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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Hon. Edward R. Litsinger, Hon. Arthur C. Lueder, Judge Bernard P. Barasa, Hon Arthur M. Millard, Are All Hustling for the Republican Nomination for Mayor of Chicago, and With the Primaries Just a Short Distance Over the Hill, It Seems Very Hard or Difficult for Any One of Them to Bring Forth Enough of Snap or Ginger, to Wake the Voters Up. Not in many years has the political condition been as bad or as cloudy or as doubtful among the Republican politicians as it is at the present time, for the rank and file of the Grand Old Party as well as well as its high priests right now do not know whether they are afoot or horseback and this is the state of affairs as they exist within ten days of the all important primaries. Looking at it from all sides, it does seem that Mayor William Hale Thompson, by running up the white flag and tossing the sponge in the ring and running out from under his vast army of white and colored camp followers, shouters and retainers who have been eating at the public crib for lo these many years, has made it utterly impossible for any Republican to be elected mayor of Chicago at the present time. The four Republican candidates seeking that high and honorable office or position, namely, Hon. C. Edward R. Litsinger, Hon. Arthur C. Lueder, Judge Bernard P. Barasa and Hon. Arthur M. Millard, who is one of the highest Masons in Chicago, are all having a very hard time of it in getting the Republican voters woke up to the importance of getting in line and raising old Ned for them between now and Tuesday, Feb. 27. Col. Noble B. Judah, Jr., has become campaign manager for Mr. Litsinger with headquarters in the Hotel Morrison and Col. Judah expects to be able to induce a large number of FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE BY THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WILL BE CELEBRATED Fifty years of service will be celebrated by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of Illinois, February 23d, 24th and 25th, at Champaign. Statesmen, educators and business executives from most of the English-speaking countries have been invited as speakers for this fiftieth anniversary, the first event of its kind ever attempted in the Middle West. Sir James Aikins of Winnipeg, Governor of Manitoba, and one of the foremost lawyers of Canada, will occupy a leading place on the program. Huston Thompson of Washington, member of the Federal Trade Commission, is another who has accepted the invitation. Others who have been invited are Henry Wallace of Washington, Secretary of Agriculture; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York; A. Herbert Gray of Glasgow, Scotland, leader of the Christian Student Movement in Great Britain; Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Harvester Company. W. P. Sidley of Chicago, VicePresident of the Western Electric Company; James L. McConaughey of Galesburg, President of Knox College; Dean R. E. Heilman of the School of Commerce, Northwestern University; Dr. Frank H. Burt, President of the Association College, Chicago, are others who have been extended invitations to appear on the program. Most of these have accepted. the soldiers who gallantly served with him on the bloody battlefields of France to fall in line for Mr. Litsinger, thereby enabling him to make a ten strike and home run at the primaries. Judge Barasa, who nobly stood by the colored people during the race riots in this city in 1919, who is justly entitled to receive some of their support, believes in home rule for Chicago and Judge Barasa is also in favor of light wines and beer for home consumption. He has opened up his headquarters in the Briggs House, where at all times he will be highly delighted to meet his large army of loyal friends. Mr. Millard holds forth at the Great Northern Hotel where he can be found all the time warmly grasping his friends by the hand, and he feels confident that all the Masons in this city will vote in favor of his nomination for mayor of Chicago. Hon. Arthur C. Lueder, who is proving himself to be by far the best postmaster that Chicago has ever had, holds noon day meetings at his headquarters in the Hartford Building, Dearborn and Madison streets, and that with many of the big leaders of the Republican party plugging hard for him and with the great majority of the old-time Republicans at his back, that he is bound to be nominated for mayor of this city Tuesday, Feb. 27. The program aims to emphasize the importance of the Y. M. C. A. as a moral influence in the intellectual development of the student. Speakers, student leaders, and former students will hold conferences in addition to a public meeting Friday night, February 23rd, banquets the following night, and a great convocation Sunday night, February 25th. GIVE MAN 7 YEARS ON Forest Garman, 44, was lately sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary by Judge Kavanagh on a serious charge brought by his daughter, Ella, 17, who had been living with him at 4342 Honore street. Garman's wife and nine other children are living in Summit, Ill. The color of a person's skin counts for everything when the person is charged with committing a most revolting crime. If Mr. Forest Garman had by some hook or crook been a colored man who had been convicted for committing a similar crime upon a young white girl the daily newspapers would have double headlined the horrible crime on the front page to beat the band, and some of them would have called on the good white people to assist to mob and lynch the big black brute, but Mr. Garman, being a white gentleman, they could only devote a few lines to the awful crime which he committed on his own daughter, his own flesh and blood.—Editor. 99 Mr. Hull Is a Candidate to Succeed the Late Representative James R. Mann at Washington from the Second Congressional District. He Has Character, Record and Courage. He Is Able and Fair. He Is for All Good Citizens and Against All Bad Ones. Vote for Him at the Primaries February 27. Two years ago when the Hyde Park bombers were spreading terror among intelligent Negro citizens who sought decent homes to live in, Morton D. Hull, then a member of the Constitutional convention, rose up among his neighbors and condemned them for aiding or countenancing such nefarious activities. Mr. Hull is now seeking the support of those intelligent Negro citizens whose interests he at that time defended. After fourteen brilliant years in the state legislature, commended on all sides, he now seeks to represent the Second congressional district at Washington, succeeding the late Representative James R. Mann. In his own words, he wishes to represent the district that begins at 43d street. He has been a friend to Negroes on many occasions, but he refuses to accept the responsibility of going to Washington to represent them specially, or any other group. He is going there to be a fair, square, and efficient