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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Hon. George A. Schilling Champions the Cause of Mrs. Nitti, and He Is Not in Favor of Capital Punishment Being Meted Out to Women for Any Crimes Which They Might Commit. Hon. George Champsions Mrs. Nitti, an in Favor of C ment Being Women for Which They M Is it better for jurors to disregard the law and refuse to send a woman to the gallows for a capital crime, or obey the law, and let her hang? This is the burning question that has excited and divided the community, ever since the jury found Mrs. Nitti guilty of holding her husband's head while her lover beat his brains out with a hammer, for which she is now sentenced to swing. When the foreman of the jury returned home, his wife, Mrs. Murtaugh, notified him that if Mrs. Nitti was hung, she would leave him and vehemently protested against the hanging of any woman, no matter how guilty. Mr. Schilling has written the following for which we ask a careful perusal by our many readers. If Mrs. Nitti swings, she will have been the first woman to hang in the State of Illinois. "Mrs. Murtaugh's indignation because her husband voted to hang a woman HOWEVER GUILTY is not the outburst of a mandlin, sentimental, emotional woman but expresses a basis instinct for the preservation of the species. / "Among the lower animals this same instinct is manifest. A male dog won't fight a female dog; a tom cat won't fight a mother cat. "Fifty-three years ago while riding through Kansas and portions of Colorado, we encountered large herds of buffalo that thoughtless men would fire into from the train. Instantly, on the first sign of danger, the big bulls with their thick, shaggy manes, formed a cordon on the outside four or five tiers deep, with the cows and calves in the center. "Throughout all history, men, both savage and civilized, have fought bloody battles, but always kept the women and children behind the firing lines. "When the Titanic met with disaster and life boats were limited, a sharp line was drawn through the sexes. Only women and little girls were saved, with enough sailors to safeguard them. True, Mr. Astor saved a small boy who had been rejected because of his sex by dressing him up in a girl's cape and hat. "There was nothing strange about the conduct of the men on the Titanic in saving the females and going to the bottom of the sea themselves, nor was it due to the civilizing influences of art, science, and religion, but to the primitive instinct manifested throughout all life which impels the male to protect and safeguard the mother of the species, and so long as men are influenced by this primitive instinct will they refuse to hang a woman, however guilty, unless this instinct is overpowered by newspaper propaganda that calls for the blood of men and women alike guilty of a capital crime." Mr. Schilling, being one of our most highly esteemed friends of many years standing, and we honestly feel that he can rightfully be classed with the most liberal minded men in this country; that he is absolutely free from race prejudice; that his breast is at all times full of the milk of human kindness for his fellowmen; therefore, we will retrain from entering into an exhaustive argument with him at this time over the right or the wrong of hanging women up by their necks until they are dead, who commit such cold-blooded, horrible and revolting crimes like unto Mrs. Nitti. It is stated somewhere in the Bible, which is supposed to contain the unchangeable words or the writings of the Gods—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life; that no sane person on this earth has the moral right to take the life of another human being for in doing so they are taking or destroying something which no power beneath the earth nor above the starry heavens can ever restore, and if there is anything in life at all one person's life is worth as much as another person's life and they are entitled to hold onto it and freely enjoy it to the end of time or until some unseen power transports them from this little round speck of earth into a larger and better world. It may be morally wrong from a humanitarian point of view to hang women who are capable of smiling in your face and at the same time commit the most heinous, atrocious and diabolical crimes known to man. So it occurs to us that some way or somehow women should be restrained from shooting men down in cold blood some times without the slightest provocation, for within the past fifteen or twenty years well onto forty white and colored women or ladies, if you please, in this city have stained or reddened their cat-like hands in the innocent blood of their lawfully wedded husbands and their lovers on the side and not more than one or two have been convicted for the great and revolting crimes which they have committed against humanity. If women are the clinging vines as we are taught to believe that they are and if their culture and refinement is far superior to the culture and refinement of men, then they should shrink back and refrain from unsexing themselves and hold themselves aloft from transforming themselves into red handed murderers and if they will persist in committing such horrible deeds simply to gratify their taste for this or that man or lover then they should be made to suffer the full penalty of the law some way or other. If it is morally wrong to hang them then they should be confined in some penal institution for the remainder of their natural lives and if any high court Judge or set of Judges bestows their liberty or freedom upon them after they have been confined in such a penal institution for one or two years then that Judge or set of shigh court Judges should be hung up until they are dead for side-stepping the laws. AT 38 SHE'S MOTHER OF 21 GRANDMOTHER OF FIVE Johnstown. Pa.—Twenty-one children have arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Toman of Robindale, a nearby mining town, in the last twenty-one years. A daughter has just been born to Mrs. Toman, who is 38 years old. The father is 51. There has been one set of twins. The first child of the Tomans. Mrs. John Kluck, also of Robindale, was married five years ago and is the mother of five children. The Tomans are all right and they are doing their part in helping to repopulate the earth after so many people had lost their lives during the World War for democracy.—Editor. [Name] One of the Best and Most Popular Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago; With the Great Aid of the Colored Men and Women Voters in all Parts of This City, He Was the Only Candidate on the Deneen Ticket for Municipal Judge Who Was Re-elected in 1920, and Judge Holmes, After Being Strongly Urged, Has Finally Decided to Enter the Race for State's Attorney for Cook County in 1924, and Thousands of Colored People Will March Under His Victorious Banner at That Time. Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation 409 Palmer Building, Atlanta, Ga. GOOD WILL LEADERS HOLD ANNUAL MEET Inter-Racial Commission Reports Progress in Many Lines ELEVEN COLORED MEMBERS ADDED Tuskegee Raid Condemned and Commission Appointed to Investigate Atlanta, Ga. (Special to The Broad Ax).—Condemnation of recent threats against Tuskegee Institute and the appointment of a committee to look further into that situation, reports of a wide range of activities in the interest of better conditions and better race relations, the adoption of vigorous resolutions against lynching and a pledge to keep up the fight till this great evil is eradicated, and the addition of a number of leading colored men and women to its membership were among the most important features of the annual meeting of the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation, which was held in Asheville, N.C., July 31-Aug. 2. Reports from the headquarters staff and the eight field secretaries indicated that a vast amount of work was in progress throughout the South, and that in many quarters very gratifying results have been attained. Great numbers of new high schools were reported as the result of inter-racial cooperation, some of them costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hospitals, libraries, parks and playgrounds have been provided, better traveling facilities secured, the interest of powerful religious, commercial and civic bodies enlisted, mob violence prosecuted, lynching and threatened riots prevented, minor injustices corrected, and the message of good will presented in many of the leading white colleges and universities to groups of editors and to great church and civic bodies. The press, white and colored, has also cooperated