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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Hon. William Emmett Dever, Surrounded by Mayor William Hale Thompson and Former Mayors Hons. Carter H. Harrison and Edward F. Dunne, Became the Chief Executive of This Great City in the Midst of Thousands of His Warm Friends and Well-wishers. He Successfully Gaveled His Way Through a Mighty Stormy Session of the City Council MAYOR DEVER WAS GREETED WITH A ROW AND UPROAR, ON THE PART OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND AT THE END OF THE LONG AND BITTER FIGHTING THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES WAS KNOCKED IN THE HEAD OR REJECTED AND IN THE FUTURE THE MEMBERS OF EACH COMMITTEE WILL HAVE THE UNDISPUTED RIGHT TO SELECT THEIR OWN CHAIRMAN. The past Monday was a great day in the City Hall, it was full of excitement from early in the morning until long after midnight. Many of the big city officials were rushing about in every direction, packing up their personal belongings, moving them out in order to make room for the new incoming officials and it very forcibly reminded one of moving day, May 1. Between six and seven o'clock the record breaking crowds began to arrive to witness the passing of Hon. William Hale Thompson as mayor of Chicago for the past eight years and to further witness the induction of Hon. William Emmett Dever into the mayor's chair. The inaugural ceremonies were scheduled to begin at 7:30 o'clock, but long before that time the City Council chambers were crowded to overflowing, also the large lobby and the wide hallways and thousands of men and women were standing thick all around the City Hall utterly unable to get near it and many of them were composed of the most prominent citizens of Chicago. Several hundred policemen were in evidence everywhere around and throughout the main part of the City Hall and while the history making events were being enacted on the inside, no one was permitted to enter it unless they were able to flash up a pass or ticket and many persons were dead willing to pay ten dollars in order to land on the inside, so that they would be in a position to witness the plain and simple ceremonies. It was well on towards eight o'clock before Mayor William Hale Thompson, former mayors Carter H. Harrison and Edward F. Dunne, and Mayor-elect Hon. William E. Dever, marched into the council chambers and ascended the platform and as they were in the act of doing so the vast concourse of people sent up a mighty shout which almost shook the City Hall from end to end. It fell to the lot of Mayor Thompson for the last time to preside over the City Council or to act as the honored master of ceremonies, and after he had ordered the regular reading clerk, Mr. Wyatt McGaffary, to call the roll of the old and the newly elected aldermen and after a part of Mayor Thompson's farewell address or message had been read by Mr. McGaffary, in which Mayor Thompson spoke in part as follows: "I bear no ill will toward any person or set of persons. I shall forget any apparent injuries or resentments and shall ever remember all friendships and kindnesses. Personally I welcome the opportunity to return to the ranks of private citizenship where I may still find occasion to serve the welfare of this city, destined to become the greatest and most wondrous of the world, and which has so signally and so generously honored me." In presenting Mayor Dever, Mayor Thompson strongly intimated to him that "he would need the aid or the united support of the colored people, the Polish people, the Jewish people and the support of all other races in this great city in order to make his administration a huge success." As Mayor Thompson uttered these words: "I have the great honor and the extreme pleasure of introducing to you Hon. William E. Dever, our new mayor of Chicago," then for fully ten minutes the people went wild and lost their reason and they carried on to beat the band for they were completely overcome with supreme joy and happiness, finally, Mayor Dever, whose long past experience in the City Council has made him past master in the art of governing large bodies of men, started to use his gavel and at last he succeeded in restoring order. Mayor Dever does not take much stock in long windy speeches and his inaugural address in full is as follows: "Long years of public service has taught me there is not much to be gained by long speeches. So I shall not have much to say. Tonight I am moved by the sentiment that comes to me from the old days. It was my good fortune to have served under three mayors, Harrison, Dunne, and Busse, and during my years of service in this council I supported them all to the best of my ability, because it was my belief that no administration could be a success without co-operation of mayor and council. Few Words, Then Work "That administration must be a success where mayor and aldermen cooperate, and I hope we may have that sentiment here. I want my administration to be remembered for something definite in the service of the city. My office shall be at all times open to every member of the council, and I trust that none may fail to avail himself of the co-operation I expect." At the close of his short and far-reaching speech, there was more shouting and hand clapping on the part of thousands of friends of Mayor Dever, who had assembled in and THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1923 77 The New Plain and Simple Mayor of Chicago Who Will Be Non-Partisan in Conducting the Vast Affairs of This Fair City Which Is so Dearly Beloved by All of Its Citizens. around the City Hall and then Mayor Dever settled right down to business. Hon. James T. Igoe, for six years City Clerk, administered the oath of office to Mayor Dever and to the following members of his cabinet and to Hon. Al F. Gorman, the new City Clerk, and to Hon. John A. Cervenka, the new City Treasurer. Comptroller—Martin J. O'Brien. Corporation Counsel—Francis X. Busch. Chief of Police—Morgan A. Collins. Commissioner of Public Works—Col. A. A. Sprague. Deputy Commissioner of Public Works—Clayton F. Smith. President, Civil Service Commission—Nicholas R. Finn. Commissioner of Public Welfare—Miss Mary E. McDowell. One of the great English newspaper writers after visiting all parts of this country, and after attending several sessions of the Chicago City Council, on returning to his home across the deep blue sea, stated in the columns of his newspaper that the Chicago City Council was by far the noiseist legislative body in the world and true to its past reputation it staged a mighty hot and stormy session for his Hon. Mayor William E. Dever. For a short time after he had assumed his duties as the presiding officer of the City Council, everything seemed to be running along very smooth and without any fore-warning pandemonium broke loose and within a few moments from that time all of the big or the leading orators of the City Council were joining in the scrapping or the fighting including Aldermen Clark, Maypole, Schwartz, Lyle, Wallace, Link, Albert, Moran, Woodhull, Byrne, Coughlin, Anderson and Nelson, one of its new members who is a live wire who is able to hold his own with the best rough and tumble orators in the City Council. It did not take Mayor Dever but a few minutes to start in to grab the wrangling and fighting aldermen and they soon learned that they were not playing horse with a straw man and Mayor Dever started in to use his gavel right and left and when some alderman would exclaim: "Mr. Chairman I rise to a point of order!" mayor Dever would fire back at him: "Alderman Coughlin please take your seat for you are out of order," and when some other alderman rose to his feet to a point of order Mayor Dever used his gavel on him and politely informed him that his point was not well taken, and that he was out of order and downwent the alderman and Mayor Dever plainly informed all the people sitting in the gallery that if they failed to remain quite that he would call on the officers to clear the Council chambers and when the session wound up near 12 o'clock, all the aldermen were loud in praising Mayor Dever, they claiming that he understood how to conduct the affairs of the City Council and that he is a tip-top presiding officer. Hon. and Mrs. Robert M. Sweitzer, Mrs. William E. Dever, Hon. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Hon. and Mrs. William Hale Thompson, Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Hon. and Mrs. George E. Brennan, Hon. and Mrs. James W. Breen, Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson, Hon. Martin J. O'Brien, Hon. Clayton F. Smith, Captain Morgan A. Collins, Col. A. A. Sprague, Hon. Francis X. Busch, Hon. N. R. Finn, Hon. John A. Cervenka, Hon. Al. F. Gorman and Miss Mary McDowell were among those who occupied seats on the platform with Mayor Dever. It was a regular old time Demo- LOUISIANA WOMEN JOIN GOOD-WILL MOVEMENT Declare Only Christian Principles Can Solve South's Race Problem HOLD LYNCHING INEXCUSABLE Will Work for Justice Through State Race Relations Committee New Orleans, La.(Special)To The Broad Ax.-An important step in the Southern movement for better race relations was taken in New Orleans recently when more than forty of Louisiana's prominent leaders—leaders in religious and civic organizations—met to study the situation, formulated a vigorous statement in behalf of good will and justice between the races, and accepted membership in the Louisiana Race Relations Committee. Declaring their belief that Christian principles offer the only solution of race problems, and that the South is today the "crucial testing ground" of these principles, they pledged their support to the effort to secure for Negroes as well as for whites the protection of law and "the privileges and conditions to which they are entitled as citizens, such as sanitation, lighting and grading of streets, better housing conditions," and other civic advantages. One of the strongest paragraphs in the paper is that relative to lynching, which is as follows: "We register herewith our protest against the barbaric custom of lynching, which arouses violent and un-Christian passions, brings law into disrepute, is inhuman and brutal, and unknown outside of our own land of America. We hold that no circumstances can ever justify such violent disregard for law and that in no instance is it an exhibition of chivalric consideration and honor of womanhood." The statement lays strong and repeated emphasis on the responsibility of white people, as the more advantaged race, to set the Negro a worthy example, protect him from vicious influences, and encourage and help him to rise in the scale of character and conduct. The editors of newspapers are appealed to in behalf of more generous publicity for the Negro's worthy cratic gathering and many colored men and women were mixed right in among the whites and no one attempted to run away from them nor shouted "put them out," Mr. Augustus L. Williams, Mr. Dan M. Jackson, Mr. Lacey from the west side and Mrs. David Rudolph Lawrence were among those who came under our notice. As Mayor Dever and his entourage party left the council chambers he was completely wedged in between a raft of policemen with his head lowered so as to duck or avoid the crowd and the hand shaking but in passing his left eye happened to fall upon the writer and he extended his hand and ex- achievements, and less stories of crime and unworthiness. Recognizing the wisdom of conference and co-operation as a means of adjusting racial differences and promoting the general welfare, the group pledged its support to the plans developed by the Commission on Interracial Co-operation, a southern organization which has 800 state and county committees throughout the South. In Louisiana the state committee, of which the women's group becomes a part, is headed by Prof. Leo M. Favro, of Baton Rouge. The women constituting the group and signing the statement are, Mrs. Fred Foxley, Mrs. W. F. Weisaupt, Mrs. S. A. Montgomery, Mrs. Belle O'Pry, Mrs. J. R. Morton, Miss Mary Cason, Mrs. Lewis Clark, Mrs. Jos. Friend, Miss Vernon Nunnery, Mrs. W. Marvin Brown, Mrs. W. E. Millsaps, Miss Grace Thompson, Mrs. C. F. Niebergall, Mrs. J. G. Snelling, Mrs. Wm. A. Davis, Mrs. T. J. Ferguson, Mrs. H. F. Baldwin, Mrs. H. W. Glaser, Miss Ida M. Stevens, Mrs. L. Helmke, Mrs. J. A. Alford, Mrs. J. L. Many, and Mrs. Wm. Lamb of New Orleans; Mrs. R. H. Wynn, Mrs. William Steen, Mrs. H. B. Sperry, Abel Bliss and Mrs. O. C. Cathey of Shreveport; Mrs. J. O. Carson, Lake Charles; Mrs. O. W. Gladden, Alexandria; Mrs. R. E. Stearns, Mrs. J. W. Darby, Mrs. A. G. Reed, Baton Rouge; Mrs. H. G. Owen, LeCompte; Mrs. R. F. Harrell, Tallulah; Mrs. L. W. McKellar, Elizabeth; Mrs. W. J. Wynn, Rayne; Mrs. B. B. Purser, Amite; Mrs. J. F. Giles, Springfield; Mrs. A. F. Storm, Morgan City. claimed: "hello, Julius! I am glad to see you.' Shortly after that we wended our way up to the rooms of Mayor Dever on the 5th floor which were loaded down with thousands of rare and beautiful flowers from some of his thousands of warm friends and in the presence of those present Mayor Dever exclaimed "friend Julius you will always be welcome in my office," at that point we heartily thanked and assured him that this newspaper in its weak and humble way would loyally stand by him and assist him to become by far the best mayor that this great city has ever had. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to ... THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS Chicago, Ill., April 21, 1923 Vol. XXVIII. No. 31 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 9, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago. III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS By Dr. M. A. Majors Recently there has come over the whole world changes that stand out clearly for the general good of mankind and fortunately for our group we live in such a time when we may accept opportunities that will put us on the very crest of the wave of world progress. In the best age of world achievement, the greatest era of human advancement with the intellectual stamina with minds sharpened to the exigencies of the times we may tune up our minds with the beautiful ideals and let our hearts sing. Facility is available set our standards high. Already we have after fifty years enough music and song to charm the world. Already we have enough orators to electrify and inspire. Already we have enough acquaintance with the intricate and phenomena to develop and grow in the wisdom of the sages. We are well up in all of the fine graces of mankind that are convincing. Yet burdened with a complexion that be discredited is there any wonder that we do not make progress more rapidly? And yet what race has struggled against such an incubus as color and in the face of dogged hate shown a more ready and willing spirit to push forward toward the goal of a noble humanity? We have more than made good in a thousand directions and astounded humanity by our determination and persistent effort to meet every issue that has called for the best to be found in the heart of mankind. In law, medicine, the classics, art, literature, our attainments have met the human acid test and we have qualified when thousands of a white skinned people have failed utterly. We have taken up the gauntlet that has been thrown down and gone off with honors from the best colleges in America. Much of the great change that has come over the face of the world has been the result of every force possessed by us and we have contributed our quota in no uncertain degree. In the church our educated ministry are delivering the sermon on the mount and people are multiplying the strength and power of truth as never before. We have valiantly thrown the weight of our educational facilities against sin and human deviltry that disreges civilization. We have never been silent nor failed to protest in the far reaches of truth against evil and religion has our unanimous approval. Our trend has always been upward and crime has our unanimous condemnation. The civilization of the world seems to be trembling in the balance and if law and order is ever to be sustained, there will be found no race of people more determined in the far reaches of the law against the criminal. The attributes of love, mercy and human justice will ever be the race's contention and today there is to be found nowhere on the earth the exemplification of these qualities in any other race of people. We fit as well in American life