailments are permitted to come to this place and go in the hospital, get medicinal treatment, get the baths, and get cured all free of charge. They have none but first-class doctors to attend you, none but first class nurses, and I will tell you upon my honor that them fellows down in the bathhouse know what to do with you when they get their hands on you. I am proud to tell you all this, and then I met a young friend of mine here. W. R. DeLyles, who is the son of Dr. P. W. DeLyles, but he is making his own name. He has been made by the Lord the husband of a wife, and he is a proud husband at that. He won the heart and hands of Miss Anna Mae Amous, a charming young woman, and now he is in charge of the department of manual training in the highschool here. He is doing well. Now, I have met people here from all over the world, and I want to pay my respects to them. Frank Warring is here, Dr. A. D. Wesley, of Chicago, and E. B. Barco, of Boston, Mass. Mr. Barco is the grand chancellor of Mass. He is the man who has put Pythianism on the map in Mass. He made a hit here in this town. But I have in mind a star from Chicago who is certainly shining down here in Arkansas, and I am sure you will know her and will be delighted to know that things are going her way and she is making a hit. We people up in Chicago or you people like to know that Chicago is on top. This is Mrs. Lou Elia Lyles Smith, the sweet soprano singer. She vies with the birds when she goes way up yonder, so high that you look for the bird. When she was making one of those runs the other day the hundreds of people who crowded in the hall, and I think that was said to be 997 of them were just so still that you could hear yourself breathe. She is a versatile artist, one of the finest in America, and the people are just calling for her down here and she is making good, believe me, honey. I am proud that I had the pleasure of hearing her. She is her own business manager, her own private secretary, her own maid and she is scattering sunshine into the hearts of the people of Arkansas. I am sure you will rejoice to know that about her. Information comes to me today that Bishop Charles Spencer Smith, of Detroit, Mich., has passed into the great beyond. He was one of the landmarks. One by one they are passing out. Will the young man of today measure up to the standard? Now stop and think. Answer if you can do so. There is a man who stood alone in many things. Now let me turn attention to shutting this letter up, for my mouth is about to jump out of my heart. I think the devil has spoken. He is angry, because they have had a little snow down here and he thinks that will meddle with his hot business. The National Race Congress will meet in Washington, D. C., May 2, and you are invited to be there. We are going to plan for 1924, for the man who will not stand by me and mine has no business with my franchise. I am going to tell you something after the meeting of this Congress, and I am going to tell our friend, President Warren G. Harding a few things also. I will bring this letter to a stop until the next time. IMPROVING Mrs. Jennie Blunt, 3726 Federal st., who has been confined to her home several months on account of severe illness, is improving, but unable to be out. Mrs. Blunt is past treasurer of Ruth Temple No. 72, S. M. T. William H. Clark, who has for many years been one of the prominent members of Olivet Baptist church, has after a great deal of hard study on his part, been admitted to the bar in this city, and he now has the right to practice law in all the courts in Illinois. Mr. Clark has opened up law offices corner 31st Street and Indiana Avenue and he is meeting with success right from the very start. HON U. S. SCHWARTZ NEGRO MIGRATION SLOWING DOWN The New York Journal of Commerce expects a large cotton crop during next season and looks forward to the return of many Negro tenants to the farms and cotton fields, which they abandoned two years ago. Many of them, according to this authority, went to the turpentine and saw mill sections of the Southern states where they commanded a fair wage and were able to secure work throughout the year. Particularly is a banner crop anticipated in Georgia, and the bordering section of South Carolina. The ravages of the boll weevil are held responsible for the difficulties with the cotton crop which resulted in Negroes leaving. The Southern Negro is supposed to be very reluctant about giving up altogether the culture of cotton and is refusing to do so when the opportunity again, of cultivating cotton, offers itself. Those who have been apprehensive about labor on the cotton farms because of the exodus have lost sight of the fact that the cotton field is where the majority of Southern Negroes were raised and it is an exceedingly hard thing to make a man who has been trained for generations in a particular line give it up entirely because of adverse circumstances. But now science is supposed to have discovered a remedy against the boll weevil and it is thought that its culture will again become profitable to the tenants. The Negro tenants upon whom the South has depended for its crop. The Johnstown, Pa. Democrat, however, suggests that the