legislator. ported attitude of Harvard University in refusing to house Negro students in the freshman dormitories. These dormitories were, as I remember, built for the very purpose of breaking down the distinction of class and kind—and for the democratizing of the student body. The effect of your reported action is the very opposite. It is simply teaching prejudice. It is teaching prejudice where it does not normally exist. For youth is generous. Youth is democratic. Youth knows no distinctions of race or kind until they are taught them. "I hope the report of your action is untrue—but if it is true, then I hope and urge for the good name of the university and the good example it should set that the present course be reconsidered." He has been indorsed by some of the leading colored citizens of the city. Among them are: Alexander Jackson, a personal friend of the candidate; Col. James H. Johnson, Mrs. James W. Lawson, David McGowan, William A. MacIntyre, David Manright and fair play or creed, we hear all voters the canon D. Hull. "Mr. Hull has friended our people He has at innumerously contributed and betterment institutions, such as pital, the Y. M. League and the Home and Aid Sco." "He has never return. We nowunity to show our friendship. He is or clique. He is lawless bombing we had no protection tim to protect our National Congress our political affiliation. Recently when President Lowell of Harvard University startled the country by denying to Negroes the privilege of residence in certain of the university dormitories, Mr. Hull lost no time in asking Mr. Lowell to reconsider, feeling that the latter had made a grave error on the side of prejudice and in contravention of the Harvard tradition. His letter read: "I am greatly disturbed at the re HON. MORTON D. HULL Candidate to Succeed the Late lann at Washington from the S ict. He Has Character, Record and Fair. He Is for All Good Citiz es. Vote for Him at the Primarie ported attitude of Harvard University in refusing to house Negro students in the freshman dormitories. These dormitories were, as I remember, built for the very purpose of breaking down the distinction of class and kind —and for the democratizing of the student body. The effect of your reported action is the very opposite. It is simply teaching prejudice. It is teaching prejudice where it does not normally exist. For youth is generous. Youth is democratic. Youth knows no distinctions of race or kind until they are taught them. "I hope the report of your action is untrue—but if it is true, then I hope and urge for the good name of the university and the good example it should set that the present course be reconsidered." He has been indorsed by some of the leading colored citizens of the city. Among them are: Alexander Jackson, a personal friend of the candidate; Col. James H. Johnson, Mrs. James W. Lawson, David McGowan, William A. MacIntyre, David Manson, Capt. Samuel McGowan, Dr. Bert Anderson, Bishop A. J. Carey, the Rev. W. S. Braddan, Dr. George C. Hall, George Arthur, the Rev. W. D. Cook, Morris Lewis, Robert S. Abbott, Mrs. Jessie Jones, Charles Duke, and Edward H. Morris. Their Indorsement An indorsement issued jointly by these people contained the following: "Because he has always stood for right and fair play regardless of color or creed, we heartily recommend to all voters the candidacy of Hon. Morton D. Hull. "Mr. Hull has for many years befriended our people in various ways. He has at innumerable times generously contributed to our educational and betterment institutions and organizations, such as the Provident Hospital, the Y. M. C. A., the Urban League and the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. "He has never asked any favors in return. We now have our first opportunity to show our appreciation of his friendship. He is tied to no faction or clique. He openly opposed the lawless bombing of our homes, when we had no protection. We can trust tim to protect our just interests in the National Congress. Irrespective of our political affiliations we must support such an able man, qualified by training and long legislative experience to represent all the people of this district. "We earnestly urge you to vote for his nomination February 27, and to advocate his candidacy among your neighbors and friends. We can help ourselves in no better way than to make sure that he will represent us in the 64th congress."—Adv. PRETTY GIRL REIGNED AS "MISTRESS" IN HOME OF SOUTHERN COLONEL. HIGH STATE OFFICIAL RESIGNS UNDER FIRE, AS RESULT OF CLANDESTINE RELATIONS. RALEIGH, N. C.—One of the biggest scandals ever visited upon this state was released late last Sunday night when police officers visited the apartments of Col. A. D. Watts, commissioner of revenue for the state, and discovered there a young colored woman, whom the colonel concealed under a couch in his rooms when the officers arrived. The woman in question came here from Statesville, Col. Watts' home town, and the police suspected that she and the state officer were carrying on illicit relations, clandestinely. Col. Watts and the young woman were placed under arrest upon charges of immoral conduct preferred by the police. Immediately after his arrest the commissioner admitted his relations with the colored woman and tendered his resignation to Governor Morrison. It was accepted by the governor at once. Col. Alston D. Watts has for forty years been a "wheel horse" in Democratic politics in North Carolina. He has taken an important part in every strenuous campaign during that time and has held many important public offices. He is a personal friend and political associate of Gov. Morrison. In the heated campaign to disfrain VISITORS' BOOK AT LINCOLN'S TOMB IS FILLING RAPIDLY Growth in Public Esteem of Emancipator Seen by Friends Springfield, Ill.-The greatly increasing number of visitors to Lincoln's tomb, which on Feb. 12, the 114th anniversary of the emancipator's birth, reached a high mark, indicates, according to Herbert Wells Pay, custodian of the tomb, a remarkable growth of Lincoln here in his own home town. Despite a cold and rainy day, the names of visitors affixed Monday, many of whom came from other states and countries, filled two pages in the large visitors' book at the tomb. Lincoln lovers believe it tells a graphic story of his growth in public estimation. Visitors increased from 30,000 in 1921 to about 60,000 in 1922. In 1907 the book contained 20,000 names, in 1914, 22,000, in 1919, 24,000. Many Relics Added An even greater indication of the increasing stature of Lincoln here in his own country, fifty-three years after his death, is to be found in the additions to the Lincoln collections. Two years ago there were about 200 items in the collection of relics and mementoes at the tomb. Today there chise the Negro vote in North Carolina, Col. Watts covered the state, denouncing the Negro and painting sorrid pictures of "social equality" and "Negro domination." The affair has stirred both races in the state to resentment and moved the thinking people to shame. Many of the leading Democratic papers have severely condemned Col. Watts, while others have sought to minimize his offense as being merely a "personal affair." Col. Watts is not the only white gentleman in the southern states who greatly delights to wrap himself up in the arms of his colored "mistress" and spending all of his spare time in her company instead of remaining at his rightful home and making love to his lawfully wedded wife. What the colored man residing south of Mason; and Dixon Line should do, namely, not to look cross eyed at any white woman in that section of the country, save his money and buy a double barreled shotgun and blaze away at white gentlemen who are found or detected in consorting in any manner, shape or form with colored women; for that is the only practical way to separate the two races in the south and settle the so-called "race problem."