as any people and we don't go to Europe to spend our money either. We have served in every capacity of serving from the lowest to the places of honor and preferment we enjoy today and although we have many banks and insurance companies among us absconding and M. W. HON. GEORGE F. HARDING The Ex-City Comptroller of Chicago, who was the best official who has ever served the people in that capacity; who was on Monday afternoon presented with a beautiful gold watch by the help in the Comptroller's office. HON. GEORGE F. HARDING PRESENTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL GOLD WATCH BY THE EMPLOYEES IN THE COMP-TROLLER'S OFFICE Monday afternoon, just before Hon. George F. Harding, stepped down and out, as the best City Comptroller that Chicago has ever had, on to one hundred clerks, employed in his office assembled in a semi-circular form in the main body of the room, and Senator Harding was requested by Deputy Comptroller Mr. Louis E. Gosselin, to step out for a few moments in the main large room, where Mr. Gosselin in behalf of the men and women clerks in a neat short speech presented Senator Harding with a beautiful richly en-graved gold watch as a token of their high esteem and friendship for him. In accepting it, Senator Harding briefly stated that with the great assistance of Mr. Gosselin, for the past four years and with the aid of the other help connected with the office, that the City Comptroller's Office has been the best conducted office in the City Hall. In concluding, Senator Harding heartily thanked each and every one of the ladies and gentlemen present for their beautiful and very valuable remembrance and stated that any time that he could extend to them a favor, all they had to do was to command him, and that each and every one of them would always have his best wishes. defaulting among us is relatively unknown. We have never made a rich thief, nor made a rich rich. REPRESENTATIVE DYER TO TOUR COUNTRY IN CAMPAIGN FOR FEDERAL ANTILYNCHING BILL Unfortunately we have been terrified by intolerance and suffered the hostility of an unkind sentiment which has played havoc. We have undergone the usages of horrible tyranny and we have been at the mercy of stronger arms ever raised against us, but we are not discouraged nor faint-hearted. We have the courage to look our adversaries in the face and condemn American cowardice even in the halls of Congress. Now that the race is getting along in the massing of wealth ere long we will be able to bring order out of the present chaos that seems to multiply the anomaly of our situation. The great change has brought up to the very threshold of wealth. Peace and plenty seem to go hand in hand and what the near future is about to reveal may yet stagger our fondest conjectures. Nothing seems to lie outside of our ability of achievement and attainment. Anyhow this old world has about settled down to the notion that we are rich with possibilities and accomplishments. Truth today is getting some hearing and the inspiration superinduced by truth will play electric showers of Christian benevolence wherever men read and think with noble minds. Sampson is awake, and in his stretch of intelligence, physical power, he will take all that has been withheld from him, and out of the great dispensations of Nature he will receive all that is justly a man's portion and he will not be satisfied with less. In the face of humanity he will look with searching wisdom, and he will give back the bountiful riches as he has been given riches and splendor. "PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION AND DANCE" Last evening, an entertainment of rare occurrence was held at the Unity Club House, 3140 Indiana Avenue. It was known as the "Presidential Reception and Dance" for the benefit of the Old Folk's Home, 4430 Vincennes Avenue. It was conducted by the ways and means committee of that home. Mrs. Graves, Mrs. McClure, Mrs. Stewart, Miss Taylor and Mrs. Fisher all worked very hard to make the affair a huge success. The affair was well attended. Mr. J. R. E. Lee, Extension Secretary of the National Urban League, is in the city to manage the campaign for URBAN LEAGUE DAY-MAY 7th. graved gold watch as a token of their high esteem and friendship for him. In accepting it, Senator Harding briefly stated that with the great assistance of Mr. Gosselin, for the past four years and with the aid of the other help connected with the office, that the City Comptroller's Office has been the best conducted office in the City Hall. In concluding, Senator Harding heartily thanked each and every one of the ladies and gentlemen present for their beautiful and very valuable remembrance and stated that any time that he could extend to them a favor, all they had to do was to command him, and that each and every one of them would always have his best wishes. REPRESENTATIVE DYER TO TOUR COUNTRY IN CAMPAIGN FOR FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCHING BILL Will Reintroduce His Measure in Next Session of Congress Representative Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, who introduced the Anti-Lynching Bill bearing his name in Congress, will tour the Middle West and the pacific Coast states, beginning May I, to arouse public sentiment in behalf of the bill which he intends to introduce in the next Congress, which has been announced by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, which is sponsoring the tour. Representative Dyer will begin his speaking tour in Kansas City, proceeding via Omaha, Denver, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City to California, and returning through the states of Oregon and Washington by a northern route to Chicago. Mr. Dyer's Anti-Lynching Bill was passed by a vote of 230 to 119 in the House of Representatives and was favorably reported by the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. A filibuster conducted by Southern Democratic senators led to its abandonment by the Republican majority. In announcing his tour Representative Dyer said: "I am going before the country on the issue of lynching, a national shame which for thirty-five years the states have failed to end and the federal government has failed to attack." "The Anti-Lynching Bill which I introduced in Congress and which was passed by a vote of almost 2 to 1 in the House of Representatives, was stopped in the Senate by the filibuster of senators from those states in which most lynchings occur. "The federal anti-lynching bill is not sectional. It applies to every part of the country. It assumes that an atrocity in America is a national disgrace whether it occurs in Georgia, Texas, or Oregon, or Illinois. "I shall reintroduce this measure in the next Congress. It will be reintroduced, I believe, in the Senate. Meanwhile I shall acquaint as many American citizens as possible with the horrors of lynching in America, and with the provisions of the bill designed to end those horrors. "We shall then see if a small minority of men from any group of states can block an expression of the will of the people of this nation." SOME BETTER Mrs. Sallie McCamey, 1632 W. Wauscae Place, who has been suffering for a long time and confined to her bed and home, is some better. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1923 COL. CHARLESE. STUMP, THE REGULARWOULD-BE TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS BEAT IT FROM JACKSONVILLE, FLA., TO RICHMOND, VA., WHERE HE WILL REST UP FOR A SHORT TIME. Richmond, Virginia.