widely. A significant feature of the meeting was the presence of official representatives of the organized women of the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopian, Presbyterian, Christian and Congregational THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 churches. These all reported that their several organizations, with an aggregate membership of hundreds of thousands; were studying the question of race relations and some of them already systematically at work in this field. Many club women also have been enlisted. A leading feature of the work of the woman's section is a determined and unremitting warfare on lynching. Next to the actual achievements reported, the most notable feature of the meeting was the high character and standing of its personnel. There were bishops, college presidents, mission board officials, distinguished ministers, lawyers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, men of big business interests, and women prominent in church, club and social circles. Both races and every Southern state were represented in the attendance of more than fifty. Representing the colored group were Bishop R. E. Jones, Bishop George C. Clements, Dr. John Hope, Robert E. Clay, J. T. Hodges, Dr. James Bond, Dr. H. T. S. Johnson, W. W. Hadnott, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. John Hope, Mrs. H. L. McCrory, Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Mrs. Marion Wilkerson. The seven last named were added to the membership of the Commission, as were also Bishop J. S. Slipper, Bishop K. G. Finley, H. E. Perry and C. C. Spaulding. Other colored members of the Commission are Dr. R. R. Moton, Dr. Isaac Fisher; R. L. Smith and Dr. John M. Gandy. Relative to the parade of masked men at Tuskegee, the Commission said: "We deplore and condemn such actions on the part of men masked or unmasked, in this day and time, wherever they may occur and whatever may be the cause, as being an offense against Christian civilization and as subversive of every principle of democracy upon which our government and the peace and happiness of all of our people, whether white or black, depends." A special commission was appointed to look fully into the Tuskegee situation, with power to take such steps as might seem favorable to a peaceable and righteous adjustment of the questions at issue. The following were named on this commission: Dr. M. Ashby Jones, Dr. W. D. Weatherford, Judge John D. Rather, Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Bishop R. E. Jones, Dr. John Hope and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune. Paris, France—"The Birth of a Nation," which opened for the first time in Paris on last Friday night and showed to crowded houses Friday and Saturday, has been closed by the police. Griffith's film aroused the objections of the French Negroes, who number 60 per cent of the population of the French empire, with representation in the local and central governments. As the foreign affairs ministry explained, this measure, like others taken in the last three months, is meant to give the French Negroes full consciousness that they are equals of their fellow citizens of the white race in the eyes of the French government. The department of the interior declared the film is unfair and prejudicial to the black race and is likely to create grave discontent among the French Negroes. Premier Poincare personally ordered the film suppressed. It seems hard for the American people to understand that they will never be permitted to wend their way to France, whose citizens dearly love fair play and liberty for all of its citizens, and spew their hatred and narrow-minded race prejudice against the colored citizens of the best and the only true Democratic Republic on earth. Mr. Griffith, you can return to America with your Negro hating outfit for your "Birth of a Nation" can no ice with the French colored people—Editor. Paris, France.—The police have withdrawn the all-night license of the El Cartan cafe, a fashionable tango place in Montmartre, patronized almost exclusively by Americans and South Americans, whose manager was charged recently by Prince Hajo Tava lou Houenou with assault and battery. It was alleged that the Prince, who is a nephew of King Hechanzin of Dehomey, that the manager expelled him and a Negro friend from the establish- The Elks From All Parts of the United States, Marched on and Captured Chicago, Especially on the South Side Where They Are Being Warmly Welcomed by All of Its Citizens. Joyland Park, Thirty - Third Street and South Wabash Avenue, Will Be Their Amusement Headquarters. For the past week the big Elks from all over this country have been heading for Chicago where for the next week they will hold forth in their great convention. Well onto five hundred members of the order will be present, including many lady or daughter rulers. Three or four of the best brass bands in this country will accompany the visiting Elks to this city and the Great Lakes, Elks band here in Chicago and several other crack bands will assist to furnish the music for the grand street parade which will be held on Tuesday, starting at 12:30, which will traverse the following route: North on Prairie avenue from 35th to 29th streets, west on 29th street to State street, south on state street to 46th street, east to Grand boulevard, north on Grand boulevard to 37th street, west on 37th street to Wentworth avenue, south on Wentworth avenue to 39th street and right on into the American Giants' base ball park, where the visiting Elks will witness a game of base ball between the Kansas City Monarchs and the American Giants, which will be followed by a drill and other field day events. The 24th annual grand lodge sessions of the Order of Elks will be opened in due form Tuesday morning at the Avenue Theatre at 9:30 sharp. The grand temple will convene at the Pilgrim Baptist church, 33rd street ment because of some objections by some of the patrons to the presence of Negroes. It is said that the Prince accompanied by an American Negro and a white man attempted to enter the establishment. They were faultlessly dressed in dinner clothes, but the Prince and his Negro friend were ruthlessly tossed into the street. It is said that the American patrons vociferously applauded the proprietor for his actions. However, the French authorities have revoked the license of the cabaret so the Americans will have to go elsewhere for their debauchery. It was our extreme pleasure to be presented to Mrs. Katie Moore, the charming wife of Dr. Otis Moore, of Columbia, Mo., and Mrs. Minnie Mallory of Kansas City, Mo., who were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, at the Appomattox outing on Wednesday and both ladies are very pleasant to meet and Mrs. Farmer, who was all smiles all the time, who is a good cook and a splendid housekeeper, served one of the best and finest luncheons that we have ran up against in many a day. Mrs. Farmer's lady guests are greatly enjoying their visit to this city. and Indiana avenue, at the same hour. Both sessions will last all day. A red hot fight will be staged for Grand Exalted Ruler between J. Finley Wilson of Washington, D. C., the present exalted ruler and Alderman Robert R. Jackson of this city. It is expected that Governor Len Small will be present and address the Elks at some of their sessions and that he will be presented to the big Elks by Hon. Edward H. Wright, who will serve as master of ceremonies most of the time. From now on until next Saturday there will be something doing all the time in order to make the big Elks feel at home and the people in general join in extending the right hand of fellowship to them and heartily welcome them to Chicago, the greatest and the freest city in the world. The visiting Elks will make their amusement headquarters at the wonderful Joyland Park, 33rd and S. Wabash avenue, where they and all the lady Elks can find all the real pleasure they desire and they will be received with open arms and extended hands by its managers. The following are among the big Elks who will greatly assist to make it very pleasant for the visiting Elks: Wm. J. Morsell, Chas. B. Travis, Thos. H. Jackson, H. B. Williams, Pink Walker, Edw. H. Wright, James Brooks, Ed. Tidrington, G. C. Jamison, W. H. Davis, L. A. Newby, Col. John R. Marshall and Dr. M. R. Bibb Mr. John James, who has resided for a number of years at 6041 South Loomis boulevard, passed away on Sunday morning, after a long illness. For many years he was in the employ of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Funeral services were held over his remains Wednesday afternoon, at Charles S. Jackson's undertaking establishment, 3315 South State street. Mr. James is survived by his widow, Mrs. James, who tenderly and constantly cared for him during his long illness, and by two young sons, Harvy and Southall James. Mr. James was an old and honored member of the Order of Foresters. Mrs. H. W. Jordan of Louisville, Ky., is visiting friends in this city. She is stopping at 4809 Champlain avenue. Mrs. Jordan attended the Appomattox picnic on Wednesday. She is a very lovely lady to come in contact with and she is greatly in love with Chicago. Mrs. George W. Waddy, whose husband conducts the Waddy hotel at West Baden, Ind., attended the outing of the members of the Appomattox Club on Wednesday and it was our pleasure to be presented to her by some of her friends. Mrs. Porter of Earlington, Ky., is in the city visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Nora E. Lee, 5259 South Dearborn street. Mrs. Green, also of Earlington, Ky., is in the city, also the house guest of Mrs. Lee. 