—Editor. are upwards of 30,000, and the number is growing daily as articles come in from all parts of the country. A similar thing is occurring at Lincoln's home and at the State Historical library, where there is a collection of Lincoln books, documents and pictures said to be the most complete in the world. Those who follow Lincoln lore state he is still the "most living personality" here in his own country. A few years ago a visitor to Springfield, searching for the historic Lincoln places, would have had some difficulty finding them. Today everything he made famous by his presence is properly marked. Statue on Capitol Grounds Until recently there existed no adequate statue of Lincoln here in his own town. Now a majestic bronze figure, depicting the man as he appeared when a citizen of Springfield, stands at the entrance to the capitol grounds. The village of his youth, Old Salem, near Petersburg, has been partly restored. To make the Lincoln picture complete, Springfield is planning a boulevard system, the central scheme of which is to be the Lincoln home, the Lincoln tomb, and the capitol building with its Lincoln Statue. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday fn this city since July 15th, 1899 without missing one single issue. Re ‘puiblicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- festants, Single Taxers, Priests, inf els or anyone else can have their say ax long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. ‘The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose _ platform is broad enough for all, ever ‘laiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Be: Local communications will receive attention. Write only-on one side of the paner. Subscrintions riust be paid in ad- vance. Some Wear eecssvere +118 -s 8200 Six’ Months (£...204.0¢-40+++- $1.00 Aavertising’ rates made known on application. . Address all communication to < THE BROAD AX Gt So. Flizabeth Sty -Chieago, “I Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor * DR. M.A. MAJORS February 17, 1923 Vol. XXVIL No. 22 See ‘entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug ty, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicaye fH Under Act of March 8, 1870 Se NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE RECEIVES $10,000 GIFT AT ANNUAL MEETING Steady increase in the forces making for co-operation between the Negro and white races was emphasized by L. Hollingsworth Wood, Chairman of the National Urban League, at its eleventh annual meeting in the Rus- sell Sage Foundation Buildigg Wed- nesday afternoon. He reported that the year 1922 had been the most im- portant in the history of the Urban League movement which started with a small group in New York spending $2,500 in 1910 and has grown to a national movement with branches in more than forty cities spending more than $250,000 a year. “The greatest handicap to better inter-racial relations has been the in- difference of the great mass of whites and this indifference has been duc largely to the limited knowledge by the whites of Negroes”, said Mr. Wood. “The last few years have shown a new and significant change which has come about through the great migration of Negroes from the South into the industrial centers’ of the East and Middle West and through the attention which has been Drought to inter-racial relations by the exposition of Ku Klux activities, by the Congressional debates on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, by the pub- lic discussion of President Lowells attempt to scrap one of Harvard's most precious traditions and by sim- ilar incidents in which the Negro has figurel in the news. “These incidents have made the great contribution of focussing atten- tion on this matter and for every Member of the City Council from the Old Thirty-Second Ward Who Is Bound to Be Re-Nominated and Re-Elected to It from the New Seventeenth Ward. HON. JOHN H. LYLE Pig gem pe <3 J i x potee co) Member of the City Council from the Old 14th Ward, Who Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New 32nd Ward. person whose predjudices have been fostered there have been many real Americans who have accepted ‘the challenge to our traditions of justice and fair-play and have become aroused ‘to throw their influence with the con- structive forces. “The result has been an increased interest jin and support of the Urban League movement and a like situation of the other forces for co-operatioon, such as the Commission on Inter- racial Relations which is becoming so important an influence in the South, and the activities of the Federal Coun- cil of Churches of Christ in America.” As material evidence of this increas- cd interest, the Urban League an- nounced that four new cities had or- ganized affiliated groups in 1922 and that the income of the national organi- zation had increased $15,000 to a total of $43,486. Announcement was also made that friends of the late Mrs. Harry Plotz, who died in Paris last spring, had raised $10,0000 which had been given to the National Urban League for the establishment of the Ella Sachs Plotz Fund, the income from which is to be devoted “to the development and train- ing of some Negro man or woman especially fitted for social and civic service in the community.” Mrs. Plotz, who was a daughter of Samue ‘Sachs, was an active member of the Urban League Board and a Trustee of Fisk University. Irving S. Merrell, President of the Merrell-Soule Company of Syracuse, and a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and C. C. Spaulding, secretary-treas- urer of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the largest Negro insurance company, were elect- ed to the Executive Board, and among those re-elected for a term of three years were ‘Felix Adler, Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Mrs, Booker T. Washing- HON. JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH ‘THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 ton, William G. Willcox, Miss Nannie Burroughs of Washington and James H. Dillard of Charlottesville, Va. The