—After walking the dog, shaking the shimmy and getting off the puppy's tail down yonder in Florida with the Masons. I can join in that Methodist hymn and sing "And Are We Yet Alive?" You might think it is wonderful how Masons stand together, but believe me, honey, if you could only see what they have to go through, and how they inject the blood of each other into each other, you would see at once that it could not be otherwise. When I wrote you that other letter I was on the eve of going into the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and believe me, honey, I know I have been there, and I have more in my head than I have had in it for many moons, suns and stars. I have walked and talked with the ghosts of men who were masons back in the days of the building of some kind of temple. They told me how they had died, and I talked with one fellow who said his name was Henry Absolom, and he was the grand master one time and worked on a building and fell off and broke his neck and he was glad to see me going the same way. This is where I fainted, and how long I was in that faint, I don't know, but I found myself in a bed, and Grand Master David D. Powell, was right there with the doctors and he was a happy man when I opened my eyes. I did not mean to return, but then, I must be brave, and went back, but wanted no more ghost in mine. Well that part was over, and they did not call up the dead any more during the whole session. Yet that did not remove the fear. I just watched everything and everybody. I kept my eyes on Dr. H. Y. Tookes. They called him "Grand Venerable," but I do not know why. He is the high muck over the Heroines of Jericho, but I did not take a trip to Jericho on this round. Then I watched the man who is to be bishop from Florida, Dr. R. A. Grant, presiding elder now in Florida. I saw other men I could watch until watching days were over. The Grand Lodge opened in grand style, but I do not understand why Grand Master Powell did not have as much manners as all the other men. That fellow presided, and did not have manners enough to take off his hat only when they prayed. All us other fellows had our hats off, but he did not take his off. I am going to write a book on good manners and present it to him. Just to think of it, though that Grand Lodge is worth half a million dollars, and they own the largest, the finest, and most complete Masonic temple in the world and they don't owe one thin dime on it, but all their own now in fee simple absolute, now and forever, amen. Now let somebody kill a big fat hen. Grand Master Powell is a wonderful presiding officer and he is loved by all the members of the order, but they say members of the craft. I don't know why they call them craft, but that's none of my business. After the Grand Lodge was opened. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie]. 83 HON. WM. HALE THOMPSON Former Mayor of Chicago Who on Monday Even Wished Mayor Dever the Greatest Success in All the Affairs of This City. Former Mayor of Chicago Who on Monday Evening Heartily Wished Mayor Dever the Greatest Success in Conducting All the Affairs of This City. they had welcome addresses the night before, and then Old Man Charles Stewart, made an address, and the next day they got down to business. A fine body of men to behold. I was delighted to see them all, and to hear that wonderful address of Grand Master Powell. Also saw the Order of Eastern Star in session presided over by Rev. Dr. Wise and Mrs. Inez Alston, jointly. He is called grand patron and she is called grand royal matron or something like that. Mrs. Alston was sick, so she only occupied the seat for a while, and then retired. She is strictly business and looked after the business end of the order. I saw them masons lay a corner stone of Mt. Olive A.M.E. church and put down three hundred dollars to help to complete the building, and that is going some. Usually when Grand Masters lay cornerstones they get something out of it, but this is one fellow who just put down fifty dollars of his own cash and then the others followed. He is a Baptist deacon, but a broad hearted man, helping humanity which is a great big call today. God give us more like him. Of course I have been going some since I sent you that other letter, for I went to St. Augustine to be there during the Founder's Day exercises, and I was especially gratified to be there and witness what went on at the Florida Normal and Industrial College, Prof. N. W. Collier, president, and who has been connected with the institution just 30 years. He is a wonderful character, and I was delighted to have the pleasure of seeing him, and coming in contact with him. I have told you about this wonderful educator before today, and I am proud to call your attention to him again. He came into the world via Augusta, Ga., and educated at Atlanta University, and he got a good education at that, one to serve the people. He is educated to the masses and not away from them. After beating time for a quarter of a century in Jacksonville, the white people, headed by the Chamber of Commerce invited him to come to St. Augustine and locate there, which invitation was accepted. The land was contracted for, and soon they owned it, and now they are going into the building business. A man died not long ago and left them $25,000, and another fellow gave $26,000, the General Education Board is going to plank down some thousands and other friends are coming right along with the cash. I am delighted to see how this is being done. I have told you before about one of the most remarkable women in the race, Miss Sarah A. Blocker, who has been connected with the school since its advent into the world. Her hair is perfectly white, the black hairs having been devoted to the uplift of the young women of her race. She is a wonder, and a worker. She has helped many a poor girl up the hill and stood her on her feet to take the place of woman. All over the country are young women who sing her praises and are today thanking God for her life. I was delighted to be there. 83 o on Monday Evening Heartily Greatest Success in Conducting [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. HON. JAMES W. BREEN First Assistant Corporation Counsel Under Mayor Thompson, Who Was Handsomely Remembered by His Associates on Monday. HON. JAMES W. BREEN, FIRST ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OF CHICAGO PRESENTED WITH A SET OF FINE OFFICE FURNITURE For almost three years, Hon. James W. Breen has ably and faithfully served as First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago and part of that time he served as Corporation Counsel, and also as Mayor of Chicago, was on Monday afternoon completely surprised when all the associates in his office presented him with a complete law office outfit of the latest and most modern furniture, all mahogany finish, consisting of a fine office desk, table, chairs, book cases, etc. Mr. Breen, all told, has served in his present capacity for eight years and he has been one of the most popular city officials in the City Hall and all of his old associates in the Corporation Counsel's office and his numerous friends throughout the City Hall, wishes him the greatest success when he retires to private practice. You see where I am now? Well, I stopped at Savannah for just one night and then made it to Denmark where I found them looking for me. Prof. Martin A. Menafea was right there with an automobile car carriage to tote me out to the Voorhees Normal and Industrial school, and from there about 8 miles to a school closing. When I went to this closing it carried me back to my boyhood days. It was a country school with one teacher. MUCH INTEREST EVINCED IN FORTHCOMING MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AT HOT SPRINGS. Health Week Cups to be Awarded Tuskegee Institute, Alabama—Much interest is being evinced in the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the The people turned out in full. The girls were dressed in white, and the boys dressed in anything they could get to put on to look swell on this day. Mothers and fathers were there to hear orators orate, the singers sing, and the speechers speech. It makes your heart fill up, and sweet days come into your memory. The days of when "the boy stood on the burning deck, eating peanuts by the peck; his father called him, he would not go, because he loved them peanuts so." Then about the "Lion and the Unicorn," "I remember, I remember the day when I was born, the little window where the sun came peeping in at morn." Do you remember those happy days, when you could play walking on the green grass, or in some lady's new brick house? When you played hiding the switch, or pussy wants a corner? They were happy days, and just as they helped to prepare you for the day you now occupy, so it is today helping the children. They had eats in abundance, for all the families brought baskets having killed the fatted hen and crowing rooster. Their bodies had been laid down to go into education. They had the wooden guns and drilled, preparing soldiers for