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 communications to THE BROAD AX 6.400 Do. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS Vol. XXVIII. No. 49 Chicago, Ill., August 25, 1923. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago 11. Under Act of March 8, 1879. AN HONEST-TO-GOODNESS DEMOCRAT Senator Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, is the first in the field, for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, doubly armed with priority and partisan temperament. He possesses singular qualifications from a Democratic point of view—a penchant for extravagance with public funds and a surfeit of hatred for the colored American. These are the prime qualifications for a Democratic candidate and a good slogan might be, "String Up the Negroes and Expenses," because everybody would know who was running and the party he represents. Senator Underwood, it will be remembered, is the same Senator Underwood who conducted the Democratic filibuster against the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill, and who declared from the floor of the Senate that the Democratic minority would prevent the passage of any of the important measures before that body unless the bill making lynching a crime against the Government was abandoned. If there is a rule in politics like the rules in barbershops, whereby those who are first to come are the first to be served, Mr. Underwood has availed himself of that advantage. While McAdoo, Cox, Smith, Ralston and others of the aspirants are simply flirting around within the range of the lightning, the gentleman from Alabama speaks out not "in mournful numbers" concerning his ambition and the faith that is in him. Furthermore, he attempts to use his residence in the South as an argument in favor, rather than against his nomination. Its time-honored traditions against human freedom have for eighty years rendered the selection of one of the South's sons for the presidency repugnant to the country's common sense and conception of justice. Underwood confesses judgment in this, but brazenly announces it as his belief that the period of the South's penance for its "principles" has been sufficiently long. In this the Senator is wrong in a proverbial Democratic way, but when he says that the South reflects the fundamental sentiment of the Democratic party, he struck keno and is irresistibly right. Reconstruction of the Democratic party is as remotely removed from realization now as it was in 1868,ample evidence of which is furnished by the Senator himself, when he essayed to stop all of the functions of the Government rather than to acknowledge lynching to be a crime to be stamped out by federal authority. Mr. Underwood's plea that the South should receive its reward in the Democratic nomination because of its simon-purity in the matter of Democratic allegiance is insistent and quite tenable. Saya the Senator in his announcement: "Today it is said by some that it is not expedient to have a standard bearer from the South, that it is in the interest of expedition we must go to the doubtful States of the Union to select our candidate. Must the South forever waive the right to select one of its citizens as the chief executive of the nation, or must it weaken its Democratic faith in order that it can have one of its sons as President of the United States?" Speaking as a Democrat to Democrats, the Senator surely carries force of logic. Since we are going to have a Democratic candidate, let us have the real thing, and not a Northern rubber stamp, who curries favor with the colored people in a local way and runs true to Democratic form in the national game. Let us have a man who speaks the Democratic language without stuttering; who believes that lynching, disfranchising and peonage are implements of civilization, and who puts his faith to work like Underwood did with the Dyer Bill. Let us have the wolf himself, shorn of his disguise of sheep's clothing. 409 Palmer Building, Atlanta, Ga. WOMEN PLEDGE UTMOST EFA- FORTS IN ANTI-LYNCHING WAR Inter-Racial Commission Group Sets Out on Definite Crusade Will Seek Cooperation of Organized Womanhood of Whole South Atlanta, Ga. (Special to The Broad Ax).—At the recent annual meeting of the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation, the woman's section of the Commission brought in a vigorous paper on lynching and asked the Commission to authorize that the matter be brought to the attention of the various women's organizations of the South and that they all be asked to cooperate in a sustained and systematic effort to eradicate this great evil. The Commission, which has been constantly at work toward the same end, gladly give its approval to the plan by unanimously adopting the resolutions presented by the women, which were as follows: Resolution—Woman's General Committee—Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation, Asheville, N. C., August 20, 1923. Whereas, Lynching, at one time practiced only as punishment by the mob for the violation of womanhood, is now resorted to even for robbery, petty crime, or no crime, and Whereas, At present the responsibility for the punishment of lynchers and the abolition of the evil rests solely in the several State Governments, and Whereas, We, the Woman's Committee of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, are overwhelmed with a deep sense of humiliation that this hideous crime is heralded abroad as the only means available to men for the protection of womanhood, and Whereas, We likewise suffer because of the seeming impotence of our State Governments in the protection of human life and in their inability to find and punish lynchers and members of mobs, who, in the absence of sufficient law enforcement by the regularly constituted authorities, presume to assume the role of Judge and Jury—thus themselves becoming the greatest of law violators, therefore Be It Resolved, 1. That we deplore the failure of State Governments to handle this, the most conspicuous enemy to justice and righteousness, and the most flagrant violation of the Constitution of our great nation. 2. That we definitely set ourselves to the task of creating such sentiment as is possible to us in each State of our territory to the end that not only sufficient laws shall be enacted to enable the trusted officers of the law to discharge their full duty, but to secure the enforcement of the laws now in existence. 