boll weevil is not the only reason why the Negroes have left the farms and why it would be difficult to get them to go back in large numbers. Of all the reasons given, according to this journal, the real one is "the offer of living wages made by labor agents from the North." It continues that there are greater opportunities in the South for the Negro than there have M. C. H. THE LATE IMMORTAL, FREDERICK DOUGLASS On Wednesday, February 14, His 106th Birthday Anniversary Will Be Celebrated by the Colored People Throughout the United States. By His Matchless Oratory and Bulldog Determination He Accomplished More Than Any Other Individual on Earth for the Liberation of More Than Four Million Slaves from the House of Bondage. been at any time since the war, but Northern labor agents have turned to the South just as they have turned to Mexico for common labor. Those agents tell the Negro who may be working on the plantation for 60s a day about jobs that pay $3.00 a day and so the Negro starts out. The answer as far as the South is concerned is to make as high a bid as the North is making. If it does not do that and present tendencies continue, it will be the North not the South that will have the Negro problem on its hands. PLEASANT MEETING OFFICERS AND MEMBERS CLUS.TEE CIRCLE Installation of Officers of Cluster Circle No. 37 Ladies of G.A.R. Circle No. 37, Ladies of G.A.K. The installation was done by Past State Presidents accompanied with Past State President and Circle President acting as conductors. Mrs Laura Smith, President; Miss Helen Lattimar, First Vice President; Miss Mildred Wilkite, Second Vice President; Mrs Eliza Holliday, Treasurer; Mrs Millie Heisser, Patriotic Instructor; Bertha L. Hensley, Musician. The program was rendered by the Hi-Art Musical and Dramatic Club. Solo by Miss S. McCarter, accompanied by Prof. George. Reading by Mrs. Sarah B. Ozella. Musical Reading by Mrs. Thompkins accompanied by Mrs. Plagie Bland. Solo by Mrs. Trent accompanied by Mrs. Plagie Bland. Reading by Mr. C.W. Powell. These numbers were interspersed with remarks by the visiting comrades, the State President and others. The out-going president, Mrs. Rosa Fouchie, then presented her staff tokens: Mrs. Daisy Cartell presented Mrs. Fouchie with a beautiful pin of the order from the Circle. Tokens were presented the installing officers. Arrangements by Mine. Bertha L Hensley, who takes great pleasure in arranging said program each year. ATTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS, CANDIDATE FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD, IS RUNNING ON THE FOLLOWING PLATFORM. An alderman for the Second Ward should not be selected from personal ambition alone, but for his ability and qualification to represent the people of the ward. The voters should determine this important factor by weighing the past record of every candidate from every angle. They should determine whether or not he is the proper person to be selected as their representative in the Common Council. Therefore, as a candidate for alderman, and should I be elected, I will have a very short and concise platform, which I will carry out, as follows: 1. I will be the alderman of all of the people of the Second Ward. No "bossism" would hinder my official duties. 2. My boss will be the people of the Second Ward, and as their servant I would give them a full day's service for a full day's pay. 3. I will endeavor to improve the sanitary condition of our ward. (a) By visiting the homes of the citizens whenever possible and thus finding out the condition of the premises in which they are living. If said premises are of a dingy, delapidated, and unsanitary condition, I will try to adjust this by co-operating with the Health Department, compelling it to investigate these premises and if proven unsanitary, I will compel the landlord to forwish make the necessary improvement. (b) By inspecting at least once a week every alley and street in our ward and getting first hand knowledge of the condition of same and then from my official capacity compel the superintendent of the ward to keep these alleys and streets clean. (c) By compelling every landlord to furnish, as required by City Ordi- 83 WOMEN DIE AS VICTIMS OF MOB FURY Cruelest Tortures Applied to Them Declares Church Council in Report Washington, D. C.—An alarming number of women have been killed by mobs in the United States in recent years, the Federal Council of Churches declared in a statement. "Since 1889," the council said, "there have been 83 women killed by mobs. Some of them were put to death with savage tortures, such as burning and disembowling." Such brutality, the council declared, might be expected "in pagan times or heathen countries, but by no means in a civilized land today." "The total number of persons lynched by years gives a startling picture of lawlessness, the council said. "There is a slow decrease from the climax in 1892 and 1893 down to 1908. During the latter year and 1909 there was an increase, then another slow decrease until 1918, when a tendency to increase was again manifested." Only four states have never had a lynching, according to the council—Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont. Three states have had no lynchings since 1889—New Jersey, Utah and Connecticut. "Eight other states," the council Eugene T. H. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. HON. CHARLES S. EATON Member of the City Council from the Old Sixth W Will on Tuesday; February 27, Win the Nom Election to It from the New Fifth Ward. Member of the City Council from the Old Sixth Ward and Who Will on Tuesday; February 27, Win the Nomination for Re-Election to It from the New Fifth Ward. Member of the City Council from the Old Sixth Ward and Who Will on Tuesday; February 27, Win the Nomination for Re-Election to It from the New Fifth Ward. PLATFORM nance, ash cans and garbage cans; that the garbage and refuse might be kept secluded. (d) By establishing a ward office at some central location in the ward where I can be reached by every individual of the ward, if so desired. 4. I believe that our ward has become the cess pool of vice and this condition should be eradicated. As the alderman of the Second Ward I will personally investigate the moral status of the ward, endeavoring to ascertain the true condition and to make our ward a respectable and morally clean place in which to live. 5. On the floor of the Council I will be the leader of the citizens of the Second Ward, ever scrutinize the vicious, prejudicial and unwarranted attacks made on my race in every part of the city. 6. I believe there should be a central spot in the Second Ward set aside as a playground; combined with this a public library should be established where the children during their vacation periods from school could go for recreation. 7. We should have a Fire Company from pipemen to captain controlled throughout by race men located in the Second Ward. If I am alderman I will use every effort to establish such a Company. 8. I believe that there should be no discrimination shown at public places of amusement such as parks, bathing beaches, theatres, etc., on account of race, creed, or color. If elected, I shall see that our people are protected in these rights. 9. I further believe that rents should be in proportion to the value of the property, and accordingly I shall use my official capacity to bring rents to a reasonable adjustment between owner and tenant, as I fully believe that poor people are paying too high rents for services rendered. said, "have had a clear record during the last ten years. They are Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Delaware and Pennsylvania. "This means that only 33 per cent of the states have not had a lynching in the last ten years." REV. BAILEY VISITS CITY Rev. S. E. Bailey of Yakima, Washington, presiding elder of The Puget Sound District of The A.M.E. Conference, was in the city during the week and spent one day as the guest of his cousin, M. T. Bailey of 3638 State Street whom he had not met for many years. Rev. Bailey was enroute to Roxboro, N. C., his home town, to spend two or three days with his parents after fourteen years of absence, prior to attending the Bishops Council meeting to be held at Charleston, S. C., on the 15th. While in the city, Rev. Bailey visited many enterprises conducted by members of the Race among them were the plant of The Chicago Defender, offices of The Liberty Life Insurance Company, The Douglas National Bank, The Binga State Bank and the Pyramid Building & Loan Association. 1 m the Old Sixth Ward and Who 27, Win the Nomination for Re- Fifth Ward. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 10. 1923 ATTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS INTERESTING GRADUATION EXERCISES AT THE COPERNICUS SCHOOL Last Friday morning, highly interesting graduating exercises were held at the Copernicus School, 61st and Throop streets. The parents and friends of the graduates filled the hall, and they all felt very proud over the educational progress which had been made by the boys and girls composing the graduating class of February, 1923, and on Monday morning, past they moved on up into the high schools located in the Englewood district. On that occasion the following program was interestingly rendered: Salute to the Flag; Songs: America the Beautiful (Samuel A. Ward), Starry Night (Charles Gounod)—The Class; Koviston Polka—The Girls; Indian Club Drill—The Boys; Cantata: The Walrus and the Carpenter (P. E. Fletcher)—The Class; Dumbell Drill—The Girls; Pyramids—The Boys; Songs: Hear Us, O Father (G. F. Handel)—The Class; Presentation of Diplomas—Miss Caverno; Songs: The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key), America (Samuel F. Smith)—The Audience; Miriam Simon, Accompanist. The Principal, Miss Caverno, presented the diplomas to the following graduates and, in doing so, highly commended each and every one of them and gave some of them honorable mention for their puctuality, efficiency and good deportment which was one hundred per cent perfect. Class of February, 1923 Marion Alexander. Fredolph Anderson. Carnegie Asberry. Lewis A. H. Caldwell, Jr. Blanche Carlson. Margret Cronin. Alfonso Crusor. Santalia Angelica Falls. Milton Glick. Wadsworth V. Holmes. Milton M. Horn. Lillian L. Johnson. Mary Louise Johnson. Stuart Jones. Mabel Joyner. William Koehn. Helen E. Lund. James H. Nickles. Sudie B. Nixon. Bernard Olson. Joseph Pinckovitch. John W. Robinson. Anna Rubenstein. Mirian Simon. Lillian Smith. Benny Soderberg. Rose Star. William Suskin. Anna Wallack. John Wittgren. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, 6210 S. Elizabeth street, are very happy over the graduation of their daughter, Miss Lillian Smith, who will continue her studies along educational lines at the Lindbloom High School. CLOSES SUCCESSFULLY The Indoor Carnival given from January 23 to 27, inclusive, at the Entertainer's Hall under the auspices of the councils of A. U. K. & D. A. in this city, closed on the date mentioned very successfully. Today's Wise Word The tenderness of a faithful woman is a refuge. It is a port after a storm, the rainbow after a tempest. PHYLLIS Mississippi Day was celebrated by the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club Wednesday, Jan. 31 at the residence of Mrs. R. H. Pleasants, 3155 South Park Avenue. The following program delighted the large audience. Music, Mrs. Ophie B. Wells; Quotations, Members; Current Events, Mrs. Ida H. Lucas, who gave an instructive talk on K. K. K. activities, conditions in Europe and a review of a serial now running in a popular magazine. Mrs. M. B. Block, Chairman of Educational Committee, spoke interestingly on the schools of Meridian, Miss., which was followed by a lively discussion on school conditions in Chicago. Reports of the meeting of the Cook County League of Women's Clubs by Miss Jennie E. Lawrence and the President resulted in the pledging of two filled suit cases to be given to girls from the morals court. Mrs. Fannie Morgan, Mrs. Clara Griffin and Mrs. Pearl McMurray, were appointed to visit the Court of Domestic Relations, the Boy's Court and the Morals Court one day each week. The guests of honor were Mrs. Eva Monroe, founder of the Lincoln Home at Springfield, Ill., and past president of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and Mrs. Altheda Moore, a pioneer club woman of Illinois, now residing in Kansas City, Mo., both made pleasing addresses. Dainty refreshments were served. Miss Jennie E. Lawrence will entertain the club at The Unity Club, 3140 Indiana Ave., Wednesday, February 14, from 2 to 4 P. M. Sighing is a sign of mental anguish. Often over burden soul on mischief bent, You can often guess the reason Why a person filled with treason Is so silent with a heart of discontent. Some obstruction blocks the way of the creature There is evil that is eating out her That is causing you and her to drift apart. You may have the future pictured out so pretty, And may work yourself to death paying debts, You may often feel she's happy That you're her only pappy If you but knew she only has regrets. She's an object of pity, not of censure, You are the fool of course that is blind. You've been object of her jolly Of the farce, and cunning folly Of a woman that's lost the art of being kind. Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. —Francis Bacon. RENO, NEVADA BRANCH N. A. A. C. P. SENDS WHITE GUN- MAN TO PRISON Mrs. Thomas Russell, secretary of the Reno, Nevada branch of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, has reported by letter to the National Office on the successful prosecution of a white man who shot a colored hotel porter in Reno. The report is as follows: On July 7, 1922, a colored hotel porter was shot by a guest over a pass key. After a few days in the hospital the victim recovered. The perpetrator was arrested and released on bonds. At the time of the shooting the local branch hired a lawyer to see that we got a fair deal. We paid this lawyer fifty dollars with the understanding if the perpetrator was set free we would carry the case to the State Supreme Court and pay an additional fee of $100. At the first trial the jury disagreed, ten for conviction and one for acquittal. The second trial was conviction of attempted murder with a sentence of from one to two years in the penitentiary. The jury was out only a short while and were unanimous. They told our lawyer they felt that a white man could not commit such a crime against a colored man in Reno and not be punished. Our lawyer worked very quietly and secured evidence which he gave to the prosecuting attorney and while we would all like to have seen a heavier sentence we feel we have at least let a Southern cracker from Texas (he is from that State) learn we do things a bit different in Nevada than Texas. RECOVERS Miss Mildred McCloyne, 3859 S. State St., secretary of Ruth Temple, No. 72, S.M.T., who has been quite ill for several weeks, has recovered and is able to be out again among her many friends. THE NEGRO RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT TO BECOME A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT The Zoning Commission in its proposed ordinance has changed South Park Avenue from 31st to 35th streets into a commercial district. The Negro neighborhoods in general are pretty well taken care of, being almost throughout apartment district and well served by cross streets devoted to commercial activities. North of 31st street almost the whole section is turned into a commercial district. Cottage