their country, broom drills, to declare an enemy to dirt, and declare it must get from its hiding place. I witnessed the drills, heard the speeches, listened to a real practical common sense talk by Mrs. Martin A. Menafee, and returned to the school, spent the night with the family. Had a fine room with private bath, and believe me I used it and did not catch cold. I then made it to this place. Honey, my people are still leaving the south by the hundreds, and hundreds go into thousands. I don't know when they will stop making it to the north. I am going up and look them over and write to you about them. New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are getting them from down in Florida and Georgia. What will the future be? I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop. Write to me care of Mr. L. C. Brown, 1414 North First Street, Richmond, Va. CHARLES E. STUMP. HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE CHEAP Will sacrifice for quick sale: piano, upright; beautiful bed room set, old ivory, sewing machine, $5; ball-bearing clothes wringer, $5; all best grade. Call Sunday or daily after 7:30 p. m. 406 E. 51st street. Phone Kenwood 2057-Ady. fice presented him with a complete law office outfit of the latest and most modern furniture, all mahogany finish, consisting of a fine office desk, table, chairs, book cases, etc. Mr. Breen, all told, has served in his present capacity for eight years and he has been one of the most popular city officials in the City Hall and all of his old associates in the Corporation Counsel's office and his numerous friends throughout the City Hall, wishes him the greatest success when he retires to private practice. MUCH INTEREST EVINCED IN FORTHCOMING MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AT HOT SPRINGS. Health Week Cups to be Awarded Tuskegee Institute, Alabama—Much interest is being evinced in the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on August 15, 16 and 17. Following the announcement of the place and date, by Dr. Robert R. Moton, president of the organization, the office of the National Secretary has been flooded with letters approving and commending the selection of this famous health resort as the place of meeting. In addition to the opportunity of visiting such a renowned resort and city, Hot Springs offers adequate and comfortable accommodations to the delegates. The Woodmen of Union and the Knights of Pythias of Arkansas boast of the best hostelries of our group. These superb accommodations and the reduced rates offered by the railroads assure a large attendance. Trophies to be Awarded Another feature of the forthcoming meeting of the League which is arousing much interest is the awarding of the Silver Loving Cups, made possible by Mr. Allen W. Clarke, of the National Clean-Up and Paint-Up Bureau of St. Louis, Missouri, to those cities that did the most effective work during the Ninth Annual Observance of Health Week. The Atlanta Local League has served notice on all local leagues throughout the country that Atlanta, "the Metropolis of the South," was out for the first prize and intends to carry the highest trophy back to the capital city of the "Empire State." Reports from communities and cities from every section are coming in daily and the rivalry will be keen. Dr. Moton is urging all cities to send in their reports by May 1st. These reports will be sent to a committee of judges composed of: Mr. C. C. Spaulding, secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Durham, North Carolina; Dr. W. G. Alexander, secretary of the National Medical Association, Orange, New Jersey; Dr. W. W. Alexander, secretary of the Southern Inter-racial Commission, Atlanta, Georgia; the Honorable Benjamin J. Davis, editor of the Atlanta Independent, Atlanta, Georgia; Dr. J. R. Levy, Florence, South Carolina; President A. E. Malone, of Poro College, St. Louis, Missouri; Mrs. Maggie Walker, president of the St. Lukes Bank, Richmond, Virginia; Mrs. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tennessee, and Mr. Monroe N. Work, editor of the Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Mrs. Nellie Krummick, who has been quite ill and confined to Provident Hospital, is improving somewhat. IMPROVING 1897 HON. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS Former United States Senator from Illinois As One of Its Most Distinguished Members; He Worked and Voted Against the African Exclusion Bill; As the Whip of the Senate, He Fought Down and Defeated All of the "Jim Crow" Legislation Introduced in the Upper House of Congress, Which Was Intended to Circumscribe the Civil and the Political Rights of the Colored People in This Country. DISCRIMINATION AT THE NEW VETERANS' HOSPITAL—TUSKEGEE; WHITE SUPERIN-TENDENT IN CHARGE TEN REPUBLICANS DESERTED COHEN Washington, D. C.—The names of Colonel R. H. Staneley, a native of Alabama, has been made the Superintendent-in-charge of the United States Veterans' Hospital at Tuskegee. It is now understood that the personnel of his medical staff will be entirely white. There will be, however, colored nurses, laborers and orderlies. First intimation of the exclusion of Negroes from the medical staff is given in a quotation alleged to have come from Field Letter No. 78 of the U. S. Veteran's Bureau in which it was stated that "The Medical personnel will be composed of white persons, the chief nurse, chief aid, chief dietitian and other assistants will be white. The staff nurses, aids, and dietitians will probably be colored. The medical officers selected to take charge of this hospital will be from the reserve corps of the Public Health Service, of southern birth, and one who thoroughly understands the Negro." However, the meager recognition which has been given by the new superintendent is a subject of protest from the American Legionaires of Alabama who objected to the placing of Negroes as doctors on the ground that they would inevitably come in contact with and control over white girls and other white people connected with the Institution. It is intimated that President Harding favors a colored personnel since only colored veterans will be quartered in the hospital. Announcement has been made for a Civil Service Examination for the selection of 15 doctors and 100 nurses. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEM ONSTRATION AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton, Va.-The sixth annual public demonstration of the Hampton Institute physical-education, classes was held in the Institute gymnasium on Saturday night, April 7, under the direction of Miss Olive B. Rowell, Miss Elizabeth D. Dunham, Gideon E. Smith, and William S. Parker. The program follows: Apparatus work on the swing jump, the window ladder, and the horse, by second-year girls; an obstacle race by first-year girls; Indian-club swinging by first-year boys; wand drill by third- and fourth-year boys; potato race and human-burden race by first-year boys; game of end ball by first-year girls; Kamarinskaia, a Russian dance; by third- and fourth-year boys; dumb-bell drill by second-year boys; folk dances, including "Seven Jumps" (Danish) by first-year girls, "The Black Nag" (English), and "Csche-bogar" (Hungarian) by second-year girls; games for elementary grades, such as "Pig in a Hole" and "When I was a Bachelor," by normal-school girls; dancing, including fundamentals, Beethoven's "Minuet," and "Easter Rabbit," by third-year girls; Dutch dance; Dresden-doll dance, by third-year girls, and Furlana, Venetian dance. The pianists were Miss Christine E. Traynahm, Miss Martha L. Robinson, R Nathaniel Dett, and William H. Chandler. TEN REPUBLICANS DESERTED COHEN Washington, D. C.—The names of the ten Republican Senators who prevented the confirmation of Walter Cohen as collector of Customs at New Orleans, has just been made public. They are: WILLIAM E. BORAH, of Idaho. H. O. BURSUM, of New Mexico. CHARLES L. McNARY, of Oregon. FRANK R. GOODING, of Idaho. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, of Wisconsin. SELDEN P. SPENCER, of Missouri. WESLEY L. JONES, of Washington. TASKER L. ODDIE, of Nevada. DAVID A. REED, of Pennsylvania. IRVINE L. LENROOT, of Wisconsin. The vote in the United States Senate against Cohen was 35 to 37. But for the treachery of these ten senators, the vote would have stood 27 to 25 and Cohen would have gotten the job. The colored voters in every state where these ten Republican senatorial traitors reside wack them over their race prejudice heads with their ballots and for their double dealing and treachery they should never permit them to be re-elected to the United States Senate and the colored people everywhere should continue to assist to vote the Republicans out of power as long as they absolutely refuse to deal square with the colored people.—Editor. N.A.A.C.P. NOTES North Side Division had a good meeting Monday night at St. Matthews M. E. Church, Oak and Orleans Street. Englewood will be known hereafter as the Ogden Park Division. Meeting will be held soon. Dr. Frank V. Plummer has been selected as Major and Chairman of the division. Central (South Side) Division met last Thursday night at the "Y." Secretary Lewis reports that as result of legal action, race discrimination is no longer practiced at the Adams Theatre. Congressman Dyer will address mass meeting at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Rev. S. E. J. Watson, Pastor, Monday, June 4th. Big preparations are being made for the affair. Raymond Robbins is to preside. Miss Mary McDowell, member of the Executive Committee, Chicago Branch, N.A.A.C.P., has been named Public Welfare Commissioner by Mayor Dever. Monday evening it was our extreme pleasure to be presented to Mrs. James W. Breen, the dutiful and adorable wife of Hon. James W. Breen, the City Hall, and Mrs. Breen, who is a very pleasant lady to meet, informed us that every Saturday The Broad Ax arrived at their home, 947 West 54th Place and that after she had finished her household duties on that evening she always greatly enjoyed reading this newspaper, that it always contained much highly interesting news. HON. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS HAS NEVER ASSERTED NOR CONTENDED THAT THIS IS "A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY OR GOVERNMENT, AND THAT THE COLORED MAN OR THE COLORED PEOPLE CAN NEVER BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART AND PARCEL OF IT." Failing health force give up his positie Lewis, who held his esteem and who was by all of the assoc Lewis. It will be recalled ber, 1906, at the m Hall, which was ade United States Sen Tillman of South Lewis refused to Tillman or to presi ing, Senator Lewis IN THE PAST SENATOR LEWIS HAS ASSUMED A BOLD STAND IN FAVOR OF BETTER TREATMENT FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE. HE HAS SECURED MANY GOOD POSITIONS FOR THEM IN MANY PARTS OF THIS COUNTRY. SENATOR LEWIS SECURED THE REAPPOINTMENT OF HON. ROBERT H. TERRELL (COLORED), AS JUDGE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT AT WASHINGTON, D. C. HON. S. A. T. WATKINS WAS APPOINTED ASSISTANT UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF SENATOR LEWIS. THE FOLLOWING LETTER OR COMMUNICATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF: LEWIS, FOLSOM, ASAY AND STREETER LAW OFFICES 105 West Monroe Street Chicago April 11, 1923 To Julius F. Taylor, Editor, The Broad Ax, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Now in the calm, after the heat of a political campaign, I beg to ask the publishing by you of this letter from me. You may charge me for it as an advertisement,—if your policy will not permit the publication as a communication. I beg to say, that in the recent city contest for Mayor, circulars and publications were issued in the heat of conflict from colored political sources, charging me with saying in public speeches, while I was running for Governor that "this was a white man's country, and a Negro had no political rights"—and as pledging myself "against any opportunity for equality of chances in life for Negroes." I must now have the colored readers know that as I am not now a candidate for any office—nor do I seek any office—and as I never have asked the colored people for a vote or any reward for anything I ever did—I can have no motive in any reply but the hope of the continuance of the friendships so long existing between myself and the Negro citizens of this city. I never at any time, anywhere, ever uttered so narrow a point of view—to say that this United States was a white man's country, and the Negro had no political rights. In the political contest of 1920, where I was a candidate for Governor—referring to the testimony given in the Republican primary vote contests for nomination for Governor in this city, I said that the testimony showed that white Republican voters were denied any representation or the privilege of voting in the polling districts. I referred to the relative weight of white and colored officials in office in the city, and there, of that majority and minority, I said "that I laid down the text that this city was a white man's government. Never did I say the United States was only a white man's country. By the same comparison as I made of officials—black and white—in power in Chicago, it should be said that Liberia is a black man's government—though it is the government of any man residing there. The other statement, that I "would oppose any Negroes getting political opportunity"—is an impossible one. I beg you to look to my record. Though a Southerner (born and bred), my troubles at the two colleges I attended were in the first instance because of the fight I made for opportunities for Negro education by the SAME POLICY of learning extended to the whites. Then, after I moved from the South to the Western State of Washington—there to begin the practice of law—my first fight as a member of the upper house of the Legislature was for a Republican lawyer, Attorney Hawkins (colored). There were but few Negroes in that land to reward a friend, and much prejudice against the Negro coming in there. I could not have had any rewards in mind for this support. Later, as a Member of Congress-at-Large from that State of Washington, I got Negroes named as consuls to the West Indies over much opposition. You have some colored folks in this town who know of that fight. Then in Chicago, when I first was made Corporation Counsel of the city, the FIRST act of my administration in the City Hall was to protect and insist on rights of the Hon. Edward H. Morris, the able colored lawyer of our town. He will confirm this. Then I put three colored men in positions, and kept William H. Clark, (colored), as my personal aid. In this I had much opposition to contend with. In the United States Senate, my first personal appointment was a Negro as my assistant. Then in the official position I occupied I fought certain Southern friends on the Senate floor, and for seven days continuously until I got Judge Robert H. Terrell, colored, made Judge for the City of Washington, D. C. Then it was, as Whip of the Senate, I led the fight against the provision brought in during the war to prevent Negroes from being officers of regiments of Negroes. This measure was not brought in by Democrats—but was beaten by Democrats and Republicans. Then, later, I had to fight Democrats to defeat the measure prohibiting Negroes from coming to the United States. I beat this by parliamentary tactics, and was sustained by Republicans and Democrats. In France, when I went into the service, I called on the Negro officers, and found out the needs of the men, and promptly put these ahead of all work to be supplied at once. Col. John R. Marshall and Col. F. A. Denison—both capable officials—will tell you of this. Lately, as private citizen, I had my old friend, Judson W. Lyon, formerly a Registrar of the Treasury, a Republican Negro, taken care of—because of his great deserts. I beg you to note these acts; and as your Godly ministers would say—prove the tree by its fruits—not by the storms that sometimes warp it. I beg to remain. Your obedient servant, J. HAMILTON LEWIS. ```markdown ``` In the past, much discussion was created, relative to some statements, which were supposed to have been made by the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, in reference to the colored people at the time he was a candidate for governor of this state in 1920. "That this is a white man's country or government," and that the colored man or the colored people cannot be seriously considered as