3. That the Director of Woman's Work of the Commission, Mrs. Luke Johnson, Palmer Building, Atlanta, Ga., be and is hereby instructed to secure the presentation of this resolution to all our cooperating organizations and State Committees, and further to put into effect such plans as are necessary to secure a sustained effort on the part of our women to the accomplishment of these ends. Chairman. Miss Emma Whitfield, Sec'y, Pro Tem. "PLANTATION DAYS" CONTIN UES TO HOLD FORTH AT THE AVENUE THEATER The days of "Plantation Days" are drawing to a close at the old Avenue Theater, 3110 Indiana avenue, for Sunday, September 2nd, will be its last night on the billboards at that popular play house. It has had a long and very successfull run, for without any question about it, it is the best and cleanest show on the road. It is composed of 33 highclass or star artists who understand their stunts from A to Z. "Plantation Days" has been playing to crowded houses at each show every evening. As this is its last week it will be known as Elks' Week and two shows will be staged each evening, one at 7:15 and the second show at 9:30 sharp. M. HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN Member of Congress From the First Congressional District of Illinois; Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, Who Has Announced That He Will Not Become a Candidate for Governor of Illinois nor for United States Senator From This State, nor for President or Vice President of the United States; That Right Now He Is a Candidate for Re-election to Congress From His Same District in 1924. The Best Clerk of the Circuit Court That Cook County Has Ever Had, Who Is Slated for His Present Responsible Position in 1924. The Best Clerk of the Circuit Court That Cook County Has Ever Had, Who Is Slated for His Present Responsible Position in 1924. URBAN LEAGUE ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIPS Miss Ethel E. M. McGhee Receives Ella Sachs Plotz Fellowship The National Urban League through its Executive Secretary, Eugene Kinckle Jones, has announced its fellowship awards for the next school year. Miss Ethel E. McGhee of the 1923 class of Oberlin College and a resident of Atlanta, Ga., receives the Ella Sachs Plotz Memorial Fellowship to the New York School of Social Work. Miss McGhee was an honor student at Oberlin College having previously been graduated with an excellent record at Spelman Seminary in 1919. The other successful candidates are Miss Irene E. Ruff of Haverhill, Mass., a graduate of the State Normal School of Framingham, Mass., in the class of 1918, and formerly a secretary of girls work in the Y. W. C. A., Abram L. Harris, of Richmond, Va., an honor graduate of Virginia Union University, class of 1922 and formerly Assistant in the Department of Research of the National Urban League and Loratius L. McKenzie of Minden, La., a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1922 who secured his master's degree at Michigan in June, 1923. These candidates were selected as the result of competitive examinations taken by 36 out of 70 applicants from schools and colleges located in every section of the country. These awards carry with them free tuition in the schools to which the candidates are assigned and in addition about $500 in cash. The Ella Sachs Plotz Memorial Fellowship consists of income from a fund of about THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, IL LINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 $10,000 contributed by friends of Mrs Ella Sachs Plotz, who before her death was most active in aiding the League to carry on its program of Social Service. In addition to the New York School of Social Work the candidates will be assigned to the Boston School of Social Work at Simmons College. The Graduate School of Social Administration of Chicago University, and the Margaret Morrison College of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh. WILLIAM PICKENS WRITES IN "NATION" ON "JIM CROW IN TEXAS" William Pickens, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writing in "The Nation" (20 Vesey street, New York City), gives his personal experience with Jim Crow in Texas. "The Jim Crow car is not an institution merely to 'separate the races'," asserts Mr. Pickens; "it is a contrivance to humiliate and harass the colored people and to torture them with a finesse unequaled by the cruelest genius of the heathen world. Fourteen States have Jim Crow laws. Not one of them maintains 'equal accommodations' for colored people, although the law generally calls for accommodations 'equal in all points of service and convenience,' so as to square with the Fifteenth Amendment." Mr. Pickens then recites individual Mr. Pickens then recites individual cases: "A colored woman traveling three nights from El Paso, Texas, to Charleston, South Carolina, with a baby and small children, is compelled V 74 of the Circuit Court That Cook Co Is Slated for His Present Respon to carry cold food and to sit up on straight-backed seats for the whole trip. A colored woman of Portland, Oregon, editor of a paper there, bright, intelligent and attractive, respected by the best-known white and colored people of the State, was visiting her parents in Texas, carrying her infant and a small child of three years. On their third night's ride, in Texas, she was compelled to get up, dress herself and babies, and vacate her berth because some short-distance white passengers objected to her presence in the car. A colored person who was hurrying from Florida to undergo an operation by an expert in Chicago had to risk death by a seventy-four-hour ride in a Jim Crow day coach. Sick colored people sometimes have to be carried on stretchers in the baggage car." SCHOOL FRIENDS TO MEET AFTER YEARS Hon. Arthur G. Free, recorder of deeds of District of Columbia; J. Daniel Beasley, cashier of Boston and Albany Railway, Boston, Mass.; M. T. Bailey, President of the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State St., President of the Alumni Association of Virginia State Normal College, Petersburg, Va., and Patterson H. Carter, Inspector of Highways of Philadelphia, Penn., will be re-united at the Elks Convention after having been separated since their college days from the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institution of Petersburg, Va., from which they graduated. National Equal Rights League Elects Rev. Harten of Brooklyn to See President Coolidge—Conference Acts on Mexico and Tuskegee Hospital—Appeals to American Bar Association-Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. New York, N. Y.—After having taken part on Monday night in a call meeting of the United Front Conference, which issued the original call for the All-Race Assembly, for the purpose of consulting with Prof. Kelly Miller, Chairman of its Committee of Arrangements for the Assembly, and presided over by Jas. Weldon Johnson, treasurer, in absence of Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, the president, the National Equal Rights League, which called the United Front Conference last March, held a two days' conference of the League on Thursday and Friday at 206 West 133rd street on the general race situation. From this conference a Memorial Proclamation to President Calvin Coolidge was issued and sent proclaiming the loyalty of Colored Americans and their just desire to have the President enforce full equality of rights and life-protection, thus dispelling the natural race apprehension at his selection of a Southern "filywhite" for his secretary, an opponent in Congress of the Dyer Bill, and the apprehension from Gen. Hines' insistence on white heads for the Colored Veterans' Hospital at Tuskegee. The Conference adopted resolutions calling upon the American Bar Association at its coming Annual Convention to formulate legislation for federal protection of life from mobs, urging the President to insist on the abolition THE POLICE RAIDED MANY PLACES ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY Last Sunday evening the ever-present and watchful police raided many disorderly houses or resorts, and the following places selling liquor, gambling houses and hotels fell under the ban of the police for violation of many of the city ordinances. Raids in the "black belt," conducted by police of the Cottage Grove, Stanton and Wabash Avenue stations, produced the largest number of arrests, while raids on the west side netted forty prisoners. Keeper and Couples Nabbed The Vincennes hotel, 3601 Vincennes avenue, was raided, two couples were arrested, and Fred Lewis, the clerk, booked as keeper of a disorderly house. At 3800 Grand boulevard, a luxurious apartment was raided and Kittie Bartell booked as keeper, while two couples were arrested as inmates. The largest number of arrests was made when the police raided an alleged gambling den at 224 East 35th street and booked thirty-four men as inmates of a gambling house. Alex Burroughs, the proprietor of the place, was booked as keeper. A cigar store at 302 East 35th street yielded twenty-two men, arrested on charges of gambling. South State Street Raid Other places raided were an apartment at 2010 South State street, where six men and six women were arrested; a house at 7 West 29th street, where two couples and one woman were arrested as keeper, and a disorderly house at 751 West Van Buren street, which yielded four women and three men. Comparatively few were arrested on charges of violation of the prohibition act, only two places being raided. At 1225 South Ashland avenue seven men were arrested and six more at 1400 Hastings street. At both places the police claim they found men drinking liquor. The Vincennes hotel has for a long time been the very best place for colored people to stop at in this city, and it is too bad that some ladies and gentlemen have brought disgrace upon it—Editor. INVESTIGATE EXCLUSION OF COLORED AMERICANS (Lincoln News Service. Washington.