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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Colonel Rosco Conklin Simmons and His Abraham Lincoln Political League Will Pass on for Four Years Longer Before It Will Meet Again Under His Divine Guidance. It and the Sanhedrin Formed Two Notable Gatherings, Giving the Colored People of Chicago Much to Talk About. One Week of Wisdom By Special Staff Correspondent. The people of Chicago have much for which to give thanks. It has survived the outpour for a week of the wisdom of the sages of the Sanhedrin and the many voices from that Cave of the Winds, the Lincoln League. The former gathering had made no talking record. It was in the nature of things an unknown quantity. Its newness gave such a touch of interest that no one found a place to tire of its talkings, thinkings out loud, and the doings of the sages, as it was thought this gathering must be. It was by its novelty kept from that staleness which comes from a foreknowledge which is at times fatal to the interest in the most distinguished body. As the Sanhedrin gathered the question uppermost in every mind was: "What 'tis, is it?" and that historic inquiry of Flanagan of Texas on a great occasion, "What are we here for?" And this question was a live and vital one to those who had paid the price for the seat which indicated profound wisdom and learning of a kind. The gathering was unique in origin and purpose. It purported to have no eye cast upon the loaves and fishes of public office. No indeed! This was exactly the opposite of Col. Simmons' League, named in honor of one of the wisest men of all the ages, and still the most consummate politician of his day and generation. The Sanhedrin was born of the brain of Dean Kelly Miller, who, after the manner of the great is modest to a degree. Prof. Miller was, during the lifetime of Booker T. Washington, spoken of as one of the "leading citizens" of color in the United States. Men thought Booker had given him his place in the trio in which the obstreperous Dubois was a necessary figure. But Kelly Miller has lasted without Washington, although there is less talk of the great great leaders. Prof. Miller says he did not originate the idea of the Sanhedrin, though he admits that he is the one great Voice in the wilderness of the rights and wrongs of a great race. Anyhow, he got them together this one time, without making any reference to politics or denominational religion. The old Jewish Sanhedrin was composed of seventy of the wisest of the Jews. It appointed local Sanhedrins with power to deal with civil matters of smaller concern and especially to try small civil cases that were ecclesiastical rather than secular. Prof. Miller has no rival Sanhedrin. His is the one big body and he is its Voice, and he speaks well with that voice. He included prominent Chicagoans in his original call. Dr. George Cleveland Hall, who is himself some leading citizen and a former member of the Washington cabinet, had invited many local celebrities, including Judge Ferdinand L. Barnett and many others of more or less note and varying degrees of devotion to the cause. Kelly Miller did not invite the "Afro-Americans" or "Our Group" nor the "Race." He said that when he wanted, as 5 CENTS PER COPY Rosco Politi Longer Guidance Gather Much t though he was not ashamed of the name All Negro Sanhedrin. The only fly in the ointment which was spread to get the wisdom of the Negro race together, was the little hint that for five dollars one would be a member, regardless of the seventy, which was the limit set by the Jews. Many were called, but comparatively few were chosen because of the lack of responsiveness in the muscle of the pocketbook. Howard University sent many, as did also Tuskegee, but the seats of the mighty Emmett J. Scott and Robert Rusa Moton were conspicuously vacant, and thereby hangs no tale of which we know. It was the gathering of the seven wise men of Greece without Solon and Lycurgus. But Howard University had just been attacked by a southern representative because some mention had been made in a prayer by Rev. Grimke that he wished for a "different religion from that held and professed by Woodrow Wilson," and Emmett Scott evidently wanted to be close to the seats of the mighty while the storm of indignation had blown an appropriation out of a general bill. He had it put back, which was more important than Sanhedrin or League. The Sanhedrin promised everything, as all its predecessors have done. It is the successor, in all save name, of the great movements of the days agone. On the eve of the National Republican convention at Cincinnati in 1876 a great conference of the leaders from all over the country met at Nashville, Tennessee, and talked eloquently and resolved defiantly. The motion to adjourn ended its career, Many gatherings have written themselves as the makers of history and have been forgotten. Then there was the Afro-American Council whose name appeared to damn it from its birth. Bishop Walters was enthusiastic and others of more or less note boosted it, but it went the way of all flesh. Then the Niagara movement and no end of others, which flourished, faded and fell. The Sanhedrin spread a great banquet in the gymnasium of the Thirty-eighth street Y. M. C. A. At this banquet there was also much talking and many bouquets were thrown rather promiscuously at men about the festal board, but chiefly they fell around the head of Kelly Miller, as was somewhat proper. Mr. Morris Lewis was the center of many compliments because he has always been "secretary of everything," and now, by grace of Mr. Coolidge, he goes to Washington to fill a place which had been wished for by a member of the city press. Mr. Lewis bore blushingly the honors which have been recently cast upon him. Mr. Cottrill of Ohio was also in for much fair talk. He is the man who was so close to the throne in the Harding reign that its bright light hid from the President's view and left him sitting in the ashes of a worthy ambition. Mr. J. Weldon Johnson spoke, as did the great professor, the father of the Sanhedrin, but neither of them told of the prom- ```markdown ``` [Name] One of the High-Class Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, Who, the First of This Week, Became Utterly Disgusted With the Leland-Case Divorce Scandal and Drove the Whole Rotten Mess Out of His Courtroom and Requested the Whole Shooting Match to Beat It to the Woods. ises of the gathered wisdom except in the most general way. Everybody seemed glad to be in the great company, but there was a notable lacking of the things you could remember after you got home and lit the lamp or turned on the light. Mr. Harvey Watkins, the big real estate dealer, and Dr. Carl Roberts worked unceasingly, but the Sanhedrin seemed to draw too much water to float easily and smoothly. At the other end of the city was the Lincoln League. Its excuse for not having a larger attendance was that the Sanhedrin was in town, while the same excuse was given for that body. The night meetings were well attended because people like "heap much" talk and there were endurance record talkers in both assemblages. And it was a glorious opportunity for Col. Simmons that eloquent and versatile very keeper of the Cave of the Winds. He praised his own, and so praised himself. He is well acquainted with contemporary political history, and the colored man's connection with it. He has made the Lincoln League his own pet movement. Numbers of THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 23, 1924 HON. CHARLES M. FOELL high-Class Judges of the Superior no, the First of This Week, Becan with the Leland-Case Divorce Whole Rotten Mess Out of His the Whole Shooting Match to clever good fellows surround him and revel in his rainbow of political promise, and follow him four weary years looking for that bag of gold which is always at the other end. Bob Church is young, handsome, rich, and but for Col. Simmons' kidding would be a modest, useful citizen. If he survives the lattery of his chief he ought to live long and do much good in the world. Perry Howard knows better, but he appears to take it all in as