an important factor in its civil or political affairs. Over his own signature, Senator Lewis plainly sets forth the facts, just what he did say at that time, so that the world can read it. It must be said, to the everlasting credit of Senator Lewis, that for five or six years, he employed a bright young colored man, by the name of Burns, in his extensive suite of law offices, which were then located in the old Commercial National Bank Building Failing health forced Mr. Burns to give up his position with Senator Lewis, who held him in the highest esteem and who was highly respected by all of the associates of Senator Lewis. It will be recalled that in November, 1906, at the meeting in Orchestra Hall, which was addressed by the late United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina, Senator Lewis refused to introduce Senator Tillman or to preside over his meeting, Senator Lewis stating at that time, that he was not in favor of anyone coming to this city to stir bitter strife between the white and colored people. For almost twenty years Senator Lewis has been a constant subscriber to this newspaper and we honestly believe that he entertains no ill will nor bitterness in his heart against the progress or the advancement of the colored people in this country—Editor. NEWS ITEMS Mr. Jesse Jackson, 5250 Dearborn St., who has been ill for some weeks, is again able to be out among his friends. Mrs. Jackson proved to be a wonderful nurse. Mrs. Robicheaux of 5242 Dearborn St., after a two weeks' illness is out again. The members of the A.U.K. did their whole duty by her, calling to cheer her up as well as paying the sick benefits. Liberia Council of the A. U. K. & D. of A.'s had a splendid meeting; the members are very much interested in building up a large and intelligent council and under the able management of their worthy Queen, Mrs. Nellie Burbridge, are sure to accomplish it. New members are coming in at each meeting. Their next meeting will be a social gathering; every member should be present. The Williamson Council of the Royal Friends of the World is growing by leaps and bounds. It is only a few months old but has nearly two hundred live, healthy members. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson are both untiring workers in this as in everything they undertake. Every meeting is crowded and from ten to fourteen new members come in each night. Meetings are held twice each month. The "Golden Rule" grocery store is rapidly coming to the front. New members are being enrolled each week in their Xmas Savings Club. It is located on the northwest corner of 53rd and Dearborn Streets in a thickly settled neighborhood of the best people in Chicago. People who work and live well, and have money at all times to pay all their bills. No better neighborhood could have been selected for a good first class grocery. This will test the metal and real character of the people in this section as there are two groceries of the other race on the opposite corners. We will soon see which way the wind is blowing, when our own try a venture. The "Stickers Club" of 3524 Michigan Avenue is doing some good work. A large meeting was held in their club rooms Tuesday, the 10th. Members of the central down town branch were out and brought splendid news of the work the society is doing. Quite a number opened savings accounts in their bank. All these things are helping us as a race. The Phyllis Wheatley Club is planning a "millionaire wedding." Don't fail to see it. Many other attractions on that night. Camp No. 22 of the American Woodmen of Chicago installed its officers last Tuesday night and are now in real working order. This is one of the youngest camps but has nearly seventy-five members to start with The District Manager, J. J. Atwell and Deputy Wm. D. Neighbors, have worked very hard the past two months, and feel that this is to be one of the best of the twenty-four camps of the city. The present officers are, Commander, Mrs. Mattie Bell, ViceCommanders, Wm. D. Neighbors, R. Arthur Edwards; Clerk, Mrs. Mary Williamson; Assistant, Mrs. Louise Jones; Recorder, Mrs. Nora E. Lee, Escorts, Mrs. J. J. Atwell, Mrs. Ethel Robinson; Watchman, Mr. Edward Carson; Sentry, Mr. Edward Miller; Chaplain, Mrs. Roxie Smith; Banker, Mr. Samuel I. Lee; Chairman of Sick Committee, Mrs. Willa Webb. Other offices to be filled later. Their meeting nights are the 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights in each month at 3201 Wabash Ave, for the present. They are preparing a social evening for their many prospects and friends. Miss Arnie Foster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster, 5434 Dearborn St., has just completed a business course in one of the down town colleges and has accepted a position in the office of Attorney Violette Anderson. We are proud of Miss Foster. She is only one of the many of our young ladies who are really accomplishing something. We are glad to see her step in to another field, for it seemed for a while that the only ave- M. COL. WILLIS E. MOLLISON President of the Cook County Bar Association, wi the Lyceum at St. Mark Church, 50th and South Wabash Avenue SAINT MARK LYCEUM legal side of the versity. In addition On Sunday, April 22, 1923, at 5:15 known platform spe p. m., the Hon. Willis E. Mollison, he is intensely inter well known public speaker, will ad-affairs of our city. dress St. Mark Lyceum, 50th Street In addition to th and Wabash Avenue, on "Our Broth-cellent musical pro- er's People and the Reception Chica-sented. Among the goans Give Them." Mr. Mollison is on the program wi President of the Cook County Bar Thomas, Trombone Association. He was a delegate to neth Parker, Violin the Republican National Conventions, Cellist, from 1892 to 1916, and at the National Program will begin Convention in 1912 he represented the p. m. President of the Cook County Bar Association, who will address the Lyceum at St. Mark Church, 50th Street and South Wabash Avenue SAINT MARK LYCEUM legal side of the Roosevelt controversy. In addition to being a well On Sunday, April 22, 1923, at 5:15 known platform speaker and scholar, p. m., the Hon. Willis E. Mollison, he is intensely interested in the civic well known public speaker, will ad-affairs of our city. from 1892 to 1916, and at the National Program will begin promptly at 5:15 Convention in 1912 he represented the p. m. —“E.” nue opened to our girls was the school room. There are many good places waiting for the bright, intelligent, honest young woman in this city. But it takes "grit" to go after them. MRS. YOUNG HOME Mrs. Lou Ella Young, D.G.M.N.G. of Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction, is home after six weeks The weather is getting fine now and we hope that some of the people who keep our newspapers filled with the happenings of the "Black Belt," and the "Cabarets," will spend a little time out on the campus of the University of Chicago, and tell us of the doings of the many bright, intelligent young men and women of our race who are spending their days filling their minds with pure and wholesome knowledge. No one has time from week to week to make any mention of them. Is that fair? Never hold up the bad for an example but pick out your best. Every race has its underworld but why keep that before us? Let us live for higher ideals then our race will be the same as others. Encourage our young people that are doing things—N. L. URBAN LEAGUE PLANS TO HELP. MIGRANTS The National Urban League has issued a statement following the recent visit to Urban League centers by L. Hollingsworth Wood, President of the National Urban League and Eugene Kinckle Jones, Executive Secretary of the League to the effect that the local Leagues are being called upon for strenuous action because of the increased demand for Negro workers and the large migration of colored people to northern centers. In the Pittsburgh district if housing facilities were available ten thousand workers could be used. In varying degrees the same is true of Newark, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Toledo and certain New England points. The League is organizing in local communities for receiving, placing and housing migrants. A special National Industrial Bureau will soon be organized and new Urban League