Grove Avenue and State Street, Indiana Avenue from 31st to 35th already have a number of commercial enterprises, but South Park from 31st to 35th is almost entirely a residence section. When the widening which is supposed to turn South Park into a continuation of Grand Boulevard takes place the question remains whether the people of Chicago will allow a business wedge to be driven into the colored residential section or whether they will put up a sufficient protest to show the Zoning Commission the necessity of preserving Grand Boulevard as one of the desirable residence streets on the South Side. Hearings have already been given and another is expected soon on this very important subject. To Outward Seeming Oui, that's scaring. Some people with scary terrors are very disgusting, others with great faults are very pleasing—La Roche-foucauld. WOM WHEATLEY AN'S CLUB Visitors are always welcome. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, President. Etta Johnson Jones, Secretary. PITY DECEIVING WOMEN By M. A. Majors Where Custom Rules THE LEGAL AND BUSINESS RECORD OF ATTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS SINCE HE LANDED IN CHICAGO MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO WITHOUT TEN DOLLARS TO HIS NAME. Born in South Carolina in the year 1875 of a poor but ambitious family of fourteen children. At the age of fifteen I entered Benedict College, and stayed for one year only. Inasmuch as my parents were poor, I realized that I would be unable to finish there, so I decided to come North to Chicago for further educational advantages. Having no financial aid whatever from my parents, I worked daily to educate myself for the practice of law. I was compelled to pursue these studies at night. I entered the Antheneum Business College, completed the course in bookkeeping, entered the Illinois College of Law in 1903, and graduated with L.L.B degree in 1906. Was Deputy County Treasurer of Cook County for eight years, thus gaining wide experience regarding the taxation system. This experience is much needed in the City Council. Began the actual practice of Law 1908, retaining office from that time at 184 West Washington Street, in the loop. Have been interested in some of the most important cases pertaining to the progress and protection of my race. In 1911, one Henry Prior was a convict in the penitentiary; he lost the sight of one eye while blasting stone and was pardoned. He thought this wrong could be righted, so after consulting several leading white lawyers he was sent to me by one who had heard of my work. I immediately took his case to the Court of Claims of the State of Illinois, and failing here I went to the State Legislature for relief and after introducing a bill, obtained for the first time in history, the sum of two thousand dollars (2,000.00) for the loss of his eye. Riots of 1919 Took active part in protection of the people, giving aid and comfort at HOLD PUBLIC INSTALLATION The various Households of Ruth of the city of which Mrs. Lou Ella Young is D.G.M.N.G., of Illinois and jurisdiction, held a public installation of officers at the Masonic Hall on January 31st. 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 1901, at the age of eighty-one years. The next longest reign was that of her grandfather, George III, who was on the throne 59 years, though he became hopelessly insane nine years before his death, and his eldest son, afterward George IV, became prince regent. Edward III's reign lasted 50 years and Elizabeth's 44. Bird Overcomes Handicaps. Bird Overcomes Handicaps. The Australian crane, one of the heaviest of known birds, has the smallest wing surface, yet it files the longest and most arduous journeys, and, with the exception of the eagle, rises the highest and sustains itself in the heights longest. THE NEW YORK TIMES M. HON. SCOTT M. HOGAN Member of the City Council, from the old 31s on Tuesday, February 27, be re-elected the new 16th Ward Member of the City Council, from the old 31st Ward, who will on Tuesday, February 27, be re-elected to it from the new 16th Ward Record the risk of my life. After the trouble was over, went into hearing of all cases before the Coroner of Cook County and remained without compensation for forty-two days and twenty-five nights, fighting for the unfortunate. Commendation for my work during this time in the official report of Peter M. Hoffman, Coroner, was as follows: "The Peace and Protective Association of Chicago, and the Cook County Bar Association, colored organizations, were ably represented by Mr. A. L. Williams." Started twenty-six (26) lawsuits against the city of Chicago for damages totaling one hundred twenty-six thousand dollars ($126,000.00). I spent more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for investigations, court costs, stenographers' fees, etc., not including my own time, receiving not one penny from the twenty-six persons whom I represented. I fought for these people three and one-half years and finally on January 19, 1923. I succeeded in closing the long and victorious fight against the city of Chicago—something which was thought to be utterly impossible—and compelled it to pay damages for the outrages, the