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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA The Grand Lodge of Elks, Many of Its Members Coming from All Parts of this Country and from the Isles Beyond the Deep Blue Sea, Have Held Forth in Chicago This Week: More Than Twenty-Five Thousands of Its Members Attended the Grand Lodge Session. MEMORIAL SERVICES WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING HELD BY THEM SUNDAY EVENING AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL WHICH WAS CROWDED DOWN BY THE MEMBERS OF THE ORDER AND THEIR FRIENDS. MONDAY NOON, HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER, MAYOR OF CHICAGO, AND HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, EX-MAYOR OF CHICAGO, DELIVERED ORATIONS OF WELCOME TO THE VISITING ELKS TO THIS CITY AT THEIR FIRST REGULAR MEETING. THE ELKS PARADE ON TUESDAY WAS THE BEST AND LARGEST EVER HELD BY THAT ORDER, BETWEEN THIRTY AND THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND OF ITS MEMBERS JOINING IN IT. TWENTY-FIVE BANDS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES FURNISHED THE MUSIC FOR THE PARADERS. FULLY ONE THOUSAND AUTOMOBILES, CONTAINING MANY OF THE LADY ELKS, WAS A PART OF IT. THE POLICE REGULATIONS DURING THE PARADE WERE VERY BAD. THEY PERMITTED A LOT OF ROWDIES AND HOODLUMS TO CLIMB ON THE TOP OF THE STREET CARS AND KEEP UP AN OUTLANDISH NOISE ALL THE TIME AND TO HURL INSULTING REMARKS AT THE LADIES AS THEY PASSED BY. THE POLICE ALSO PERMITTED THE PEOPLE TO CROWD SO, CLOSE TO THE MARCHERS THAT THEY COULD ONLY WALK TWO ABREAST, PREVENTING THEM FROM PROPERLY DISPLAYING THEIR RICH AND ELEGANT COSTUMES OR UNIFORMS. Vol. XXVIIII The Gr ing from Beyonc Chicago sands of sion. MEMORIAL SERV FIRST PUBLIC M THEM SUNDAY WENDELL PHIL WHICH WAS CR THE MEMBERS AND THEIR FR MONDAY NOON, DEVER, MAYO AND HON. W THOMPSON, EX CAGO, DELIVER WELCOME TO T TO THIS CITY REGULAR MEET THE ELKS PARA WAS THE BEST EVER HELD BY BETWEEN THIR FIVE THOUSA BERS JOINING FIVE BANDS FROM THE UNITED ST THE MUSIC FOR FULLY ONE T MOBILES, CONT THE LADY EL OF IT. THE POLICE REG THE PARADE THEY PERMITT DIES AND HOOK ON THE TOP CARS AND KE LANDISH NOIS AND TO HURL MARKS AT THE PASSED BY. THE POLICE ALSO PEOPLE TO CR THE MARCH COULD ONLY ABREAST, PRE FROM PROPER THEIR RICH AND TUMES OR UNI Last Saturday the members of the improved Benevolent Order of Elks throughout the world began to arrive in this city by the hundreds to attend the twenty-fourth annual session of the meeting of the Grand Lodge of that order, the business sessions of the men's end of the Grand Lodge have been held at the Avenue Theatre, 3110 Indiana avenue, and the Lady Elks composing the various temples, have held forth at the Pilgrim Baptist Temple, 33rd and Indiana avenue. On Sunday evening memorial serv- ices were held at the Wendell Phillips High School in honor of the departed dead for the past year. The main auditorium of the building was filled to overflowing by the relatives and friends of those who had ran their last race here on this earth the past year. Rev. W. D. Cook assisted by other preachers including Dr. William Avrant, Grand Chaplain, conducted the solemn memorial services. On Monday morning at the Wendell Phillips High School Building, the thousands of delegates and their hosts of friends were heartily welcomed to အခါ President of the Women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club, Who Has for Some Years Past Held a Responsible Position, With the Members of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, and the Past Week She Has Greatly Assisted to Entertain the Many Visitors to This City. AN INFORMAL RECEPTION IN HONOR OF THE LEADING COLORED BUSINESS WOMEN OF CHICAGO AT THE SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE, WAS A GRAND SOCIAL EVENT Tuesday evening, Aug. 28, the Women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club held a most delightful informal dance and reception at the South Side Community House, 3201 S. Wabash avenue in testimony of its appreciation of Chicago's successful business women. The following business women were the guests of honor: Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Mrs. Mayme Lee Clinkscale, Mrs. Gertrude Cranshaw, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, Mrs. R. E. R. Cross, Mrs. Mayme Anderson. the great city of Chicago by Hon. William E. Dever, Mayor of Chicago; Hon. William Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, representing Hon. Len Small, governor of Illinois, who was unable to be present; Hon. A. H. Roberts, Hon. Edward H. Wright and several other speakers. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, member of the Republican National Committee from Georgia; Hon. J. Finley Wilson, of Washington, D. C. who is a live newspaper owner and editor, the present Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks and Hon. George E. Wibecan of Brooklyn, New York, eloquently responded to all the addresses of welcome. Mayor Dever, in his talk to the visiting Elks, among other things said that on behalf of the people of the city of Chicago he wanted to tender the key of the city to the visiting Elks in order that they might take for themselves the best that the city affords. He warmly congratulated the visiting brothers and daughters for their fine MRS. BERTHA MONTGOMERY The following are the officers of the women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club: President, Mrs. Bertha Montgomery; Vice-President, Mrs. Ada S. McKinley; Secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Norris; Financial Secretary, Mrs. Bertha Snadon; Treasurer, Mrs. Emma Smith. Mrs. O. B. Banks served as the mistress of ceremonies, Mrs. Margaret O'Gainer, Mrs. Irene Goins and Mrs. Nannie Reed, were the leading eloquent orators. Mrs. Lillian Bluitt rendered several lovely soprano solos. Hon. Charles Krutchkoff, member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, being one of the highly honored guests present, was also prevailed upon to deliver a short, very effective and interesting talk. Fully twenty-five hundred ladies and gentlemen from all parts of the appearance and said that the advancement in the fraternal world made by the Order of Elks reflected the general advancement throughout the country by the colored people in general. In winding up his remarks, Mayor Dever said, "And I want to resterate my promise made to you before election. I say now, as I said then, that before my term of office has expired I shall appoint one of your people to an office such as no one of your race has ever yet held. And it will be an office greater and bigger than any other mayor has ever appointed one of your race." Mayor Dever then presented a gold key to the master of ceremonies, Hon. Edward H. Wright. Hon. William Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, declared that when he is elected to the United States Senate from Illinois that he will introduce a resolution into that august body with the object of securing the civil and political rights of the colored people in this country. Mrs. Ella G. Berry, head ruler of the country were present and the costumes of the ladies were indescribable and wonderful to behold. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Mrs. Mayme Lee Clinkseale, Mrs. Gerrude Cranshaw, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, Mrs. R. E. R. Cross and Mrs. Mayme Anderson, were ablaze with diamonds as well as hundreds of other ladies. Mrs. Bertha Montgomery, president of the Women's Cook County Permanent Republican Club, wore a very rich and handsome costume of hand embroidered georgette crepe of black and white which fitted her form to perfection, her diamond ornaments were numerous and could not be surpassed. Dancing lasted until a late hour and forty large home-made cakes and hundreds of gallons of ice cream were lavisily served to the more than two thousand invited guests. Lady Elks, secretary of the grand temple, entertainment committee, welcomed the temples of the city of Chicago. She was responded to by the grand treasurer, Mrs. E. V. Kelly. After Percy H. Ash had delivered a welcome on behalf of Great Lakes and Fort Dearborn lodges, the local bodies, the grand exalted ruler, J. Finley Wilson, made the closing address. Mr. Wilson defended his record in his own imitative way. He said that he had been instrumental in adding to the order 90 new lodges during the year. He had invaded Canada as well as new territory for Elkdom, namely, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. "If elected again," said the grand exalted ruler. "I promise you 100 new lodges, a permanent national headquarters, a factory to make all Elk paraphernalia and to find more employment for all Elks and their relatives." He was loudly applauded. Tuesday afternoon the grand street parade was held, the route being as published in the last issue of this BOTH WHITE AND COLORED PEOPLE SHOULD VERY CAREFULLY READ AND REREAD THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, FOR IT WILL DO THEM A WORLD OF GOOD. CONTRIBUTED BY THE EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHICAGO BRANCH, N. A. A. C. P. CHICAGO, GREAT CITY Chicago a great city on a great lake, is composed of people from all parts of the world. Her population is 3,000,000 souls. Chicago is governed by a Mayor and fifty Aldermen. The City Government administers the affairs of the City, the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Health Department, supervises the street car system, etc. Parks and playgrounds come under the supervision of special boards. same rights as you. You have a right there the same as they, but you also owe a DUTY as a citizen to the public and the individual to be neat and clean and not make yourself a nuisance and objectionable. One seat on a street car is all any individual is entitled to. To sprawl all over a car or to engage in loud talking, eating and sleeping show very bad manners. Unnecessary crowds on street corners and along car line streets produce a display of indolence, making it appear that your time is not profitably You, reader, pay for all this. Room renter, house renter or property owner, pay directly or indirectly the taxes which pay the expenses of the city. Hence, you are a stockholder in the big city of Chicago. There are also many private and quasi-public agencies actively interested in the welfare of the people of given communities, endeavoring to handle local problems. Such bodies are the Wabash Avenue Branch, Y. M. C. A.; Indiana Avenue Branch, Y. W. C. A.; South Side Branch, American Red Cross; Chicago Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; South Side Branch, Illinois Free Employment Agency (State); Chicago Urban League, Douglas League of Women Voters, and other agencies. All agencies and good citizens are striving to make our city a harmonious, wholesome, law-abiding place to live in. In a great city each citizen enjoys certain rights but these RIGHTS are based on due consideration for the RIGHTS of others. Along with individual RIGHTS there are certain individual and community DUTIES to be observed. Some Things a Citizen Should Do Obey the law. Conduct one's self in a peaceful, considerate and gentlemanly manner in public and in private. Dress neatly, not "loud" and not in gaudy array. Remember that a CLEAN body should go with a CLEAN soul. Yes, in public and in private, be NEAT and CLEAN. On street cars, buses and in public places you come in contact with others who pay the same price and have the newspaper. It was headed by the Great Lakes and Fort Dearborn Lodges and by many colored policemen of this city and by colored policemen from Kansas City, Mo., assisting to form the escort. Not less than thirty-five thousand Elks were in the long possession which was inspiring and wonderful to behold, twenty-five real live bands from all parts of the country joined in it, and fully one thousand autos, beautifully decorated with white and purple, the order's official colors, all flying the stars and stripes. The autos and the floats containing thousands of the most prominent Lady Elks from all parts of the United States. The ladies in the parade, the majority of them being costumed in snow-white skirts, purple jackets and white felt hats, looked ever so lovely and charming and they made a most wonderful impression on the minds of the more than two hundred thousand people who eagerly watched them wend same rights as you. You have a right there the same as they, but you also owe a DUTY as a citizen to the public and the individual to be neat and clean and not make yourself a nuisance and objectionable. One seat on a street car is all any individual is entitled to. To sprawl all over a car or to engage in loud talking, eating and sleeping show very bad manners. Unnecessary crowds on street corners and along car line streets produce a display of indolence, making it appear that your time is not profitably utilized. Work eight hours, indulge in WHOLE SOME RECREATION eight hours, and sleep eight hours in sanitary surroundings. Parks and playgrounds are places of amusement. It is impossible to provide police supervision at all these places, hence it is necessary that the individual citizen observe proper decorum and exercise a DUE REGARD for the rights of others, not monopolizing all the facilities at hand in the way of apparatus, boats, benches, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, etc. One year in the State makes you a citizen of Illinois. BUT your CONDUCT every hour of your daily public and private life determine whether you are a GOOD CITIZEN or a BAD CITIZEN. A good citizen REGISTERS and VOTES! Do you? Friction and misunderstanding can be avoided to a great degree by the use of good common sense in all things, realizing that a people is rated, largely and unfortunately, by the CONSPICIOUS BAD ACTS performed by the individual citizen. Fine manners, gentlemanly and lady-like customs speak for refinement and culture. Note the pleasing appearance of many people who ride in the street cars, buses, elevated trains and railroad trains and who frequent the parks and other public places; OBSERVE the well-dressed girls and boys, women and men, you see every day. IMITATE. A little active co-operation will guarantee fair treatment on the part of all to all. Let us endeavor to become acquaint- (Continued on page 2) their way through the south side streets. It seemed that some way or other the police went to sleep on the job and they permitted hundreds of tough young men who should have been promptly arrested, to climb on the tops of the street cars and to keep up a loud noise all the time the parade was passing south on State street their noise drowning out the splendid music of the bands. The police also permitted the people standing on the streets to rush or crowd the marchers to such an extent that many of them were forced to march through a narrow lane and it appears to us that if the police would have marched up and down the line during the parade that they would have been able to have prevented the tough and the rough element from hurling all kinds of coarse and insulting remarks at the lady Elks as they passed by in the long to be remembered Elks parade. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. 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 €400 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Associate Editor DR. M. A. MAJORS Vol. XXVIII. No. 50 Chicago, Ill., September 1, 1923 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. BOTH WHITE AND COLORED PEOPLE SHOULD CAREFUL- LY READ THE FOLLOW- ING ARTICLE (Concluded from page 1) ed with ourselves by answering the following questions: Public Conveyances 1. Have you the exact fare ready when getting aboard the street car? 2. Do you occupy one seat or more? 3. Do you eat, sleep or engage in loud conversation on street car? 4. Do you wear dirty clothing? 5. Are you rude when getting on or off the car? **Parks and Bathing Beaches** 1. Are you unduly exposed on beaches or in going to and from beaches? 2. Do you observe the rules of decency? 3. Do you conduct yourself as a decent, self-respecting citizen should and do you see to it that all members of your party do likewise? 4. Do you MONOPOLIZE tennis courts, baseball diamonds, row boats and other park facilities to the exclusion of other citizens? 5. Do you clean up your picnic grounds? 6. Do you use the boulevards as lounging places and for "petting parties?" The Home 1. Is your home environment wholesome and conducive to good citizenship? 2. Is your home blessed with children, if so, DO YOU EXERCISE PROPER PARENTAL SUPERVISION OVER THEM? 3. Does your piano, victrola, voice culture or revelry annoy your neighbor? 4. Is your front and back yard clean and attractive? 5. Is your building equipped with garbage and ash cans; if not, see that the owner or agent supplies them. Use the garbage and ash cans. 6. When leaving your home for work and when returning to your home from work are you neat and clean? 7. Do you spend some time each day during late spring and summer caring for the lawn? 8. Do you constantly carry "the chip on your shoulder?" 9. Do you waste time hanging out windows? 10. Do you wear boudou caps (clean or otherwise), bedroom slippers, and soiled aprons when you go to the grocery? 11. Is your family PROTECTED in case of SICKNESS, ACCIDENT, or DEATH? If not, why not? A Suggestion Answer the preceding questions HONESTLY in order to see whether or not you attain the measure of "God's Creature." If you fall short, REMEMBER that "refined and gentle manners are the expression of fixed habits of thought and action;" therefore, you can improve your manners by RIGHT THINKING and CLEAN ACTIONS. Hon. and Mrs. Thomas F. Byrne, 6743 S. Irving avenue, returned home Monday morning from a two weeks' pleasure trip to Excelsior Springs, Mo., where Alderman Byrne greatly enjoyed hot baths. His army of constituents felt proud to welcome him back to Chicago. THE NEGRO RACE LIVES, HARDING IS DEAD By Dr. M. A. Majors Although the race did not come into its own after helping to elect Mr Harding to the presidency, we still live with hearts full of hope for better days than those of the Harding administration. Numerically we are about one-seventh of the population, and representing much of the education, cultivation and refinement, with more than a billion and a half of this world's goods in the land of the free, yet we have been denied a voice in government, and humiliated by the appointive power of the president by the emphasized denial of our God given rights as citizens, we still can explain that men may come and men may go but the Negro race goes on forever. That the race has been so infamously neglected, by the administration of the president so recently laid to rest, smacks of some ugly conspiracy, or concert of action that seems to be well understood by men in power. Fifteen million of earnest industrious citizens suffering the ugly imputations of political audacity is enough to make the angels of heaven weep. A dastard color distinction fostered for the love of human hatred would snatch the gold out of the golden rule, and emboldened demagogues joyously to flaunt in the face of our present civilization perjury, and perfidy, torch and treachery the fitting symbols of a degraded age. An age run riot in the damnous lusts of human greed. Everywhere one turns he is haunted by the thought that Ben Tillman uttered a happy thought of the period when he said "This is a white man's country." To all intents and purposes it seems to be true as long as the white race shouts to the skies its nefarious color distinctions. Of course, as long as we own a billion and a half of dollars in property in America we may take comfort and pardonable pride in the fact that some of it belongs to us, and more and more of it will belong to us while less of it will belong to the white race as the years go by. Temporarily we are politically shelved in National politics, but are we to remain so? Experience has taught the race to live by toil; to study the arts of frugality, to save and to enter the commercial activities, to study efficiency; become versed in economics; to launch race enterprises and to depend less upon politics and the promises of the politician and more upon the God given strength which is his to exercise without being "let" or being hindered. Fortunately we have thousands of well equipped men and women who are responding to this tardy call of the race. And yet we have political interests that belong to us in common with the rest of the races. We make supplications, offer protests, and rightfully contend for every principle written in our national Constitution and the bill of rights. Peradventure a sober, sane and honest spirit will some day animate our body politic, and give while it is our need to take by the strong arm of a nobler manhood that is actuating the righteous. Presidents may come and presidents may go but the Negro race will live and go forward and onward forever. President Harding failed where Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, McKinley and Roosevelt did not fail. They had the courage of real men and brothers, and gave to the Negro race at least some of the crumbs from the political table, yet Harding could not rise to high place of human recognition of the Negro by feeling that the black brother was entitled to any consideration whatsoever. CATHOLICS HELPING NEGROES Ten Million Dollars Given—For Education Among Negro People A recent statement from high Catholic authority estimates the number of Negroes without church ties at 6,000,000; and the archbishops of Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia are calling for large sums for work among this group. A writer in America, a leading Catholic publication, urges the assumption of this task by the Knights of Columbus. This order, with its membership of 600,000, could, it is claimed, easily raise in two years the $10,000,000 needed to finance the work along both community and religious lines. The card-indexing of all Negro non-church members is urged as a preparation for propaganda. Each city or town, it is said, could be districted, and put under the charge of K. of C. district committees. "The knights," we are told, "could go even further. They could seek out, get acquainted with, and in numerous ways show interest in the welfare of these people." One thing friends and enemies of Catholicism are agreed upon: it is a church which takes up big problems on a big scale, and notably where those problems concern the poor, the suffering, and similar handicapped folk. The proposed movement will be watched with interest by many outside the church immediately concerned. Our white friends in the Protestant THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1923 churches will find it necessary to increase their appropriations to educational work among the colored people or offer some explanations with regard to the increasing liberality of the Catholic neighbors. Generosity is said to be more charitable than wealth, and, from present indications, the Catholic people believe the statement. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE MAY BACK FEDERAL ACTION AGAINST THE MOB Administration May Support Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill In Next Congress Recent outbreaks of mobism throughout the United States have caused President Calvin Cooligde and other government officials seriously to consider the advisability of backing the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in the next Congress and of taking federal action against the mob, according to a correspondent in a Washington newspaper. Representative Dyer has assured the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that he will introduce his bill on the opening day of the new session of the Congress and information reaching the N. A.A.P.C. confirms the impression that it will be one of the main issues before the national legislature. Washington reports state that President Coolidge is considering not only the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, but also an extension of its provisions whereby it would apply to all organizations of masked men who take the law "into their own hands." Representative Dyer is quoted as follows: "I have talked to President Coolidge about my bill and I am preparing a memorandum for his consideration. Because of the plank in the Republican platform which pledged this legislation, I expect the President will support its enactment. "I will reintroduce my bill in practically the same form as it passed the House last year. It will apply to all mobs, consisting of three or more men, but in its present form would provide punishment only when the victim is killed. It applies to the Ku Klux Klan as well as to any other body of men." 500 DELEGATES EXPECTED AT N.A.A.C.P. KANSAS CITY CONFERENCE Special Train Carrying Members from Chicago Conference to Visit Men of 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Prison One of the largest conferences on Race Relations ever held in the United States was expected to begin with the opening mass meeting on Wednesday, August 29, of the Fourteenth Annual Conference in Kansas City of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A special train had been arranged for, to carry delegates and visitors from Chicago to Kansas City, and large delegations were appointed from middle and far western and southern, as well as eastern territories. The Grand Lodge of Masons for Oklahoma elected a delegation of 25 of their best men to go to the N.A.A.A. C.P. Conference, and special cars were engaged to carry them together with delegates from other Oklahoma branches. On Saturday, September 1st, the entire Conference is to visit the members of the 24th Infantry, imprisoned in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, as an aftermath of the Houston race riot of 1917. The members of the Conference are to be shown through the prison and will be given opportunity to talk with the prisoners. The Hon. C. B. Griffith, Attorney-General of Kansas, who fought the Ku Klux Klan uncompromisingly in his state, is to present the Spingarn Medal to Professor G. W. Carver of Tuskegee. Mr. Griffith takes the place of Governor Davis of Kansas, who had rearranged his schedule in order to be able to attend the Conference but whose illness, typhoid fever, has confined him to his bed. Governor Davis wrote expressing his regret at being unable to speak. Messages of greeting to the Conference were received from President Calvin Coolidge and Moorfield Storey, President of the N.A.A.P.C., and were to be read at the opening mass meeting of the Conference. Arthur A. Wells, who was one of the old time and most highly respected colored citizens of Chicago, came to the end of life in this world the first part of last week at his home, 442 W. 57th Place. For a great many years Mr. Wells was the private car man for the late George M. Pullman and the late Mrs. George M. Pullman. Mrs. Pullman in Her will, left Mr. Wells $5,000 for his faithful service which he had rendered her for so many years. Mr. Wells was a member of the Appomattox Club and was greatly admired by all of its members. Funeral services were held last Friday over his remains at St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church, 36th and Dearborn streets. 78 HON. CHARLES KRUTCKOFF Popular Member of the Board of Assessors of C Who Has Always Been Friendly Disposed Tow Colored People, Greatly Enjoyed Himself at at the South Side Community House. Popular Member of the Board of Assessors Who Has Always Been Friendly Disposed Colored People, Greatly Enjoyed Himself at the South Side Community House. HON. GEORGE A. SCHILLING COMES BACK AT JULIUS F. TAYLOR IN RELATION TO HANGING MRS. NITTI The Following Communication Speaks For Itself BONEHEAD Asleep at the S Opportunity Hut Many thanks for the very generous consideration given to my article and the kindly feelings you expressed towards me personally. But in your final comments you miss the mark and you fail to get at the heart of the question. I do not claim that this woman is innocent. I do not claim as some do that because she is Italian she should not be hung on Oct. 11, because on the same date another Italian, Christopher Columbus, discovered America. The lenency generally shown by 12 men acting as jurors trying women for crime is not because men lack courage or because they are weak or because the women being tried are all handsome, making goo-goo eyes at the men while the trial is going on. There must be a deeper reason than this, and this I have tried in show by citing the conduct of male dogs, cats and buffaloes among the lower animals towards the female and then I cite the conduct of men seeking to protect the woman and child during war and finally that when the Titanic went down only women and girls-were saved with only enough sailors to safeguard them. Had Mrs. Nitti been tried alone with equal damaging evidence against her I doubt whether the same jury would have brought in the verdict they did; but the jury found itself in a jam because they felt that they could not bring in a verdict to hang the man and to give the woman a lesser penalty. Unless you can show that the lenient conduct of men toward women being tried for crime is due to causes other than this primitive instinct, an instinct stronger than the law and all of our conventional rules which always seeks throughout all life to protect the mother of the species. Very sincerely, GEORGE A. SCHILLING. ```markdown ``` [Portrait of a man in a suit with a tie]. HON. ANTON J. CERMAK President of the Board of Com Is One of the Leading Democ Is Visiting This Week His President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Who Is One of the Leading Democratic Politicians of Illinois, Who Is Visiting This Week His Old Home Town, Braidwood. Ill. BONEHEAD PLAY OF NOAH'S Asleep at the Switch When He Had Opportunity to Benefit the Human Race Boneheads have been pulled since the dawn of light. The idea that any particular age sees them running wild is a mistake. The first famous bonehead that history records was pulled by no less a personage than old Noah. Noah simply couldn't see things right; he had no vision and, therefore, missed the "Golden Chance." He had 40 long nights in which to get up and put the two mosquitos in the world out of business. He could have done it with one smash of his fly swatter. But Noah snored away at the switch and in time the dove appeared with the olive branch and the next day the people walked off the ark onto land—and the mosquitos went with them. There are many other famous bone-heads that might be here recorded, but none of them equals old Noah's as a work of art, so the committee appointed for the purpose has decided unanimously to place his name in the hall of fame.—Bert Walker in the Topeka Capital. THE SELECTION OF C. BASCOM SLEMP DOES NOT WORRY J. WILLIE WILKINS J. Willie Wilkins, formerly of Galveston, Houston and Victoria, Texas, now residing at 534 West Fifth street, Cincinnati, Ohio, turned democrat in 1920 during the presidential campaign and was made immediately secretary of the Negro Democratic Club, which position he continued to fill in 1922 when a state democratic administration was chosen. As a result of his activities in those campaigns Governor Donahey recently appointed him to the position of "road boss" at a salary of $250 a month, or $3,000 a year, to supervise work on the highways, such as paved country roads, Wilkins having the privilege to hire, pay and discharge all employees under his supervision. A missioners of Cook County, Who acratic Politicians of Illinois, Who Old Home Town, Braidwood, Ill. of Cook County Towards Worthy at the Reception THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT By Dr. M. A. Majors The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People presents itself to the sober minded members of our race almost with impelling force. In the fourteen years of its existence it has done a most commendable thing. Its pressure upon the Supreme Court has been felt as a mighty power. It has put segregation of races out of business forever. Its potency has commanded the spirit of the legislative and judicial system of our government, and in living letters of fire it has impressed upon the minds of the nation that the Negro will fight to the last ditch for his rights as a man and a citizen. While it has been making itself felt all over this broad land it has made Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, its founder, a very great man. Its operations open wide-a field for such men as J. Weldon Johnson, and Prof. William Pickens and a host of younger stalwarts of the race. For real service it is the most far reaching and beneficial organization ever instituted to foster racial interests. Its very pressing necessity should inspire the hearts of every man and woman of the race to contribute in no very small way to its support and maintenance. Justice is a great mission. Our people are in great need of having justice enforced; and the Association should comprise the entire Negro race. It ought to have a million dollars subscribed speedily to carry forward its herculean fight in every state of this great Union to battle down the ugly hand of prejudice that is clutching at the throats of every member of the race. A few nights ago we were at a meeting to hear the great orator Dean William Pickens. He told a masterly story of the great potentiality of the Association. Our hearts burned with pride as we sat under the soothing eloquence of this black son of our race as he poured out wisdom and counsel to his brothers. As we listened to the story of the great cases that had been carried up to the Supreme Court and the favor won in the behalf of our oppressed race Mr. Dubois became a master spirit of the present civilization; and it brings a comfort and a joy that defies our meagre ability to analyze, or our feeble efforts to describe. Long live the National Association and may God get into the hearts of all of our people to rally to the standard, and give millions of dollars to the great cause for which it was organized. INNOCENT NEGRO IS LYNCH VICTIM OF FLORIDA MOB Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 26—Arrests were promised shortly by Henry Lilienthal, county detective, tonight after an investigation of the lynching last midnight of Ben Hart, Negro, whose bullet riddled body, with the hands manacled, was found in a ditch. Investigators today said the mob had lynched an innocent Negro. At 9:30 o'clock last night about ten unmasked men called at Hart's home, told him they were deputy sheriffs and were going to take him to the county jail. They represented, it was said, that the Negro was wanted for peeping in a young woman's window. Hart agreed to go readily, saying he was innocent. It developed today that at the time a Negro peeped into the window, Hart was at home, twelve miles away, and that it was impossible for him to have been the one wanted. If the Southern white Christians continue to mob and lynch colored people who have proven themselves innocent of committing the slightest crimes, it will only be a question of time until like the worm or the roaring lion, the colored man will turn over and wake up and with a blazing torch at night and with his gun march forth during the dead of dark hours of the night slay hundreds of white persons at the same time burning their homes down over their heads. The past history of the colored people in this country even in slavery times should teach the whites in the South that every time that they for the fun of the thing, murder a poor law abiding colored man or woman or child, they are simply loading the dice against themselves.—Editor. JOYLAND PARK IS STILL RUN NING AT FULL BLAST Despite the fact that the weather has been very bad the past week, raining almost every evening making it almost impossible to remain outside very long, Joyland Amusement Park, 33rd street and South Wabash avenue, is still running at full blast with a lot of steam on board and for the past few days many of the visiting Elks have been greatly enjoying themselves at the Joyland Park. See ad in another column of this newspaper. "BRINGING UP FATHER ON BROADWAY" AT THE AVENUE THEATER FOR SEVEN BIG NIGHTS This coming Monday evening, September 3rd-Labor Day, "Bringing Up Father On Broadway" will be staged for one week or seven "Big Nights" at the Avenue Theater, 3110 Indiana avenue, and everything seems to indicate that it will be the best and most up-to-date show that has struck the old Avenue Theater for many a day. For it is said that this new musical comedy is by far the best ever evolved around the characters of George McManus in his famous cartoons of the same title. "Father" as usual is the dominating figure and participates in a number of stirring and side-splitting adventures which takes him, Maggie, his termangent wife, the irrespressible Dinty Moore and others of the beloved characters to various parts of the world. The production calls for a large cast and a number of unusual features, surprises innovations and novelties are promised. Remember "Bringing Up Father On Broadway" will only hold fourth seven nights at the Avenue Theater starting with two big shows on Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd. Mr. W. Meakin, the hustling manager of the Avenue Theater, will be on hand at each big show and see to it that all of its patrons will have no trouble in securing seats. See ad in another column of this newspaper. SHORT CUTS The lull in lynching activities for the State of Georgia became spirited last week when three colored men were hanged and two flogged. Hon. Oliver Randolph, a successful colored lawyer of Newark, N. J., has been named Assistant U. S. District Attorney in that State. Felix Randolph, a colored man, "sassed" Roy Toney, white, and paid the penalty of being shot to death. His body was thrown in the river. The Baptists proposed to erect a theological seminary for colored people at Nashville, Tenn., but the white people successfully protested against it. Statistical reports of the Supreme Lodge of Colored Pythians, which met last week in New York, showed a membership of 300,000 and realy holdings throughout the country valued at $2,017,000. Speaking at Atlantic City, Congressman L. C. Dyer, of Missouri, author of the Dyer Bill, declared that upward of 4,000 colored citizens had been lynched in the South in thirty-five years. Colored farmers near Greensboro, N. C., have been granted extensive credits by the Federal Farm Loan Board for the purposes of improving their farms and purchasing new equipment. Bertram Hodges, fifteen years old, recently arrived with his parents, migrating from Georgia, received a prize from a Philadelphia daily paper for the brightest answer to a want-ad query. W. B. Butler, prominent in Democratic circles, who killed William Freeman and fatally injured Mary Lou Gamble, both colored, at Fayetteville, Ala., was held under bond for carrying concealed weapons. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, meeting in New York last week, was insulted by the refusal of Tammany Hall to permit the thousands attending to pitch a camp in the suburbs. The local committee-lost $4,000 in preparing the camp. "PUSSYFOOT" ADDRESSES AF RICAN NEGROES Cape Town.—William E. (Pussy-foot") Johnson concluded his tour of the wine-farming district with great meetings at Cape Town. He addressed a crowded colored audience one night and was received with bands, banners and choirs. He emphasized the boon that prohibition had been to the colored race of America, encouraging as it had, thrift and regular working habits. A colored speaker named Baron was enthusiastically applauded when he said that if the colored people had their way, they would have prohibition in South Africa tomorrow. One day they would push the Europeans into prohibition. At the final meeting in Cape Town, the chairman stated that South Africa was ready for prohibition. The immediate object, however, was to put the plan of local option into operation. With a little more pressure on members of Parliament, he expected this would be done. Mr. Johnson said that he had never had a more orderly meeting in his life, and he now knew what a South African welcome meant. COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REG- ULAR TRAVELING CORRESPOND- ENT FOR THE BROAD AX, AT- TENDED THE SESSIONS OF THE SUPREME LODGE OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WHERE HE HAD A HIGH OLD TIME FOR ONE WEEK. Announcement! National Bank America’s First National Bank, Owned, Controlled and Officered by Negroes Now Open For Business In Their New Quarters STATE STREET AT 36TH STREET Under U. S. Government Supervision Member Federal Reserve System Capital and Surplus $220,000.00 CURRENCY For the first time in the history of our American Government, a Bank officered and controlled by col- ored people, The Douglass National Bank of Chicago, is issuing and circulating its own currency under Gov- ernment authority. If you have not secured one of our $5.00 bank notes, call at the Bank and get one and if out of town, write for one. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ANTRONE Ure sas jeden teed ee ae MAJOR RR JACKSON, HIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Alderman, City of Chicago; Publisher; Major-General of Uniform Rank, K. of P. REV. 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New York City—It is over, and here I am in big New York, but that is wrong, for when you read this let- ter I will be en route to California, and you will then say I am.the most ridingest_ man in America jumping now from the Atlantic to the Pacific, I am told, but what that means I do not know, but I do know T am going irom New York to California and then some for I have promised to go to Ogden, Utah. x I started out by. saying it is over, and the question may come in your mind, “What does he mean?” I mean the greatest session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias of North, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia ever held has closed and the representatives, the soldier men, the members of the Supreme Court of Calanthe, have about gone home, for many of them beat it to Chicago, while others went to other places of thefr choice. Supreme Councillor Smith W. Green has demonstrated that he is in- deed a great leader and organizer of men, and he is a man who believes in right, in law and order and when it comes to law he will execute it if it strikes his father, and then shed a few tears, but law must be obeyed seems to be in his mind. He draws no line, and the hammer of the law falls on all alike, from Supreme Chancellor down, Supreme Worthy Chancellor, Er- nest G. Tidrington, of Evansville, Ind. is another great personage, and he is standing right by the side of Mr. Green, because he is next man in or- der, being the vice. It would take a whole paper for me to tell you about this wonderful session, so I will just strike here and there and put my pen down and go to sleep. ; 1 am sure first of all you haye been wondering about Missouri and some of you have been asking about Vir- sinia. AM the grand lodges in the world are walking side by. side now. There is no North, no South, no East, no West, but one solid supreme lodge. Virginia is shouting “Free at fast.” 1 do not know just what they mean by that, but I do know they have re- turned to the fold, and have stopped spending money for law suits, trying to kill the head and let the tail live, a thing impossible. ‘The Supreme Lodge had its opening in a way of a reception and addresses of welcome August 20, but I will not take time to tell you about the ad- dresses, but will say that there’ is much credit due Grand Chancellor Lec ‘Crawford, and he is now in the hearts of all men, and it doth not yet appear what it shall be, He was placed on the Pythian Temple Commission, He is a gréat man, and I would say that Miss Johnson, the grand worthy Counsellor, is a great worthy woman, So much for them. Tuesday morning, the supreme lodge was called to order and the big man was commissioned to take up the get by word. When this was done, they proceeded to go through some other kind of business, known as works, and they worked giving all kinds of signs. They certainly did give the graveyard sign. Then followed the declaration ‘opened in form after prayer. It was observed that the delegation from Vir- ginia was seated, and Supreme Chan- cellor wanted to know how they got in without the wedding garment on. They were escorted out, until the Su- preme Chancellor could make a report on their ease, and when this was done, a man known as Master-at-arms, es- escorted them in one more time, and they were given an ovation. The first time since 1911 that Virginia had been seated with their brethren, but on the other hand they had been spending thousands of dollars, and making the Supreme Lodge do likewise, trying to get out of obeying the law of the or- der. The men stood, they shook hands with their nearest neighbors. They were headed by the new Grand Chan- cellor, Lawyer Reid, of Portsmouth, Va. He is a wonderful man. “We are free at last,” said one of the represen- tatves, “and no longer are we under a one man rule. We are glad to be back with you and assure you we are going to do our duty.” For the accomplishment of this, without one speck of compromise of ~ SROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, : a . ; 2 h HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER ‘ The Popular and Up-to-Date County Clerk, Who Would Make an Ideal Democratic Candidate for Governor of Illinois. the law and rules of the order, I want to congratulate Supreme Chancellor Green, for it was declared that he was going to break up the order. He placed his hands in the hands of God So to speak, and went right on doing his.duty. He spent much of his time go to meet a law suit without first going into his room, closing his door and talking to God. A man” who trusts in God will make it in this world and in the world to come, You recall that there has been much attention turned to Virginia and then Missouri attracted much attention, for it was thought by some of this state that they could get by without paying up, and they could bluff some one, but believe me, honey, when Missouri looked Supreme Chancellor in the face, and said, “You must show me,” he just raised his hammer and it fell heavy chopping that state right off, head and tail, Grand Chancellor Lloyd, looked up, saw his head in the waste basket, and asked “What man- ner of man is this,” and honey before the Supreme Lodge could act, and the charter of that state revoked, Grand Chancellor Lioyd recommended to his grand lodge that it pay up and do so at once, although just a year before, he recommended that the taxes not be paid_and the money returned to the members. Missouri is a large state, an old Pythian state, but it had to pay up just the same. “They all look alike to me, and large and small alike must ‘obey the edicts of the supreme lodge,” declared Mr. Green. Virginia returned’ to the Supreme Court. They’ were received by Su- preme Counsellor Tidrington. Now let me hear say that Sir Knight Tid- fington is just the man for the place. He has reached the hearts of the women. He is a considerate man, and kind to all. They love him and de- clare that he is just the man for the place. He was presented with a fine silver service, and something else. 1 was delighted to see this, and the same kind of thing was presented to Su- preme Chancellor Green. There were many men from many | places. Of course Texas was right in line headed by Grand Chancellor S. W. Willis, and he was made a member ‘of the Pythian Temple Commission. You recall he is some pumpkins him- self, and a great leader ot men. I was delighted to see so much brain working together. Grand Chancellor Wickham was another busy man, as was H. W. Conrad. I. had the pleasure of hearing the wonderful report and address mde by Mrs, Norene Davis, from Kansas. She is a remarkable woman. I met many able women. Texas women were there in good line, headed by Mrs. A. D. Key, but they lost many of their blue bonnets through mistake. But I must break right here and pay ‘a tribute to that great Military Genius Major General R. R. Jackson. The greatest fraternal order parade ever pulled off in New York was staged here Jast Friday. 1 believe that there must have been 30,000 men in line. Saying nothing about the women in uniform, women and men in automo- bile car carriages, men and women— well I just can't tell you, but. honey, General Thomas Kennedy from Kan- sas stood his ground, and he looked fine in line. He is a genius, himself and I feel like taking off my hat to 1 saw so much, until I feel like. I have been dreaming. The. officers elected by the Supreme Lodge are: S. W. Green, New Orleans, La, Su- preme Chancellor; E. G. oe Evansville, Ind., Supreme vi - cellor; Dr. E. A. Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio, supreme past chancellor; Kev. N. C. Nix, Orangeburg, S. C., supreme prelate; Roscoe C. Simmons, Chicago, IIL, supreme lecturer; Jobn N. acon Pine Bluff, Ark., supreme master exchequer; Dr. E. E. Underwood, Frankfort, Ky... supreme keeper of ree- timore, Md., supreme master-at-arms; John A. Blume, Winston-Salem, N. C. supreme inner guard; Henry James, Jacksonville, Fla, supreme outer guard; Dr. U.G. Mason, Birmingham, Ala,, medical registrar; S. A. T. Wat- pe Chicago, Ill, supreme attorney; Robert R. Jackson, Chicago, major- general uniform rank; Dr. C. M: Wade, ‘Hot Springs, Ark, R. G. Collier, Phil- adelphia, Pa; Dr. C. B. Wickha, Okla- homa City, Okla.; Lee Crawford, New York City; W. S. Willis, Waco, Tex.; G. N. Stoney, Augusta, Ga, members of the Pythian Temple and Sanitarium Commission. I will have to tell you about the wonderful temple and the bath and sanitarium in another letter. The tem- ple is to be erected in Chicago. Let me talk about it next week. The members of the order are taxed 25 cents a year to meet the wonderful im- provements made, Just one dollar in four years. ‘The Supreme Court officers are: E. G. Tidrington, Evansville, supreme worthy, Chancellor; Mrs. M. S. Grant, Darion, Ga. S. W. I; Mrs. Cora M. Allen, Shreveport, La, S. W. 1; Mrs. M. Josenburge, Fort Smith, Ark. S. W. 0.; Mrs. M. J. Hazelwood, Char- leston, W. Va, S. W. R. D.; Mrs. Bessie Johnston, New York, S. W. S. D.; Mrs. P. L. Potsdamer, Tallahas- see, Fla, S, W. J. D.; Mrs. Anna B. Mundy, Henderson, Ky., S. Rec. D.; Mrs, Leanna Townes, East Spencer, N. C., S. Asst. Cnd.; Mrs. F. A. Craw- ford, Muskogee, Okla, S. W. Cond.; Mrs. F.C. Blevins, Chicago, I11,/S. W. E.; Mrs, Rosa J. Richardson, Bal- timére, Md., S. W. H.; John Fielding, Cincinnati, Ohio, S. W. Pro.; Dr. A. N. Prince, Sherman, Texas, S. W. Med, Ex.; Mrs, Norene Davis, Kansas City, Kans, S. W. Lee.; and T shall tell you about that wonderful report made by Dr. Prince another time. I must bring this letter to a stop right now. CHARLES E. STUMP. 5,000 CAKE WALK, THEN RIOT WHEN THE PRIZES FAIL More than 5,000 colored people who paid $2.20 a couple to participate in 2 heralded “Championship Cake Walk” in the White Sox park, rioted Tuesday night when the five piece band disap- peared and the lights went out, before the contestants could get properly warmed up, Excited officials who sponsored the events promised dis- gruntled couples, “their money back” at a barber shop in 3447 South State street, whence the excited and highly disgruntled ‘dancers repaired. Lieut. Al. Cohn and a squad from Stanton avenue responded to a frantic riot call and succeeded in pacifying the expectant dancers. Those colored people who possessed one ounce of brains should have known right from the start that every- thing in connection with the cake walk was a rank fake, and it was simply a scheme for some of the boys to rake in some easy money—Editor. ASKS RETURN OF “CAT-O'- NINE-TAILS” Atlanta, Ga—Representative Ben- nett of Dodge County, who introduced a bill in the Georgia Legislature, pro- viding for the re-establishment of whipping in the state penitentiaries, appeared before the committee in be- half of the measure. - The treatment of Negro convicts in prisons and convict camps had become so notorious that former Governor Hardwick ordered whipping discon- tinued. Representative Bennett is anxious to have whipping made law- ful. “The convicts,” urged the Repre- sentative, “are becoming sullen, stub- born and uncontrollable “since. whip- ping was outlawed in this State. All Negroes must be kept in constant fear of the lash and those who are confined as criminals, especially.” RACE MAN BUYS SLEEPER, CREATES EXCITEMENT Goldsboto, N, C—A ridiculous man- ifestation of racial envy and prejudice was given expression here Monday, when Mr. and Mrs. Allen Moses, a well-to-do colored couple living in this community, left on a trip to New York. Mr. Moses/had secured Pull man accommodations to New York, One white citizen said it was the first time in the history of this village that a colored person “had the nerve” to buy Pullman tickets here. Another, ‘it is said, came to the station, and see- ing the colored couple in the Pullman car, fainted. And this same gentleman is sponsor for the promise of a Ku ‘Klux reception for Moses when they return home. THE OLD SETTLERS’ CLUB The Old Settlers’ Social Club of @#ndianapolis, Ind., celebrated their 9th anniversary recently by giving a picnic and in the evening a fme program. They especially invited their organizer and first president; Mrs, M. E. Me- Clure, she remaining over another week for the Shriners Grand Sessions the following week, and from there she went to Decatur, where she at- tended Eureka Grand Chapter. Dr. Olive M. Officer and her daugh- ters, Mercedes and Lavergne, left the city last week to visit friends in St. Paul, Minn., and Helena, and Yellow- stone Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, Manoto, Pikes Peak and Denver, Col., and other places, will return home by September 15th. 3 ARTICLES ON RACE RELA- TIONS IN CURRENT HIS- TORY MAGAZINE Pirtsee eraeics on cace rested published in. the September Current History Magazine (Times Square, New York City), One of them is an analysis of the Negro migration north- ward by Eric D. Walrond, who reports the estimate that the present move- ment will bring 250,000 colored people out of the South. The second article is by Marcus Garvey, who blames his enemies for his downfall. The third is by Robert Watson Winston, a white lawyer and former judge of North Carolina, who admits most of the charges leveled against the white South, but asserts that the Negro will never be given his rights there and should emigrate to ‘Alston. COLORED WOMAN NAMED ON EDUCATIONAL BOARD _ Charleston, W. Va—Mrs. Irene Moats, of Clarksburg, a graduate of ‘Ohio State University and a promi- nent teacher in this-State, has been appointed by Governor E. F, Morgan to membership upon the State Edu- cational Board. The Governor said this was his answer to an attempt made by the Democratic lower house in the “Legislature to discontinue. ap- Propriations for Negro welfare work in West Virginia. , s [ATTORNEY AND MRS. FARMER ENTERTAIN WITH CARD PARTY Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Far- mer, 4751 Champlain ave., gave a card party in honor of Mrs. Minnie Mal- lory of Kansas City, Mo, at thei home Saturday evening, August 25th. Among_the out-of-town guests present were Mrs. Ray, Topeka, Kansas; Mrs Blonden, Germantown, Pa.; Mrs Dixon, New York; Mrs. Walter Can. non, of St. Louis, and Miss Clayton Ohio. CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT | Washington—W. H. Lewis, of Bos- ton, Assistant Attorney-General under President Taft, called upon President Coolidge last week. Mr. Lewis was the first colored man named to the position of Assistant Attorney-General. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920, and at- tended Amherst College with Mr. Coolidge. _ BAILEY MEETS MANY OLD . FRIENDS M. T. Bailey, of the Bailey Realty ‘Co, member of the National Negro Press Association, 3638 S. State St, met many old friends while in attend- ance of the Elks’ convention and for- sook aj! business*matters in the city and suburbs to Entertain the many brother and sister Elks who came from cities all over the U.S, MEET AFTER MANY YEARS Alter a separation of eight years, 2 brother and sister were united this week. Because of the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Elks in this city, Mr. Frank Carr of Washington, .D. C, and his sister Mrs. Abigail Carr Streeter, 5828 Indiana ave., were hap- pily brought together again. — a ‘Mr. and~ Mrs. Walter’ M. Farmer, 4751 Champlain avenue, leit Tuesday, in their handsome new Ford car, for St. Charles, IiL, where they will spend their.two wreks’ vacation. Avenue Theater, 3110 Indiana Ave. A Real Treat —Seven Big Nights Starting Labor Day cecnee waves cance aca oO sae A Real Musical Com- ‘ edy Hit with a Story, oF a“ EI cai ful\ Clete. Fea «ie A ny Comedians L Mi ONS Two Shows Labor Day, PANIED Monday. September 3, oa tl \ at 6:30 and 9:30. " & AS | TS ee ‘Also Sunday, Sept. 9. Seats now on Sale. Box Office open daily, 1:30. Phone Victory 1097 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 with- out 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 conven- tion 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 peeuna White City and River- view Park where neowls of lor 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 10¢. _W. C. S. & S. AMUSEMENT CO. THIRTY-THIRD AND W, | AVENUE ON TRIP TO MILWAUKEE Mrs. Low Ella Young, who is head ‘of the Eden Household of Ruth, Grand United Order of Odd"Fellows of Illindis and Jurisdictign, visited and instructed households in Milwaukee, where she went accompanied by Cap- tain Prudence Penn of Philadelphia, Pa. : _ MISS JOHNSON VISITING FRIENDS Miss Rhoda M. Johnson, Quincy, IIL, who is a public school teacher of Kansas City, Kansas, is in the city in attendance of the Elks’ convention and while here is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, A. H. Young, 4114 Calumet ‘ave. RETURN TO VIRGINIA The Misses T. B. Whiting and F, B. Andérson, who have spent the past winter and summer terms at the Chi- cago University, returned to Peters- burg,. Virginia where they expect to take up’ their duties as teachers, RETURNS TO ALTON After spending an enjoyable time making flying trips to other cities and suburbs and visiting friends in this city, Mrs. Eliza Williams returned to her home in Alton, Ill. ENJOYED STAY AT IDLEWILD .— Mrs, Ellen Kinney, accompanied by Mrs. Eliza Williams of Alton, I, were in Idlewild during the last ten days and heartily enjoyed their stay. MRS. DAY IN MISSISSIPPI Mrs, Corie Day, 3170 Ellis ave., is now in Orrville, Miss., where she is visiting her mother and other rela~ tives. ee CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MALE HELP COLORED Men wanted to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transporta- tion furnished. Write T, McCaffrey, Supt., St. Louis, Mo. : a Flesh Tinted Chiffon Garden Party Outfit Fae y gaa) ji ot as AY ie | Ye a i Beet GIN yr) Fs Li wR a oe: ie ey p. 4 ai) Hale al { i IP e uy For the midsummer garden party this cool and appropriate frock of fiesh-tinted chiffon, set off by a flower- trimnied girdle of silver ribbon, is very ete Use Picture Papers in Kiddies’ Bedroom For the children's bedroom and the nursery there are the most fascinating wall papers, observes the Milwavkee Sentinel. 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Brass and Wood Beds, Electric Washers, Refrigerators, Stoves, Paint, Oil, Hardware, Linoleum HENRY STUCKART 2515-19 ARCHER AVE. TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1 GEORGE F. H GEORGE F. HARDING REAL ESTATE Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, A and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE Corner 31st Street, Chicago Date or Modern Houses, A and Stores to Rent COTTAGE GROVE Corner 31st Street, Chicago Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago Statement of Condition At Close of Business on June 30, 1923 Increase in Deposits from April 30, 1923, to June 30, 1923, $84,385.23 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $1,689,999.41 (Inspected and approved by our Board of Directors) Bonds and Securities ... 972,154.22 Stocks ... 11,000.00 (Lincoln State Safety (Health Co)) Bank Building and Annex ... 150,335.22 Furniture and Fixtures ... 22,963.55 Other Resources ... 40,626.56 Cash on Hand and Due from Banks ... 410,688.18 Total ... $3,297,767.14 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ... $ 300,000.00 Surplus ... $ 30,000.00 Undivided Profits ... $ 37,734.71 Reserved for Taxes and In-vestments ... $ 8,630.41 Other Liabilities ... $ 42,822.72 Deposits ... $ 2,678,579.30 Total ... $3,297,767.14 This Bank invites you to avail yourself of its complete facilities. First Mortgage Gold Bonds—approved safe investments—yield 7% interest. Boxes in our completely equipped Safety Deposit Vaults rent for $4.00 per year and upwards. Interest at the rate of 5% is allowed on all saving accounts. Savings Department opens from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. GEORGE F. LEIBERANDT, President CHARLES A. WHITE, Vice-President GEORGE S. CAMPBELL, Cashier L. A. DELAURIER, Assistant Cashier ADDISON E. AVERY, Mgr. Bond Dept. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government Supervision 31st and South State Streets Telephone Victory 4500 Suite 560 Watson Bldg. Office Phones: Dearborn 7094-7095 Res. 3354 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6045 Stainless Metal Making. Electroplating with chromium is the new method proposed by Sheffield metallurgists for making stainless metals. Less chromium is required than for stainless alloy, and it is suggested that the thin rustless film should give protection to the bright parts of motors and other objects. Invert Sugar. The sugar of fruit is usually an admixture of dextrone and levulose, and is called invert sugar. It is uncrystallizable and forms granular masses in dried fruit. It consists of five parts of levulose and three parts of hydrated dextrone, some of which arises by inversion of saccharine. 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!") NINE DOUGLAS 6351 Y LUCAS y-at-Law 35th Street cargo Wards 27 MITURE dns, Electric Washers, toves, Paint, Oil, Linoleum TUCKART CHER AVE. HARDING, JR. n Houses, Apartments to Rent E GROVE AVE. street, Chicago Invert Sugar. 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 Calumet 805 Norris-War YARD 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. I. 18th and Canal Sts., C. B. Rest St., C. R. I. P. Roscoe and I. 2556 COTTAGE GRO CUT OUT THIS SUBSCRIPT 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. R. 18th and Canal Sts., C. B. & Q. R. R. Rest St., C. R. I. P. R. R. Roscoe and Racine Aves., C. M. & St. P. R. R. 2556 COTTAGE GROVE AVE., CHICAGO CUT OUT THIS SUBSCRIPTION BLANK AND MAIL IT TO THE BROAD AX 6206 B. Elizabeth Street, Chicago, Ill. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter n AX. I enclose herewith Two Dollars, Dollar for six months. Name___ Town___ Date___ JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD AX. I enclose herewith Two Dollars, the annual subscriptions to same, or One Dollar for six months. Greatest Masonry. Greatest Masonry. The famous Washington monument has been called the best piece of masonry in the world. Its interior is 25 feet square, while the exterior is 55 feet square. This shows the tremendous thickness of the walls. The foundation of the shaft is 80 feet square and it is set in solid rock eight feet below the surface of the earth. Many nations, as well as cities, states and individuals contributed stones in its construction. Its walls, therefore, contain interesting stones from all parts of the world. Scotland Gets Ellisland. The farm of Ellisland, near Dumfries, where Burns wrote "Scots Wha Hae" and "Tam o' Shanter," and many other poems, has been given to the Scottish nation by the terms of the will of the recent owner, a gentleman of Edinburgh. The buildings as far as possible are to remain as they were in the time when they were occupied by Robert Burns. Walnuts in Bulgaria. The walnut in Bulgaria is almost indispensable to the housewife. The nut is eaten in the raw state and used for producing a cooking oil. The meats are sated, fried in a pan and then pressed with a roiling oil. Jam is made from the green walnuts and large quantities are used in the production of a very potent brandy. Are the Laziest People Are the Laziest People. Probably the laziest people in the world are Swantians, who live in the inaccessible mountain range between the Black and Caspian seas. They have made no advance toward civilization in 2,500 years. It is their invariable rule to observe holidays four times a week, with saints' days as extras. Are we Americans becoming more hones? Chinese Free Masons seem to think so. At their outing in New York they take their watches along, though white men are invited as guests. The Hip Sings recently have been leaving their watches at home when they invited white men along. The East Runner The antelope or prong-horn is the swiftest runner on the continent, says Nature Magazine. He lives on the open plains, depending upon his eyes, his nose, and his swift legs for protection. These have failed him as the country has settled up. He cannot survive wire fences and modern firearms. Turpentine Cleans Rugs. An excellent way to keep carpets and rugs in good condition is to go over them once a week with a broom dipped in hot water to which a little turpentine has been added. This treatment not only prevents moths but freshens up the color of the faded carpet marvelously. ```markdown ``` Chas. Krutekoff, Pres. J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. Chinks. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1923 WARNER Thiopodist Experience CHICAGO d Coal Co. OS AT R. & Q. R. R. R. R. R. Racine Aves., C. M. & St. P. R. R. OVE AVE., CHICAGO my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD the annual subscriptions to same, or One 19 State There's Only One Method. When a woman has something to say and is determined to say it, the only thing to do is to let her talk. Words to a woman are as steam to a boiler, and no man can control her mind until she has talked off the lid.—From "Black Oxen," by Gertrude Atherton. Up to the present time no industrial use has been made of acorns, but recent experiments show that alcohol can be made from them. Shelled acorns contain about 40 per cent of starch, which can be readily saccharified and then converted into alcohol. Wife Always Late. Guide (in Yellowstone)—"Now, ladies, this phenomenon occurs every three minutes. Maybe you'd like to look down into the geyser before the next eruption." Mr. Smithers (calling to wife)—"Not you! It's just like you to be late."—Wisconsin Octopus. Efficiency. "Don't you think these automobile jokes are in bad taste?" "No," replied Miss Cayenne, "my observation is that any piece of machinery which can make a man laugh instead of using profanity should be classed as a blessing."—Washington Star. Two and Two Make Four, But— We are constantly reminded of George Eliot's naughty formulation of Lecky's attitude: That two and two certainly make four, but that a gentleman will not press the matter too far. —Joseph McCabe. As to Choice. "Some day," said Uncle Ebben, "I may feel dat it's up to me to go on one o' dese here hunger strikes. If it ever happens it'll have to be at de time of year when it's too late for spring chickens an' too early foh watermelon." Straight Thinking. Clear, straight thinking is needed today more than anything else. Loose and misdirected thought cannot lead to logical conclusion. Such thought results in a "deadlock" in our own heads which nobody but ourselves can break. Palm Always Busy. Coconut palms are busy trees, says Nature Magazine, and so useful they can brook no delay, so flowers and fruit in all stages of growth may be seen upon the trees at the same time. Isn't it the Truth? Every man who lives a successful and useful life will find by the time he reaches the age of threescore years and ten that he has managed to accumulate a nice little bunch of enemies. YARDS AT CHICAGO CHICAGO Hugh Norris, Treas Kirby Ward, Secy. $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS $2.00 PER YEAR FUNERAL DIRECTORS UNDERTAKER SERVICE AMOUNT LOSSAGE AUTOS AT ALL HOURS ALL ACCOMMODATIONS ERNEST II. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GARAGE GASOLINE OIL OPEN DAY & NIGHT Day Light Chapel, capacity 200, Outside Ventilation—Organ and Organist Free—I am as near as your Telephone—I give service at a reasonable price—Distance immaterial, consult me—I save you wor v. time and money. 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. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 3655 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 9133 Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroes 2714 MILES J. DEVINE Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence; 4751 Champlain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO BINGA STATE BANK Under State Supervision Capital ..... $100,000.00 Surplus ..... 20,000.00 Offers Equal Service to All 3% INTEREST ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS State Street and 36th Place Wanted Advertising Solicitor A live or wide awake newspaper man or solicitor can earn some easy money by calling on or addressing the undersigned. Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth street. Phone Wentworth 2597. PHONE KENWOOD 455 West Englewood Trust & Savings Bank al and Surplus, $500,000 OFFICERS President Arthur C. Utesch Vice-Pres. W. Merle Fisher Cashier Carl O. Seberg, Asst. Cashier Commonwealth Edison Co. 72 W. ADAMS STREET PHONE RANDOLPH 1280 Electric Shops carry a full line of the Federal Washer on Easy Ter Capital and Surplus, $500,000.00 John Bain, President Arthur C. Utesch, Asst. Cashier Michael Maisel, Vice-Pres. W. 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; Davies Electric Shop, 5400 Failleton Ave. Burlington, VT 05405. 2561 N. Kidde Ave. Kelvyan Park Elec. Shop, 2455 S. Lighting庐. Lorgas 2455 Milwaukee Ave. 5451 N. Lawrence Ave. Mid-West Electrical WEST SIDE Bazalez & Baza Bazalez St. Co. Bridgeport Co. St. Bridgeport Co. St. City Electric Co. C218 St. 268 St. C218 St. 268 St. 4185 W. Madison St. 4185 W. Madison St. 7748 W. Madison St. 7748 W. Madison St. Worth North Co. Worth North Co. Fritzhald Electric Co. Fritzhald Electric Co. Robert B. Garth. Robert B. Garth. Home Electric Appliance 5389 W. Chicago Ave. Lexington Electric Co. Lexington Electric Co. OUR NEW HO E DIRECTORS 72 W. Adama St. 72 W. Adama St. 448 N. Parnes Ave.驻 448 N. Parnes Ave. 3927 Logan Blvd. 3927 Logan Blvd. 3452 W. Rudd Rd. NORTH SIDE Atlanta Electric Co. 2622 N. Clark St. Broadway Electric Shop, 6215 J. B. Collins & Son. J. B. Collins & Son. J. I. Elliott & Co. 1538 N. Clark St. 1538 N. Clark St. 2423 N. Haisted St. Kersten Harbart Electric 1448 Wilen Ave. Lawrence Electric Co. 1424 O. R. Martin. O. R. Martin. Morse Electric Shop. 1504 Morse Ave. Panama Elec. Lips Co. 5503 N. Clark St. Panama Elec. Lips Co. Principle Electric Co. 3306 Southport Ave. 3306 Southport Ave. 3506 Lincoln Ave. 3506 Lincoln Ave. 6712 Sheridan Rd. Tip Top Elec. Appliances. Tip Top Elec. Appliances. 833 Irving Park Blvd. Milton Ave. 8483 Broadway NORTHWEST Art Lena, Newtity & GIF Company, 8100 Milwaukee Ave. CHICAGO ```markdown ``` 3639 Lincoln Ave. 4139 Irving Park, Brd. 6245 Normal Blvd. 8250 E. 92nd St. Markle Electric Shop, 2254 W. Chicago Ave. 2328 W. Chicago Ave. 3238 W. Madison St. 1614 W. 30th St. Ogden Electric Shop, Abernard D. Ward Bardan D. Ward 1815 Madison St. Railroad Electric Co. 3314 W. Chicago Ave. 1187 W. Taylor St. Riehman Electric Co. Riehman Electric Co. Rika Electric Co. Soula胶 Electric Co. 2248 W. North Ave. 2248 W. North Ave. 1018 Milwaukee Ave. SOUTH SIDE Berry & Co. Berry & Co. Beverly Electric Shop. 1732 W 950th St. Fairfax Fl-ix- ture Co. Brookline Electric Shop. 7138 S Chicago Ave. Chatham Fl-ix- ture 1115 Michigan Ave. Chatham Electric Fx- t 6350 B. Haited Ave. 8611 S. St. Louis Ave. 8811 S. St. Louis Ave. 4007 Dugen Ave. Blvd. 4007 Dugen Ave. Blvd. 4174 Cottage Hill Electric Washing Mac. 610 Gros Ave. Row. Gauk Park Electric Co. Gano Electric Shop. 50-82 W. 110th St. Gano Electric Co. 610 Gros Ave. Row. Harper Electric Shop. 1465 E. 3rd St. Wells Fargo & Flair Works. Hattled St. 1465 L. H. W. 2500 Archer Ave. 1233 Brandon Ave. Linden Electric Shop. 1465 E. 3rd St. Neighborhood Shop. 1233 Brandon Ave. New City Electric Co. 4248 W. 47th St. 2414 W. 47th St. 721 S. Hattled St. Parnall Electric Shop. 729 S. Hattled St. Quality Electric Shop. 3017 W. 49th St. Vincentia Electric Shop. Vincentia Ave. A. Wagener 1227 E. 51st St. West Pullman Electric W. 110th St. Winchester Store Elec. 6766 Stoney Island Ave.