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EXTRA THE BROAD AX EXTRA Echoes and Re-echoes of the Visit of Julius F. Taylor to the Prince Hall, Masonic and Order of Eastern Star Home at Rock Island, Illinois. Under the Present Conditions the Home Is More Than Fifty Per Cent Below Par. THEREFORE IT SHOULD BE SOLD AND A NEW HOME SHOULD BE SECURED FOR ITS INMATES IN CHICAGO, WHERE THEY WOULD BE IN THE MIDST OF THOUSANDS OF MASONS AND MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, WHERE CHURCHES AND SCHOOL HOUSES WOULD BE HANDY FOR THEM. IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE AT THE PRESENT TIME SEVENTEEN THOUSAND BLUE LODGE MASONS IN ILLINOIS; THAT THEY PAY EIGHT THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER YEAR TO HELP TO MAINTAIN THE HOME AT ROCK ISLAND; THAT THERE ARE FOUR THOUSAND MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF EASTERN STAR IN THIS STATE WHO CONTRIBUTE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER YEAR FOR EACH MEMBER, MAKING ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS; OR, ALL TOLD, NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS WHICH IS CONTRIBUTED BY THE BRETHREN AND SISTERS FOR THE HOME. IT IS ALSO ESTIMATED THAT HUNDREDS OF CANS OF ALL KINDS OF CANNED GOODS, LINENS AND SO ON, AMOUNTING TO AT LEAST THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, IS DONATED TO THE HOME NEAR THE HOLIDAYS EACH YEAR. On our recent visit to the Prince Hall, Masonic and Order of Eastern Star Home, which is located several miles from Rock Island, Illinois. We carefully inspected it from top to bottom and looked into every nook and corner of the home, and the more we think about our visit to the home, the more firmly we are convinced that under its present management that ten or twenty years will roll on into eternity before it will be able to reach par, for it is away below par right now in many vital ways after it has been running for more than twenty years. meetings in the churches unless they can secure twenty cents each Sunday for carfare; that during the long severe winter months, when the snow is several feet deep on the ground, it is very hard for anyone to enter or leave the Home; that it is located almost two hundred miles west of Chicago, right on the edge of this state; that there are not many masons or other persons around it who seem to be deeply interested in the Home; that whenever any of the inmates pass away at the Home, there is always double expense in railroad fare to ship their remains to Chicago and to other points in the United States. There will be no attempt on our part at this time to set forth a history of the Home at this time, later on we may attempt to do so. The first and the most serious objection we have against the Home is that the well and the sick inmates are all huddled into one large room together, which is unsanitary and against all the rules of health; that it is located so far away from the churches or the public schools, far too far for any of the children who may live in the Home belonging to the Masons to walk to and from them; that there is no way for the inmates to attend 5 CENTS PER COPY SHOULD BE SOLD HOME SHOULD BE IN ITS INMATES IN WHERE THEY WOULD LIST OF THOUSANDS AND MEMBERS OF EASTERN STAR, CHES AND SCHOOL AND BE HANDY FOR ESTIMATED THAT AT THE PRESENT SEEN THOUSAND MASONS IN ILLI-HEY PAY EIGHT AND FIVE HUNDRED YEAR TO HELP TO HOME AT ROCK WHERE ARE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE EASTERN STAR IN WHO CONTRIBUTE CENTS PER YEAR NUMBER, MAKING DOLLARS; OR, THE THOUSAND FIVE DOLLARS WHICH IS BY THE BRETH-STERS FOR THE ESTIMATED THAT HUN- OF ALL KINDS OF LINENS AND SO NG TO AT LEAST RED DOLLARS, IS THE HOME NEAR EACH YEAR. meetings in the churches unless they can secure twenty cents each Sunday for carfare; that during the long severe winter months, when the snow is several feet deep on the ground, it is very hard for anyone to enter or leave the Home; that it is located almost two hundred miles west of Chicago, right on the edge of this state; that there are not many masons or other persons around it who seem to be deeply interested in the Home; that whenever any of the inmates pass away at the Home, there is always double expense in railroad fare to ship their remains to Chicago and to other points in the United States. In view of all the foregoing and of many other important things along the same line, we honestly feel that the Prince Hall Masonic and the Order of Eastern Star Home, near Rock Island, Illinois, should be sold before any more money amounting to anything is dumped into it and a suitable site should be secured for it either in Chicago or near it, where the inmates could spend their declining years in peace and happiness; where they would be free from hard work; where they could come in close contact with thousands of masons and members of the Order of Eastern Star; where 10 One of the most profound and classical writers in this country, whose brilliant article on the "mixing and the crossing of the races" is well worth reading two or three times. they could dwell in the midst of churches and public school houses. Right at this point we must pause to state that at no time should the inmates of the Home be looked upon nor regarded as objects of charity for some of them, prior to entering the Home, had paid their dues into their various chapters and lodges for twenty—thirty, and almost fifty years; some of them always carry enough life insurance to provide a decent burial for them when the final end comes, so in all fairness the inmates of the Home are justly entitled to rest all of the time and to feast on the fat of the land. Within the past two years it has been stated at public gatherings or meetings on many occasions, and through the columns of newspapers and in other publications by the leading and the most prominent masons in this state that, "there are seventeen thousand Blue Lodge or Blue House masons belonging to the most worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of free and accepted masons in Illinois and its jurisdiction; that each one of these seventeen thousand masons pay fifty cents each year into the Grand Lodge fund which is expended to assist to maintain or support the Grand Lodge, which amounts to eighty thousand and five hundred dollars per year, providing that there are seventeen thousand masons within this masonic jurisdiction; that the same seventeen thousand masons dig up fifty cents each year which is known as Home tax and it is maintained that eight thousand and five hundred dollars and the one thousand dollars which the four thousand ladies, belonging to the Order of Eastern Star, pay into the Home fund each year, making a grand total of nine thousand and five hundred dollars per year which should find its way into the Home fund each year." It should be perfectly plain to the average wayfaring person in the world that if the nine thousand five hundred dollars per year is paid into the treas- ATTORNEY CHARLES C. ROE ury of the Home, and as it can be maintained at the very highest rate at the present time for two thousand five hundred dollars per year, including the seven inmates and the matron which does not include the hundreds of cans of canned goods, the linen goods and so on which the ladies composing the various auxiliary clubs solicit funds for the linens, bed sheets and so on, used at the Home, and for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner for inmates at the Home, all of that food and other material sent into the Home free of charge, as a result of those who are deeply interested in the welfare of the Home and its inmates, would amount to over four hundred dollars, and as the Lodges and Chapters which send the inmates to the Home buy all the clothing which they wear and furnish them carfare to and from church it is easily proven that the Home can be and is being conducted at a very small expense per year. That at the lowest estimate six thousand five hundred dollars per year out of the nine thousand five hundred dollars which is supposed to be paid in as Home tax should be on hand right now, ready to be flashed up at one moment's notice. It is, therefore, just as plain as your nose on your face, that if the six thousand five hundred dollars per year, aside from the three thousand dollars per year which is used to maintain the Home, that right at this very minute it would have for the past ten years more than sixty-two thousand dollars which would enable the friends of the Home to secure ten or fifteen acres of ground either here in this city or at Morgan Park, Illinois, or in some other nice place near Chicago and erect it a modern and an up-to-date Home for the old worn out-Masons of this state, which would be a lasting monument to the members of the most worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Illinois and its insidiction. PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL NEGRO BANKER'S ASSOCIATION Philadelphia, Pa.