Officers, including Mr. Wood Chair- man, Dr. Robert R. Moton as Vice- Chairman, William H. Baldwin as Secretary and A. S. Frissell as Treas- urer, were re-elected. The Executive Secretary of the League, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Pre- sented his Annual Report showing the establishment of four new branches of the League, the establishment of a new monthly magazine “OPPOR- TUNITY”, a journal of Negro life, surveys of the Negroes of Hartford and ofthe industrial opportunities of the Negroes in Baltimore, Record of the work in local com- munities was also. presented. NEVAL H. THOMAS PROTESTS AGAINST “MAMMY” STATUE IN WASHINGTON | Neval H. Thomas, member of the Board of Directors of the Naljonal Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has written a letter to the Washington Evening Star, pro- testing against that newspaper's edi- torial endorsement of the plan to erect a memorial to “colored mammies” of the South in the national capital. Mr. Thomas refers to the plan as a “move- ment having for its object to keep col- cored people in their former. state of servitude.” Mr, Thomas, after point- ing out that the measure is sponsored by Senator John Sharp. Williams of Mississippi, continues: “We are glad that the white race appreciates the divine virtues of truth and loyalty which the ‘black mammy’ had, and has in abundance, but it over- looks the other divine virtue that is here, a divine love for her offspring. She bore her sufferings in patience be- cause she believed that through them America’s conscience would quicken and give her children and her chil- dren's children the justice they so richly deserve, My own beloved mother was one of those unfortunates who had the flower of her youth spent in a stave cabin, and I know the heart of a slave mother, its intense longing for better things for her children. “Every ‘black mammy’ who looks down from Heaven today upon this disordered world delights to see her beautiful daughters and granddaugh- ters aspiring and attaining unto the beautiful and the true in spite of their handicaps which the Southern spirit, which proposes this mgnument, throws around them. She loves to see them reading the best in literature, filling positions of usefulness, taking honors at the best universities in the land, and reigning over cultured homes, not as ‘old mammy’ but as dutiful wife and tender mother. “So if the South has such deep gratitude for the virtues of this de- ‘voted group from which it reaped vast riches, let it remove the numberless barriers it bas gone out ofits way to throw up against the progress of the noble Negro womanhood who sprang from these ‘mammies’. Democracy is [the monument which the ‘colored mammy’ wants érected to her, and not ‘marble shaft, which at best will be a symbol’ of our servitude to re- ‘mind white and black alike that the menial callings are our place in the scheme of things.” To the above we say Amen! Amen! |—Editor. : AT ST. LUKE'S, Mrs. Martha Henderson of 10840 Glenroy Ave, is at St. Luke Hospital where she is to undergo an operation io PE ia Boor CHAT, BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED PEO- PLE. SAPECA aareriae DISCO WARY |tncag oes ieee On? 2 By Leo Wiener. Published by Messrs. Innes & Company, Philadel- phia, Pa. Price $5.00 postpaid. This is the second part of a work to be completed in three volumes. Tts thesis 13 a ew one; that Negroes from Africa visited America. before Columbus and left their mark here. This second volume concerns. itself with evidences in America of. African civilization as seen in the introduc- tion of cotton, tobacco and shell money. I wish ‘that I might be able clearly to present Prof. Wiener’s argument, ‘but this is impossible because this aes learned scholar cannot present it clearly himself. His book is for experts who can disentangle salient facts from a mass of evidence, a mass that shows a learning prodigious in its scope. Leo Wiener is professor of Slavic languages at Harvard Univer- sity; and in his first volume, he re- lated his discovery of African influ: ence in America. While working on a comparative grammar of American languages, he came upon a number of 'words that study told him were corrup- tions or adaptations of words used by the Negroes in Africa, especially by the Mandingoes. In this second volume he tells especially of material signs of African influence. There can be little doubt that in some things African in- fluence was exerted before Columbus. Probably the Mandingoes first reached America in the middle of the fifteenth century, with the Portuguese explor- ers. The Mandingoes were a sturdy tribe, and if we look on the map we see that the trip from Western Africa ‘to Northern South America was not an impossible one; though it must have required immense courage to take it in a canoe. I remember see- ing in Norway the open boat, like a large dory, in which the Norseman is reputed to have shade his early discovery of North America. At least the African came over milder waters. That they did come Professor Wie- ser docs not debt) tie auiwe ui, KU KLUX KEAN DESCENDED FROM AFRICA | The Detroit Free Press carried an editorial recently which is worth wide distribution. It is as follows: “It is a matter of common remark that the Ku Klux Klan furnishes an outlet for certain human tendencies that have shown themselves repeat- edly in Ametican history. It is per- haps not so commonly known that similar organizations begin to appear at a very low stage in development of human society, and that ethnolo- gists have studied secret societies in the heart of barbarous Africa that are essentially the same as the Klan, Among the less advanced Bantus, for instance, there are societies which function as governments within the open and tribal governments, The members wear masks, just as the white hooded gentry of this country do, and hold grewsome ceremonies in the jungles which are for all the world like the outdoor mysteries of the Ku Klux. Their ostensible purpose is to maintain law and order, but they de- generate into persecutory and black- mailing gangs. Among the people of the Pacific islands there are or have been similar organizations and the North American and Mexican Indians also had masked secret fraternities. But it is curious that the black African organizations should so close- ly resemble the Ku Klux Klan, In- deed the similarity of the two sug- gests that white men may have ob- tained some of their ideas of the Klan from southern Negroes who retained memories of African clans just ‘as they remembered their native myths and folk stories. Considering their attitude toward the Negro, it is a safe surmise that the brethren of the Klan will not ac- cept this hypothesis gracefully, but whether they do or not, one inference ‘which arises from the widespread na- ture of their institutional” theories among Jow savages cannot be es- caped. The Klan is a throwback, as the breeders say, to a primitive an- cestral state. The Klan carries on as ‘it does, for the