-The State Department has ordered an immediate investigation of the refusal of the authorities at Piedras Negras, Mexico, to admit colored American citizens. It is intimated here that this refusal might have some effect upon the negotiations in progress for American recognition of Mexico. REMOVAL NOTICE On and after Monday evening, August 27th, all meetings of the Pyramid Building and Loan Association will be held at the new Douglass National Bank building, 3623 S. State St. Members will take notice of same and govern themselves accordingly.—Adv. of any race immigration bar by Mexico against American citizens before resuming diplomatic relations, also asking the President in view of his dedication address and plan to follow Harding's policies to put Colored doctors at the head of the Colored Veterans' Hospital at Tuskegee. Wm. Monroe Trotter, national corresponding secretary, presided, Dr. Julia H. P. Coleman and Miss Zeta Dyson of Washington, were the secretaries, A. J. Smitherman, formerly of Tulsa, Okla, was resolution Chairman, and Rev. L. C. Newby of Connecticut, secretary, C. T. A. French, Esq., local president, Hon. I. B. Allen, local vice-president, Miss Grace Campbell, local treasurer, Rev. T. S. Harten and Rev. George Frazier Miller of Brooklyn and many others attended. At the meeting in Brooklyn, Rev. T. S. Harten was elected president of the local branch League and was elected to wait upon President Coolidge at the White House to oppose C. Bascomb Sempel of West Virginia as the President's secretary. Secretary Trotter was the speaker. Dr. E. D. N. Campbell was elected vice, Mrs. Clyde Brown, secretary, and Rev. Frazier Miller, treasurer. The annual meeting is scheduled for September 26th in Brooklyn, N. Y. The New York Branch League endorsed the action of the Conference and thanked France for enforcing equal civil rights for persons of color N. A. A. C. P. NOTES Dean Williams Pickens, Field Secretary, N. A. A. C. P., addressed mass-meeting at the big tent, East 39th street and Rhodes avenue, Friday night, August 24th. Captains and Lieutenants are urged to report, as complaints are coming in indicating that solicitors who have memberships in their books have not reported them to the office. National Office is making big plans for the Kansas City Conference. Congressman Dyer, Dr. George Washington Carver, Governor Hyde, Arthur B. Spingarn, Scipio A. Jones, Miss Mary E. McDowell, Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson and many other prominent persons will be on the speaking program. Reservations tor space with the special party leaving here over the C. & A. Tuesday, August 28th, can be made at the local office, 3201 South Wabash Avenue, Telephone Victory 7490. The railroad fare is $24.95 for the round trip. Mr. Walter F. White, Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Herbert J. Seligman, Director of Publicity, will be in Chicago Saturday on their way to Kansas City. Several delegates from Chicago are scheduled to take part in the proceedings of the Conference. Reservations for space with the special Chicago party have been made by Mrs. Harry Davis of Cleveland, Mr. B. F. Sherard of Roanoke, Va., Mr. Cooke and Mr. A. B. Whitlock of Gary, Ind., and Mrs. A. M. Morrow of Elgin. MRS. ELIZABETH KIMBOUGH, N. Y., HERE Mrs. Elizabeth Kimbough of Brooklyn, New York, is in the city to attend, as a delegate, the Elks Convention and while here is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Alford, 3423 Wabash Ave. Mrs. Kimbough is one of the most prominent leaders of fraternities in the Eastern states. RETURN TO MORGAN PARK J. W. and Mrs. Withers, Morgan Park, and Fred Johnson and wife, 3153 S. State St., have returned from a pleasant tour to Idlewild and visit to relatives and friends in Detroit. VISITING NEW YORK Mrs. Lillian Page is in New York city attending the Supreme Lodge of K. of P.'s and Court of Calanthe. She is well known as the princess of Ruth Temple 72, S. M. T. Mrs. Katie Moore, wife of Dr. Moore, of Columbia, Mo., nephew of Lawyer Farmer, and Mrs. Minnie Mallroy, of Kansas City, Mo., are the honored house guests of Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4751 Champlain avenue; the ladies were also their guests at the Appomattox picnic on Wednesday. COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, ATTENDED THE 24TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE WHICH HELD FORTH AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK., THE PAST WEEK, WHERE HE MET MANY OF THE BIG COL-ORED FOLKS OF THIS COUNTRY. Hot Springs, Arkansas.—The devil must have been on his annual vacation while we were so near to his home attending the National Negro Business League, for while he has kept the water hot, yet he has kept down and is about to permit us to get away from the jumping off place without having to jump off. You recal that I have told you when I get to Hot Springs, the place so near hades that the water comes out of the mountains hot, I can scarcely keep my mouth from jumping out of my heart. But dear readers, I am here attending the Business League and I should have said the National Negro Business League, and I have been made to shout all over this town and then some. I have heard some things that would almost make the devil rejoice. I have heard Dr. Robert R. Moton, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, the man about whom so much has been said through the papers, through the public press and every other way since the hospital question has been up. Dr. Moton has been cussed about, has been talked about, has been called everything but a child of God, but he has gone right on doing his duty, and when he spoke out Wednesday night, August 15. I thought of the blessed Master, who said on one occasion, "Mine hour has not yet come." I knew all the time that Dr. Moton was doing the right thing, and he was speaking where speaking meant something, and did not have the running off at the mouth. He knew when to speak and where to speak, and I wish that many of us could learn that particular thing, but we have not learned it yet. Now, do not abuse Moton, for the man on the inside can see better than the fellow on the outside and leave it to him. The hospital question will be settled and settled in a way that all of us will be pleased with it. He said that it was not good to tell everything you know, and then some one added that it was not good to talk to Tom, Dick and Harry. I would like to know them three fellows that I might stay clear of them myself. Do you know that the great National Negro Business League has met and when you read this it will have gone into history, and while you may never see my name, I will have been in this history making, for I have been here, and have been counted with the number who made up the 24th annual session and I wish that there could be some way of letting those who follow me know that I furnished a part of this historic session. Well I am here, and during the week I have been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Falconer. Do you know W. H. Falconer? He came into this world over in Mississippi, got his education at Alcorn A. & M. college, and is a real first-class carpenter. He has worked at the business, but now he is supreme agent for the Woodmen of Union, which requires him to get around all over the country. A wonderful man, and a man of wonderful ability. His wife is a stenographer, but then I am not going to talk about that this time, for I have before me the session which will close when I close this letter, and the men who came from afar will have to be leaving for home. I will leave here for New York, and perhaps before you can get through reading this letter I will be on my way to California I fear, for I am only going to be in New York until the last of the week and then off, going through Cincinnati, Frankfort, Louisville, Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, and then to New Orleans. Will you decide that I am some goer? Now let us consider the League. The Arkansas State Negro Business League held things down the first two or three days. No just two days, and it was presided over by Col. John L. Webb, the president, and who was re-elected for another year. He is just a good official and is rendering service for his people. If I had my way with him, I would tell him to unload some things or the people will be looking in his face saying he looks natural. He is a man with wonderful ability and the people are working him hard. I will tell you a few things. He is at the head of the cadets of the National Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. congress; he is superintendent of