massacre of innocent members of my race, to the amount of $112,000.00. One of the builders, directors and counsels of the Public Life Insurance Company a Million Dollar $1,000,000) Corporation, the only mixed company in America, having both colored and white people doing business as a unit. This Company gives employment to more than two hundred (200) of our people daily. Have property holdings in Chicago, Michigan and the Dominion of Canada, thus necessitating me to pay a large amount of taxes every year. COLLEGE CLUB MEETS Rust College Club met at the residence of the president, Dr. P. Chas. Downs, on Feb. 1st, and completed all plans for the coming reception to be held on Feb. 22nd at The Chicago College of Music. The Camavallet museum recently received what is said to be the knife of the gullotine used in Paris during the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, and which served to decapitate Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and thousands of others. It was a gift to the museum from a Belgian collector. The relic is said to have been in the possession of the family of Samson, the famous executioner of the French Revolution, for several generations. He is a weak man who cannot twist and weave the threads of his feeling—however fine, however tangled, however strained, or however strong—into the great cable of purpose, by which he lies moored to his life of action. Donald G. Mitchell. THE NEW YORK TIMES from the old 31st Ward, who will 27, be re-elected to it from 316th Ward Business Historic Knife. Purpose. eeatsteeeeere Scans ba ‘into song See ae tars oe Fees, in It puts glowing bealth into i nanan ena an ce ani Staessen QUININE POMADE Ihapsivon trond the beat} lng opines Sree. ety Sears opie donee eee =x. So ne a Sere beware Spee eae ens Seacpeetenececeaer ee es! in, stampe or coin for, gemini bene eres ais pee, eae as aoe SHON rosea Waa EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY ATLANTA, GEORGIA AGENTS, WANTED EVERYWHERE Phone Yards 27 FURNITURE Brass and Wood Beds, Electric Washers, Refrigerators, Stoves, Paint, Oil, Hardware, Linoleum HENRY STUCKART 2515-19 ARCHER AVE. TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1 GEORGE F. HARDING, JR. REAL ESTATE Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments * and Stores to Reat 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago Resources Statement oun and Dicounts. #1436 907-10 (fated endTegreeed ag of pols Boe Gecesieserr res + O11,61488 Sees aie aa Cireits Gay Condition pank’ Building and Annex... 15535048 Pent Sauding Sed ameers: Sttae ts SietEaaee er, Mat ae Total soo esses eee sc RTEOOO uasuiris Close of Capital Stock .....-..-+---8 900,000.00 sees ste scoot EERE - Riker tor ote 8,066.91, Other Lisbilition w.22..22 | (10,417.87 : Total eescyccecveeees HRDTRLARS \ Dec. 29th, 1922 siete 3 sup Book lnvtee. Jou tp evel ee ici Rea \ Peck matenee. Gold Bente — eres Si ors cer x, Boxns in our completely sipped Bagot West Pat or UG net apes th tes natn st Ot ating ira ae ee ee So yee eh Geonce r. tasnaxor, SERSES Wane Vice Prevent SEAnLE cAuPonLan Castle eae Derauinn, ange cual 4 ‘ADDISON E. AVERY, Mer. Bond Dept. rund : OF CHICAGO 4 $ Supervision , JISt and South State Streets Telephone Victory 4500 4 OFFICE TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 6351 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law 204 East 35th Street Chicago Corner Indiana Ave., Second Floor Ree, 3048 Grand Boul. Tel. Douglas 4307 Kindness and Light. Give us to awake with smiles, give us to labor smiling. As the sun light ens the world, so let our loving kind- ness make bright this house of our habitation—Robert Louis Stevenson, Concelt Not of Reat Value. Goncelt may puff a man up for a moment, but never for a long time. It ts a mighty poor substitute for that real knowledge of self which values at actual worth. ‘The world has use for only the genuine article. Essentials for Happiness. ‘The grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, something to love and somethifg to hope for. Wied Veter Veaditiaia Qe ‘Af the blade in the hacksaw breaks two or three inches from the frame, it can still be utilized. Hold the blade in the flame of a blow torch, or other. wise beat it, and while still warm Grill g hole through tt; this can be done with a band vl, The blade can then be replue.d um the adjust- able saw frame, a- it will be ready for use. ‘ Candid Information. Doe (after exam.)—“Don't worry bout your liver trouble, you can live to be se enty years with It. And as te the lealing heart valve, you can carry that around easily until you're eighty, but the kidney disease, that's worse Tell surely bring you to the grave tm aide Of @ year” JAS. B. MeCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary FRANK J. BUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN COAL CO. Telephone Oakland 1550 5100 Federal Street CHICAGO Sheba Bete a fede Bacon es Befen ec hecen fe fec fen fen fenon feces enone fennel anecFececlecbeclnclecteollenteetan Phone Atlantic 2008 Miss Eleanor Gaines Soprano Available for Concerts, Recitals; Ete. 4005 Calumet Avenue, Apt. 2 Chicago, Ill. 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