same reason the mule, taking after the wild ass of the des- ‘ert, sometimes has stripes on its legs. Putting the matter less figuratively, the Kian is a return to methods which civilization has outgrown as it out- grew nose rings and cannibalism. MUCH IMPROVED Mrs. Sarah R, Benton, 1431 W. 109th Place, Morgan Park, is much improved and as soon as the weather permits will be able to be out after being confined to the house and hds- pital for fourteen seeks. among other things, two pictures, one ‘of an African, another of an Indian, stockade. There is indeed an extraor- ‘dinary. similarity between the two. ‘One is reminded of the interesting chapters in Brawley’s “Social History of the Negro” concerning the close association of Negro and Indian in his coufitry. Wiener has a great deal to say» about tobacco, relating the story of nicotine from very ancient days to the sixteenth century. Tt was brought by the Arabs to the ‘Negroes and they in turn brought if to the Indians, “possibly a century before America’s so-called discovery.” At first tobacco was used only by the priests in their rites. In the wam- pum with which the Indians first traded with the Americans, we again see an African origin. And lest the African become too puffed up with pride at this precedence we would note that Prof. Wiener finds that he got his civilization from the Arabs, those marvelous folk who have been consistently maligned by the Chris- tians through the centuries to today. I have spoken of the learning evi- denced in this book. I counted in the word* index references to 12 Eu- ropean and 9 Asiatic languages, to 13 American and 33 African diajects, and then stopped, not through, only tired. ‘One of my friends, who is a historian, tells me that it is dangerous to base historical research on seeming simi- larity of language and that Wiener is looked upon as somewhat hasty in so doing. He answers this criticism in his preface where he speaks of archeo- logists who “insist upon denying all but the archaelogical evidence and shower upon an objective investiga- tor a veritable deluge of abuse.” We are sympathetic with the “objective investigator” and trust that the Man- dingocs did bring good things to this continent, when they came here of their own free will. Wher the evi- dence is more complete it will be an interesting story for colored children, that of these brave black sailors who dared to cross the Atlantic and who carried thither cotton and tobacco that their descendants, later unwilling- ly dragged here, were to plow and reap. ARTILLERY FIRE CAUSES OF MOST WOUNDS IN WAR™ Figures of Recent Conflict and Civil ‘War Compared Washington, D. (C—Medical rec- ords of the A. E. F. indicate that artil- lery fire was responsible for 70 per cent of the gunshot wounds. In the civil war 90 per cent of the gunshot wounds were from. small arms and grenades. The stitistics are based on a study of 245,790 civil war gunshot wounds records and ,147,651 similar A. E. F. returns. In more than 103,000 civil war cases and in 74883 world war cases, however, the nature of the mis- sil infiicting the wound was not re- corded. Wounds resulting from artillery fire in the civil war are classified as 9 per cent from “shell and cannon ball,” the A. E. F. record showing 46 per cent under the same heading. Under “grape, canister and shrapnel,” how- ever, the A. E. F. shows 24 per cent and civil war records less than 1 per cent. ‘The figures are of interest in con- nection with the designs for new hel- mets for the army. A special study of head and neck wounds in the A. E. F. is mow in progress for such light ‘as it may throw on the question. The present records merely show that 32 per cent of all gunshot wounds ‘overseas were to the upper extremi- ties, 13 per cent to the head, face and neck, 5 per cent to the thorax, 5 per cent to the backbone and spine and § per cent to the abdomen and pelvis. The civil war records follow the same averages to a remarkable degree. EX,SLAVE, 9, WILLS CABIN TO : WHITE FRIEND Fayetteville, N. C—Because “Mr. Willie” never failed him when he needed help, William J. McAlister of Fayetteville, 94, ex-slave, who died last Saturday, made William Fuller of New York, general counsel of the ‘the American Tobacco’ Company, sole heir to his estate, a small cabin and its furnishings, it was learned when ‘McAlister’s will was found. | “My wife, now deceased, belonged to his (Mr, Fuller's) father and mother,” read McAlister's will “When I needed advice Mr. Willie never failed me. He may not need any little home, I pray, but he will know better what to do with it than I, and I want to show my apprecia- tion for what he has done for.me.” Mz. Fuller formerly lived in Fay- ttteville. ke Oe ne ee, | “ Se cede Se oe E 1 oe (ea & a Fe .. oe = i ao a be 2 Pare m 4 | Lae ee fee on oe ee iE te Loe cee j “ wii Soe 4 i a oe % A 3 ee € Sk ee 7 a ~~ ee % Ne Bis ‘ CBA. 8 hogs \ Bi, ha. ee HON U. S. SCHWARTZ Member of the City Council from the Old Third Ward and Who Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New Fourth Ward. SOUTHERN LAW AND ORDER NEGRO PRISONER IN JOLIET COMMISSION KILLED FIGHTING GUARD A suggestion has been made to the| 5, ; governors of 13 southern states that. a eee red —— Seeererolat 2. Soathers Lage ama {it the state penitentiary at Joi, was See ee M¢| shot and killed Tuesday while at siistecneadapion te a ee tacking. one of the guards, The bul- First, to draft a model bill for the| Cun. ht antiter paned ctading ae prevention of lynching; second, to Se-| ‘6+ away, assed through a rod cure its passage in each southern ae apelin’ State legisatares third, to exente pub [204 SHhly wounded ES. Coctang arr eete ee ge | oe eb vm ote ‘a campaign of publicity. The sugges- wr PES ee Ce een cortesn ese | of from three to twenty years imposed ‘operative ‘League tacmeky aus a. in Cook county for robbery, had the the Southern Sociological Congress, a|‘CPutation of being a dangerous pris Social service organisation of the |" Although 42 years old, the rec South. As result of their influence, | OTs show that he has been rep-atedly the commision has actually beew ap. |@isciPlined for infractions of prison wie rales, On a number of occasions be | has been placed in solitary conine- ——— ment for fighting with other prisoners PROPAGANDA IN NEGRO [and attacking guards. CHURCHES LUNs veh Robert Whitaker, a California radi- cal pastor, is the head of a Fellow- ship group and is following a policy of what he calls “peaceful penetra- tion.” He has been preaching from the pulpits of Negro and Japanese churches of Seattle, Wash., as well as in white churches, his méssage stress- ing the necessity of world brother- hood in the church, emphasizing on the economic as against the dogmatic aspects of religion and bringing the church into closer relation with the problems of labor, SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Under the care of Dr. U. G. Dailey, Mrs. Louise Killion of 3142 Calumet Ave., is improving after being dan- gerously ill for