a trousl would grab a minnow. He still dreams of being a member of the Republican National Committee, with his chances just a bit better than ever before. For him the Lincoln League means all, and why not believe every word that Col. Simmons says in his praise? Walter Cohen was not here in the flesh, but his spirit went with the bunch. He has a nomination for surveyor of customs and probably will be confirmed if Mr. Coolidge shows as much determination as he has recently shown in other matters. The League is "always on the works" when the great horses are going to the post in the presidential handicap. It tries to ```markdown ``` pick winners, but never fails to stand by the men in power or those whose prospects appear to be good. In short, the Lincoln League, unlike the Sanhedrin, says what it is and makes no bones of it. It is a political club which seeks to be the maker of presidents, and if, forsooth, it succeeds in tying onto a kite that flies its members will go along to be agreeable. The Sanhedrin did not formulate any plan to give itself excuse for another meeting so far as this writer has discerned. But if there be a sufficient number of "wise" men in the country who will put up some life memberships and some entrance fees it will come back and function in a way. But the Lincoln League asks for no money from the public, relying upon the gentle touch which will provide some scrip for its quadrennial journey. The two gatherings demonstrate that the colored people still like good talk and plenty of it, no matter how little is back of it. Both these bodies might be made useful, and, judged by their own members, they already fill every just expectation of friend and foe. --- TENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BE OBSERVED MARCH 30-APRIL 5. CLEAN-UP WEEK In accord with the resolutions of the National Negro Business League, and in co-operation with the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference and other influential organizations, this invitation is extended to the following agencies and organizations to unite in the observance of the Tenth Annual National Negro Health Week, from March 30 through April 5: The United States Public Health Service, The National Health Council, The National Medical Association, The National Tuberculosis Association, The National Association of Graduate Nurses, The National Organization for Public Health Nursing, The American Red Cross, The American Social Hygiene Association, The National Child Welfare Association, The American Child Health Association, The National Clean-up and Paint-up Bureau, The National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, The National League on Urban Conditions, The Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation, The Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, The Associated Negro Press, The National Negro Press Association, the State Boards of Health, City Boards of Health, State Medical Associations, Annual Church Conferences and Associations, Fraternal Organizations, Insurance Companies, Farmers' Conferences, Local Schools and Churches The Ninth Annual Negro Health Week secured a more general interest in and understanding of health problems and health education among Negroes than any Health Week observance which had preceded it. Still greater results are expected from the Tenth Annual National Negro Health Week. The observance of Health Week gives great impetus to the health movement which is planned to effect the co-operation of all welfare agencies and other groups of people in the reduction of preventable sickness and deaths, and the increase of vitality and resistance to disease. Such activity will not only lessen the danger and cost of preventable sickness and death to the family, community and the government, but also increase the well-being, earning capacity and service of the healthy citizens to home, community and country. The United States Public Health Service has again prepared the Health Week Bulletin. It is ready for distribution and copies of the same may be secured by application to the United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., or to Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. At a meeting of representatives of a number of national health organizations held at Tuskegee Institute, January 18, the following program for Health Week was approved: Sunday, March 30—Sermon and Lecture Day. Health sermons and lectures by ministers, doctors and other qualified persons. Monday, March 31—Hygiene Day. Personal and community hygiene talks by doctors, visiting nurses, social workers and other qualified persons. Tuesday, April 1—Fly, Mosquito and disease spreading and Insect Vermin Day. Wednesday, April 2—Tuberculosis Day. Thursday, April 3 — Children's Health Day. (Health program, stories of modern health crusades, parades, etc.) Friday, April 4—Church Sanitation Day. Saturday, April 5—General Clean-up Day. It is suggested that the County Committee on Race Relations or some other responsible organization assume general charge of arrangements for carrying out locally the above plans and organizing the following sub-committees: SUB-COMMITTEES See editors and furnish them with publicity matter. Arrange for general distribution of literature during Health Week. Secure a good staff of speakers to deliver ten or fifteen-minute addresses at various places arranged for beforehand. Give each some particular topic or topics to cover throughout the campaign. Clean-Up Day Secure volunteer workers to promote methods of cleaning up along each street. If prizes are offered, secure prizes and arrange for judging and presentation. Co-operation Secure co-operation of city authorities in drainage work and removing refuse. Secure co-operation of lodges, churches and schools in advance of Health Week so that full announcements may be made through them. Secure co-operation of local physicians. Consult principals and local school authorities with a special view to providing satisfactory sanitary arrangements at schools. Secure co-operation of real estate dealers. Seek the co-operation of local health officers, farm demonstration agents, home demonstration agents, superintendents and principals of schools, health council, pastors of white and colored churches, local Red Cross chapter and local Anti-Tuberculosis committee. Start work in time to get preliminary arrangements made a month in advance, if possible. Have the announcement of Health Week made in all churches and lodges two or three Sundays in advance of the beginning of the campaign and on Sunday, March 30. Tuskegee Institute will welcome suggestions for making the campaign a success, and will be glad to co-operate with individuals or groups in making their plans for the week. R. R. MOTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 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TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Vol. XXIX No. 23 Chicago, February 23, 1924 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago. Mil, Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE TWO ST. JOHNS IN MASONRY Highly Interesting Article by Sir Knight James E. Bish Most Masonic lodges are dedicated to these patrons of Masonry in past years, lodges were dedieated to King Solomon, and some were dedicated to Zerubbabal, a Prince of Judah. The building of the temple by Solomon as grand master, and the temple as a legend brings him much in use in Ma- sonic ceremonies as King of Israel and his chief aid Hiram, King of Tyre, are beautifully portrayed in many degrees of Masonry and in some of the auxil- ary bodies, such as the Order of Eastern Star, in their Queen of the South degree. We are told that orig- inally lodges were dedicated to this great man our first grand master and founder of the order, but’ after the Babylonian captivity Masonic lodges were dedicated to Zerubbabal, Prince of the House of Judah, the son of Shalthiel, who with Joshua, the high priest, and Haggai, a scribe, led a party of released captives back to Jerusalem and worked on the erection of the second. temple, and remained there until the final destruction of the temple by