the Roanoke Sunday school, and a deacon in that Baptist church; he is supreme custodian of the Woodmen of Union, which is indeed another responsible position. He is just he is, for there are many other positions he fills, and for that reason is kept busy all the time. W. H. Falconer is by his side, but then he is working the tongue out of this young man, the head of a growing family. The state meeting was great, and prepared the people for what followed the national meeting. I will not tell you about any of the addresses, for I will not have the time. August 15, a little after 10 o'clock Col. John L. Webb called to order the 24th annual session of the National Negro Business League, and without further ceremonies introduced the wizard, the man of ability, Dr. Robert R. Moton, the president. Then followed the opening song and prayer service by the Rev Dr. Goodwin of the Baptist church. I was glad to have been there and heard this for there were some amens and that told me that there was religion among the Business men of my race. Thank God for that. Well why not? President Moton is an old Baptist, although he may hold his membership in the chapel of Tuskegee now. I don't know. Addresses of welcome followed the opening, and I was delighted to have heard them, and then other addresses. I was delighted to have seen and heard Charles Banks. He is not in the best of health, but his many friends were delighted to see him. There were other old timers present. Well, at night Mr. Banks presided, and that was a night of nights, and one that will long be remembered. It was at this meeting where Dr. Moton spoke about the hospital, it was at this meeting where he made his wonderful address, and it was at this meeting where Governor Thomas C. McRae delivered an address, and he came all the way from Little Rock to Hot Springs at his own expense, to do so. He did not send a substitute but came himself. We were all delighted to have heard the Governor of Arkansas, for he delivered a clean cut manly speech. He did not talk to "you people" or to "your people," but he talked to Americans as an American. He told us, of course that he had known or kept track of us since 1865, and he was conversant with our condition then and had been ever since. He commended the wonderful progress. He said he came to Hot Springs to speak to the business league, for several reasons, and one was because he wanted to come and make the strangers feel that they were welcome to Arkansas, another was because he had known personally the founder of the League: Booker T. Washington, and he was sure that there would be no failure if his ideas were followed out. He did not come to discuss the exodus or the race question nor did he discuss it. He came with a message of good will, a message of friendship, he came as brother to brother, and man to man. Such was his speech. Governor McRae was anxious that we judge each other right. He asked that he not be judged by the liquor drinking, gambling set of his race, that crowd who would consider the proper thing to "cuss a Nigger," drink whisky and be elected to an office. He said that he would not judge the Negro by the vicious law-breaking element of his race, but wanted each other to judge the other by the best. "Let us eradicate meanness from our hearts," he said. He declared that he believed in education, and wanted all the youth of Arkansas educated, and he was willing to do his part. He believed in upholding the law, in the protection of life and property and would do so as far as he was able. Well it was an THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 72 HON. BENJAMIN E. COHEN One of the Many Successful Lawyers in Chicago, Who Would Make an Ideal Republican Candidate for One of the New Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, to Be Voted For the First Part of November. Joyland Park THIRTY-THIRD AND WABASH AVE. BEAUTIFUL JOYLAND PARK only three more weeks If you miss seeing this beautiful aggregation of amusement, the finest to be obtained in any park in the country, you will miss the treat of your life. Joyland Park is a creation of the brains of some of the most progressive men of the race. Its motto is "A clean, healthful amusement for all people who are desirous of visiting a place where they can have pleasure without molestation." It is on the same order as White City and Riverview Parks. All manner of concessions of the latest and finest to be had are in this park. The rides are of the latest and best in the city. Shows also of the highest type. Nothing more pleasing than to have a ride on either the Merry-Go-Round, the Ferris Wheel and the Teasing Whip, which makes the body thrill while riding upon it. The Dance Hall is made of a wooden structure 40x60 ft. in diameter, with one of the finest orchestras playing in the city to play to the amusement of the dancers. Many of our people have been skeptical on the past reputation of this park. To these we appeal to make a visit to see for themselves and we assure you that when you once visit this beautiful spot, you will be a JOYLAND BOOSTER at all times to come. JOYLAND PARK has been selected by the ELKS as its amusement headquarters during its great convention to be held in Chicago beginning August 26th. The management has spared no pains in making this a real pleasure spot for pleasure seekers, and to the amusement seeking public we invite you to refrain from spending your money in going to White City and Riverview Park where people of color are not wanted. Boost Your Own; Visit Your Own, thus making it possible for a larger park during the coming season. • Admission to the park on all occasions is only 10c. W. C. S. & S. AMUSEMENT CO. THIRTY-THIRD AND WABASH AVENUE address worth hearing, and I am proud that I was there. When he was through, then followed the annual address of President R. R. Moton, and believe me honey that man delivered one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard from human lips. He had a new vision, a new inspiration. He spoke with a heart full. He was anxious to do his part. Well the people left that meeting declaring that he was the real leader of his race. Thank God for it all. Put it down that I have been sailing in good company this week. I have had as my companion, President N. W. Collier, of the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute, St. Augustine, Fla., and he has been teaching me some dictionary and grammar, but I am not springing any of it on you this week. Then I have touched Editor W. L. Porter, of the East Tennessee News, and he made a wonderful address about the press. That young man is doing his part, and then I came in touch with President W. J. Hale, of the State school, down in Nashville, Tennessee. I could just name them for hours, but it is time for me to bring this letter to a stop, and will hold some for next week. We will be off next week for the National Baptist Convention. God bless you. CHARLES E. STUMP. MR. ALFORD BETTER Allen H. Alford, 3423 Wabash Ave., well known in fraternal circles, sustained a broken jaw bone and other serious injuries August 9th, but is now slowly recuperating at the Provident Hospital, 16 W. 36th St. TAKING SEASON'S VACATION Mrs. Amelia M. Keeble Haack, stenographer and book-keeper for the office of the Bailey Realty Co., and Milton Mercantile Agency, is on her annual vacation. MAKING FLYING TRIP TO IDLEWILD Mrs. Jessie Armstrong, wife of Dr. J. Frank Armstrong is in Idlewild, Michigan, with Mrs. Birdie Venie en- joying a three weeks' vacation. RETURN FROM BENTON HARBOR Misses T. P. B. Whiting and F. B. Anderson, students at the University of Chicago, spent the week in Benton Harbor and other resorts. DR. ARMSTRONG PLEASED WITH TRIP After enjoying a much needed vaca- tion of two weeks, Dr. J. Frank Arm- strong, 1959 W. Lake St., is back in the city. KU-KLUX JAILED Durant, Okla.—Two Ku-Klux officials, J. D. Blanton and E. M. Stevenson, were sentenced to 30 days in jail by District Judge Newman for contempt in the failure to produce their organization records as ordered by the Court. Mrs. Cornelius Chapman, of Montgomery, Ala., has for the past few weeks been visiting at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Moses Chapman, of St. Paul, Minn. At the present time she is visiting at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman, 6142 South Elizabeth street. Mrs. Chapman has greatly enjoyed her visit to the Northwest and this city. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING COLORED Men wanted to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transportation furnished. Write T. McCaffrey, Supt., St. Louis, Mo. Did you have a thought a while back that you might get through with the summer months without any really thin clothes? And then came the very hot weather. Well, of course, we'll have to take it for granted that your mind has changed. For the next two months at least, writes a fashion correspondent in the New York Times, there will be days and days when only thin, light dresses will suffice, and the important question now is how to make those frocks thin enough and cool enough to be satisfactory and wearable, and still to cast about them that happy crispness of expression that makes them look as comfortable as they really are. It is all right to feel cool, but you don't want to look dowdy at the same time, and that is the effect that so many thin summer things are apt to cast about them in spite of themselves. They look well enough in the hand, or on the hangers, or on the youthful models in the smart shops, but take them to your own boudour and put them on and there is sometimes the most bitter disappointment awaiting you. You see that they are not right at all—that you had not judged your summer expression with sufficient clarity, and that you turn out to be, in the hot weather regalia, something that looks totally foreign to your own feeling and to the appearance that you are accustomed to throw out into the world. Now, all this means that you must study your hot-weather self with as much care and forethought as you usually spend upon your cold or even medium-weather self. You must realise that your temperament changes subtly, and that you do not have the same things to give to a summer costume as you have ready to supply to a winter one. You may have better ones for summer, or worse ones, but, at all events, they need especial attention when it comes to surrounding them with clothes. You must take in the exigencies of the case, conforming your thoughts and your appearance to the state of the weather, which, after all, you cannot escape, unless you flee to Alaska, which it is the privilege of very few of us to do. Use for Electric iron. You will raise all sorts of complaints about the mussableness of summer materials. Yes, that is their great drawback, but, then, they have so many and various advantages that you must needs face the electric iron as a part of your summer equipment and conform your views and opinions to that condition of affairs. A little pressing is a small price to pay for comparative comfort and coolness when the days take on that state of temperature which is bound to oppress you at every turn whether your mind is set against the contingency or not. Now, if you are in the country, thin summer things are a matter of course. Every one is doing them and you are meeting with people dressed as you A woman in a wide-brimmed hat and a long skirt with floral patterns stands in a garden, holding a bouquet of flowers. The 1880 Period Style of Dress is Beautifully Carried Out in This Summer Frock of Mauve Organdie and Lace. The 1880 Period Style of Dress is Beautifully Carried Out in This Summer Frock of Mauve Organdie and Lace. are at every turn of the road. This is particularly true of vacations, when you can afford to look around for comfortable spots, and for places that are affumed to the wearing of certain clothes. You will find frocks already designed and made for this emergency—and after all it is no emergency at all, but a certain form of happening in a certain sort of woman's life. There are morning clothes and garden clothes and evening clothes—all of the simplest varieties and designs—all constituted to make you look your best when surrounded by the open spaces of the country. These costumes are more or less simple, depending upon your taste and the kind of society in which you mix. Then there come the clothes of the woman who is confined to the city and who cannot leave there. They are not so simple, because of the many restrictions. But then they are all beautiful when they are well done, and Severest Punishment. "The sevestest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it." - Hosea Ballon. they all manage to fit into the scheme of things when it comes to the last analysis. The materials this season are better and more durable than they have been for some time past. When you come to look into the subject you will find that they possess certain wearable qualities which are not nearly so questionable as they have been heretofore. They wash well and press well. They are dyed so perfectly that they keep their color. They are woven with a certain amount of resistance THE FASHION WEEKLY Embroidered White Organdie is Cut Most Simply and Gracefully Pooed Over a Bright Green Silk Under Dress. Embroidered White Organdie is Cut Most Simply and Gracefully Posed Over a Bright Green Silk Under Dress. so that they do not fall to pieces at the first breath, and they manage to keep their shapes and contour through many emergencies. Must Watch the Detaile. Must Watch the Details. The big point is how to make them up so that they will look smart and be as unmuscular as it is possible for them to be. That is a simple enough process, only you must watch the details and let no intricacy of workmanship escape your attention. Once you decide upon the thing that is your style and type, it may perhaps be easier to carry it out at home with the help of your trusted seamstress. However, there are wonderful values to be had in the way of ready-made clothes this season. You can have two dresses for last year's one if you do not insist upon going into fields that are made only for millionaires. Take the organdie dress, for instance. This stuff costs much less than formerly, and a very good quality, too—good enough, certainly, to last through the washings of a season. And who wants to carry a summer dress over to a second year? The more expensive organdies may suit you better, but they are no better for a season's wear, and the casual observer cannot tell the difference in the quality. You can make it up then with no trimming—simply with applications of tucks or frills of its own material—and you can see that it, with its sash and collar of the same material, turns out to be the smartest of frocks to be seen about the neighborhood. The becomingness of the color chosen is the chief concern; and then the lines should suit your own particular type of figure. Fichus are extremely smart this season, and they certainly have a peculiar quality of making a dress a becoming matter as added to any wardrobe. They are nicest when they are made from white organdie. They can then be worn with different sorts of frocks, from ginghams to dotted swisses, with the latter especially managing to look their best. It can be a large and all-embracing fichu or it can be a slim and slender one. And, by the same token, it can be ruffled on its edge or left plain, accoaching to your own standard of taste or the demands of the design of your gown and the portion of the day that it is meant to grace. Fichus are sometimes made of net or of all-over patterns of lace. 1880 Styles in Fashion. Now the 1880 styles that have crept into fashion during the last season have a fine opportunity to display their airs and graces when it comes to thin summer materials. All of the full and drooping lines have an especial opportunity to show off the gracefulness of their designs when it comes to thinner materials. The era of dress fairly calls for laces and ruffles and wide, deep berthas of lace—all those fountes and flutings which made the women of that era attractive are now in the extreme of good taste and style. They seem to fit with thin materials even better than they do with thicker and more wintry ones, and so those women who wish to be appealing and beautiful in that particular way will find the road all prepared for them. One of these dresses has wide floueing of lace about the bottom of the skirt and the cross lines of lace applied above that point. The dress is made of pale mauve chiffon and the lace is dyed to match, so that, with little handworkings of pink it becomes the prettiest sort of a summer frock with every point of coolness about its making and every line of dignity and charm about its design. The hat worn with this frock is so suitable that it is beautiful, though it has no pretension to modern style about it other than the widely drooping brim that is in complete accord with the downward tending lines of the frock's design. To Clean Plaster Ornaments. To clean plaster ornaments, busts, vases, etc., dip in clean starch mixed with water. When dry brush off. Housewife. Brass and Wood Beds, Electric Washers, Refrigerators, Stoves, Paint, Oil, Hardware, Linoleum HENRY STUCKART 2515-19 ARCHER AVE. Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government Supervision 31st and South State Streets Telephone Victory 4500 Your Hair Can Be A Crown of Beauty No longer need you wish for beautiful hair. A marvelous preparation has been discovered that quickly coarse coarses, homely hair into long, lovely, silky locks, smooth skin, and soft sheens, sheets and dandruff and itching scalp. This wonderful preparation is called It has given thousands the beautiful hair for which they are so much admired. Another great beauty help is EXELEENTO SKIN BEAUTIFIER, a remarkable cream that quickly removes skin blemishes and clears up dark, shallow complexions. If your druggist cannot supply you, send 25c for generous size package of either Pomade or Beautifier. EXELEENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write For Particulars OFFICE TELEPHONE J. GRAY Attorney 204 East 3rd Chicago Corner Indiana A Res., 3646 Grand Bou Phone Y FURNISH Brass and Wood Bed Refrigerators, St Hardware, HENRY ST 2515-19 ARC TELEPHONE GEORGE F. H. 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It consists of five parts of levulose and three parts of hydrated dextrone, some of which arises by inversion of saccharine. Anticipated Applause Anticipated Applause. Speaking of vanity, a politician the day before he was to make a certain speech, sent a 41-page report of it to all the papers. On page 30 appeared this paragraph: "But the hour grows late and I must close." (Cries of "No, no! Go on! Go on!") ONE DOUGLAS 6351 Y LUCAS JAS. B. McCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN COAL CO. Telephone Oakland 1550 5100 Federal Street CHICAGO 120 South State Street (Seventh Floor) Opposite Palmer House Phone Dearborn 5871 MRS. W Painless C 18 Years Residence Phone Douglas 2616 Telephone Norris-War YARD 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. 18th and Canal Sts., C. B. Root St., C. R. I. B. Roscoe and 2556 COTTAGE GRO CUT OUT THE SUBSCRIPT Telephone Calumet 805 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. 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Perhaps it signifies that life is a game and should be treated as such. At any rate, the practical influence of sports clothes makes itself felt on nearly all occasions. This is due no doubt to the simplicity and comfort found in these modes. A prominent moving-picture actress wears a charming frock which had its inspiration from a sport model. It is of cream alik crepe piped with red on collar, cuffs and pockets. The overblouse is of the regulation cut and comes well over the plaited skirt. A circle embroidered in red incloses a space for monogramming, which is quite the latest fad for blouses of this sort. Oldest Actor. - The oldest actor who ever appeared on the stage was Charles Macklin, who represented Shylock in 1789 at Covent Garden when past his one hundredth birthday. Chaa. Krutekoff, Prec. J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 Oakland 1550 CHICAGO WARNER Chiropodist Experience CHICAGO Hard Coal Co. ROS AT R. & Q. R. R. R. R. R. 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One of the unwritten rules at royal weddings in England is that everything the bride uses must come from England or one of her dependencies, and there is a tiny gold mine in Wales that is kept in operation, apparently, or no other reason than to accumulate a store of the precious metal for use at royal weddings in the manufacture of ties and plate and other useful articles. Mile-High Dancing. Mile-High Dancing. In Colorado's pioneer days Creede, with its gold prospectors and dancing senoritas, outdid the present endurance dancers. They worked and danced for days at a time, giving rise to the phrase: "It's day all day in the daytime and there is no night in Creede." Preserving Plant Colors. In order to preserve the colors of plants it is necessary to kill the specimens quickly, and this can be effected by plunging them for a few seconds in boiling water. If a plant is allowed to die slowly the colors of its leaves and flowers will gradually fade. To Brighten Gilt Frames. Gilt frames can be brightened by the following method: Take sufficient flowers of sulphur to give a gold tinge to a pint and a half of water; in this boil four onions. Strain off the liquid when cool; apply to gilding with a soft brush. What He Called a Good Time. "A good time? You had a good time? What do you call having a good time?" "Oh, anything, just so it's some... that you can spend at least a week regretting afterward."—Toronto to Telegram. "If your motor is missing, keep beerful," says the Buffalo News. "So many people find their entire cars missing." CHICAGO Hugh Norris, Treas. Kirby Ward, Secy. $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS $2.00 PER YEAR FUNERAL DIRECTORS UNDER TAKER PRIVATE LAND LANDING UTES AT ALL HOURS ALL MONTHS ASST. ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE DIL OPEN BAY & NIGHT PHONE MAIN 2014 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Phone Main 2017 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. 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Merle Fisher, Asst. Cashier Edw. C. Barry, Cashier and Trust Officer Carl O. Seberg, Asst. Cashier The following Electric Shops carry a full line of Electrical Appliances and sell the Federal Washer on Easy Terms; Davis Electric Shop, Da Laure Electric Shop, 250 I. N. Kidroia Ave. 4501 Fulbright Avenue, Lomax Lighting Shop, 555 Manor Electric Co. Mid-West Electrical Service Co. Mid-West Electric Service Co. Patterson Brothers, Brothers Blvd. Sacor Electric Co. 671 Olsted Ave. 6521 W. North Ave. WEST SIDE Bazaer & Bazaer Bazaer & Bazaer Bridgeport Electric Co. Bridgeport Electric Co. City Electric Co. 621 W. 28th St. 621 W. 28th St. 6815 W. Madison St. 6815 W. Madison St. 1748 W. Madison St. 1748 W. Madison St. 540 W. North Shop. 540 W. North Shop. Fritzhalter Electric Co. Fritzhalter Electric Co. Robert B. Garth. Robert B. Garth. Home Electric Appliance 5550 Chicago Ave. Leadington Electric Co. Leadington Electric Co. OUR NEW HO E 72 W. Adams St. 72 W. Adams St. 448 N. Parkside Ave. 448 N. Parkside Ave. 2543 Madison St. 2543 Madison St. 3452 W. Rosewell Rd. NORTH SIDE Attica Electric Co. Attica Electric Co. Broadway Electric Shop, 6215 Broadway, Broadway, 4531 N. Western Ave. 4531 N. Western Ave. 1588 N. Clark St. 1588 N. Clark St. Fallston St. Fallston St. 462 N. Hasted St. 462 N. Hasted St. Karsten Harbant Electric 1448 Wilson Ave. Lakerville Electric Co.. O. R. Martin. Ave. 150 Morton Electric Shoe. 1504 Moore Ave. Nikolaus Electric Co.. 3508 N. Clark St. Panama Elec. Lift Co. 3306 N. Clark St. Principle Electric Co.. 3306 Southport Ave. Riverhead Electric Co.. 3306 Lincoln Ave. Lincoln Electric Co.. 6712 Rd. Rd. Tip Top Elec. Appliances. Tip Top Elec. Appliances. 3833 Irving Park Blvd. Milwaukee Inc. 4863 Broadway NORTHWEST Art Loomis Novelty & Gift Company 1993 Milwaukee Ave. 3839 Lincoln Ave. 4730 Irving Park Bld. 8245 Normal Bld. 2800 E. 24th St. Marka Electric Shop, Marka Ave. 10th St. Madeleine Electric Co. Madeleine Ave. 2323 3233 W. Madison St. Madison Ave. 1811 W. 51st St. Olympus Electric Shop, Olympus Ave. 2096 Bernard O'Hara, Bernard O'Hara Ave. Radiant Electric Co. 3141 W. Chicago Ave. Wilmington Electric 1187 W. Taylor St. 1187 W. Taylor St. 1650 & Cawartha Ave. Rika Electric Shop, Rika Ave. 10th St. Spadial Electric Co. 3248 W. North Ave. Spadial Ave. 1018 Milewaukee Ave. SOUTH SIDE Berry & Co. Berry & Co. Beverly Electric Shop. Beverly Electric Shop. Brighton Lighting Fixture Co. Brighton Lighting Fixture Co. Brockleigh Electric Shop. 1253 So. Chicago Ave. 1315 Chicago Ave. 1115 Michigan Ave. Chatham Electric Fix- ture Co. 721. E 758 st. Celliumse Electric Co. O. Salle St. O. Dawson 1838. E 478 st. 6350 S. Halsted St. 8341 S. Halsted St. 8341 S. Halsted St. 4087 Ogden Ave. 4087 Ogden Ave. 41719 Clythe Grove Ave. Electric Washing Machine Co. 8341 S. Halsted St. 8341 S. Halsted St. 4087 Ogden Ave. 4087 Ogden Ave. 41719 Clythe Grove Ave. H. Gage Park Electric Co. 2612 W. 51st St. 2612 W. 51st St. 50-52 W. 181st St. Good Kneeling Electric 144 E. 51st St. E. 51st St. 1465 E. 53rd St. Good Kneeling Electric 144 E. 51st St. E. 51st St. 13253 Grandon Ave. 2609 Archer Ave. 13253 Grandon Ave. Little S. Halsted St. 6085 S. Halsted St. Neighborhood Shops 13253 Grandon Ave. New City Electric Co. New City Electric Co. Odell Electric Shop. Odell Electric Shop. Parvail Electric Co. 547 W. 51st St. 547 W. 51st St. 7923 S. Halsted St. Steve Electric Shop. Steve Electric Shop. Vincentens Electric Shop. 7308 Vincentens Ave. 12227 E. 580th St. West Patterson Electric Shop. 611 W. '120th St. Witchchester Store Elec- tric. 6709 Stone Island Ave