several weeks and being under the care of several other doctors and specialists. - —e oe a i 2 ae et ee Sle sel Se HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON Member of the City Council from the Old Secon Will Be Re-bleclod vote Fee the Now Thea Member of the City Council from the Old Second Ward Whe Will Be Re-Elected to It from the New Third Ward. NEGRO PRISONER IN JOLIET KILLED FIGHTING GUARD Edward Douglas, colored, a prisoner in the state penitentiary at Joliet, was shot and killed Tuesday while at- tacking one of the guards. The bul let which killed him, fired from the riffle of another guard standing sixty feet away, passed through his body and slightly wounded E. S. Cochrane, the guard with whom he was fighting. Dougias, who was serving a sentence of from three to twenty years imposed in Cook county for robbery, had the reputation of being a dangerous pris- oner. Although 42 years old, the rec- ords show that he has been rep-atedly disciplined for infractions of prison rules. On a number of occasions he has been placed in solitary confine- ment for fighting with other prisoners and attacking guards. b VISITORS IN SUBURBS ‘There were several visitors from the city in Morgan Park all day last Sunday visiting with their friends, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer, Mesdames Ella M. Blanton and Mary Duncan, who vis- ited Mr. and Mrs. F. W, Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Benton and Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Roberts, TO HOLD MEETING The Virginia Society will meet in its regular monthly meeting om Wednesday evening, Feb. 2ist, at 3638 ¥ State St, Election of officers to be followed by a program. Every Virginian is asked to be out and to bring a friend. M. T. Bailey is presi- dent, J. B. Street, vice-president. J. Member of the City Council from the Old Sixth 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. THE THIRD ANNUAL RECEPTION TO THE MEMBERS AND LADIES OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB Wednesday evening, February 21, the third annual reception to the members and ladies of the Appomattox Club will be held at the Unity Club House, 3140 Indiana avenue. Dancing will follow the reception. The affair will be strictly formal. Cards must be presented at the door. BAILEY OUT OF TOWN M. T. Bailey of 3638 S. State St. spent much of the time during the week between Evanston and Milwaukee, Wis., where he was looking after matters of importance for clients. CHIPS Col. James Miller, who is one of the best known colored Democrats in Chicago, has for the past two weeks COLORED YOUTH TO WED WHITE GIRL Lancaster, Pa.—The marriage clerk here issued an unusual license Monday when Jacob B. Turner, 25 years old, was given a license to wed his step-sister, Miss Ruth Eitnier, of Elizabeth township, a white girl. The mother of the bride-to-be married the bridegroom's father some years ago. RETURN TO MILWAUKEE Mrs. Hattie Fountain of 523 Cherry St., Milwaukee, Wis., left the city for her home after spending some time in the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Payne, 3802 Wabash Ave. Mrs. Fountain was joined by her husband, Herman Fountain, who spent the week-end in the city. BACK HOME George Burns has returned to his home at Topeka, Kansas, after spending much time in the city at the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Louise Killion. Mr. Burns was the guest of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kinney, 3142 Calumet Ave. 1910 [Name] HON. GEORGE M. MAYPOLE Member of the City Council from the Old Four Who Has Always Had the Courage and the Stand Up for His Colored Constituents, Who Re-Election to It from the New Twenty-Eighth 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. m the Old Sixth Ward and Who 27, Win the Nomination for Re Fifth Ward. BAILEY OUT OF TOWN M. T. Bailey of 3038 S. State St. spent much of the time during the week between Evanston and Milwaukee, Wis., where he was looking after matters of importance for clients. Col. James Miller, who is one of the best known colored Democrats in Chicago, has for the past two weeks been seriously ill, at his home, 564 E. 36th place, where he would be pleased to have his many friends call on him. Col. Charles E. Morrison, who has faithfully served as special messenger to Mayor William Hale Thompson, continues to lay low during all this political upheaval and he is sawing wood on qt. Mr. George E. Taylor, who was for some years a prominent figure, in Democratic national politics and who was one of the leading colored citizens of Iowa for some years, and who ran for president of the United States, on the Liberty ticket, in 1904, receiving more than 600,000 votes, lately became the editor and chief of The Sentinel, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Taylor is one of the best, most logical and brilliant editorial writers in this country, and the writer wishes him all the success which can possibly crown him, in his new field of labor. Mrs. Nora E. Lee, 5259 S. Dearborn street, has completely recovered from her recent nervous breakdown and she is again able to transact more business now than she has at any time in the past, as she is now a full fledged member of the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa; joining the Liberian chapter of that order. ```markdown ``` from the Old Fourteenth Ward Courage and the Manhood to constituents, Who Is Headed for New Twenty-Eighth Ward. CHIPS THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 CHARLES E. STUMP, THE OLD TIME REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS HAD ONE ROYAL TIME AT BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. [Name not visible in the image] Auditor of Public Accounts, for the State of Illinois Whose Legions of Warm Friends Are Urging him to Enter the Race for Re-Election to His Present Position in 1924. Auditor of Public Accounts, for the State of Illinois Whose Legions of Warm Friends Are Urging him to Enter the Race for Re-Election to His Present Position in 1924. Baton Rouge, La.