Titus, in the reign of the Roman emperor Vespasian, the lodges were dedicated to St. John the Baptist. After many years the lodges were broken up, so they called St. John the Evangelist, an eminent Mason to the Grand Mastership. From these two yatrons we have two days to celebrate, but in different forms of celebration, The St. John’s day celebration on June 24 we celebrate as a day of Masonic gatherings for divine worship after St. John the Baptist. Once each year untold thousands of Masons assemble asa crait for that worship. It is fit ting on-such occasions to announce the principles upon which. the institution is builded; it is not a political institu- tion in the sense that it recognizes any party or endorses any candidate. All personal and political contentions are barred from its service. It inculcates the basic virtues of patriotism, seli- sacrifice, for the common good. It is not a religious institution in the sense of having any sectarian affiliations, but every man must reverence God. The high purpose of the order is to call ‘men to sublime and lofty aims, show reverence for God, obedience to law. love for humasity and purity of life The legends and symbols of the order teach us that from one Blood all na- tions were born and ALL MEN arc brothers. When St. John, the Evan gelist, was chosen after the meeting o the craft held in the city of Benjamix he became Grand Master and both An ‘cient and modern Masons celebrate St John the Evangelist’s day, December 27, as a day for renewing their obli gations with their brethren, The sea son of the year necessitates holding ‘the celebration indoors, so that this “has been the time set aside for th holding of elections and inaugurating is also an important time in = oe tian era. Masons celebrate the “Evangelist day for the promotior of friendship, morality and brother! love. Our ¢ ation of St. John th: “Baptist. is a n of the cele ‘b ‘of the Romans,’ when the sea ‘son entered the summer solstice. Th the ‘of the fete in honor of St at on etn a Soe eae ne for panes of Christ, wh suffered martyrdom rather than be y his duty to his master; or of Ze we eo tubbabal, who, at the feast of King Darius, when the king promised him be would grant any request he made if he would divulge the secrets of free- ‘masonry, Zerubbabal declined the favor of the king at the price of his infamy, these lessons of firmness and fidelity are “taught throughout Ma- sonry. Hiram Abif lost his life for the same reason, and ail true Masons lever revere the names of Solomon, St. John the Baptist, Zerubabbal, St. John the Evangelist and Hiram Abif. AN ADVENTURE IN GOOD ‘WILL ‘The Inter-racial Commission, Its Origin and Work By R. B. Eleazer, Educational Director Part 1. Origin Ne OMe toe ee ee ae through the South would have been struck with the wonderful solidarity of the population, white and colored. In the support of the war they were ‘united as never.before. Two hundred thousand Negro youth were fighting for the flag in France and many more were preparing to go over, The mil- fions back at home were responding heartily to every war-time appeal, and in proportion to their means quite as generously as any other group. The white people were unstinted in their praise of the Negro’s loyalty, while the Negro, encouraged by the stirring utterances of President Wil- son and the democratic ideals of the war, felt that in the future things would mot be quite the same. He looked for more of sympathy, less of prejudice and injustice, a fuller guar- antee of his constitutional right of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness.” Racial antagonism was forgot- ten in devotion to a common cause. A week after the Armistice one might have observed a subtle but ominous change. Distrust was begin- ning ‘to get abroad. What would be the attitude of the Negro troops when they returned from France? Incen- diary rumors filled the air, and by the time the Negro soldiers began to re- turn suspicion and fear had taken deep hold upon both races. Mob violence, which had greatly dectined during the war, burst out afresh, In city after city race riots famed up, with casual- ties on both sides. The tension tight- ened everywhere, and the nation awaited the outcome with dread sus- pense. It was in this crisis“that the Com- mission on Inter-racial Co-operation came into existence. Oppressed with the ominous possibilities of the situa- ‘tion, a small group of Southern leaders met day after day in Atlanta, earnestly seeking some means of averting the threatened calamity by bringing to the front the constructive Christian lead- lership of both races. At the center of this group were John J. Eagan, manu- facturer and churchman; Rev. W. W. Alexander, who, as a representative of the ¥. M. C. A. War Work Council, ‘was in close touch with the returning Negro troops, and Dr. M. Ashby Jones, pastor of a leading Atlanta church. It happened that these three represented three. of the strongest Southern denominations — Presbyte- rian, Methodist and Baptist. Out of the thought and prayer of these men and others like them the Commission on Inter-racial Co-opera- tion was born early in 1919. Its mem- bership was made up of leading educa- tors, ministers, business and profes- sional men from every state in the South, inclading a number of out- standing Negro leaders, The situation was desperate and the effort to cover the field with a close land effective organization was pushed fat top speed. State committees were organized throughout the South and men wece put in the field to set up as jquickly as possible local committees jin every community where the prob- lem was acute. It was a staggering task and fraught with peculiar difficul- ‘ties, but with the co-operation of the 'Y. M. C. A. machinery and the War Work Council it was accomplished in record time. ‘The result fully justified. the effort. |A better spirit immediately appeared Suspicion and distrust began to give |way to understanding and confidence The forces of law and order were encouraged and strengthened. The fires. of hate were checked and: the threatened conflagration was averted Hargely, without doubt, through the Jagencies set in motion by the Com- ‘mission. Having proved its efficacy in the crisis which called it into being, it was felt that the Commission should enter upon the task of permanently limp race relations throughou! the South, by putting them, as far as * ‘South-wide campaign of good ‘A South-wide car the creation of a better spirit, the [correction of grievances, and the pro: tion of oa sae: is mts cot Fs 8 eseeenl eres. of, te Soe tained wilt be set forth in two E so Sse cae ASS Se see 1 I i tego THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 23, 1924 ee i 1 gee Bee as = yh — an o . : Es Ls Member of Congress from the First Congressional District of Illinois, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the House of Representatives, who will on Tuesday, April 8th, be renominated to make the race for Congress. Both men ‘and woman can vote fer him at the primates. HAMILTON FISH ASKS PRESI- DENT TO PARDON IMPRIS- ONED COLORED SOL- DIERS OF 24th Major Hamilton Fish, representa- tive in Congress from the State of New York and former major in the 15th Infantry, read a fetter during his address before the anti-lynching mass meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, which he had written to President Coolidge in behalf of the imprisoned colored soldiers of the 24th Infantry The letter is as follows: “February 11, 1924, “My Dear Mr. President: 4 “Tam taking the liberty of writing to ask clemency for the fifty-four sol- diers now confined in prison for par- ticipating in the Houston, Texas, race riot in the fall of 1917. “I served with colored troops at Spartanburg and knew something of ‘the difficulty of their situation in the South, the insults heaped upon them and the provocation they endured. From personal experience I know that the fault is not all on their side. I make no appeal nor hold any brief for the colored non-commissioned off cers aid leaders in the riot, nineteen of whom have been executed, but have not the others who participated in the riot without premeditation been suffi ciently punished? I would be a derel- ict to the memory of the colored sol- diers who served in my -outfit who paid the supreme sacrifice 6n the field of battle, if I did not raise my voice to secure justice and clemency for those members of their race who also wore the American uniform. “In view of the recent amnesty to political prisoners who obstructed the draft, poisoned the minds of our peo- ple, made lawbreakers and draft dodgers out of thousands, and some of whom incited or actually partici pated in the blowing up of bridges, factories, etc, which sometimes re- sulted in the loss of lives, and gen- erally impeded the conduct of our military operations, might not these colored soldiers also be granted clemency whose only offense was to take part in a race riot where evi- dence has been produced to show that a large part of the responsibility should be borne by the white civilian population? “Lam writing to ask you on the eve of Lincoin’s birthday to grant clem- ency to these soldiers in the same kindly spirit and with the same sense ‘of justice that Lincoln always showed pardoning young soldiers who had been sentenced to death or to impris- ‘onment during the Civil War. “Trusting you will accept this letter ‘in the spirit in which it is written, and grant clemency to these colored sol- Aneee (Signed) “Hamilton Fish, Jr.” HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN THE POSTAL CLERKS IN CHI. CAGO ARE MANFULLY AND RIGHTFULLY CONTENDING FOR AN INCREASE IN THEIR SALARY Last Sunday evening a great mass meeting was held at the Pilgrim Bap- tist Temple, 33d street and Indiana avenue, Rev, S. E. J. Watson, A. M,, D.D., pastor. Qut of the vast throng which had gathered in the -church more than two th@usand were white and colored postal clerks and mail- men, who are connected with the Chi- cago postoffice. The object of the mass meeting was to work up public sentiment favorable to increasing the pay not only of the postal clerks of this city, but throughout the United States. Rev. Watson was the leading speaker of the evening and he pledged the support of the six thousand mem- bers of his congregation to aid in every way to enable the postal clerks to, receive more pay, which will en- abie them to start to buying homes of their own and to support their families in much better shape than they are able to do at the present time, Strong resolutions were passed call- ing upon both branches of Congress to pass the Kelley-Edge bill, which provides for substantial increase in the wages of all the mail men and postal clerks in the various parts of this ‘country. No Additional Taxation “The pay boost you are asking would come as apples from your own tree,” Rev. Watson declared, “be- cause it would be out of post office earnings and would not involve addi- tional taxation.” Mr. Sol Cohen, president of the Chicago local No.\1, National Feder- ation of Post Office Clerks, said that, counting third class and fourth class postmasters, more than 300,000 em- ployes throughout ‘the country would be benefited under the proposed bill. Of these about 9,500 are in Chicago. A considerable percentage is of the colored race. ‘What They Want Clerks and carriers: now receive a minimum of $1400 and a maximum ‘of $1,800 a year. They want a $2,000 minimum and a $2400 maximum, with a provision authorizing payment - of $2,500 to some special clerks and $2,600 to others, Mr. Cohen cited findings of the United States bureau of statistics to indicate minimum pay now is $1,000 under what has been deemed neces- ‘sary to maintain a “healthful and de- cent budget” for a family of three and that the maximum also is well under The resolutions adopted called upon Illinois senators and representatives to ‘On ‘Monday thread Club in the inte in the ‘pay of the postal employes, fore pen eee Pen Peer ee pe eet Be aa oe Be Pape ase ae pax Mie Septet x beget a ee ee taser gaara eee ee ie aye eee Becta es & Sea ees Bee ee eS ay Bia 2S Pee er ee eee Picies a oF ee pS Oe fe. he et aa ope) “ : ‘ SHORT CUTS (Lincoln News Service) Texas has two colored postmis- tresses, Of the 1,855 colored school teachers in Tennessee 1,497 are females. Native diggers at the tomb of King Tutankhamen receive 12 cents a day. Mr. James H. “Maxwell, of Red Bank, N. J., conducts a modern gro- ‘cery store and butcher shop. In the land of Lilliput the clans are engaged in their quadrennial fight over ‘the question of leadership. ‘Dr. S. A. Ware, a prominent physi- ‘cian of Springfield, Illinois, is a candi- date for the State Legislature, In each 1,000 colored persons be- tween 5 and 20 years of age, $40, as compared with 670 whites, attend school. ‘ W. L. Porter, editor of The East ‘Tennessee News, was recently elected to serve on the Knox County Repub- ican Executive Committee. The New Age of Hopkinsville, Ky., is asking if there is a Negro Ku Klux Klan organization in that city. In Houston, Texas, the dentists have a focal dental society which meets weekly and is opened with prayer—we hope for the patients, A. successful new business enter- prise. in Chicago is the Chemical Products Corporation, manufacturers of coal tar disinfectants, fly sprays and disinfectant powders. Just because a crack has been found in the lid of King Tut's coffin, an effort is “being made to prove that undertakers have been grafting for at Teast 3,300 years, According to The Star of Zion, “offi ‘cial organ of the A, M. E, Zion church, there are: about thirty ministers in the race for the bishopric. ‘The Colorado Statesman announces, jas another progressive step in Negro business, that a firm is to build a mod- ‘ern building and garage if Denver. ‘THE EVANSTON BOOSTERS TO MEET THE RED CAPS IN A LIVELY BASKETBALL GAME On Thursday night, February 28, at 9 o'clock, the Evanston Boosters will meet the Red Caps in a lively basket- ball game at the K. of P. Hall, 35th St. and Indiana avenue. Everybody come and have a rousing good time. Admission, fifty cents. After the game thete will be dancing.—Adv. KU KLUX KLAN VERSUS CATHOLICISM Copyright, 1924, by W. M. B. Wadley The Catholics have held the world with their religion since about A. D. 100, and is head or preponderance of nearly all municipalities of the U. S. A. while the Ku Klux Klans, only about 60 years active in the United States of America with Protestantism religion, seem to want restriction or uproot the Catholic faith. While the Jews, foreigners, Catholic, Ethiopian, alias Negroes, the latter straddle the fence, leaning toward the Ku Klux Klan, which he knows is his enemy; by the majority of the Ne- groes are Protestant, the Jews are also held aloof by: his religion, altogether different from the Protestant or the Catholic, the old Mosaic religion,. with the controlling of the money in the United States make them neutral, When the Ku Klux Klan sets up his “invisible empire” will be visible to jeverybody living in this U.S. A. by seizing all our Uncle Sam's army and navy. Then the Catholic religion witl be shaken from its’ very foundation, then the fight will begin. Read 1 Peter, 4th chapter, 17th verse. Neutrality of the Jews with his money, with the Negroes still strad- dling the fence, will be called on. Ethiopians (better known as Negrées) can say to the Catholic, “Way back, ‘many years ago, we had advanced far Enough to have three Negro Popes in Rome, A. D. 1619. When the African, Ethiopian Negroes, brought to James- town, Virginia, sold im slavery, after holding the highest position in your church, two hundred and forty-three years remain under the whip and lash of the ‘Christian’ faith.” Kw Klux Klans also inform the fence straddler, fall in line with us, we are Christians Protestants religion, same as yours and always been your friend: The Negroes will wake up, and the ‘scale will fall from his eyes, and will ‘say, your religion is “Devilianity” have no parts of Christ's teaching, Hence must be the devil, true religion stand by the “Law” of the land, John 19:17. We have a law, and by our law he ought to die. “Not by Lynch Law.” Jim “Crowed” burned at the stake some of the best citizens in the South, and the Ku Klux Klans is in the sad- Jdle, and also in the saddle when the Country went dry, slipping it over on the Catholics. Now if they take the Negroes “Political” rights away; and all other rights, what will they do to the Catholics and they are on the same fence as far as the Ku Klux’s are con- cerned. ‘This is where the dreadful time will start, the Jews with all the money, Negroes remain on the “Fence” read ‘Acts 28:4, Hebrews 10:30: “Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.” Then the terrible time began. Catholics have lost their foot-hold on the fence, have never been defeated before, Isaiah 18:7: “In that time, shall the present be brought unto the Lord of Hosts of a people [scattered and peeled; and from a peo- ‘ple terrible from their beginning hith- erto; a nation meted out and trodden junder foot.” THE QUESTIONNAIRE By Miss Louise Bond 1, Who made Babylon pre-eminent? Mention his achievements. see 2. When and by whom was Nine- vah built? eee 3. What eclipse was observed at Babylon in 721 B. C.? eee 4, In what siege did Sennacherib meet disaster? What famous poem was written upon this theme? see 5. At what time and by what nation was the final conquest of Babylon accomplished? wee 6. What valuable ancient code of laws has been discovered in Baby- lonia? ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1. In 2600. B. C. silk culture was begun in China. ae "2. The Shahg “dynasty in China be- ‘gan in 1766 B. C. see 3, The mariner’s compass has been known in China since 1115 B.C. see 4. The art of printing was known in China as early as 202 B. C. one 5. In 170 B. C. paper was invented in China, Mrs. David M. Manson, 4422 Vin- cennes avenue, still continues to stand by this newspaper. She has been a constant and loyal supporter of it since October 1, 1911, and with pleas- ure it can be stated that without the slightest danning she always promptly pays her subscription to it. The editor and Mrs. Taylor have no better nor warmer fiends in Chicago than Mr. and Mrs. David M, Manson. COLORED BUILDERS Fory ~ ORGANIZATION (Lincoln News Service) Washington —Colored mechanics this city engaged in the build. trades, have organized a Washin,: branch of the Hampton Builders’ \. sociation, originally formed at Han, ton Institute, Va. In this ma local trade artisans expect to stisn igterest and efficiency in the colo...) workman as a factor in local indir, Roscoe I, Vaughn, the well-known architect who designed and crecte,j the New Prudential Bank at 71 Florida avenue, N. W., was elects President of the local branch, will disseminate knowledge of ing changes and materials, and «-, the training of colored mechanics, 1s well as the fostering of trade sch for colored youth, REPUBLICANS TO TRAIN WOMEN FOR CAMPAIGN (Lincoln News Service) Washington—To prepare Repubi ‘can women for work in the campaip next fall, “political Plattsburgs” to be opened, according to an an nouncement made by Mrs. Harrie: Taylor Upton, vice-chairman of th: Republican National Committe: There will be three classes for speak ers, one for the study of party funda mentals, another in which practical politics and organization will bc taught, while national issues will discussed in the other. The firs “training camp” will be held in New York, beginning March 3, under Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, a member of the executive committee of the Re publican National Committee, and originator of the courses. “AFRICAN QUESTIONS AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE” (Lincoln News Service) New York.—Writing under the title of “African Questions at the Paris Peace Conference,” an ambitious Anglo-Saxon author has published a book which deals with the condition and needs of the African people. The author has described the German pol- icy as advocated for Africa, and states that it was Germany's plan to estab- lish “new Germanies” in the African continent. The author handles his subject ethnologically, politically and economically and works out a number of conclusions as colonial expert to the American commission of inquiry on the Afriéan situation, which were later accepted and written into the Paris settlement. INDIFFERENT COLORED EDUCATORS (Lincoln News Service) Indianapolis—The Senate Commit tee on Education and Labor, at Wash- ington is conducting hearings on 2 bill presented by Senator Sterling of South Dakota, “to create a department oi education, to authorize the appropria tion of money to encourage the states in the promotion and support of edu- cation.” Although this proposed legis- lation is considered by many to be of more importance to our racial group than any other legislation under con templation at this session of Congress our educators have not generally indi- cated an interest in its enactment THE UNITED STATES AND PORTO RICO (Lincoln News Service) Washington—In responding to a plea for independence, made by a dele- gation of Porto Ricans, President Coo- lidge said: “Our country seeks no benefit from Porto Rico, but is con- nected with it solely as a trustee for the welfare of the people of the island. Our sole desire is 50 to act as to be helpful to the people of Porto Rico and assist them in developing a stable form of self-government. CHICAGO REPUBLICAN GIVEN FEDERAL APPOINTMENT (Lincoln News Service) -_ Chicago—Morris. Lewis, a popular ‘Chicago Republican, has just received ‘a federal appointment in the U. S. Dc partment of Labor, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Lewis is a man of fine educational attainments, w+! fitted for expert work in labor circies and colored Chicagoans are ciate! over the meritorious recognition give” ‘him by the administration. ‘MRS. HANKINS HERE ‘Mrs. Georgette Hankins of Edmon ton Alberta, Canada, was called to th« city a few days ago on account of the judden death of er sister, Mrs. Hat Rankins of 3858 LaSalle St. ; ee ptt | LEAVES FOR PITTSBURGH Atty. R, L. Vann left for his home, Pa., after attending the meetings of the Sanhedrin and the Eincola League. COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, WHO DELIGHTS TO POSE AS THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, CONTINUES TO GREATLY ENJOY HIMSELF DOWN IN THE SOUTHLAND Fort Valley, Georgia.—The midwinter session of the Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal church has been held, and the men have all returned to their homes and the bishops are now weighted down with many problems that must be solved, and one of the bishops is to deliver a sermon and another is to write the address which will tell about the work for the next four years to come. It was a great meeting and many good things were accomplished and still more will be accomplished before the close of time. I wish you could have been there to have seen for yourself. Just one year ago, following the acceptance of the invitation extended by Dr. R. H. Singleton, word came to the council that big Bethel had been destroyed by fire, and I wish you could have seen that good man getting things together and arranging to rebuild the temple. It has been rebuilt, and the meeting was held in the auditorium, but believe me when I tell you that Dr. Singleton was not there, he had answered the summon to come up higher. He was called to his eternal rest. Peace be unto his ashes. It is a wonderful structure, and one of the finest and most complete auditoriums in this country. He would have been one of the bishops of his church if he had remained on earth, but now he is among those who have gone before him, and we will some day join him and others. I wish you could have been in Atlanta to have seen for yourself. It was first a meeting of the college presidents, and Dr. John A. Gregg of Wilberforce, Ohio, president of Wilberforce University, is official head of the presidents, and Prof. G. A. Edwards of Kittrell, N. C., is the vice-president and he is the president of Kittrell college, and then they have a secretary, and others. These educators are working to bring the school up to what it should be and what it ought to be. I am glad that I had the pleasure of hearing these men, and seeing so many big educated men, and I tell you it put in me a desire to be a real educated man myself. I may not get to be, but if I should not then I will not, and if I should then I will. Little by little we must go to the front in this world. I visited Morris Brown University where the college heads met, and met the President, J. H. Lewis, who is one more man. They were all highly entertained and served a real banquet. Everything served free, and when this was announced some of the men like to have gone into fits, but they survived. They were not used to free doings. Rev. S. L. Green spoke for the president before the student body, and to my mind he made a slight flat, but I am not going to talk about that now, and you must not expect me to do so. The bishops met and honey Bishop W. W. Beckett of New York preached the sermon, or, I should have said, preached at the sermon, for he took a good text and a good theme, and then, instead of putting God into it, he put his personal feelings against Ira T. Bryant and some other fellow, and he gave them what Patty gave the drum and the school girls say it was "hash-e-square-lull." Bishop Beckett is a preacher, but that was one time he was off, and I hope some day he will get back on the right track. It looked as if the men have fully decided to shut down on Ira T. Bryant. He has been putting too many things on paper. I think a newspaper is not the place to air your troubles, for it is not a court of trial. If the things he has said about the bishops are true, instead of putting them on the housetop, he should seek to bring them to justice. Do not kill the hen who lays the golden egg. But these things will be aired later. They had a fine opening, and the Holy Communion was administered by Bishops W. D. Johnson and others, and then bishops presented to the congregation and attention was turned to other matters. There were many people witnesses to the opening and I was in the crowd. You should have been there to have seen how Bethel church and the ministers of Atlanta—in fact, of Georgia, entertained these men and women, and if you should you would rejoice with me. There is a world full of things. It is a full, full world, and I am glad to have the pleasure of seeing them. I wish I could tell you all I have in mind to say to you this week, but you cannot stand it all. Just a little at a time. I have in mind some of the strong men I met. Rev. J. T. Hall is candidate for the Church Extension, but He will not be able to beat Dr. S. J. Johnson of Texas, for that minister will go to the general conference with Texas right up behind him, and you may tell them that I told you this. There are other aspirants such as Rev. W. J. W. Hare, H. W. Jamison and some others. I met many of the candidates at the assembly. Dr. John A. Gregg, for episcopal honors, and it seems that he is a sure winner. It was conceded that if any bishops are elected Dr. Gregg would be one of them, and then there were other strong men. These men have about decided that it is time to give a bishop from North Carolina, the great state, and the state has a great son, Dr. T. J. Wilson, and he is fitted to fill that or any other position in the gift of the church. He is a scholar and a leader of men. It was so much pleasure for me to be with this great man, and then with President Edwards and others. All of North Carolina will be solid behind this man, and they are going to ask for his election. Will you join with them in this? I am sure that you will. I must not forget to mention others, such men as Dr. R. C. Ransom, A. L. Gaines, G. B. Young, who is the choice from his own state, Texas; E. J. Howard, John J. Morant, S. P. Felder, J. C. Anderson, R. A. Grant of Florida, J. R. Campbell of Louisiana, and it is impossible for me to tell the others, but I must not forget the Rev. Dr. Montrose W. Thornton of New York, who is just a leader of men. I must call your attention to Rev. J. A. Hadley of Atlanta, Ga., a presiding elder, and a man before the church for Missionary Secretary. He is one of the strongest men and scholars in the church, and a man with great ability. He knows all about missionary work, and just the man for the position. He should be given that important position—he is qualified, but he will, of course, have to get more votes than Noah Williams of Louisville, Ky. Now here is a position, and there is a man to fill it, the editorship of the A. M. E. Church Review. This should be filled by Rev. C. A. Wingfield, a worthy man and a scholar. You will address Dr. R. C. Ransom as bishop and someone must succeed him. This is the man, and then there is Dr. J. A. Lindsay, looking at the episcopal plum, and he has the support of Georgia. There was served a banquet, free for all, and it was a real first-class one. They had turkey, and so many other things I cannot mention now. It was fine and deserves the good things that human mind can conceive. I would like very much to say a few more things to you about it, but will not have the time. I have just been around and around seeing all I could see and hearing all I could hear. I had the pleasure of coming in touch with Dr. D. W. Cannon, and he is pushing things now for the National Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Congress to be held in Cleveland after the republicans have nominated their man, and he will be getting ready to vote for him. He is the right man for the place who gets the nomination, for I am not going to get it, nor will I aspire. They are having some fun these days in politics. Somebody may get hurt, and I thank God that I will not be the man. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to congratulate Morris Lewis on his nomination and appointment to fill the position held by the late Phil Brown, and hope he will be the right man for it. I believe he is well qualified, and will do well. I think I have had enough to say this week, but look for me later in my other letters. Take good care of yourself. CHARLES E. STUMP. RED CAPS' CLUB NEWS On Thursday of Convention Week, Charles Cottrill of Ohio, James A. Jackson, editor of the Billboard, F. New York City, and T. H. Samuels, Grand Master of the Illinois Jurisdiction, F. and A. M., were the guests of the Red Caps' Club. Chaperoned by B. F. Shepard of Dearborn Station and Sandy W. Trice of the Illinois Central Station, the party was taken on a tour about the city, stopping by the two banks, the Whip and Defender offices and the Community Center to pay their respects. The monthly meeting of the Red Caps' Literary Club will be held on Sunday afternoon, March 2. The Hon. John G. Drennan, general attorney for the I. C. Railroad, and Dr. W. W. Lucas of the Institutional Church, will be the speakers and a good musical program will be rendered. SANDY W. TRICE, Pres. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MALE HELP COLORED Men wanted to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transportation furnished. Write T. McCaffrey Supt. St. Louis, Mo. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 23, 1924 [Name not visible] One of the Leading Physicians and Surgeons in This Country, Who Is Deeply Interested in Everything Pertaining to the Advancement of the Colored Race in the United States. [Name] Ex-Member of the Legislature of Illinois; Father of Its Anti-Mob and Lynch Law Bill; Secretary of the National Pythian Temple Association; Who Is One of the Prime Movers in Constructing Its Ten-Story Building, Corner of State Street and 37th Place. DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS CONTINUES TO STAND BY THE BROAD AX Away back in 1899, shortly after this newspaper began to function in Chicago, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, who is one of the most eminent and MISS BEATRICE LEE HAS RAL LIED FROM A SEVERE ATTACK OF DIPHTHERIA Miss Beatrice E. Lee, 5259 S. Dearborn street, who is one of the popular and most proficient public school teachers in this city, after being confined at home for almost five weeks with a severe attack of diphtheria, has been completely restored to 'good health again, under the medical care of Dr. Trapp, 47th and State streets. MORGAN PARK GROWING Through the push and interest of M. T. Bailey of 3638 State St., together with the co-operation of other business men in the city, Morgan Park, the beautiful suburb, is growing rapidly and the spring will find many choice sites for homes and places of recreation through the efforts of these men interested in the housing conditions of race members coming to the city. CREATION OF MAN London.—Recent important chronological discoveries made by Prof. Langdon at Oxford reveal the names of eight kings who ruled during the 241,200 years before the flood, which is represented as having lasted 64,800 years. The discoveries also indicate that the first man was created 492,553 years ago. prominent physicians and surgeons in the United States, began his subscription to this newspaper and from that time to the present, he has been one of its constant subscribers. During the intervening years, Dr. Williams has by his own efforts, reached the very highest pinnacle in the practice of his chosen and honored ATTENDS SANHEDRIN J. Finley Wilson of Washington, D. C., grand exalted ruler of Elks of the world, president of The National Negro Press Assn., editor of The Washington Eagle, was in attendance of the Sanhedrin as well as the Lincoln League and was warmly received by the Elks of the city. DR. STORK IS IN THE AIR It is reported that Dr. Stork, who is kept busy all the time, will soon pay a visit to the home of Mrs. Caro Lewis Jones. Mrs. Jones is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, and when the happy day arrives the new heir will be loaded down with presents by Dr. Stork and by the many friends of its parents. IOWAN HERE Mrs. Ethel Allen of Bucknell, Ia., is in the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washington, 3603 Dearborn Street. TO VISIT DOWNSTATE Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Ave., D.G.M.N.G. of Eden Grand District Household of Ruth, is preparing to make a visit of the downstates in interest of the organization. [Name] HON. EDWARD D. GREENE of the Legislature of Illinois; Father Lrench Law Bill; Secretary of the N association; Who Is One of the Pr ing Its Ten-Story Building, Co 37th Place. He has studied in some of the leading universities of Europe and during the World War for democracy he lectured on hygiene and so on to the American soldiers on the battlefields of France. Dr. Williams is a great honor to the medical profession and to mankind in general. WARNING TO FAT PEOPLE (Lincoln News Service) New York.—A life insurance company has gathered reliable statistics which show that a person 50 pounds overweight at the age of 50 has lessened his chance of living by 50 per cent. MEETING OF THE FORTY CLUB OF CHICAGO The February meeting of the Original Forty Club of Chicago will be addressed by Attorney Wendell E. Green on the subject, "Citizenship and Leadership." Mr. Caldwell Watkins and Mr. William H. Temple are the hosts for this meeting, which will be held February 23, 1924. EXPECTED IN CITY Wm. Herbert Fields of St. Louis Mo. national grand master of A. U. K & D. of A. is expected to visit the city in a few days to look after some important business matters. REV. CALLIS ATTENDS SANHEDRIN Rev. H. J. Callis of Washington, D. C., well known in the A. M. E. connection, was among the prominent men and women who attended the Sanhedrin and Lincoln League meeting and has returned to his home. GOES HOMES Mrs. Luster L. Glenn, wife of Sergt Julius S. Glenn, is at her home in Morgan Park following treatment of several days at Provident Hospital following an accident. MME. CARTER SPEAKS Mme. Ezella Mathis Carter, 4509 Prairie Ave., well known for her work in the uplift of the race, founder and sponsor of the Carter Charity and Benevolent Club, addressed an enthusiastic audience on Thursday afternoon at the "Y" meeting of the Sanhedrin. Darwin's Theory. The general theory of evolution as first set forth by Darwin has not been discredited or exploded, but is accepted as scientifically established. There have been various modifications of Darwin's theory; for example, the theory of development through the use and disuse of parts of the body (which Darwin adapted from Lammarck) has been discredited by all but a very few. Neo-Lammarckians, but the survival of the fitter to survive through evolutionary processes remains unchallenged in scientific circles. Welsh Had Their Way. During the reign of Edward I, the Welsh rose against the English, declaring that they would never accept knowledge allegiance to any prince "but of their own nation and language and of unblamable life." Edward I was born in in a castle at Carnawale, Wales, and he was presented to the Welsh people as "a native-born prince of unblamable life who could speak no word of English." From that date the recognized heir to the English throne has borne the title of prince of Wales. Old-Time Tavern Sign. The museum of the city of New York has an old-time tavern sign on which is printed the following: "Four pence a night for bed. Six pence with supper. No more than five to sleep in one bed. No boots to be worn in bed. Organ grinders to sleep in the washhouse. No dogs allowed upstairs. No beer allowed in the kitchen. No razor grinders or tinkers taken in." The Housewife Does Without- "Ta," said Clarence, "what's the difference between a housewife and a baker?" "None of your foolishness, now, young man," growled his dad, "Well," replied Clarence, "a baker and a housewife both make bread out of dough, but the difference is the baker makes his dough out of bread."—Chinchini Enquirer. Doctors Easy Marks? The average physician is notoriously an easy mark for the stock swilder. To offset this condition, an organization of physicians, surgeons and dentists has been formed which will investigate all investments offered to doctors. This organization will also sue the deadbeat who seeks to avoid paying for professional services. A Coincidence. Upon looking for his shoes outside his bedroom door in a hotel, a guest discovered one black and one tan shoe. He called the porter's attention to the error. The porter scratched his head in bewilderment. "Well That's the second time that mistake's happened this morning!" Cheating the Birds In Japan, small fish are caught by trained cormorants, principally at night with the aid of jacklights. Rings are tied around the throats of the fishing birds to prevent their swallowing the catch. When their pouches are filled they are emptied in the boat well. Heavy Pressure. A British scientist experimenting with a stream-line filter along which liquids passed under pressure through thousands of tightly packed, perforated paper sheets, took the color out of red wine and tea and milk, leaving instead of the last named a tasteless fluid, like water. Standing Army of Ants The standing army maintained by the white ants of Ceylon practices a sort of chemical warfare against its insect enemies. They squirt drops of a secretion in the face of other ants, which are said to drive them almost crazy. Exact Length of a Year. The exact interval during which the earth makes one complete and absolute revolution around the sun is called a sidereal year and astronomers have determined that it consists of 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9.6 seconds, which is invariable. Ancient Dolls In the British museum in London are toys that are 3,000 years old, which were taken from the tombs of Egypt. The dolls have clay beads for hair, and some of the toys show the tasks of Egyptian artisans as they were accomplished hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. Singing Fish. The sapo fish, which lives under stones near the shore, is often called the singing fish on account of a peculiar humming noise that is made by its air bladder. Sapo is a South American name for various toadfishes, especially for the singing variety which is found along the California coast. COPIE LANCASTER LAKE LONDON 1900 Here is shown a dalinity frock which is promised for early spring wear. While the decorations are very simple, they are winsome. Among the novelties that will appeal to the woman who likes to be comfortable is the sleeveless one-piece frock. This is an easy slip-on affair, cut straight and trimmed, possibly with braid, embroidery or buttons. It is worn with a shirt of silk, chiffon or muslin having whatever style of front makes for becomingness. It is a dress which, more than any lately shown, promises to be satisfactory, and it is equally well done in kaska, poiret troll, Rodler material, velvet or silk. The line of the neck is cut low, almost to the belt in front, high at the back, and under the arms is open almost to the walstiline. This model is shown in a wide striped material of brown and belge that is showy and smart, and is worn with a blouse of ivory crepe with long sleeves and a finely plaited ruffle of the crepe down the front and at the wrists. Stripes, wide and narrow, and checks and plaids are fashionable in these clothes, equally for town or the resorts. Whether or not they will be seen in the later models remains to be discovered. The kilt is quite as fashionable as the plain skirt and is, exceedingly smart when a jacket of contrasting color is worn. In one snappy little suit a plaited skirt of bright plaid goods is combined with a black velvet coat, quite short and boxy, with side pockets and cuffs, which are trimmed with Hercules braid. The blouse is a fine bit of lingerie with a jabot of muslin and Irish lace. Variety of Ties for All Kinds of Service Never before have ties appeared in such a versatile and effective assortment in feminine wardrobes. From the narrow little black grosgrain bow and streamer under the white organdle collar of a black silk day frock, to the Lady Jane tie in brilliant plaids that is a looped passageway around the pack of the neck and down the sidefront to the skirt hem, there are ties to add interest to any daytime outfit. The owner of a white silk broadcloth overblouse with the convertible collar enjoys having two or three ties to suit her hats and moods. One is of very narrow red velvet ribbon that swings down quite low before it ties in a prim little bow without streamers. Another one is of five-inch brilliantly-grained ribbon that is gathered on to a large clasp at each end, like fur clamps, and snaps together in the front below the waistline. A beige flannel Palm Beach frock has ties and pocket handkerchiefs to match—green moire ribbon with a green print pongee kerchief, narrow carnelian red satin ribbon with a polka dot handkerchief. Victorian pantelettes, filmy feminine creations in gold and silver gauze, are beginning to appear below the hems of the newest dance frocks offered by London shopkeepers. They are to be worn under the semi-Victorian ball dresses which are the height of fashion there. The pantelettes match the color of dress and slippers, and some of them are decorated with knots of colored ribbons and tiny bunches of satin flowers. The style has resulted from so many Victorian revivals on the London stage. A dozen plays have been presented this year in which the picturesque costumes of that period have been worn. Buckle Is Important No item of dress is more important at the moment than the buckle. In the first place, it is often put, not at the belt, but somewhere on the large collar, which many tallored frocks affect. And, in the second place, it is frequently a matter of embroidery rather than of metal. Well Instructed The Judge—"Now, are you sure you understand the nature of an oath?" 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San Francisco has a new swimming Pool which is said to be the largest in the world. It is 1,000 feet long and 100 feet wide, except for a center portion which Is 200 feet wide to pro- vide for a racing course across the pool. The depth varies from 3 to 14 feet and the cost of the pool was $80,000. Tells Time by His Beard. A farmer in West Wales siya he has never worn a watch In his life, In the daytime he can tell the time to within half an hour by the sun (even when the weather is cloudy), and at night he can tell it by the feel of his heard growth: to within an hour.—Car- aiff Western Mail, Silver Map of World. A silver map of the world, exhib- ited by the Roxx! Geographical s0- elety, Is said: to he the hest of four such maps in existence. It isa thin circular plate of silver, about three {aches in diameter, and commemo- rates Drake's voyage around the world. 577-1580, ; cine Aine About 1882 Marcel Deprez, a French engineer and pioneer electrician, suc- ceeded in transmitting electric power by telegraph wire between Munich and Miesbach, thirty-five miles. ‘This is considered the first successful ex- periment in long-distance transmis- ston, Garden in a Bank. There is a garden and a fountai: within the Bank of England enclosure : Missouft River Longest. ‘The Missouri river is not only the longest river in the United States, but it is the longest river In the world. Its actual tength in miles is 4,194, and the Amazon, the nest) longest, which traverses Brazil in South America, Is 3944 miles. The Hoang-He in China and the Murray In Australia rank next, with 8,000 miles each, ‘The Mississippi, often thought of rs the crentest of all rivers, is in reality only 2616 miles ong. When Brain Stozs Growing. There is no definite age at which the brain stops growing; It depends on how much and how wholesomely the brain 1s used. - The more the brain Is nsed (within reagonable - health boundaries) the longer it grows. The limit might safely be placed at forty years, _ Health Slides for Pupils. Lantern slides on health subjects are lent to schools and other organ- Izations by Montana's state department of health. Among the sublects of slides are conservation of vision, good teeth, care of the baby and school hygiene, Aviation Tamsht-tn Gthedle. As part of a plan to advance the study of designing and utilizing the commercial airplane New York univer- sity’s college of engineering has estab- lished courses In aeronautical engi- neering and industrial aviation, ‘Must Watch Their Talk. French telephone subscribers who becone angry with the operators may be suspended for two days from use of the service, according to a decree isiued by the ministry of posts and telegraphs Unsportsmantike. First Golfer—"I have injured a lg ament in my hand and the dector for- bids me to play golf for the next month or so.” Second Golfer (with feeling) —"Oh! the bounder—what « shame!” Crops of Japan. ‘The principal crops of Japan tn the order of their importance are rice, barley, rye, wheat, tobacco and tea. OF these the vice crap is by far the lurgest, being nearly G0 per cent of the whole, New Species of Spider. A new species of spider with eight | ong legs, pink and striped with black, has made its appearance in Colorado. hides” W.G. Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bidg. ai ecto ae eee eee owl se ~~) —. re Pe : : : hee ieee rf ei coe as / a Fe one aT . —. oe nee § a j Ce OO Lg en ee Ae 1) rH " 4 ' = =RNEST fies . re | Se ET RE oN aeeirre ts Ate OL SP oo Berra ie | Ae OS Te fc ea reson . eo ee 3 a | oe / Bi ! Ernest H. Williamson UNDERTAKER Day Light Chapel, capacity 200, Qutside Ventilation—Organ and Orgaiist Free— I am as near as your Telephone—I give service at a reasonable ‘price—Distance immaterial, consult me—I eave ybu wor y, time and money. 5121 & 5123 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS PHONG MAIN 2814 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 Momroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 Eticocanehierun ieee ae = SEES ee Mod Main pe Residence, 751 thamplain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO 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 A live or wice awake newspaper man or solicitor can earn some easy money by calling on or addressing che undersigned. Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth treet. Phone Wentworth 2597. PHONE KENWOOD 455 : OFFICERS Some ERS MERE, Aion gyros Glee President Aust’ Cachrtnd Trae Gear CARLO; SEBERG T Savi rust and Savings Bank N. E. Corner 63rd and Marshfield Ave., Chicago, Ill. Telephone Republic 5000 Capital and Surplus $700,000.00 DIRECTORS 1, SCHWEDER Wi MERLE FISHER 4. sensu Big ware, = Narwta'E ER, EQ JENSEN BeAr aa cane Hokage hee ites Seo Worse ws EORAE 2s, ER Swim sume || Mon EOE Sonic Bate Affiliated Member Chicago Clearing House Ass'n. The Commonwealth Edison Company 72 W. 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