—Major R. R. Wright, President of the National Negro Banker's Association, has sent out the following program of the next meeting to be held in Chicago, August 21, 1924: "What the Negro Bankers' Association Can Do for the Race"—Major R. R. Wright, President National Negro Bankers' Association, President Citizens' and Southern Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia, Penna. "How Can Negro Banks Best Cooperate?"—Mr. E. C. Brown, President Brown and Stevens' Bankers, Philadelphia, Pa. "Some of the Mistakes of Negro Bankers"—Mr. W. F. Boddie, Cashier of Citizens' Trust Company, Atlanta, Ga. "Why We Should Build Banks in Our Larger Cities"—Mr. B. M. Roddy, Cashier Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company, Memphis, Tenn. "What the Ministers May Do to Promote Banking"—Rev. E. L. Baskervill, Charleston, S. C. "The Mission of Negro Banks"—Mr. Anthony Overton, President Douglass National Bank, Chicago, Ill. "Co-operation Between Negro Banks and, Newspapers"—Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., Editor Christian Recorder, Cashier Citizens' and Southern Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia, Pa. This meeting will be attended by more than fifty Negro bankers. Major Wright states that he is in touch with nearly every Negro banker in the country. Plans will be made at this meeting for more effective organizing of the money power of the race—the greatest need of this hour. --- THE MIXING AND THE CROSSING OF ALL THE RACES OF MANKIND PROFOUNDLY DILATED UPON BY MR. CHARLES C. ROE, RIPE STUDENT OF HISTORY, EX-ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OF CHICAGO, EX-ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY OF COOK COUNTY AND EX-ASSISTANT ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CHICAGO. Apropos of the brilliant article of former United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, published in The Broad Ax, May 31st, 1924, and the able article of Julius F. Taylor, its editor, in the issue of June 14th, 1924. I spent considerable time in refreshing myself concerning the subject of the assimilation of the races and I am giving these views which very materially add to the theories advanced by me in the article which I wrote for The Broad Ax several years ago on the "Assimilation of the Races." No one who has any knowledge of past history doubts for a moment the fact that as we become better acquainted with the origin of mankind, that the Ethiopians and Egyptians played a very prominent part in the first civilization known to us. The education, culture and position of the various races of mankind today have been brought about by many ages of progress, and we are told by no less an authority than H. G. Wells in his "Outline of History," that, "Through the hundred centuries or so while Reindeer men were living under comparatively unprogressive conditions upon the steppes of France, Germany and Spain, these more favored and progressive people to the south were mastering agriculture, learning to develop their appliances, taming the dog, domesticating cattle, and, as the climate to the north mitigated and the equatorial climate grew more tropical, spreading northward. They were peoples at about the level of many of the Polynesian islanders of the last century; and they were the most advanced peoples in the world." All through the "Outline of History" by H. G. Wells, when he tells us about the earth, the record of the rocks, natural selection and changes of species, life and climate, sub-men and men, the races of mankind, languages and first civilizations, we find that the races assimilate throughout the world. He says: "Man, so widely spread and subjected therefore to great differences of climate, consuming very different food in different regions, attacked by different enemies, must always have been undergoing considerable local modification and differentiation. Man, like every other species of living thing, has constantly been tending to differentiate into several species; wherever a body of men has been cut off, in islands or oceans or by deserts or mountains, from the rest of humanity, it must have begun very soon to develop special characteristics, specially adapted to the local conditions. But, on the other hand, man is usually a wandering and enterprising animal, for whom there exist few insurmountable barriers. Men imitate men, fight and conquer them, interbreed, one people with another. Concurrently for thousands of years there have been two sets of forces at work one tending to separate men into a multitude of local varieties, and another to remix and blend these varieties together before a separate species have been established. "These two sets of forces may have fluctuated in this relative effect in the past. Palaeolithic man, for instance, may have been more of a wanderer, he may have drifted about over a much greater area, than later Neolithic man; he was less fixed to any sort of home or lair, he was tied by fewer possessions. Being a hunter, he was obliged to follow the migrations of his ordinary quarry. A few bad seasons may have shifted him hundreds of miles. He may therefore have mixed very widely and developed few varieties over the greater part of the world. "The appearance of agriculture tended to tie those communities of mankind that took it up to the region in which it was most conveniently carried on, and so to favor differentiation. Mixing or differentiation is not dependent upon a higher or lower stage of civilization; many savage tribes wander now for hundreds of miles; many English villagers in the eighteenth century, on the other hand, had never been more than eight or ten miles from their villages, neither they nor their fathers nor grand-fathers before them. Hunting peoples often have enormous range. The Labrador country, for instance, is inhabited by a few thousand Indians, who follow the one great herd of caribou as it wanders yearly north and then south again in pursuit of food. This mere handful of people covers a territory as large as France. Nomad peoples also range very widely. Some Kalmuck tribes are said to travel nearly a thousand miles between summer and winter pasture. "It carries out this suggestion, that Palaeolithic man ranged widely and was distributed, thinly indeed but uniformly, throughout the world, that the Palaeolithic remains we find are everywhere astonishingly uniform. To quote Sir John Evans, 'The implements in distant lands are so identical in form and character with the British specimens that they might have been manufactured by the same hands. . . . On the banks of the Nile, many hundreds of feet above its present level, implements of the European types have been discovered; while in Somaliland, in an ancient river-valleat at a great elevation above the sea, Sir H. W. Seaton-Karr has collected a large number of implements formed of flint and quartzite, which, judging from their form and character, might have been dug out of the drift-deposits of the Somme and the Seine, the Thames or the ancient Solent.' "Phases of spreading and intermixture have probably alternated with phases of settlement and specialization in the history of mankind. But (Continued on page 2) THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday _ In this city’ since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Re- publicans, -Demoerats, Catholics, Pro- testants, Single Texers, Priests, inf dels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. _ The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Demo- ‘eratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics, Local commanications will receive attention. Write qnly on one side of the paper. ¥ 5: ‘Subseriptions must be paid in ad- vance. One Year ...:vieege+-a+-s++s$200 Six Months ......