—Now here if am right back in Louisiana, but if you will observe this time I am near Governor Parker, and if things go wrong I will just rush myself to the mansion and there ask him to see that I am safe and sound all around, and tell the other fellow to take to the ground. I think God can come down here and help a fellow to live just as well as in other places. I have been going some, and with all my going, I struck more snow and cold in Hot Springs a few days ago than I saw all the time I was in Chicago. They must be trying to freeze the devil out of his hell, but they will have a hard time to do that, for his hot water continues to flow and people are taking baths in it, and I took two of them myself, and got rid of about five pounds of dirt. I told Mr. Devil that he could have all the dirt he could get off of me and take it down to his home, and I would go before God a clean man. I had me one big time in Hot Springs, and the whole time I was there I just kept on praying and I believe that the Lord heard my prayer, and I am now away from Auditor of Public Legions of W for Re-Elect there. I made away to Little Rock, and spent one night with Dr. J. A. Booker, and his family. Dr. Booker is president of the Arkansas. Baptist college, and he declares that it was a source of pleasure to have had me with him. Well we got through, and then I had the pleasure of going out in the country to a chicken eating, but I am not going to say much about that now. Dr. A. M. Townsend, toted me out in his fliver, and fliverated me back. Now you will find that I had an Old Aunt Dolly time down there, and then down through the oil fields of Arkansas, and spent a night with Dr. J. R. Campbell, president of Lampton college. Believe me, honey, it is a big thing to get around these colleges and just see these young people getting education. They dish it out, and strong men and women are doing the work. I just looked at this work, and see how it is growing. Dr. Campbell is one of the leading college presidents in the A. M. E. rank. He has invited me to return to the college at Comencement time and I believe I will do so. I left Alexandria, La., over the Rock Island, and the conductor in charge of that carriage drawn by an iron horse looked at me and called me Uncle. Well I did not know that my father or mother had any white folk's blood in them, but that man wanted me for Uncle, and I told him that I was "Uncle Charles," and was delighted to see him. I told him that I took after my parents and I thought they took after the neighbors. It was all passed off as a joke, and I just rode and rode until I got to the end and took to another road, and all this trying to find my way to Southern University. This is one more great state school and they are doing great work down here educating our boys and girls. The school is just about five miles from Baton Rouge, and I found that Dr. J. S. Clark had sent his automobile car carriage in to meet me, and there was one of the queens of the campus in it to make me welcome to her home. It was the wife of one of the most noted educators in America, Dr. W. D. Thomas, who is an organizer, a first class school room man. Now ask a few words about Dr. Thomas. He is a native of Georgia and got his education from Atlanta University, and then pitt on the finishing touch at some school called Harvard University. Do you know where that is? I have not been in that education school, but they tell me that it is first class, and some one has suggested that they are going to put our people out of it. I hope they will not have that much hell in them. Now when he had gotten through he taught in the State University, and other places, and then took up a course of THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN HON. ANDREW RUSSEL public Accounts, for the State of Warm Friends Are Urging him to tion to His Present Position in 19 medicine coming out as a medicine doctor. But it seems that the Lord wanted him for the school room, and during all this time he won the head, heart, and hand, and even the feet of Miss Edwina Kennedy, a graduate from the Simmons University, Louis- ville, Ky., and one more remarkable woman. She has been a teacher of standing and is right up to the minute, for she is now teaching the ex-service men at the Southern University. She was glad to make me welcome. Now I was in her home, and President J. S. Clark called on me just like he was calling on some big college president, and assured me that he was glad to have me present, and told me to be at home. I assured him that I would be. This was the 6th annual meeting of the Farmers' Conference, and I had joined in with these farmers and would be one of them for the session. The state of Louisiana is putting much money into this institution, and this state has decided to make a decided strike at ignorance and illiteracy. Thank God for all this. You see for a long time this school was in New Orleans and they had a white man as president, but the state changed the pr-gram and secured a fine place here, with 500 acres of land, and then reached out and got hold of that leader of men, Dr. J. S. Clark and the school has been on the upward rise ever since. No time in its history did it have as many young people as today. They have what is known as a shorter course in agriculture. Farmers and their sons come here this time of --- the year, and hear lectures from experts, men and women who know the game. This year they had that greatest of all experts, Prof. George W. Carver, of Tuskegee Institute, and you will agree to me or with me when I tell you he is a living wonder. He took a cabbage, and liked to have made of it a human being. It produced pores, had it taking in air just like us, and sending it to the central station just like we living people. Then he took the pecan, and I did not know that there was so much in one of them little things. He knew how to get it out, and told the men. He even got paint out of it, fertilizer and I can't tell you all the other things. Snow, rain, cold weather, did not keep these strong men away from this great institution. I just had to sing "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow," and said the amen myself. I thank God I have lived to see this great day. I had the pleasure of meeting the new president of Straight University, Rev H. H. Dunn, Rev. Phillips, and some other big men. No one here from Chicago, but there was one character that impressed me very much, Mrs. J. S. Clark, the wife of her husband. She is a refined cultured woman, and is working side by side with her husband. She has helped him up the hill to where he is now, and as I have said he is on the top of the mountain. Dr. Clark has the confidence of all the white people down here, and he is doing some real work Illinois Whose Enter the Race 1924. I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing him make a great speech, Hon. T. H. Harris, State superintendent of Education, and he was a fair man, and said the things that should have been said at the time and place they were said. He did not hesitate to congratulate me and my people for our meekness, for our joyalty, and on our regard for law and not to oppose constituted authority. I knew all the time that we were law-abiding citizens, and I have been telling these white folks, that we were leaving our case in the hands of Jesus, and He would win for us. He is a mighty man, and you can't always tell the way he is going to come to us. You see now after so many years, white folks have been killing us, and got so ruck pleasure out of it, until now they are putting on masks and killing each other, and I believe that there is yet going to be a heluva time in this country. Some one is going to get hurt, and I want to tell my country that unless lawlessness is put down there is going to be bloodshed here at home, or it may be a civil war. Let us pray to God and ask that limb of the law to do His