centers are planned for many cities which will receive an appreciable influx of the Negro population. In financial support of the program of the League interested colored citizens are contributing liberally, as results of a recent trip by the Extension Secretary of the League, J. R. E. Lee, to Durham, N. C., Richmond, Va., and other cities indicate. In preparation for the increased social work that is contemplated for the cities in which Leagues are located, plans are on foot for the training of additional workers. Already fifty applications for the League's annual fellowships at schools of social work have been received and there is still time for persons interested in entering the field of social work to send in their applications to the League's headquarters, 127 East 23rd Street, New York City. College graduates, teachers and public workers generally are invited to apply. The competitive examination for applicants will be held the last part of April. --- Ar Association, who will address ark Church, 50th Street labash Avenue legal side of the Roosevelt controversy. In addition to being a well known platform speaker and scholar, he is intensely interested in the civic affairs of our city. In addition to the address, an excellent musical program will be presented. Among the artists to appear on the program will be Mr. J. Gray Thomas, Trombone Player, Mr. Kenneth Parker, Violinist and Mr. Ernest Smith, Cellist. Program will begin promptly at 5:15 p. m. — "E." MRS. YOUNG HOME Mrs. Lou Ella Young, D.G.M.N.G., of Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction, is home after six weeks' absence spent at Hot Springs, Ark., where she went in search of better health. Mrs. Young is much improved and entertained in honor of the Cornell Charity Club on the 13th. She was accompanied to and from Hot Springs by Mrs. Laura Hardwick. NEW TEMPLE ORGANIZED Mrs. Ella L. Holmes of 3115 Wabash Ave., well known in fraternal circles of this city, visited Joliet, Ill., during the week in company with several members and officers of Daughters of Elks, and organized MacBeth Temple with a large membership. VISIT PARK Mrs. Sarah Benton, 1431 W. 109th Place, Morgan Park, had as her guest last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hawkins, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watson; Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Roberts, 1254 W. 109th St, had as their guest the same day Mrs. Ella M. Glanton. LOOKING FORWARD TO SERMON The various councils of A. U, K, & D. of A. in this city under the leadership of Mrs. Eliza Jackson, as state grand queen, are preparing and looking forward to the coming of the annual sermon which will be held in connection with a military display. HOLDS MONTHLY MEETING The Cornell Charity Club held its monthly meeting on the 13th at the residence of Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Avenue. Following the transaction of much business, a splendid program was given. CLUB ENTERTAINED Mrs. Eliza Jackson, 3739 Elmwood Ave., entertained on last Sunday afternoon the Ladies Progressive Club of which Mrs. Grace Patillo is president. The next meeting will be held at 5810 Grand Blvd. IN MILWAUKEE During the week, M. T. Bailey of 3638 State St., spent considerable time in Milwaukee, Wis., where he went on business. RETURNS FROM THE EAST Atty. S. A. T. Watkins, supreme counsel for the K. of P.'s has just returned to the city from an extensive trip east where he went on legal matters. OUT AFTER LONG-ILLNESS Mrs. Bettie A. Givens, 4100 S. State St., past princess of Ruth Temple, S.M.T. is able to be out again after a prolonged illness. --- This jade Sites all the credit for her sot aofoas fo “ene Awoogertl preparation has bon diaover~ ests eect gives the hair's benatfal Soo, i row ears eine nie Sapa deat and abe ecins in merveisoe preperation i QUININE POMADE Tees given thowsande the beantfa) Ree ores. pets me Soar aeurelt to oben foe etmight bate Another marvelous jesamigleoar ELENTO SKIN BEACH ily «elena a Tf per rues cary ropiy You, tnd sphere fr fal nae pcs Stiets Honede and Benstier, oc bend’ fee tingle peckage. "Gain ibe ettrectiva ESELENTO preparations right NOW! EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY ATLANTA, GEORGIA MENTS ihe tor Ponies 4 a’ OFFICE TELEPHQNE DOUGLAS 6351 J. GRAY LUCAS \ Attorney-at-Law | 204 East 35th Street Chicage Corner Indiana Ave., Second Fleer Ree, 3648 Grand Boul ‘Tel. 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It collects trom various parts of the country and distributes to many parts of the world approximately 100 varieties of leaves and roots known in the bus Bess as crude drugs. ._—— ‘As It Seemed to Dick. ‘When Dick's uncle was married the secon time he came to Dick's home on his honeymoon. Seeing that con- gratulations were in order, the boy stepped up to his uncle and, extending his hand, said with great earnestness: “Bello, Uncle Frank! You must like to get married awful well, don’t you?” —Chicago Tribune. rench Revolutionary Leader. Georges Jacques Danton (1751-1794) was one of the ieaders of the French Revolution and foremost in orgunlz- tag and conducting the attack on the Tuileries, and bringing, together with Robespierre, royalty to the scaffold. Be afterward was condemned by the revolutionary tribunal as an accom plice in a conspiracy for the restora- tion of the monarchy and was exe cuted. — Measurement Almost Perfect. 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Five great intellectual jrofessions have hitherto existed in every civilized nation; the soldier's. to defend It; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice, and the merchant's to provide, and all these men. on due ‘occasion, to die for it—Jobn Ruskim, Worth Remembering. Jus: before going to sleep a bit of imagination regarding achieve Ment possibilities of the morrow will Steadily and increasingly bear fruit, Particulurly if all ideas of difficulty, Worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplish- Ment apd smiling courage—Dr. Fred erick Pierce. High Civilization in Yucatan. Yucatan is “the Egypt uf America.” As early as the beginning of the Chris tlan era the people there built stone ‘structures of excellent masonry, true angles .and smooth, vertical faces. ‘They had astronomical observatories, am accurate eulendar and a better sy® tem of numerais than the Romans, | First Voyage Across Atlantic. In 1492, the Santa Maria, « Spanish vessel ander the command of Chris topher Columbus, traversed the vcean tn 70 days. Some historians say that the Atlantic between Norway and Greenland was crossed by Norwegian sailors before the yesr 1000. ‘Thought for the Oay. * Christianity is larger than any deft ition of it, and is social rather than theoretical. | Pea : ‘- Theuaht. fe ‘It ts not only difficult to say the right thing In the right place, but, far: more difficult still, to leave unsaid) the wrong thing at the tempting mo ment.—Anonymous. Cannot Prey on Small Fish, _ ‘The big whalebone whale has 90 small « throat that it cannot swallow fish of ordinary size. Its food consists of little life forms found in the sea, ‘The toothed whales eat any living thing they can catch. Seinen’ Lona CSauaienh< Ger Wala Sir Robert Hattieid says the world Hoses about $2.700,000.000 a year by the rusting and decaying of iron and steel. Sranch Have Disearded Werd. Encore, while a French word mean- {mg again, and used by English and American audiences, is not employed by the French in the sume sense, they Guvtan tik, hich taenns. tatiok: | Pompey’s Pillar. Pompey's Pillar is a beautiful red granite Corinthian column in Alex- eae ‘The inscriptions show it was erected In 302 A. D., in honor of the Emperor Diocietian. No one knows how it came to be called Pompey's, except that he was assassinated in Alexandria 350 years before the date of the column. Thackeray. He blew on his pipe, and words came tripping round him like children, lke pretty little children who are per fectly drilled for the dance; or caine, did he will it, treading in their preced> ‘ence, like kings, gloomily.—Max Beer bobm, . Effects of Warm Rain. | When a warm rain occurs‘ over a "snow-covered region it Is not the rain #0 much as the warm wind that melts the snow. 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