<+--++-+04+,$1,00 ‘Advertising ‘rates made known on application. Address all communications to ‘THE BROAD AX 3206 So. Elizabeth St, Chicago, Ill Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Entered as Secord-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicage, MM Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE MIXING AND THE CROSS- ING OF THE RACES By Charles C. Roe (Concluded from page “1) up to a few hundred years ago it is probable that since the days of the Palacolithic Age at least mankind has on the whole been differentiating. ‘The species has differentiated in that period into @ very great number of varieties, many of which have re- blended with others, which have spread and undergone further differ- entiation or ‘become extinct. Wherever there has been a strongly marked local difference of conditions and a check-up on intermixture, there one is almost obliged to assume a variety of mankind “must have appeared. Of such local varieties there must have been a great multitude. In one re- mote corner of the world, Tasmania, a little cut-off population of people remained in the early Palaeolithic stage until the discovery of that is- land by the Dutch in 1642. They are now, unhappily, extinct. The last Tasmanian died in 1877. They may have been cut off from the rest of mankind for 15,000 or 20,000 or 25,000 years, “But among the numerous obstacles and interruptions to intermixture there have been certain main barriers, such as the Atlantic Ocean, the highlands, once higher, and the now vanished seas of Central Asia and the like, which have cut off great groups of varieties from other great groups of varieties over long periods of time. These separated groups of varieties developed very early certain broad resemblances and differences. Most of the varieties of men in eastern Asia and America, but -not all, have now this in common, that they have yel- lowish buff skins, straight black hair, and often high cheek-bones. Most of the native peeples of Africa south of the Saharah, but not all, have black or blackish skins, flat noses, thick lips, and frizzy hair, In north and western Europe a great number of people have fair hair, blue eyes, and ruddy complexions; and about the Mediterranean there is a prevalence of white-skinned peoples with dark eyes and black hair. The black hair of many of these dark whites is ‘straight, but never so strong and waveless as the hair of the yellow peoples. It is straighter in the east than in the west. In southern India we find brownish and darker peo- ples with straight black hair, and these as we pass eastward give place to more distinctly yellow peoples. In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. “But it must be borne in mind that these are very loose-fitting generaliza- tions. Some of the areas and isolated Pockets of mankind in the Asiatic area may have been ee tn more like those in the 1 area; some of the African areas are of a African type. We find 2 wavy-haired, in Japan. They are more | Europeans in their facial type thar the surrounding “yellow Japanese ‘They tay be a drifted pach of th whites or they may. be a quite distinct PRLS is UP ee ee a Africa. There is a streak of very indir CT Rae aN negroid blood traceable in south Per- sia and) some parts of India. These ‘are the “Asiatic” negroids. There. is little or no proof that all black peo- ‘ple, the Australians, the Asiatic ne- ‘grids and the Negroes, derive from ‘one origin, but only that they have lived for vast periods under similar conditions. We must not assume that human beings in the eastern Asiatic area were all differentiating in one di- rection and all the human beings in Africa in another. There were great currents of tendency, it is true, but there were also backwaters, eddies, admixtures, re-admixtures, and leak- ages from one main area to the other. A colored map of the world to show the races would not present just four great areas of color; it would have to be dabbed over with a multitude of tints and intermediate shades, simple here, mixed and overlapping there. “In the early Neolithic Period in Eu- fope—it miay be 10,000 or 12,000 years ago or so—man_was differentiating all over the world, and he had already differentiated into-a number of varie- ties, but he has never differentiated into different species. A ‘species,’ we must remember, in biological langu- age is distinguished from a ‘variety’ by the fact that varieties can inter- breed, while species either do not do so or produce offspring which, like mules, are sterile. All mankind can interbreed freely, can learn to under- stand the same speech, can adapt it- self to co-operation. And in the pres- ent age, man is probably no longer undergoing differentiation at all. Re- admixture is now a far stronger force than differentiation. Men single more and more. Mankind from the view of a biologist is an animal species in a state of arrested differ- entiation and possible re-admixture.” COLORED LAWYER COMES OUT FOR JOHN W. DAVIS Philadelphia, Pa.—“I am for John W. Davis for President of the United States because he fought to keep ‘Jim Crowe’ laws and grandfather claims from being put on the statue books of West Virginia.” This statement was made by Ed- ward W. Henry, president of the Col- ‘ored Citizens’ Republican club of Philadelphia, attorney at law and for ‘more than seven years practicing in ‘Clarksburg, W. Va. “John W. Davis is a man of destiny and bound to win,” he continued. "te has been my friend for years The colored voters helped elect him to the West Virginia Legislature, and then sent him to Congress from the Clarksburg district that had been normally Republican. We never had cause to regret our action, “As Congressman, Mr. Davis said: ‘I love the Constitution of my coun- tey and I stand on it. I will never consent to any citizens being de- prived of their Constitutional rights as long as I have a voice to oppose jit” And today colored people live in peace in the home state of John W. Davis, if he still stands as I know he does, where he stood in the old times. I am going to take the stump for him all over the land.” The stand taken by Attorney Hen- ‘ry, long an active Republican, will probably cause him to resign from the Citizens’ Republican club, the Lincoln League and the steering committee of the Conference of Col- ored Republican Voters of which he ‘is secretary. / Major RR. Wright, president of the Citizen's & Southern Banking ‘Company, one of the largest race banks in the United States, recalled that, as Ambassador to England, Mr Davis has been exceedingly kind tc him when he was abroad on Govern: ment service in 1917. The Ambas sador enabled him to hear Lloyd George speak by giving him his las ticket. He also assisted Major Wrigh to proper introduction to Marshal Foch, Premier Clemenceau, Presiden Poiricare and other notables. MRS. JESSE BINGA WILL SPEND TWO WEEKS AT IDLEWILD MICHIGAN Wednesday morning, Mrs. Jesse Binga, 5922 South Park Avenue, the dutiful wife of Mrs. Jesse Binga, president of the Binga State Bank, left for Idiewild, Mich., where she will spend two weeks, returning home in time to assist in entertaining many of her prominent lady friends who will attend the segsions of the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Binga will rest up at the Burlaw Cottage at Idlewild. _ Mrs. Frank Dixon of St. Louis, Mo, and hee daughter, Miss Irma Dixon, a teacher in the public schools of St. Louis, with a party of friends motored to Chicago, the 19th of July to witness the fraternity play at the Eighth street theatre. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M, Farmer, 4751 Champlain ave. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 26, 1924 ee , a : 3) Srl Ce . x «© Z Pa -\ 4 : \ | Med . HON. CHARLES SCRIBNER EATON Member of the City Council from the new Fifth Ward. He is one of the ablest and far-seeing leaders. He is always smiling and pleasing to meet and he is held in the highest esteem by all classes of his fellow citizens. Pea A 2 Pana aR, ts a be : Rog i _ ar i : : = Py | ‘ ag : i ss fe | ¢ Grand Medical Director of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Illinois, also one of the Directors of the Doug- lass National Bank, who has hundreds of warm friends among the best people in Chicago. gee oe gabe aoe eee PR gen a ab Pe eo eae ane at : ee ' ee Vater va : M MEETING OF THE UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP AND THE SISTERS OF THE MYSTERIOUS TENS OF THE WORLD The National Grand Lodge of United Brothers of Friendship and the Sisters of the Mysterious Tens of the World have just closed their Tri-An. nual session in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after having the largest attendance in the history of the Order, seventeen states being represented at the session. Rev. H. W. Jameson of Peoria was the National Grand Master and E¢- monia Watkins of Cairo, was the Na- tional Grand Princess of the sisters, Sister Watkins managed to hold onto her office, but Prof. W. F. Bledsoe of Marshall, Texas, was elected National Grand Master.” The ‘next session, (1927) will be held in St. Louis, Mo The sisters since enjoying the full free. dom of the ballot, do not like to be known as subordinate to the brothers and asked to use some other name for them. The National Grand Mas- ter recommended that the National Grand Master be given more power in handling State Grand Masters and Grand Lodges, but past experience conyinced the convention that he al- ready had power enougll, as the pres- ent time each state is operating an Endowment Department of its own, and is quite expensive, so the National is considering the consolidation of all state departments into a national En. dowment Department. The session: of the brothers and sisters were held in Pavillions in Whittington Park quite a delegation from Chicago at- tended the session, among them were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shaw, Mrs. Georgia Harding, the State Grand Princess, Mrs. Rochon, Rev. B. H Lucas, J. B. Streets and several others This organization was organized it -ouisville, Ky,, in 1861 and was an vuxilliary to what was known as the JInderground Railroad, an- organiza- ion that was helping escaped slaves to xet to Camada and freedom. It is the ‘argest organization of our race group a the south and western states. There ere 1.876 delegates in attendance at his session. The Tilinois Grand -odge and Grand Temple will meet ‘n Monmouth, Illinois next month, There are forty-one lodges and ninety- seven Temples in the jurisdiction. Ten of the lodges are located in Chicago, and thirty-two temples. Rev. T. L. Scott, J. E. Bish and Geo. W. Watts of Chicago are all Past Grand Mas- ters of the Order in Illinois. Rev I. S. Stone of Cairo is the present Grand Master and Dr, J. 1. Miles of Chicago. Grand Secretary, MR. AND MRS. AUGUSTUS L. WILIAMS ENTERTAINED IN HONOR OF A FEW OF THEIR FRIENDS _ Attorney and Mrs. A. L. Williams 3616 Michigan ave., entertained on last Wednesday evening in honor of Dr. E. W. D. Abner, Supreme Com- mander of the American Woodmen and wife, Mrs, Maude Ikard Abner. Other guests present were Mrs. Ada S. McKinley, Miss A. V. Musgrove and Dr, Aaron G. Fairfax, West Park Commissioner. TWO OF THE INMATES OF THE OLD FOLKS HOME QUIETLY CLOSED THEIR EYES IN DEATH Mrs. Fannie Ishman, who had been an inmate of the Old Folks Home, 4430 Vincennes avenue, for the past fourteen years and Mrs. Louise Ford, te had been an inmate for the past twelve years, who was the mother of DR. EDWARD S. MILLER | Director of the saa oat "he ise al Bank, who has hundreds of best people in Chicago. BS 5 iti eee 5 Pa KE fl lin ee risial Bs al ot Dr, and Mrs. W. W. Bradley, 4801 ‘Champlain avenue, are enjoying a de- lightiut motor vacation trip through the east, visiting Detroit, Mich, Niagara Falls, New York City, Wash- ington, D. C., Pittsburgh, Pa, and other places in the east. They will return home Monday, August 4, POPE BARS WOMEN FAILING TO OBSERVE DRESS RULES Rome.—More than 100 women have been refused permission to attend pa- pal public audiences in the last two days owing to their failure to conform to the dress styles demanded by the pope. According to the papal orders the women must wear a high collar and their sleeves must extend to their wrists. Dr. Carrie Warner, 120 S. State street, will on August 4, 5, 6 and 7, attend the Thirteenth Annual Conven- tion of the National Association of Chiropodists, which will convene at the St. Paul Hotel, St. Paul, Minn,, on the above mentioned dates. It is expected that Dr, Warner will be called upon to address the convention. She will wend her way home from St. Paul to her lovely summer home at Idlewild, Mich., where she will spend several weeks. a COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REG. ULAR TRAVELING CORRESPOND. ENT FOR THE BROAD AX, Has FOR THE PAST WEEK BEEN SPENDING MUCH OF HIS TIME iN NORTH CAROLINA —“THE TAR. HEEL STATE.” Where I am when I write to you this }week and you will decide that I have been going some ahd I am still going, but if I was not here now I would be some other placé. But. before I say anything about this place or any other place I must pause and say just a word of sympa- thy to my friend, and your friend, Dr. Edward Wittenburg, of Kansas City, Mo., pastor of Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church. Death stepped into his home a few days ago, and took the champion of his youth, his wife. And did not stop there, for the very same day, it knocked and claimed one of his daughters, Mary Wittenburg. So there was sadness in this home, two deaths at the same time and a double funeral. We must all extend to him sympathy. For years it has been his lot to go into the sick room—yes into the death chamber, comfort the sick, the dying, cheer those bereaved, but this time it was his. I recall how touched he was the last time I was there and his wife was sick in bed. He is a man with a tender heart, and T tried then to point to him the will of God. I do not know just how long they had been married, but will tell you all of this in my next letter. The world has been moving, and we are passing out of it one by one, and one of these days this old world is going to close out business and come to an end. Just when I do not know, but you should be ready for anything that may come. Get ready to meet God, for we are being claimed on all hands. One by one we are passing out, one by one the book is being closed and we are cashing in our ac- counts, But do not let me drift on that now. . If you will recall I wrote you when I was in some other part of the world. I had a fine time in Birmingham and then in Atlanta, Ga,, I was thrown in the office of the Atlanta Independent, and the business manager, Miss Ola Walker was as busy as could be ‘get- ting her brains adjusted, and then from there I made my way to Sa- vannah, and from Savannah to Den- mark, and from Denmark to Raleigh, N. C, reaching there about midnight, and to my surprise I found Mrs. Berry O'Kelly standing at the stable accompanied by A. T. White, who is connected with Mr. O'Kelly. I was told that Mr.'O’Kelly had the feet- eretus, his feet having grown strong, he was getting weak again, but he was fortunate, to be represented by two friends, his wife and his personal friend Mr, White. I consider that I was highly com- plimented for a man of his standing to send down to meet poor weak me. Mr. White is one of our best trained business men. He came into the world via Raleigh, N.C, and got his education from the public school and St. Augustine school, and then got some business training, and for 14 years has been right here. About 14. years ago he won the heart and hand of Miss Marion E. O'Kelly, the neice of Berry O'Kelly, and they have walked together get- ting happiness out of life. From that union three boys, and they are being trained to improve on their father. But in the midst of happiness there comes some sadness, or with the sunshine must come the clouds, and for'the past _six months, his companion has been fighting with disease, but she has im- Proved some and let us all pray that she will soon be restored to health and happiness. They are loving, and they are devoted to each other. I told you before about Berry O'Kelly recently winning the heart of Miss Marguerite E. Belle, of. Bay- onne, N. J. a ‘cultured, educated young woman, and at the time she resigned her school to some day take charge of a kindergarten of her own. She has entered in his life and work, and is indeed happy, and ready to make her husband and his friends happy. He could not come for me and she was there herself, and they escorted me to the Arcade hotel, one of the leading hotels. of Raleigh, and O'Kelly had rd “Mrs. P.T. ‘Hall, and she was looking for me with the best room in the hotel ready for Se MBS at the home of Mr. O'Kelly, and was made welcome. [ am sure you remember him, for ie is one of the wealthiest men of this race ‘of ours. Modest, unassuming, but 21. ways ready to render service, jt. ig all and/all at Method. He js post. master, owner of the big store, biack. smith shop, truck—in fact he ic the whole cheese, and when they needed a schook inthe town, he just toli them to erect a three story brick building with—well T don't know how many rooms with a chapel and send him the bill. This was donc, an then another building has been erectes, and still the work goes on and 3! Mr, O'Kelly gets out of it is tha: the school is named “The Berry (Kelly Industrial and High School” Pa: it down that I told you that they have @ real high school and Prof. 1H, L. Trigg is principal. This is one of the best trained young men, for he got his foundation at Morgan Colleve, | Baltimore, Md. He then went on to the big college Syracuse University and got his M. A. degree. He is put- ting things over here, and I am proud of it, Monday morning bright and carly I got on the outside of a real break- fast prepared by Mrs. O'Kelly, and halted the Seaboard in front of the store, and got on for Statesville, where I attended the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias presided over by Dr. J. W. Jones, a real live physician and business man and a leader of men. Now let me tell you that they opened the Grand Lodge Tuesday, at [high noon and at 4 o'clock Wednes- day, these five hundred delegates had transacted the business for the whole state and ready to go home. That is going some and don’t you forget it In this Grand Lodge they have some of the brainy men of the state. They ‘open up doing business, and they keep right at it until they are through. When the Grand Lodge is duly opened, committees appointed, the ad- dress is delivered by the Grand Chan- ellor, and all the other reports are made before'they take a recess. When they get through with all this, then they take a recess until next morning. Commnittees prepare their reports, and next morning report, and all business is transacted, and they selected New Bern for the next annual mect. I wish you could have heard the re- port made by J. M. Avery, who is the financier of this people, and 2 man with wonderful ability and a leader. His report was the foundation of the whole grand lodge, for he handled all the money and accounted for it, and the debts were all paid up and they had some way up in the thousands of dollars left. Avery is a man who is interested in his church, in his race and in his God. He believes in doing things. Then I had the pleasure of meeting another wonderful character in this meeting Dr. James E. Shepard, who is the Grand Master of Mason’s and is chair- man of the Finance Committee or Board of Directors of the ‘rand Lodge. He is a school man, ané edu- cator and is doing things in North Carolina. I shall have more to s¥¥ about him later. Now about this Grand Lodge, it is ‘over, and-I am back here in Method, Gut when you read this letter I will have passed thru Chicago and will be in Kansas, We are getting up in life. i sball fave many things to say to you. Will you look out for my next letter. 1 ‘want you to get your new suit in tu" for the National Negro Business League. It is going to be the grcat- ‘est session in the history of the or” ganization and they are going to have something tangible to present to the people: “Through this organization many of our people has been inspire? jand through it many more are ‘0 pired and then they are ‘0 elped. up to. do. grgter thine. 9 the help of God this race is goins '° reach the goal. We will never fin’ or there will always be sometiivs We are “producing mes 0 fea Be detok ts jin opera iw and ar making things 0 pF et eet ool eile INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS OR ARTICLES By Anna Peachblossom WOMAN CLAIMS ANOTHER THREW WATER ON CHILDREN AND GAVE THEM STICKS TO INJURE PLAY-MATES Mrs. Helen Sprague residing at 307 E. 47th St., and Mrs. M. Borderski, were put under peace bonds in the 48th street cour Wednesday morning, by Judge Geo. B. Holmes, of $500 each. Threw Water on Playmates Mrs. Sprague claimed that Mrs. Bordeski, would pour water on the children as they played around in the yard and that these things were done because she disliked her children. She also claimed that she had done other things as equally bad to frighten the children. Mrs. Bordeski's testimony was substantiated by a neighbor who testified that no water was thrown or attempted to be thrown on the children but they would try to frighten the children away into the street, because of the noise made by them. She also alleged that Mrs. Sprague would constantly throw large sticks to her child to hit the other children in the building, and this act was known and resented by others in the building. They were told to not show up again after being placed under a peace bond. PICKPOCKET SNATCHES PURSE FROM WOMAN AND FLEES DOWN ALLEY Woman's Screams Attracts Attention of Men Who Start Pursuit and Overtake Him Mrs. Edith Fleming of 3734 So. La Salle St., had her pocket-book rudely snatched from her arm Tuesday evening, about 8 o'clock, as she was walking to her home, by Wm. Foley. Foley walked from behind Mrs. Fleming and snatched the purse from her arm, with such force that it almost sprained her wrist. He then placed it under his arm and ran in the direction of State street. Mrs. Fleming's screams brought several persons to her rescue, and who joined in the pursuit of the fleeing man. He was chased from the street and finally ended in an alley near 37th and La Salle streets, where the pocketbook was found on him. Confesses to the Robbery Foley when caught with the goods, confessed that he snatched the pocketbook from Mrs. Fleming's arm. He was placed under arrest by Officer Olivers. The pocketbook contained eyeglasses, writing pen and money to the amount of $13.50. He was given 90 days in the House of Correction. Represented By Attorney Wm. Borton. Foley was represented by Wm. Borton, a very prominent lawyer, with offices at 4701 So. State st. Mr. Borton has a host of friends and is well thought of by every one. He has been practicing about 6 years. HIT BY "HUBBY" WITH RAZOR Wife Pleads for Mercy for Husband Denies He Intended to Cut Her With Razor Louise Evans, 18 W. 29th st., was met on the street about 2 o'clock Monday night by Officer Sutton, with blood streaming from her wrists. She stated that her husband had been fighting her and in the scramble had reached for his razor and cut her on the wrists. Before Judge Geo. B. Holmes, of the Wabash avenue Court, Mrs. Evans denied that she had been cut by her HON. F. L. BARNETT Ex-Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County. He is one of the foremost champions of the just cause of the Colored race in this city, and he is also one of its ablest lawyers. Ex-Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County. He is one of the foremost champions of the just cause of the Colored race in this city, and he is also one of its ablest lawyers. husband and that the bruises obtained had been caused by falling off the steps. Evans was fined $25.00 and costs. HELD ON CHARGES OF "TRYING TO ENTICE WOMAN AWAY FROM HUSBAND Gainer Harris, who is charged with trying to entice pretty Mrs. Jeanette Lee Johnson, who has two children, away from her husband was given a jury trial Wednesday morning before Judge Geo. B. Holmes of the Wabash avenue Court. HAD SUIT PRESSED AND CLEANED BUT ONLY PAID 50 CENTS Emil Kostos, 723 E. 39th st., put his suit in to be cleaned and pressed at Steve Mackey's pressing shop, in the same neighborhood. When the suit was delivered, would only pay 50 cents, although it was marked $1.50. Kostos alleged that he did not give an order for his suit to be cleaned but only pressed, and that it was the fault of the employees that it was cleaned. The employees claim that he not only contracted to have the suit cleaned and pressed, but knew that it would cost $1.50 to do so, and that on the delivery of the suit, Kostos drew a gun on the boy who delivered the suit, and told him to "go." The boy would not leave after being tendered 50 cents, but insisted on receiving the other dollar. Kostos was discharged. METROPOLITAN CENTER GIVES GRAND PICNIC AT DELLWOOD PARK On Monday, July 21, Metropolitan Center, under the auspices of Dr. W. D. Cook, 39th and Prairie avenue, gave a picnic at Dellwood Park, some 25 or 30 miles on the outskirts of the city. Round trip tickets were provided for those who did not have the use of automobiles for the small cost of $1.50 for the round trip. Many availed themselves of the opportunity of spending a whole day in quietness and with plenty of eats. There were plenty of baskets brimming full of chicken and cakes and all the things that would grace an affair of its kind. There were ball games, riding, jumping and many other games were introduced. Visit the Penitentiary The party after the greater part of the fun had been enjoyed, motored down to Joliet, where they were shown through the beautiful grounds and clean cells and working houses of the penitentiary. They were courteously treated by the officers and shown through all the departments. Everyone enjoyed the outing and came home tired out from the full and enjoyable day spent there. BEATS GIRL UP EVERY TIME THEY MEET IN HALLWAY Mary Jones, who resides at 29 E. 22nd st. was charged with beating and knocking Julia Brown of the same address every time they met in the hallway. Mrs. Brown carried a black eye as evidence of the assault. Miss Jones alleged that Mrs. Brown addressed her in opprobrious language and the licks only came after she had been greatly insulted. The last assault occurred Sunday night about 10:30 when the black eye was given Mrs. Brown. They were put under peace bonds of $1,000 each. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 26. 1924 HOME OF THE RED CAPS CLUB 1800 The officers and members of the RR to their many friends that in eighteen they have paid the last note on the Climal transaction was consummated on 11. The officers of the Club are: Sande 1st vice-president; S. H. Harris, 2nd vice-C. E. Hays, financial secretary; C. L. S. The Directors are: Dearborn State Northwestern Station, J. Waldron and Station, C. P. Johnson and Wyatt Edgerton The chairmen of committees are: son; Membership Committee, A. A. H. Haynes; Auditing Committee, Arthur C. Louis Johnson, Wilbur Harris, Fred D. ment Committee, C. F. Collins, C. A. mittee, F. D. Hoffman. Sergeant-at-Arms: James Ferguson The officers and members of the Red Caps' Club are pleased to announce to their many friends that in eighteen months' existence as an organization they have paid the last note on the Club House, 3441 Wabash Avenue. This final transaction was consummated on last Saturday, July 19th. The officers of the Club are: Sandy W. Trice, President; B. F. Shepard, 1st vice-president; S. H. Harris, 2nd vice-president; Otto Robinson, treasurer; C. E. Hays, financial secretary; C. L. Smith, corresponding secretary. The Directors are: Dearborn Station, L. B. Todd and B. F. Graham; Northwestern Station, J. Waldron and A. A. Henderson; Illinois Central Station, C. P. Johnson and Wyatt Edgerton. The chairmen of committees are: Housing Committee, Charles F. Johnson; Membership Committee, A. A. Henderson; Publicity Committee, M. G. Haynes; Auditing Committee, Arthur Grose; Boosting Committee, A. A. Neal, Louis Johnson, Wilbur Harris, Fred Meece and Boyd J. Atkins; Entertainment Committee, C. F. Collins, C. A. Wilkins, F. Shreve; Athletic Committee, F. D. Hoffman. Sergeant-at-Arms: James Ferguson.—SANDY W. TRICE, President. HUSBAND CUTS WIFE ON HEAD WITH RAZOR "IN PLAYING A GAME" Eugene Bradford, was cut severely on the head by her husband, Roscoe, with a razor, and sent to the County Hospital, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Bradford alleged that they were just playing and her husband did not intend to cut her. She was in court with her child, an infant, and pleaded for mercy for him, but despite the fact that they had no support except that of the husband, he was charged $25.00 and costs. MAN PLAYS "DEAF AND DUMB" Found to Be a Fluent Talker and Well Educated Roscoe Johnson, 4459 Evans avenue, was found sitting on a doorstep near 44th and Evans avenue. The people were complaining that they were afraid of Johnson and wanted him to leave the premises. He paid no attention to their entreaties. Officer Oliver was called upon and asked to oust him. When he approached the man, and talked to him, he failed to answer and he thereupon communicated with him in writing. He told him the people were afraid of him and wanted him to leave. Johnson wrote back, "they are not very highly educated if they are afraid of me." Landlady Says he Talks - Well Johnson's landlady says that Johnson was talking a week ago. That he failed to pay his room rent and she put him out, thereupon he became deaf and dumb. He steadfastly refused to talk in court. He was sent to the Bridewell for six months. ARRESTED IN SCANTY CLOTHING Nora Carter, address unknown, was arrested Tuesday morning, between the hours of 1 and 1:30, near 39th and Prairie avenue, dressed in clothing which would be better called night attire than street clothes. She was wandering aimlessly around and seemed to not realize that she was on the streets of Chicago. When questioned was unable to tell where she was going. She was discharged. TOOK LAUNDRY BUT NEVER RETURNED WITH MONEY Claiming that he would return soon, with the money, Will Lacey, the manager of a laundry at 31st and Federal streets, allowed Taylor Jones to take his clothes away from his laundry. Jones was not seen again until Monday evening, when he was seen out driving with his wife. Mrs. Evelyn Robinson, of Philadelphia, Pa., the intelligent and sensible daughter of our boyhood days friend, Willima H. Dorsey, who for a number of years was successfully engaged in the catering business in the Quaker city, has been visiting in this city the past three weeks, stopping at 4526 Prairie avenue. Mrs. Robinson has been taking advanced instructions in Social Service work at the Community Center, Thirty-second street and Wabash avenue. She will depart for her home in the east next week with the best wishes of her many friends in Chicago. ```markdown ``` Red Caps' Club are pleased to announce months' existence as an organization Club House, 3441 Wabash Avenue. This last Saturday, July 19th. By W. Trice, President; B. F. Shepard, e-president; Otho Robinson, treasurer; Smith, corresponding secretary. T, L. B. Todd and B. F. Graham; A. A. Henderson; Illinois Central Stan- Housing Committee, Charles F. John- enderson; Publicity Committee, M. G. Rose; Boosting Committee, A. A. Neal, Mece and Boyd J. Atkins; Entertain- Wilkins, F. F. Shreve; Athletic Com- —SANDY W. TRICE, President. A. M. E'S. TO BUILD BIG OFFICE BUILDING Philadelphia, Pa.—A big office building and publishing house to cost approximately $200,000 will be built in Philadelphia by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which will house the Book Concern, the Christian Recorder, The A. M. E. Review, The Missionary Department and the Church Extension Department. Plans have already been drawn by one of the leading architects of the race, and the site has been purchased and a bond issue is being floated. This will be a great advance step for Negro business in the city of Philadelphia. The direction of the building is directly under the Publication Board of the A. M. E. Church of which Bishop W. H. Heard is president, Rev. I. S. Jacobs of Boston, Mass., Secretary, Rev. D. M. Baxter, Business Manager, R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, J. G. Robinson, editor of the A. M. E. Review, Revs. M. H. Davis, J. M. Gilmore, I. H. Ringgold, Messrs. Jas. W. Calwell, Armstead Rollins and W. G. Overton. CATHOLICS WILL HELP THE COLORED BRETHREN That the Catholic Church is interested in the welfare of the Colored people who come to the large urban centers is shown by a special reverence to the colored "brethren" in an address made by the President of the Catholic Union of Mo., at Kansas City recently in which he said "Owing to the increase of the number of Negroes, especially in our large centers of population, we deem it opportune that the Catholics should interest themselves in the welfare of the colored brethren. We recommend every available means be employed to further the spiritual welfare of our colored brethren. "The constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience and freedom of worship to all citizens, regardless of creed, race or nationality. "Tolerance and brothely love are cardinal principles of the Catholic Church. "We therefore condemn all efforts that are now being made discriminating against our fellow-citizens on religious grounds as un-Christian and un-American." JOHN B. PIERCE IS HONORED Mampton, Va.-John B. Pierce of Hampton Institute, field agent of extension work in agriculture and home economics among Negroes in eight Southern States-Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia—was recently given the honorary degree of master of science in agriculture at the annual commencement exercises of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College at Orangeburg, S. C. He also received recently from the county and home demonstration agents of Virginia a gold medal for his unselfish and meritorious service. He is a graduate of Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes. "Veins of Wealth" As Ruskin tells us: "The veins of wealth are not the veins of gold and silver in the earth, but the veins of rich, red blood in the bodies of youth." TEACHERS BECOME COMMUNITY LEADERS, SAYS, DR. R. R. MOTON Hampton, Va.—Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, who was graduated from Hampton Institute in 1890, in a recent address to the 700 members of the Hampton Institute summer school on "The Hopeful Aspects of Negro Education," stated that teachers are coming into positions of leadership. "Leaders of the Negro race," he said, "ought to impress upon Negro youth and adults the optimistic, hopeful side of life. They should keep in mind, not the bad but the good, not the hopeless but the hopeful, not what Negroes cannot do but what they can do. Any race's place is the place that that race fills. Human beings must be treated as human beings wherever they are found and wherever they come from. "The thirst on the part of the average Negro for education is growing. The sentiment for Negro education among whites has increased in the same proportion as the sentiment for education has increased among Negroes. There is an increasing respect on the part of the average Southern white person for the Negro. We must set our faces against all insincerity and immorality. We shall succeed because we shall work patiently and faithfully. EARLY DAYS AT HAMPTON SHOWN AT PAGEANT Hampton, Va.-Historic scenes at Hampton Institute were presented on Independence Day by a large number of summer-school and Institute students in a pageant, "Education in the Early Days." Young Armstrong was shown at work for his education before the printing press, while a chorus sang, "Go Down Moses." An old couple listened to a white child read, while they and others joined in singing, "I Know I Would Like to Read." Colored soldiers, returning home, were greeted by their friends, who sang, "Warrior, Stay in the Field." Women brought in the refugees to the Freedmen's Bureau, while the chorus sang, "Oh, My Brother, Did You Come for to Help Me?" The first school for "Contrabands" was shown in action, while softly many voices sang, "Steal Away, I Ain't Got Long to Stay Here." Hampton Institute in 1868, with two teachers and fifteen students, did not dampen the ardor of those who sang, "We Are Climbin' Higher and Higher." The lure of umbrellas for young people in the early Hampton days was emphasized by the song, "There's a Little Wheel a-Turnin' in My Heart." Hampton "Jubilee Singers" at work in the North, under the leadership of General Armstrong, joined in singing "Oh, Rise and Shine," Booker T. Washington, as teacher of the "Plucky Class," was thrown against a background of "Little Liza Jane." In the closing scene there was shown Hampton's "Girdle Around the World"—twelve nationalities sent out from Hampton. The chorus sang, "From All That Dwell Beneath the Skies." WELFARE CLUB BREAKS GROUND FOR HOME The Women's Welfare Club of Morgan Park, Ill., of which Mrs. Lilly Basey is president, Mrs. Gertrude Lambkins-Walker, secretary, Mrs. Dora Gericks, treasurer, broke ground in Morgan Park Sunday for the erecting of a building in which women and girls will be looked after. The building will be situated near the corner of 111th and Bishop sts. Mrs. D. Lillian Adams was mistress of ceremonies. In addition to the president, the speakers were Rev. B. H. Lucas, pastor of Arnett A. M. E. Church, M. T. Bailey, 3638 State st., of the Bailey Press Bureau and B. A. Patten. GOES TO CLEVELAND, OHIO Mme. Annette White Broadice was one of the delegates who left for Cleveland, Ohio to attend the National Association of Musicians from the Nathaniel Dett Music Club. Mme. Braodice will be a soloist for the National Federation of Colored Women, whose club will meet in Chicago in August. THE STREETERS IN MICHIGAN Mrs. W. W. Streeteer and her younger daughters, Georgia and Gloria, 8828 Indiana ave, will spend the remainder of the vacation season at Idlewild at their summer cottage, "The Edwina." JOYLAND PARK, THIRTY-THIRD STREET AND SOUTH WABASH AVENUE, CONTINUES TO DO A THRIVING OR BOOMING BUSINESS THESE PLEASANT WARM EVENINGS. JOYLAND Chicago's Wonder Amusement Park Rides, Shows, Games, Music, Dancing, Roller Skating Now Open for the Season Pep—Pleasure—Joy—Jazz—Fun—Frolic Bigger and Better Than Ever Admission 10 Cents 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue Joyland Park, located at 33rd street and South Wabash avenue, is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) fully paid up. Its incorporators are five persons whose names are: A. L. Williams, President; James T. Copper, Secretary; Richard Spriggs, Treasurer; George W. Williams and Wallace L. Johnson. This institution is one that is deserving the hearty support of the people on the South Side, being operated exclusively by the race. When one visits this institution, they do not know it was the brains of the race, because it is one of the most beautiful parks of it size in the country. It is lighted as brightly as daylight. Within its borders there is a skating rink, 100x60 feet, dance hall, 60x40 feet, beautiful concessions of all descriptions, Rides, Ferris Wheel, Merry-go-round, Whip, Plant Shows and other attractions. There are more than seventy-five employees both men and women who are obtaining their daily livelihood as a result of said park. This alone should encourage all well thinking people of the race to patronize this Institution in preference to other amusements of a like kind, and especially so when one thinks of the discrimination we are having on account of our color. We need more business of this kind among the race, but those of us who cannot see our way clear to make the world safe for the race by investing our own means in such an Institution, should visit Joyland Park, so that they can see for IN CITY ON VACATION J. Smedlar of Shreveport, La., is spending a portion of his vacation visiting his brother, M. Smedlar, 719 E. 48th st., and before returning to Louisiana, will visit his mother and sisters in Detroit, Mich., Duluth, Minn., and San Francisco, Ca., and then return to the sunny South. VISITING FRIENDS Miss Alberta E. Frye and niece, Margaret Randall of Columbus, Ga. are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCaskey of Evanston, Ill. Miss Frye is a registered student in the college of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University. Col. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger to Mayor William E. Dever, will leave the city tomorrow morning on the lightening express train, over the B. & O. for Baltimore, Md., Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, Pa., New York City, N. Y., and Atlantic City, N. J. He will cut a wide swath on a two weeks' vacation trip through the east. themselves the possibilities that are lying dormant in Chicago for the want of progressive thought and activity. The decorum in this Park is surprising. As you enter the gate, you will find Policemen in uniform keeping order and protecting the welfare of its patrons. Beautiful young ladies at the several ticket boxes. They are always polite and accommodating; also the ladies and men at the different concessions, making it pleasant for the visitors, and throughout the entire Park, you will find a pleasing personality as one would expect in any place of amusement. The management invites Organizations, Clubs and Fraternal Societies to hold their functions at Joyland Park in the future for they expect these organizations to enjoy the benefits of said Park. They are preparing to have a Bathing Beauty Contest beginning the second week in August, where there will be an elimination of the most beautiful ladies in bathing suits, and the prize winner will be selected for the National Colored Bathing Beauty Contest to be held in Atlantic City the latter part of August. On the 30th, 31st day of July and the 1st day of August, the Elks will hold a Carnival in said Park, and many other attractions are expected at Joyland Park in which it is hoped that the general public will take a more active part in patronizing this Institution instead of going to places where they are not wanted, and also to places where they receive your money and use it among people who will not employ our group-"C." Victory Over One's Self You may talk of Gettysburg's "Bloody Angle" or Waterloo's Sunken Road, but in every man's life there is no battle more severe, and no victory more honorable than when a man fights with himself and wins the victory. Victory over one's self is the greatest feat in the world! and surely he who cannot control himself cannot control other people.