whole duty. Forget color and race, and cling to law and order, justice and right. Look out for my next letter. I want to tell you a little more about Southern University and I have not told you about that wonderful nurse here, Mrs. H. R. Baranco, one of the finest in this country or any other country. Give my love at this time to all the CHARLES E. STUMP. [Picture of Frederick Douglass, a prominent African-American abolitionist and writer. He is known for his role in the Underground Railroad and his efforts to end slavery in the United States.] THE LATE IMMORTAL, On Wednesday, February 14, He Will Be Celebrated by the United States. By His Mate termination He Accomplished vidual on Earth for the Liberion Slaves from the House of 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. COL. W. E. MOLLISON WILL SPEAK ON THE LATE IMMORTAL FREDERICK DOUGLASS AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL Sampson, Chairman, has arranged Mass Meeting Wednesday, Feb. 21st, at 4 P. M. Wendell Phillips High School Auditorium for students and parents. The speaker will be Dr. W. This coming Sunday evening Col. Willis E. Mollison, president of the Cook County Bar Association, who is classed among the noted orators of this country, will deliver his masterful oration on the late immortal Fredrick Douglass at the Wendell Phillips High School, Metropolitan Community Center Church. CHICAGO BRANCH, N. A. A. C. P. Statement of account, showing receipts and disbursements for "The Shuffle Along" benefit given February 1, 1923, Grand Theatre: RECEIPTS Sale of tickets, box office.....$ 870.80 From candy.....30.00 From programs.....178.00 DISBURSEMENTS Advertising ..... $ 48.00 Printing ..... 131.25 Orchestra ..... 105.54 For use of theatre..... 72.00 $356.79 Net amount turned over to Chicago Branch N. A. A. C. P.....$722.01 CHAS. A. WILSON, Chairman of Committee. MORRIS LEWIS, Secretary. N. A. A. C. P. NOTES Regular monthly meeting, Sunday, February 18th, 4 P. M. at Chicago University of Music, 3672 South Michigan Avenue. Speaker, Dr. Carl G. Roberts. Subject, "Frederick Douglass." Educational Committee, J. Milton ```markdown ``` C. W. HON. SCOTT M. HOGAN Member of the City Council, from the old 31st 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 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 FREDERICK DOUGLASS His 106th Birthday Anniversary Colored People Throughout the thless Oratory and Bulldog Deed More Than Any Other Indication of More Than Four Milf Bondage. Sampson, Chairman, has arranged Mass Meeting Wednesday, Feb. 21st, at 4 P. M. Wendell Phillips High School Auditorium for students and parents. The speaker will be Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. The "Shuffle Along" benefit at the Grand Theatre, February 1st, was a success. The Branch extends thanks to the public and to those contributing in any way in this effort. (See financial report elsewhere in this paper.) South Side and West Side divisional meetings will be held in those sections during the week. Unfair treatment of race people at the Adams Theatre is being investigated. N.A.A.C.P. MONTHLY MEET- 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 Association are invited to be present. MAY GO TO SPRINGS Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Ave, contemplates a visit of several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., and may leave within four weeks. 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Cashier The following Electric Shops carry a full line of Electrical Appliances and sell the Federal Washer on Easy Terms; Davies Electric Shop, 8480 Fullerton Ave. 5151 W. 10th St. 2514 I. Kidde Ave. Kalyva Park Etsc. Shop Logan Square. Light Shop. 2455 Milwaukee Ave. 5151 W. 10th St. 5515 Lawrence Ave. Mid-West Electrical 8353 Elsen Awn. 8354 Elsen Awn. 1680 Irving Park Blvd. 1681 Irving Park Blvd. 6171 Ginstead Awn. 6171 Ginstead Awn. 5621 W. North Awn. WEST SIDE Balzez & Baza Bridgeport Electric Co. 1618 W. 47th St. Bridgeport Electric Co. 2215 W. 28th St. Cody Electric Co. 2215 W. 28th St. De Luxe Light Co. 1745 W. Madison St. 2249 W. North Ave. Fritzhalter Electric Co. 2249 W. North Ave. Robert B. Garth. 3011 W. Lake St. Appliance Company. 3359 W. Chicago Ave. Appliance Company. 181 S. Wing St. DIRECTORS UNDERTAKER PRIVATE AR-ILLANCE MOTORS AT ALL HOUSES ALL RENOWN 455 AMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE OIL OPEN DAY & NIGHT son UNDERTAKER entilation—Organ and Organist Free— service at a reasonable price—Distance time and money. OUR NEW HOME --- 72 W. Adams St. 72 W. Adams St. 448 N. Parkside Ave. 3827 Logan Bld. 3827 Madison 3452 W. Roosevelt Rd. NORTH SIDE Atlantic Electric Co. Broadway Electric Shop, 6215 Broadway. J. Carlson Bld. 6215 Broadway. N. Western Ave. 819 N. Western Ave. John E. Elliott Co. John E. Elliott Co. Fulterton Electric Shop. Fulterton Electric Shop. Kersten Harbart Electric Co. 1445 W. Western Ave. Lakeway Electric Co. O. R. Martinez Ave. O. R. Martinez Ave. Morse Electric Shop. 1504 Morse Ave. Morse Electric Shop. 5503 N. Clark St. Panama Eagle Light Co. Priniple Electric Co. 3806 Northport Ave. 3506 Lincoln Ave. 3506 Lincoln Ave. 6172 Sheridan Rd. Tip Top Eloe, Appliances Tip Top Eloe, Appliances 3833 Irving Park Blvd. Milton Ave. 4863 Broadway NORTHWEST Art Lama, Novelty & Gift Company, 1990 Milwaukee Ave. CHICAGO ※ OFFICERS 4639 Lincoln Ave. 14730 Irving Park Bld. 18245 Normal Bld. 2850 E. 92nd St. 6350 B. Halted St. 6350 C. Halted St. 8115 B. Halted St. 4097 Ogden Ave. Bld. 4097 Ogden Ave. 4711/6715 Grove Grove Ave. Markle Electric Shop, 2534 W. Chicago Ave. 2534 W. Chicago Ave. 3238 W. Madison St. Miller Electric Shop, Ogden Electric Shop, Ogden Electric Shop, Bernard O'Man 4157 W. Madison St. Miller Electric Shop, 3134 W. Chicago Ave. Ridley Electric Shop, Richmond Electric Co. Ridley Electric Co. Erika Electric Shop, Erika Electric Shop, Spalding Electric Co. 3248 W. North Ave. 1018 Milwaukee Ave. Electric Washing Machine 6381 Cott. Grove Ave. Gage Park Electric Co. Gano Electric Shop. Gano Electric Shop. Good Housekeeping Electric Co. Harper Electric Shop. Harper Electric Shop. L. & H. Electric Co. Ideal Electric & Flatten Works. 6823 Haited St. 6831 Haited St. L. & H. Electric Co. Aaron Leedy. 1353 Brunel Ave. New City Electric Co. 6031 Haited St. 6031 Haited St. 1715 W. 63rd St. New City Electric Co. Odell Electric Shop. 2021 S. Haited St. 2021 S. Haited St. 547 W. 51st St. 547 W. 51st St. 7923 S. Haited St. Steege Electric Shop. 3017 W. 63rd St. Virginia Electric 7188 Vincennes Ave. A. Wagner. 1227 E. 55th St. West William Electric 6111 W. 120th St. Winchester Store Electric 6706 St. Jain Ave. SOUTH SIDE Berry & Co. 815 E. 1st St. Birmingham Electric Shop. 732 W. 958th St. Bruegel Lighting Fix- ture 3828 Archer Ave. 7138 S. 958th St. 7138 S. Chicago Ave. Calumet Electro Shop. Chatham Electro Fix- ture Co. 815 E. 1st St. Collieum Electric Co. 5422 S. Halsted St. 1081 E. 472th St. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS