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The Africans, Ethiopians and the Egyptians Established the First Civilization Known to Man Throughout the Ancient Eastern World.
HERODOTUS THE GREAT GREEK HISTORIAN, WHOSE IMPERISHABLE WORKS OR WRITINGS WILL NEVER DIE, WHO TRAVELED MORE THAN 17,000 MILES THROUGHOUT THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD.
STATES THAT THE FIRST LIBRARY IN THE WORLD WAS FOUNDED IN EGYPT; THAT FREE MASONRY ORIGINATED IN THAT COUNTRY; THAT THE SAGAS OR THE EGYPTIAN BIBLE ANTI-DATES THE JEWISH OR PROTESTANT BIBLE BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND YEARS; THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COME FROM EGYPT, THAT THE ARK WHICH WAS SO GREATLY CHERISHED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE, WHICH THEY CARRIED IN FRONT OF THEM ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF CANAAN, WAS OF EGYPTIAN ORIGIN.
THAT WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM BY JULIUS CAESAR AND HIS ARMY, WHICH CONTAINED MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND VOLUMES, WHICH WAS THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD; THAT THE AFRICAN OR THE ETHIOPIAN RACE SUSTAINED AN INCALCULABLE LOSS.
THAT THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL EMANATED FROM THAT GREAT SEAT OF EGYPTIAN LEARNING.
THAT THIRTY-FOUR ETHIOPIAN KINGS RULED OVER EGYPT IN THE NOONTIDE OF HER PROSPERITY AND CIVILIZATION.
By JULIUS F. TAYLOR
On May 31 an able and far-reaching article appeared in these columns from the brilliant or golden pen of the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis elaborating upon the important part played by the Negro or the colored races in relation to establishing civilization throughout the Ancient Eastern World, thousands and thousands of years ago, to say the least, the very brilliantly written article which contained many startling statements touching upon the wonderful achievements of the colored races in the past in all those arts and sciences which will to the end of time be beneficial to all humanity, scattered throughout all parts of the civilized world.
Owing to the fact that it has attracted wide attention; that it has been eagerly read and re-read by many of
Africans, the First Ancient
THE GREAT GREEK WHOSE IMPERISH-DR WRITINGS WILL WHO TRAVELED ON 17,000 MILES BUT THE ANCIENT WILD.
THE FIRST LIBRARY WAS FOUNDED IN FREE MASONRY IN THAT COUNTRY; EAS OR THE EGYPTI-DATES THE PROTESTANT BIBLE IN TWO THOUSAND IN THE TEN COM-OME FROM EGYPT, WHICH WAS SO PERISHED BY THE LE, WHICH THEY CONT OF THEM ONEY TO THE LAND WAS OF EGYPTIAN
DESTRUCTION OF DRIAN LIBRARY BY JULIUS CAESARMY, WHICH CON-THAN SEVEN HUN-FTY THOUSAND WHICH WAS THE COLLECTION OF HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN OR IAN RACE SUSINCALCULABLE
RINE OF THE IMF THE SOUL EMAHAT GREAT SEAT LEARNING.
OUR ETHIOPIAN OVER EGYPT IN EOF HER PROSIVILIZATION.
the most prominent members of both the white and colored races in this country, it occurred to us that possibly we might in our humble way be able to shed a little more light on the scholarly attainments of the early forefathers of the colored races and especially the Africans, the Ethiopians and the Egyptians.
Before proceeding further, we must pause to briefly state that a great misfortune or an everlasting calamity has fallen upon the vast majority of the members of the colored race in this country, which will continue to hang over them like a heavy pall until they learn to familiarize themselves with the literary productions of the past and present which proclaims it to all the world that the highly educated colored man possesses the same
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amount of cultivated gray matter in the top of his head which is possessed by the highly educated men belonging to the other races of mankind.
the top of his head which is possessed by the highly educated men belonging to the other races of mankind. From time immemorial the colored people have been religiously taught to believe that they belonged to an inferior race; a race which has never accomplished anything for the lasting benefit of humanity, and ninety-nine times out of one hundred, whenever such rash and shallow statements are hurled into his face he stands still with his mouth closed tight and he is utterly unable to utter one word against such vicious statements or in his own defense for the simple reason that he will persist in closing his eyes to the bright noonday sunlight and absolutely refuses to keep abreast of the times and to familiarize himself with the history of his own race and with its remarkable strides forward in all those things which have been ennobling to the human race in all the ages of the past.
If the many readers of this article will secure and read the various historical works which will be referred to from time to time as we proceed they will form a greater conception of mankind in general and a more noble or a broader conception of the immensity of the universe. For in the language of Confucius, the great Chinese lawgiver and philosopher, author of the Golden Rule, who lived five hundred and fifty years before the Christian era and two thirds of the human race believe in his teachings at the present time.
"That we would rather subsist on one meal a day and let that meal consist of dry bread and a cup of water in order to save some of our earnings to purchase books, for without plenty of good books to read, life is only a dream or a passing cloud."
With these introductory or preliminary remarks we will now proceed with our main subject.
Herodotus, the great Greek historian, who passed away 408 years B.C., who traveled more than 17,000 miles throughout the ancient Eastern World, who has the great distinction of being
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 14, 1924
HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE
among the first persons in the world to attempt to collect and to record the acts of men or of mankind into history, informs us by his imperishable works or writings which he has left behind which will grow better and brighter as we move onward in the ever increasing columns of humanity. That Homer, Josephus, Eusebius, Strabo, Solon, the great law giver of Athens, Plato, Lycurgus, Pythagoras and many of the other eminent scholars and illustrious men of Greece journeyed into Egypt to complete their studies or education and to draw from its fountain whatever was most rare and valuable in every kind of learning for Egypt was ever considered by all the ancients as the most renowned school for wisdom and politics and the source from whence most arts and sciences sprang, for that kingdom bestowed its noblest labors and finest arts on the improvements of mankind.
Herodotus, who was the fairest of all of the writers or historians in dealing with the black or sunburn races throughout the old Eastern World, also informs us that Cham or Ham, the progenitor of the Negro race, settled in Egypt; that from him proceeded the Libyans; the Phutims; the Cushmis or the Ethiopians, who colonized the African side of the Red Sea, extended themselves indefinitely to the west and to the south of that great continent, that Egypt was called Chemira or the country of Ham; that the chief Deity of the ancient Egyptians was Hammon, or Ammon and was worshiped as a deification of Ham; that 34 Ethiopian kings ruled over Egypt in the full noontide of her prosperity and civilization; that the Carthagians, the inventors of the alphabet, the Canaanites, the Hamites, the Arabians, the Abyssinians, the Thebians and in fact all the dark, black or sunburn races throughout the ancient Eastern World, sprang from the same source or fountain head; that they were the founders of vast empires and kingdoms which stood for thousands of years; that they enslaved the Jew-
ish race (God's chosen people), and were the masters of the then known world, while at that period those composing the Anglo-Saxon race were roving bands or herds of semi-savages in the remote parts of northern Europe, living in caves or dugouts subsisting on roots or herbs and raw flesh, which they gnawed from carcases of wild beasts.
One of the most profound writers of ancient or modern times, in referring to the marvelous achievements of the ancient Egyptians says, "that for the past three thousand years the world has been mainly indebted for its advancement to the Semitic and Indo-European races, but it was otherwise in the first ages. Egypt and Babylon, which were founded by Nimrod, both descendants of Ham, led or blazed the way, and acted as the pioneers of mankind in the various untredden fields of art, literature, science, alphabetic writing, astronomy, history, chronology, architecture, plastic art, sculpture, navigation, agriculture, textile industry; all of them seem to have had their origin in one or the other of these two countries. The beginnings may have been often humble enough. We may laugh at the crude picture-writing, the uncouth brick pyramid, the coarse fabric, the homely and ill-shaped instruments, as they present themselves to our notice in the remains of these ancient nations, but they are really worthier of our admiration than of our ridicule. The first inventors of any art are among the greatest benefactors of the human race, and the bold step which they take from the unknown to the known, from blank ignorance to discovery, is equal to many steps of subsequent progress.
"The commencement, says Aristotle, is more than half of the whole. The child is father of the man, both in the individual and the species. And the human race at the present day lies under infinite obligations to the genius and industry of the black races, who flourished and ruled over all sections of the ancient Eastern World."
It has been maintained by Herodotus and by the other eminent writers and scholars, that the first library in the world was founded in Egypt; that most of its inhabitants were educated to that extent so that they could read and write or draw on smooth surface the words or expressions they wanted to use in their word or picture writing; that Free Masonry which has spread over the face of the whole earth originated in the land of Egypt; that the Sagas or the Egyptian Bible anti dates the Jewish or the Protestant Bible by more than 2,000 years; that many of its moral maxims, precepts, teachings, myths and myologies were incorporated into the latter Bible without the slightest changes or alterations; that the ancient Egyptians were the first in recorded history in showing difference to females and elderly people; that like the adherents of the religion of the cross, blessings were always asked by the Ancient Egyptians prior to partaking of their repasts.
That the Ark which was greatly cherished by the Jewish people, which was illuminated at night, which they carried in front of them on their way to the land of Canaan belonged to the Egyptians for they had created it and they had not even loaned it to the Jewish people. The greatest historians of the past also inform us that the ancient Egyptians in all of their military grandure or glory, handed down to us the ten commandments, which Moses claimed were written by the finger of God upon two tables of stone on Mount Sina, that the ancient Egyptians studied the diseases of their country, compiled a Pharmacopocia and invented the signs which are used by all prescription druggists unto this day.
It is also admitted by the Historians of the past that Cush who was the oldest son of Ham, and father of Nimrod who was the founder of the Babylonian Empire and the great city of Nineveh, which was one of the greatest cities in the ancient
The commencement exercises of Walden College, Nashville, Tenn., were held recently in the Meharry Auditorium before a crowd which filled the auditorium to the point of overflowing. After the academic procession, Hon. J. C. Napier, member of the Board of Trustees, took charge as master of ceremonies.
Rev. Dr. C. K. Brown, pastor of Clark Memorial Church, who pronounced the invocation, also introduced, in a happy way, the speaker of the occasion, Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review of the M. E. Church, South. In a forceful, yet eloquent, manner the speaker admonished the graduates to have definite convictions concerning the issues of life and never to compromise with regards to apparent status and condition, but, at any opportunity, to get zealously into the game of life and win. President T. R. Davis presented the diplomas and certificates to the forty-four graduates. Dr. H. H. Walker, alumnus of the school, awarded the prizes and Rev. J. B. Booth, district superintendent, pronounced the benediction.
Another distinctive feature of the exercises was the music rendered by the Choral Society. The audience again showed its appreciative attitude by the generous applause for the musical numbers on the program. The Commencement season at Walden has been a success, for not only have the various programs reflected credit upon the high standard maintained at the college but also plans were perfected for the larger development of the in-
Eastern world. That the City of Babylon has never been rivaled nor surpassed.
Its hanging gardens, its tunnel under the river Enphrates, its solid wall which extend around the entire City, on the top of which could be driven at full speed twelve horses abreast and its works of art have been the marvel of all the ages of the past.
The observatory which was established by Nimrod in the City of Babylon, was among the seven great wonders of the world. It was there that the astronomers during his lifetime completed a catalogue containing the names of ten hundred and sixty-eight stars; that they divided the days and nights into twelve hours each. Imparted the names to the planets which have never been changed and come within one sixteenth part of a minute of measuring the exact rotation of the earth.
There may be some readers of this article who may doubt the truthfulness of the statements contained in it, if so we most respectfully refer them to the works or writings already mentioned, and to the following works:
"The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World," by George Rawlinson, M. A.; "Charles Rollin's Ancient History of the Egyptians," Persians etc.; "A Thousand Miles Up The Nile" by Amelia B. Edwards; "Volney's Ruins and Revolutions of Ancient Empires," Sir Harry H. Johnston's, "Alien Races In Africa;" Winwood Read's, "Martydom of Man;" Pickering's Races of Man; Renan's history of, "The People of Israel;" John W. Draper's "History of the Conflict Between Science and Religion;" also his matchless production, "The Intellectual Development of Europe."
Let us conclude by quoting from one of the wisest Egyptian Philosophers who lived five thousand, five hundred and fifty years before the Christian era:
"Preserve thy self, moderate, thy self, instruct thy self, live for thy fellow citizens that they may live for thee."
stitution. The Commencement also disclosed the fact that the Alumni, in a significant and unusual way, are working for the bigger outlook of the institution. President Davis, the Board of Trustees, the Faculty and students, thank all who have contributed to the success of the school year and are planning for an even greater success next year.
GIRL'S CHARGES SEND HIGH
SCHOOL BOYS TO PRISON
Kalamazoo, Mich.-Dale Knickerbocker, student at Central High School, was sentenced to Ionia Reformatory for from one to ten years after pleading guilty to charges made by a 15-year-old girl. Garland Buck, senior student and track captain, pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl and was sentenced to forty-five days in jail. The cases brought to a climax a crusade against an alleged vice ring implicating thirty youths, many of whom are high school students.
ACUSED OFFICER OF HELPING
HIMSELF "TOO MUCH" TO
HIS FRUIT
William Jones, who sells fruit from a wagon at 31st and State streets, was hailed into court Wednesday morning, by an officer, for blocking the crossing. Jones was told to move his wagon from the corner but told the officer "if he wanted it moved, to move it himself." Jones had another story to tell, that the officer was helping himself too freely to the fruit on his wagon, and that his objection to his actions, was the probable cause of the arrest.
He was told to either move his wagon or go out of business and have his license taken away. He consented to obey orders and "move on."
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COL, NOAH D. THOMPSON, AC-
COMPANIED BY HIS BROTH-
ER, MR. SAMUEL THOMPSON,
ARRIVED IN THIS CITY LAST
SATURDAY: AFTERNOON,
FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
ON HIS WAY TO THE CLEVE-
LAND CONVENTION.
Last Saturday afternoon, the writer
was overjoyed to fall into the arms of
our old highly esteemed friend, Col.
Noah D. Thompson, and his brother,
‘Mr. Samuel Thompson.
We had not come in contact with
Mr. Thompson, for almost fourteen
venrs: clnce that time, he ‘has become
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one of the prominent leaders of the
Colored race in America,
He has become one of the editorial
writers on the Tribune of Los An-
geles, Cal., which is one of the lead-
ing daily newspapers in that city,
and that newspaper selected him
owing ‘to his great writing ability tc
represent it at the Republican Nation.
al Convention, at Clevelahd, Ohio, and
at the Democratic National Conven:
tion, at New York City, June 24.
It is the first time that any daily
newspaper conducted by the White:
in this country, has chosen a Coloreé
man, to represent it, in that capacity
Mr. Samuel Thompson, his brother
is accompanying him, as his private
secreary.
‘Mrs, Noah D. Thompson, wife o}
‘our former highly esteemed towns
man, who has been’ attending
Columbia University, New York City
for the past nine months, will returs
with her husband to their lovels
home, Los Angeles, Cal.
JUDGE OF WABASH AVENUE
COURT TENDERED FLOWERS
FROM COOK COUNTY BAR
ASSOCIATION
Judge Jno. A. Bugee, of the Wabash
Avenue Court, was presented with a
beautiful basket of-flowers irom the
Cook County Bar Association of Chi-
cago. It was tendered by one of the
‘officers who said “we wish to show
our appreciation for the many cour-
tesies shown the practicing lawyers of
Chicago, and also wish you many
years of good health.
Judge’ Bugee rose and accepted the
flowers, saying, “I won't take time to
make a speech, but I want to thank
you from the Yottom of my heart. I
appreciate it very much.”
Judge Bugee has made a reputation
for himself, thet will stand for all
time, at the 48th St. Court, 48th and
‘Wabash avenue. He is always spoken
of as dealing fairly and squarely with
every one, and if in doubt as to the
real wrong doer, he is always given
‘the biggest break.
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ATTORNEYS HALE GIDDINGS PAR-
‘KER, AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS AND
ROBERT T. TERRY LOUDLY
SOUND THE PRAISES OF HON.
JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS FOR HIS
MASTERFUL CONTRIBUTION TO
THIS NEWSPAPER SATURDAY,
MAY? 7 cu
2 (Chicago, June 1.
Mr, Julius F. Taylor,
Editor, The Broad Ax.
With the greatest of pleasure, I de-
sire to express my highest apprecia-
‘of the scholarly contribution of
Hon, James Hamilton Lewis to The
Broad Ax, in its issue of May 3ist
1924, I beg leave to say that I always
pause to enjoy any deliverance from
ongue or pen of the popular ex-sen-
ator.
“This contribution is worthy of a
unique place among the rare collec-
tions of any library, public or private.
First, because of its rare merit as an
historic document, available at any
time to protect the Negro against ma-
lignant attacks of his unlettered en-
emies.
Second, because of its further value
as the result of careful, diligent re-
search among the archives of ancient
Greece, Turkey, Egypt and other civ-
ilizations, by a highly disciplined
mind anxious to induce reluctant
America to pay the further debt it
‘owes its emancipated slaves as they
rise into liberty.
Third, because this contribution
breathes in every line the rare cour-
age of its author, daring to “show his
hand,” proudly grasping such a for-
midable weapon of resurrected glory
of an oppressed race.
“May his tribe increase.”
H. G. PARKER.
ATTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WIL-
LIAMS EXPRESSES HIS
HEARTY APPROVAL OF THE
CLASSICAL CONTRIBUTION
TO THIS NEWSPAPER, BY
HON. JAMES HAMILTON
LEWIS.
Chicago, June 11, 1924.
Mr. Julius F. Taylor,
Editor of The Broad Ax,
Chicago. ~
Dear Sir:
Having been a subscriber of your
paper upward of twenty years, I have
perused its columns each week, and
during this period of time I have read
many interesting articles coming from
the pen of all classes of cifizens, some
with regret and some with pride.
In reading a copy of it of May 31,
1924, it was with pleasute that I read
the article coming from the pen of
Honorable James Hamilton Lewis,
giving views of “The Past History
of the Colored Races who served as
Pioneers, or Torch Bearers, in Es-
ANOTHER WARRIOR FALLEN
_ IN BATTLE
By Miss Peach Blossom
Funeral Services of the Late Willis.
E, Mollison, Esq., Held at the
‘Community House, 3118
Giles Avenue
At 1:30 Saturday afternoon, at the
Community House, of the Metropol
tan Center, 3118 Giles, avenue, under
the auspices of Dr. W. D. Cook, Pas-
tor, the funeral services were held
over the remains of Attorney Willis
E. Mollison.
‘He was a man of exceptional ability
and loyalty; a man of high ideals and
lofty aspirations. In his passing Chi-
cago has lost a friend, a scolar, and
a man who was never too big to do a
‘kindly deed. Well can it be said of
‘him, that “he was a man who knew
‘his friends, and his friends knew him.”
Many prominent speakers took part
in the services, among them, Dr. W.
D. Cook, Rev. J. R. Harvey, Pastor
of the Cosmopolitan Church; Hon.
Adelbert H. Roberts, Attorney C. J.
Waring, Hon, J. Gray Lucas and
ais Joseph B. David.*
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RESOLUTIONS
"Read By Hon, J, Gray Lucas
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Adopted by the Cook County Bar
"Association on the Death of The
Honorable Willis E. Mollison -
| WHEREAS, an all-wise Provi-
dence has removed from our midst
and his sphere of usefulness, our be-
loved and venerated. brother-member
and ex-president of the Cook County
Bar Association of Illinois, the Hon-
orable Willis E. Mollison of the city
of Chicago, citizen, of the State of
Ilinois, and former resident of the
State of Mississippi, and
_{WHEREAS, in the ‘person of the
‘Honorable Willis E. Mollison, the Ne-
gro Race has lost an able and cour-
ageous champion; the Bar’ an able
legal representative; the State a dis-
tinguished citizen; Literature am ex-
‘tremely. versatile disciple; Oratory
“one of its most. eloquent exponents,
and
WHEREAS, in the death of Hon-
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 14, 1924
tablishing Civilization Throughout the
Ancient Eastern World for Many
Ages.” ;
‘This article is very inspiring’ ai
‘one which proves to the present gen-
eration the part which our people have
played in the development: of ~our
Modern civilization and the admission
from so” great ‘a statesman as the
writer is worthy of recognition by
every fair minded liberty loving per-
son who perchance has read it.
I wish that every man of note, liv-
ing south of the Mason and Dixon line
where the Honorable James Hamilton
Lewis, ex-senator of Illinois, hails
from, as well as northern, could read
with undertanding this valuable ar-
ticle with such far reaching and con-
vincing information.
Yours respectiully,
_ A, L. WILLIAMS.
TO THE MANY READERS OF
THE BROAD AX
Chicago, June 11, 1924—Did you
read a copy of The Broad Ax, of the
issue of May 31, 1924? If you did, 1
know that you noted the article by
Ex-Senator James Hamilton Lewis,
“In the Ages of the Past the Colored
Races Served as the Pioneers, or the
Torch Bearers, in Establishing Civil-
ization Throughout the Ancient East-
ern World.”
If you did not read it, you missed
a rare treat and my advice to you is
that it is still not too late to secure a
copy of that issue of The Broad Ax
and read for yourself that wonderful
article written by that eloquent man,
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, States
man, Scholar and Diplomat.
This article should be very encour.
aging and is encouraging and inspir-
ing to our group emanating from the
source it did. It has heretofore bect
the presumption of some of our peo
ple that the Democratic Party or mer
who were leaders and sponsors fo
the policy of the Democratic Party
were not friendly toward us. I think
that the careful reading of this artic
by any fair minded man or womas
will serve to eliminate to a great ex-
tent that erroneous idea, for we all
know that Hon. James Hamiltor
Lewis is a Democrat, served as the
Democratic Senator from the State o}
Illinois but this wonderful article
shows that he is our friend, that he i
unbiased and unprejudiced and is will
ing to give to every man his just dues
(Signed) ROBERT T. TERRY,
Attorney At Law
‘Chicane, 28.
orable Willis E. Mollison, his family
has lost an affectionate husband; a
loving father, and a devoted grand-
father, leaving a void that can never
be filled, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Cook
County Bar Association that it tender
to his bereaved family this memorial
of its grief, assuring each member
thereof its profound sérrow and last-
ing regret at his taking off and their
great afiliction,
AND BE IT FURTHER RE-
SOLVED, that the President of the
Cook County Bar Association trans-
mit an engrossed copy of these Reso-
lutions to the widow, Mrs. Mollison,
and assure her of its profound sym-
pathy in her deep personal afflicition
and loss, and further, it tenders its
sincere condolence in this, her incal-
culable bereavement,
AND BE IT FURTHER RE.
SOLVED, that these resolutions be
spread upon the record of the Cook
County Bar Association and pre-
served in the archives thereof.
These Resolutions adopted at a
regular meeting of the Cook County
Bar Association, June 6th, A.D. 1924.
C. J. Waring, President.
A. M. Burroughs, Secretary.
GIVEN 48 HOURS TO CLOSE
NOTORIOUS HOUSE
Mrs. Davis, better known as “Kid”
Davis, who runs a disorderly house
at 4868 State street, was raided -Sun-
day night.
The case came before Judge Bugec,
of the Wabash Avenue Court, Wed-
nesday morning. Six girls, inmates of
the place and one man, were in the
house at the time of the arrest, by a
down-town squad.
Mrs. Davis pleaded illness, and iad
a trained nurse with her in court at
the time. Despite the fact that she
looked wearily out of the eyes and
was nervous from a slight illness, the
Judge failed’ to ‘be tulled by her en-
treaties, and ordered her to get out
within 48 hours, if not, and brought
back before him, she would be fined
$200 and sent to the Bridewell.
Two white girls and four colored
were found to be the leading attrac-
tion for the place and the man found
in the home at the time, is known to
be a notorious pickpocket.
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HON. JOSEPH B. DAVID
One of the honorable Judges of the Superior
County, who paid a high tribute to the men
Willis E. Mallison at his funeral last Saturd
One of the honorable Judges of the Superior Court of Cook
County, who paid a high tribute to the memory of the late
Willis E. Mallison at his funeral last Saturday.
Remarks of Judge Joseph B. David
“Dear Friends:
“It is with a heayy heart that I am
here this evening to join with you in
saying a word in memory. of our de-
parted friend. You know the poet
says, ‘Lives of great men all remind
us, we can make our lives sublime,
and departing leaves behind us, foot-
prints on the sands of time’ This
man's life is typical of those lines of
the poct. He was one of the greatest
men of his time. 1 knew him first as
‘a lawyer and in the court over which
I presided for more than 8 years, and
T am satisfied that this man was a
lawyer in the true sense of the word
I found that he was a man not only
of great legal ability; not only of un-
questionable integrity, but a man of
‘action, who didn't only counsel but
acted when called upon to preform
the simplest task) fle stood for what
he considered his legal right and
fought the best he knew how. I know.
that he had the respect of the Judges
before whom he appeared. He didn’t
pay any attention to color, race or
creed, and I’ think that if the people
of this community knew him as I
know of his many fine qualities, and
if they knew he represented the high-
est type of his people, and if there
were many others like him, soon race
hatred, false pride and intolerance
would disappear. For after all it is
not the skin or creed one possesses
that makes the man, it is the heart
and the conscience.
“1 regard this man as one of my
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MR. AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS
One of the most successful and resourceful lawyers
who is greatly interested in the Joyland Amuse
_, Thirty-third Street and South Wabash Avenue, \
_ finest amusement place among the Colored
One of the most successful and resourceful lawyers in Chicago,
who is greatly interested in the Joyland Amusement Park,
. Thirty-third Street and South Wabash Avenue, which is the
—— amusement place among the Colored people in
Chicago. ae
The members of the Nanguno
Mejor club held their last meeting
at the home of their president, Mr.
Edward Hanson, 525 E. 34th place,
last Friday evening. Immediate busi-
ness concerning admission of new
members and plans for the folling
meetings were the discussions of the
evening. " Meetings will be held at the
president's home until plans are com-
pleted. Though the club is in its
youth, it gives promise of being truly
a live wire among the younger social
set of the south side. The club met
again on Thursday evenin'g, June 12,
at 8:00 o'clock,
THE SHORT-SIGHTED AND UNBUs|.
NESS LIKE COLORED PEOPif£
SHOULD BEWARE OF THE )js.
HONEST REAL ESTATE SHARKS
AND CONSULT A LAWYER 3.
FORE ATTEMPTING TO INVES? IN
REAL ESTATE.
A TIMELY ARTICLE BY ATTORNEY
ROBERT T. TERRY, 184 W. WASH.
INGTON STREET.
*As a lawyer, who is at all times an
officer of the court, I feel it my duty
to call the attention of the general
public to certain things I have noticed
in my practice and sound a warning
that the public may be aware.
I have reference to men or a class
of men among our people who are
operating as real estate brokers, under
the name and guise of a worthy and
honorable profession, but who in real-
ity are more properly termed, “real
estate sharks.” TI have had no quarrel
with the real estate brokers, who are
doing an honest and legitimate busi-
ness, they are answering a great need
among our people, but I have the
most profound contempt for the real
estate shark who practices his un-
worthy calling upon the unsophisti-
cated, and taking advantage of their
ardent and worthy desire to obtain a
home for themselves.
I have in mind a case which was
brought to my notice of a poor work-
ing woman. Through her frugality
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LAWYER ROBERT T. TERRY
One of the popular and painstaking lawyers among the Col-
ored race in Chicago, who always deals honestly with his
many clients.
and economy, through the savings of
a lifetime had put away $800. One of
these sharks, through his agents or
runners, who belonged to the same
church that this poor woman did,
made an appeal to her through her
race pride and prejudice to other races,
telling her that she should withdraw
this money from the bank which
was only paying her three per cent
interest and let a group of her own
people have this money and they
would invest it in a home for her and
would pay her eight per cent on the
money, and that she might withdraw
it at anytime she saw fit; but, alas, as
soon as they had gotten her $800 she
could néver again get in’ touch with
them in anyway. This was more than
two years ago. The woman, after
using every other means to her
knowledge to get back her money,
finally came to me. The poor woman
was desperate and asked me if I
could help her.
After making investigations I found
that these men had been operating in
violation of the security act known as
the Blue Sky Law of the State of
Illinois, which carries with it penalty
of a penitentiary sentence. I took the
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THE QUESTIONNAIRE
By Miss Louise Bond
1. Under whose administration was
the Morse system of telegraphy pat-
ented? Between what cities was the
first message sent? ~
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2. How did the United States ac-
quire New Mexico?
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3. By whom was Lincoln suc-
ceeded as president?
4. Who succeeded to the presi-
deney after the assination of Garfield?
ANSWERS
1. The Morse system of telegra-
phy was patented in 1837, under the
administration of Martin Vai Buren.
Baltimore and Washington exchang-
ing the first message.”
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2. - In 1846, United States troops
under Gen. Stephen Kearney accupied
New Mexico, which was surrendered
matter up with these men ani :),.;
ignored me in the beginning ey
had ignored her. I filed a po:ioy
with the commissions in the s:,.-.
Attorney's Office, who sits :: .,
examining magistrate in cases o: ().
kind, They found these real eis.
sharks guilty of violating the So-..y
Act and recommend Prosecution,
These men saw a penitentiary
tence staring them in the face, 3)
made restitution of this $800, o: ; aid
the money back to this woman
T have another case in mind of 3
man who might have known bei:c
had he stopped to consider and 0:
let his anxious desire to own 2 hone
run away with his better judgement.
Another one of these men represen.
ing himself to be a real estate brok
came to him highly recommended by
another man, telling him that on a-.
count of his financial standing he
could secure. for him any piece oj
property he wanted on the South side
and that if he did not have the money
sufficient to make the initial payment
he would buy the piece of Property
outright for him and would <cll +
back to him at his own terms. But hie
must put up with him (the real estate
broker) $300 as earnest money to bind
the deal. Our good friend in his
eagerness to own a home placed this
money with this real estate shark who
turned out to be not even a licensed
real estate broker. This was nearly
two months ago and our home secker
has not as yet secured the home
neither has he gotten back his $500,
although the machinery of the State's
Attorney's office is in motion for the
purpose of returning to this home
seeker his $300 or to crush this would
be real estate broker. This man did
not even know the owner of this
piece of property, never had any
authority from the owner to sell this
said piece of property, therefore it
must haye been in the beginning his
intention to swindle.
These cases are only two of the
many such fradulent transactions that
have come to my notice recently, and
my advice to the general public aod
the would-be-home seekers is not (0
take the word of anyone of these men
Purporting to be real estate dealers
without first consulting some lawyer
and have the matter looked into for
him.
by Mexico in the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, in 1848,
see
3.* Lincoln was succeeded by Ax
drew Johnson.
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4. After the assiftation of Garfield
Chester A. Arthur became president
THE PYTHIAN BATH HOUSE
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CHARLES E. STUMP, THE OLD-TIME TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS WORKED HIS WAY DOWN TO FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WHERE HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON OF CHICAGO AND HON. S. W. GREEN, SUPREME CHANCELLOR OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF THE WORLD.
Forth Worth, Texas.—Major R. R. Jackson, of Chicago, and he is one of the city fathers, was down here and you will put it down that I told you he made one more hit, and he spoke right from the shoulder.
It was a pleasure to see him way down here in Texas, and he brought greetings from way up there in Chicago, and I was delighted to hear him tell the men of Texas to take down their sign. He said that it was time for the Negro, the country over, to take down the sign "Colored Man" and just be a man. The world wanted not a colored man nor a white man, but simply a man, and when the Huns were giving us Americans has-e-square-hull, President Wilson, himself and his party, had to set aside color and find a man, and a man who could out-think them Huns. Now it is over they want to get back to, white man and colored man, but man would have to count in this world. He made a wonderful speech, and then he showed the people about this military business. He is just a soldier. I am so glad that we have such a man. God give us more Jacksons. He had been sick, yet he got out of his bed in order to keep his engagement down here, and just as soon as he got to town he had to go to bed, and soon Dr. G. M. Muchus, one of the leading physicians in this part of the world was rigt by his side. He worked as only a doctor can work, and soon had them death bugs running to save their own lives, but believe me honey he killed them all and Major Jackson is a much improved man.
It was interesting to come in touch with W. L. McCoy, of Chicago, general manager of the N. A. Franklin Manufacturing Company. This company has a chain of beauty parlors, coming in Chicago and ending in Houston, Texas. They have been in Chicago a few years and have purchased a fine business block on Indiana avenue, and they have purchased a home on Forestville avenue. They are doing things, and you put it down that I told you they are going to have a fine business place in Chicago that will make us all proud of them.
How would you like to be down here in the Pythian Grand Lodge and see the good things that are going on here? The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias is going on here, and honey it is one of the finest things I have seen among my people since I have been colored saying nothing about the time when I was a little white boy.
I want to tell you a few things about it, but you will have to remember where I was when I wrote you that other letter. I was then in Texas as I remember, and now here I am still in the city or state.
Bright and early on Monday morning, Miss Annie L. Anderson, hitched
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The popular and up-to-date Treasurer of will be one of the head leaders of his and state to the Democratic National C in New York City, June 24.
The popular and up-to-date Treasurer of Cook County, who will be one of the head leaders of his party from this city and state to the Democratic National Convention to be held in New York City, June 24.
The popular and up-to-date Treasurer of Cook County, who will be one of the head leaders of his party from this city and state to the Democratic National Convention to be held in New York City, June 24.
up her automobile car carriage in Dallas, and it was soon tooting at the door of the Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, notifying me that she was ready to tome me over to Fort Worth. She was at something they called the steering wheel, and a young man was in the car carriage. In one hour they landed me in the Y.M.C.A. in this city. The secretary was out, and I went down to the McDonald building, and into it I entered when Dr. A. B. Borders, a friend of long standing and a friend of the late N. T. Wallis, a dentist, soon was shaking my lily black hand, and told me to make my headquarters in his office. He touchingly referred to the death of our friend, Dr. Wallis.
Dr. Borders is indeed a fine young man, and I recall when the bugs first got after me down here in Texas, he gave me some medicine, and ordered me to bed, and Dr. Wallis told me of the wonderful water works he had in his home and wanted that I go there and go to bed, but I made my way to Guthrie, Oklahoma, and to the Park Sanitarium.
Dr. Borders has a fine office down here and is a busy young man. He has two automobile car carriages, and then his wife is just a queen in the home. Miss Clarice Dillingham, an efficient clerk is in charge of Dr. Borders' office. It it fortunate that he has such a polite courteous young woman, who is well educated in charge, and who can put things over. She makes friends, and is always looking out for the office. She wrote some letters for me and was very kind during the session of the Grand Lodge.
Speaking of Grand Lodge, I was there when Grand Chancellor W. S. Willis, sounded the gavel calling them to order. I heard him when he made his speech, or made, the remarks. He said some real things touching the work to be accomplished, and then congratulated the men on the success of the past year. Every Knight seemed happy and had a determined look on his face. I heard the Rev. Dr. R. S. Jenkins make the opening prayer. He made some prayer believe me honey. This was followed by the appointment of a committee on credentials.
Now things started off in good shape until a man appeared at the door without the pass, yet he had authority from the State of Texas to enter and read a document to Grand Chancellor Willis, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal J. E. Smith, and the Assistant Grand Keeper of Records and Seals, Marshall. He was a deputy Sheriff, and some of the Knights had gone into Court got out an injunction touching the election of officers. Now that paper was read, and it was touching the election for Tuesday, but honey that paper looked like it was fixed up by a school boy. The Grand
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reasurer of Cook County, who holders of his party from this city National Convention to be held
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 14, 1924
[Name]
Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County, who has a whole army of warm friends who are endeavoring to induce him to enter the race for Judge of the Circuit Court this coming fall.
Lodge was ready for it, and the necessary reports were made, the officers were elected, and so it was all over. The election was unanimous and strictly in keeping with the law of Texas, and the Law of the order.
KLAN PUT TO ROUT BY INDIANA DEMOCRATS
Indianapolis.—Overwhelming the tenacious opposition of a Ku Klux Joyland Amus at 33rd street and
You may say all you want, but the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias is blessed with a lawyer, Hon. A. C. Wells, one of the best and finest in the country. He is not a pigmy but a real educated lawyer that knows the law and knows how to execute it. I think if he belonged in Cook County, Illinois, they would make him a Judge up there, but he is working with his people in Texas, and is a real busy man. It is indeed a pleasure to be at a meeting of this kind.
After this paper had been served, then the Pythian law was read, which prohibited a brother from going to the civil courts before he had used efforts within the order to adjust his complaints. They were then declared out of order and could not represent their lodges in the grand lodge. They tucked some part of their anatomy and walked out seemingly singing "No One to Welcome Us Home." I will bet you my head to a ginger cake that it will not be long before them buddies will be on the outside looking in. For they had something about the careless use of the funds, and the reports made showed differently. Just to think the interest on the money paid all salaries, and the Grand Chancellor is paid a salary of $6,000, and then the Grand Keeper of Records and Seals is paid a salary, giving his entire time to the work—in fact all the officers were paid out of the interest on the money of the Grand Lodge and the main money had not been touched. What do you think of this?
Would you call that an organization The business of the whole Grand Lodge went over eight hundred thousand dollars, and they had a cash asset right now of over half million, and it doth not yet appear all it shall be. Nearly seven thousand new members reported during the past 12 months, and it continues to grow. New lodges reported, and I wish you could have seen them Knights shouting and praising Grand Chancellor Willis. All of the finance was brought out in the report of J. E. Smith, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. The money is in various banks, and certificates from the banks were displayed showing the amount of money in each. We have done come. These are my people and I felt proud. We are not only making men educated, but we are making men who can deal in finance, men of thought, men of action.
I had the pleasure of coming in touch with that wonderful character Prof. A. S. Jackson, of Waco, the Commissioner of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal church, who is doing his part, and who is active, I met other big men down here.
I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop, but I am not through talking about all the things I have seen since I have been in this city, and if I would write a week I would not be through.
I tell the world they had one more parade here on Wednesday, and a Mardigras Parade Wednesday night. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, one of the most remarkable men of the race and a leader of men, was here, and if you will remember he is the Supreme Chancellor of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias. It is a great thing to be able to see a great man like this.
I will soon have to bring this letter to a stop. God bless you. Write to me when you can do so.
HON. JAMES W. BREEN
KLAN PUT TO ROUT BY INDIANA DEMOCRATS
Indianapolis.—Overwhelming the tenacious opposition of a Ku Klux Klan bloc wielding approximately one-fourth of the votes, the Democratic state convention here rededicated the party to the constitutional guaranies of freedom of worship and expression and nominated for governor Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch of Indianapolis, who was opposed by the klan in the recent state primary.
State Senator Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, supported by the klan forces, held a vote of 300 through the last of three ballots. Later a motion by Cravens' followers to make the nomination unanimous carried by acclamation. Dr. McCulloch, in a field of five won a plurality of 42,000 in the primary, but failed to secure a majority, which threw the nomination to the convention. He survived seven opponents.
The Hoosier delegation to the national convention, headed by Tom Taggart of French Lick and avowedly favorable to United States Senator Samuel Ralston, was uninstructed.
Parliamentary wrangling by the opposition after the reading of the plank on "freedom and liberty," served only to delay for a moment the thunderous acclamation which wrote the pronouncement into the platform.
"We condemn all efforts to stir up race and class hatreds and the creation of dissension amongst our people," the plank read.
MAN CHARGES WIFE OF INFIDELITY
With the Aid of an Officer, Breaks in Room, Finds Another Man's Shoes Under His Bed
Atta De Piest, who is now living separate and apart from her husband, Howard De Priest, was in court Wednesday morning, charged with infidelity, by her husband.
Mr. De Priest stated that for some time he and his wife have been separated; that he had been ordered to pay a stipulated amount of alimony by the court, each week, but suspicioned of being intimate with another man, set out to watch her actions. On Tuesday night, armed with a policeman, he entered their apartment and found another man's clothes and shoes in her room, but the man was in another room in the same house.
The case was dismissed as no disturbance of any kind was related and suggested that it be taken up in the court of Domestic Relations.
MAN ACCUSED OF CUTTING WOMAN IN THE DARK
Henry Murphy was arrested last Friday night, charged with having cut Mrs. Stella Harris, as he jumped from a dark doorway on Dearborn street. Mrs. Harris alleges that she was on he way home when the incident occurred and that she had seen the man several times before, and that he had insisted on keeping company with her to which she refused and lays this as the basis of the assault.
Murphy denies seeing her before and knew nothing of the so-called attack. He also accuses her of being a dope fiend.
Judge Jno. A. Bugee discharged him as a case of mistaken identity.
* JOYLAND-CHICAGO'S
PLEASURE SPOT
Joyland Amusement Park, located at 33rd street and Wabash avenue, has exceeded every expectation in providing joy and pleasure for every one, from kiddies to grown ups. The brilliant lighting effects, which are seen miles away from the park point the way to this spot of pep and pleasure, where the amusement furnished and the happy crowds drive away the blues as an oasis in the desert. The finest set of rides in Chicago are located in Joyland. You may dance to the alluring tunes furnished by Joyland's Creole Jazz Hounds. The wonderful stores of the concessioners, brilliantly, beautifully and richly furnished from any one of which you may receive beautiful and costly gifts, such as baskets, candy, pillows, swager sticks, chinaware, cut glass, hand bags, pearl necklaces, dolls, lamps, umbrellas, toilet sets, lamps, clocks, watches, aluminum, and many others, too numerous to mention. If you are hungry or thirsty, the finest of sandwiches and soft drinks are served from sanitary shops, fresh, appetizing and appeasing. The finest open air roller skating rink is nearing completion and upon it will appear the champion roller skate artists. It will furnish pleasure and healthy recreation and exercise. to the thousands of patrons who know what it means to enjoy roller skating. If you don't know how to skate, come to "Joyland" and learn. Upon the free acctraction platform will appear from time to time the finest artists procurable. Joyland is now featuring the "Great Hunter," champion bag puncher, in aerial, side wall, top, and floor bag punching. This young man is a marvel and has issued a challenge and defi to any one of his profession, to duplicate the wonderful feats which he performs nightly and Sunday matinees, free of charge, to the patrons of Joyland, and don't forget at the Sunday matinees you pay one admission and dance as much as you like. The management of Joyland Park guarantees perfect order, courteous and appreciative attention on the part of all employees, and a good time to all.
You could do nothing better than to make up a party or come by yourself to "Joyland" and pleasure. You will be surprised at the number of your friends whom you will meet there.
FINED $200 AND COSTS FOR
CARRYING GUN
William Blan, charged with carrying a gun, was fined $200 and costs Wednesday morning. His alibi was that he had been "stuck up" several times. He is in business, at 53rd and Federal streets, and each day carries his money to the bank for deposit. Fearing that he would be held up and relieved of his money by hold-up men, he carried this gun for protection. He was in the vicinity of 52nd and Dearborn when arrested. He was assured by the court, that the city of Chicago would afford him all the protection he needed. Some time ago, Blan was held up but by prompt service of the ever-ready policemen, the man was instantly killed by a never-failing bullet.
BOOK CHAT By MARY WHITE OVINGTON
Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
JOYLAND
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M.
THE LATE WILLIS E. MOLLISON His funeral was largely attended by many prominent white and colored citizens in Chicago.
His funeral was largely attended by many prominent white and colored citizens in Chicago.
"ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT
WINGS AND WELDED"
By Eugene O'Neill. Published by
Messrs. Bohi and Liveright, 61 W.
48th St., New York City. Price
$2.00. By Mail, $2.10.
This is Mr. O'Neill's third play dealing with the Negro. It is a theme that appeals deeply to his imagination and that he always presents with great power. The play has been much commented upon, owing partly to the excitement at the announcement that it would be produced in New York with a mixed cast. The production, however, has passed off without a ripple and Robeson has acceptably maintained the important leading role.
The scene is laid in New York in a poor neighborhood where white and colored children play together and have a good time, the Negro made conscious, however, by jibes, of his race. Jim Harris has a little sweet-heart, Ella, a white child, "painty-face," they call her because of her pink cheeks, whom he is always ready to defend, and who shyly says, "I like you, Jim." Later she works his ruin. Deserted by a cheap white with whom she has lived, her baby dead, her family throwing her off, Jim, out of his great love, marries her. They go to France where they are happy at first, but later she grows apprehensive, fearful of meeting someone from home, while he feels that he should be back in the race conflict. So they return and the end of the play shows the woman stark mad, the man perhaps soon to become so.
This is what happens when Jim and Ella marry, but events are only a part of the play. The thing that seems to hold the playwright in its clutch is the belief in the inferiority complex that
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ARRESTED FOR THREAT TO KILL
John Cephus was before Judge Bugeen Wednesday morning, on a charge of threatening Judson's life. Judson O'Neal stated that on May 28, he entered the defendant's store, to collect a sum of thirty-one dollars owed him. When accosted, about the amount, an argument ensued, in which the defendant threatened to kill him if he ever darkened his door again. Mr. Cephus' testimony was corroborated by a customer in the store at the time by the name of Smith. The case was dismissed.
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shadows continually Jim's wife. This colored boy is the superior of all the white boys about him. He has a generous spirit and a fine mind, but the white world refuses him success. He describes what happens to him when he is called upon to recite. "It's all in my head, all fine and correct to a T. Then I'm called on—I stand up—all the white faces looking at me—and I can feel their eyes—I hear my own voice sounding funny, trembling—and all of a sudden it's all gone in my head—there's nothing remembered—and I hear myself stuttering—and give up—sit down." "And it's the same in the written exams."
This is what the white world does to Jim Harris. And if the world without stultifies his efforts, his wife pushes him down ten fold more. Her superiority complex makes her, cheap little thing that she is, feel herself superior to the finest black. She will kill him if he succeeds in his ambition to pass at the Bar. In her madness she attempts this more than once. "I'm so happy," she cries, when he fails. "I was praying with all my might. God don't let Jim pass."
I had gone thus far in my review when Rosalie Jonas, author of many exquisite poems on the Negro, came in after seeing the play and told me I was all wrong. It is, she declares, first and always a marvellous love story. Jim Harris has no inferiority complex. If he had he would be aggressive, bumpious. (She's right there). He is a highly sensitive person, a poet, living in a world that enjoys crushing his kind. His love for his wife is among the most perfect examples of selfless devotion in all dramatic literature. O'Neill here reaches the peak of his great genius. Another critic would give another viewpoint. You must read the play to know it, and then read it again.
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DOPE FIEND STEALS COAT
Walter Jackson, who resides at 30th and Dearborn streets, was found coming down the alley with a woman's coat under his arms. An officer, becoming suspicious of his actions, questioned him and later placed him under arrest. Before the court Wednesday morning, he told the Judge that he had paid $3.00 for the coat, because he wanted to sell it to get dope, as he had acquired the habit but was anxious to get rid of it. The Judge sent him to the hospital for treatment.
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Leprosy had Its origin in Central
Africa and thence it spread to Asia.
‘The hordes of the army of Dartus
brought it to Europe and it was
taken to the Americas as an accom
paniment of negro stavery, according
to a writer in the London Quarterly
Review.
W.G. Anderson
Attorney At Law
17 North La Salle Street
CHICAGO
NOTARY PUBLIC
Suite 560 Watson Bldg.
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(Lincoln News Servies)
There are 1,000 colored policemen
in the United States.
Among the 202,435 colored persons
employed as cooks, 168710 are
females.
‘Why expect the National Colored
Democratic Convention to pass @
resolution asking for a reduction of
southern representation in Congress.
Including those who specialize in
nutritious chitterlings and succulent
pigs feet, we have 7,511 restaurant,
cafe and lunch-room keepers.
Out in Missouri fifty-two per cent
‘of the people who have reached the
age of 100 years and over are colored.
If anyone had suggested a sixty
year age limit for Bishops at either of
the General Conferences, he would
have been mobbed.
In the State of Indiana we have one
‘preacher to every 322 persoms, while
‘the whites manage to worry along
with one to every 779.
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Among the colored practicing poli-
ticians the great question now is, who
among them will be selected to func-
tion as the “Chief Mogul” at National
Headquarters.
Had brother Garvey belonged to the
A. M. E. connection he might have
been elected Bishop—if he had
agreed, in writing, to take up the
work in Africa.
| Now that the democrats are angling
for the support of the colored voters
in the northern states, there has been
a let-up in the introduction of “Jim
Crow” bills in Congress.
In Chicago there is one ward which
contains 44 per cent of the total col-
ored population of the city, and with-
in which our group constitutes 70 per
cent of all the inhabitants,
In 1920 there were 90 less children,
under 5 years of age, per 1,000 col-
ored women between the ages of 15
and 45, than in the year 1910, as com-
pared with a decrease of only 13
among the white women.
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ANOTHER POLICY GAME DIS-
MISSED FOR FAILURE TO
OBTAIN SEARCH WARRANT
James Morgan, of S364 State street,
was arrested for playing policy, also
for selling cigarettes without a license.
He was discharged because the of-
ficer searched the place without any
authority, and had seen nothing wrong
or any sale made atthe place.
SELLING WITHOUT LICENSE
A Hardy, who'has 3° place of busi-
ness at 43rd and State sts, was ar-
rested for selling liquor, also for sell-
officer who made the arrest bad no
search warant and the case was dis-
missed.
Would Re-Name Opals
‘Though opals are much admired snd
fore commenty worn tm this country,
there ts 2 popular superstition im
‘Burepe and other parts of the work!
‘that these beautiful stenes are wulucky
and bring misfortupe to the owner.
~~ that reason Soath Austraits ts
‘Seeking to exploit this product under
another name, “iridots,” after the
Greek word for rainbow.
Ears for Steamers,
Modern ocean steamers are being
equippet with sensitive electrical
“ears” by means of which sounds be
neath the surface of’ the ocean are
easily audible. In fogs or storms these
“ears’ hear submarine signals when
buoys and other signals are invisible.
An Ancient Anesthetic
In prehistoric thes, Zunis and
other tribes of Notth American In-
dians used a substance obtained trom
‘the jimson weed as un anesthetic dur
ing surgical operations,
Mean
“Jack told me I reminded tim of a
girl on a maguzine Gover.” “I guess
that's because he only sees you ouce
@ month."—New York Medley,
Some Exposure
Perhaps if the subterfuges of the
whole world were “exposed simulta.
neously, after the “first shock, there
would be a greot sheepish Iaugh,
Negroes in Frange Long Ago.
Bfligies carved 20.000 years ago and
‘oud in caves In France would In-
dicate that the negrold type was prev-
lent in France at am early date.
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A. D. GASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
118 N. La Salle Street
CHICAGO
Phone Main 2017 ae
A. L. WILLIAMS
ATTORNEY AND
COUNSELOR AT LAW
Suite 706 Firmenich Building
184 W. Washington St.
‘CHICAGO
Residence 3685 Prairie Ave.
Phone Douglas 9133
Residance, 1262 Macalister Place
Telephons Moaree 2714
MILES J. DEVINE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
‘Suite 318-320 Reaper Block
Clark and Washington St.
: CHICAGO
Telephone Central 1239
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Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence,
4751 Champlain Avenue
Phone Kenwood 5611
Walter M. Farmer
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW
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