—Exchange First Trip to Australia The first authenticated voyage to Australia was made by the Dutch in 1606. It is believed, however, that the country was visited by the French prior to this date, though there are no actual records. The first important explorations were made by Captain Cook, who visited the country in 1770. No Use Ned—"Well, what did she say when you proposed to her?" John—"I didn't propose Before I got a chance she told me she loved Emerson, Longfellow and Poe, and what chance did I have with a girl who was in love with three other fellows?"—Dallas News. Respect the Truth Respect the truth. Be true. There is no conscience, there is no noble life, there is no capacity for sacrifice where there is not a religious, a rigid, and a rigorous respect for truth. Strive, then, to fulfill this difficult duty. Untruth corrupts whoever makes use of it before it overcomes him against whom it is used. Hot Radio-Active Water Furnished by the Government For All Baths. Sanitarium has 10 Rooms, Diet and Operating Rooms Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone, Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. Rates $1 to $3 per day BATH RATES: 21 Baths . . . $13.00-10 Baths . . . $6.50 21 Baths to Pythians and Calantheans, $8.50 All Admire Her Lovely Hair Few people who meet this beautiful girl know how she obtained the gloriously lovely hair that now her admired by all who see her. She says it was Ereleento Quinine Pomade that rid her scrap of all dandruff and made her hair grow long, sky blue. She also made her hair fairly glow with life and gave it a pretty, glossy sheen. She was so delighted with Exelento Quinine Pomade, she tried Exelento Skin Beautifier for sailow complexions and skin blemishes. She had used this remarkable cream before and now she began complimenting her on her clear skin and improved appearance. Anyone who wants lovely hair and a beautiful complexion should immediately purchase Exelento Quinine Pomade and Exelento Skin Beautifier. They can be obtained at 25% each from nearly all drug stores, or will be sent postpaid upon receipt of price by the EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS WANTED EVERWHERE Write For Particulars OFFICE TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 6351 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law 204 East-35th Street Chicago Corner Indiana Ave., Second Floor Res., 3644 Grand Boul. Tel. Douglas 4397 Hot Radio-Active Water Furni For All Baths. Sanitarium has 10 Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone Water in Every Room. Rate BATH RA Try This Yourself "When a man is trying to catch your eye and interest you," says Fenwick, "and you don't want to be interested, all you have to do is te look with both your eyes straight at the bridge of his nose. Then he can never hook you. But if you want to hook the other fellow, look with both your eyes into just one of his. This simple little trick has relieved me of many terrors of self-consciousness and embarrassment." -George Allan England. A Young Wag. Father was explaining a not unusual winter sight. "You see, my son, the water in the river is so much warmer than the air that the vapor rises from it." "I guess," said Johnny, "Td be warm, if, if I'd run as far as that river has."—Boston Transcript. The Worst Way Him (over way)—"I want to see you in the worst way, dear. Her (over way)—"Well"I usually get up around 10 a. m."—New York Medley. Long Road Back. Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.—Colton. Unsatisfaction Babel was a meeting pot, and the results were rather unsatisfactory in that case. W. G. Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. Office Phones: Dearborn 7694-7695 Res. 3364 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6045 Pythian Bath House and Sanitarium Knights of Pythias of N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. (Operating Under Supervision of U. S. Government) 415 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Malvern Avenue Hot Springs Nat. Park, Ark. Furnished by the Government 10 Rooms, Diet and Operating Rooms Phone, Hot and Cold Running rates $1 to $3 per day RATES: 10 Baths . . . . $6.50 and Calantheans, $8.50 PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer HED 1877 I. DUNN L CO. Oakland 1550 CHICAGO RESOURCES and Discounts.....$1,880,722.36 vested and approved by Board of Directors.) and Securities.....1,152,140.82 bills and James.....145,219.08 furniture and Fixtures.....20,761.69 on hand and due from ks.....481,149.51 Resources.....87,105.09 al.....$3,725,899.45 LIABILITIES Al Stock.....$ 400,000.00 issued.....50,000.00 ded Profits.....34,114.55 paid for Taxes and In- set.....17,140.39 Liabilities.....40,028.37 SITS.....3,184,616.14 al.....$3,725,899.45 THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 26, 1924 ERNEST WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER Quality Service Reasonable Prices Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night HIGH CLASS FLEET OF Cunningham CARS FOR ALL OCCAISIONS KENWOOD 0455 5121-23-25. SOUTH STATE STREET Damage by Porcupines Many of the trees on the sample plots in the Cocconino National forest which have been studied for a number of years by the Fort Valley forest experiment station have been entirely destroyed by porcupines and many more are reported injured, announces the forest service, United States Department of Agriculture. It is believed that porcupines are making the establishment of Western yellow pine throughout the forests of the Southwest considerably more difficult. Because of the moisture content of the bark, porcupines are very fond of this succulent growth and appear to take great delight in stripping the bark from young trees in their search for food and moisture. Many Theories as to the Creation of Woman Woman's first appearance has been a popular subject of legends. The Phoenician myth of creation is found in the story of Pygmalian and Galatea. There the first woman was carved out of ivory by the first man, and then endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Greek theory of the creation of woman, according to Hesilod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan to make woman out of clay, and then induced the various gods and goddesses to invest the clay doll with all their worst qualities, the result being a lovely thing, with a witchery of men, refined craft, eager passion, love of dress, treacherous manners and shameless mind. The Scandinavians say that as Odin, Vill and Ve, the three sons of Bor, were walking along the sea beach, they found two sticks of wood, one of ash and one of elm. Sitting down, the gods shaped man and woman out of these sticks, whittling the woman from the elm and calling her Emia. One of the strangest stories concerning the origin of woman is told by the Madagascarenes. In so far as the creation of men goes, the legend is not unlike that related by Moses, only that the fall came before Eve had arrived. After the man had eaten the forbidden fruit he became affected with a boll on the leg, out of which, when it burst, came a beautiful girl. The man's first thought was to throw her to the pigs; but he was commanded by a messenger from heaven to let her play among the grass and flowers until she was of marriageable age, then to make her his wife. He did so, called her Baboura, and she became the mother of all races of men. The American Indian myths relating to Adam and Eve are numerous and entertaining. Some traditions trace back our first parents to white and red maize; another is that man, searching for a wife, was given the daughter of the king of the muskrats, who, on being dipped into the waters of a neighboring lake, became a woman. No Pure Guaranis Left While there are plenty of wild Indians in parts of Paraguay, no living man ever saw a pure-blooded Guarani. Inhabiting the alluvial and easily accessible sections, they were conquered and assimilated by the Spanish centuries ago, ceasing to exist as a separate people. The common people of Paraguay, however, speak Guarani more readily than Spanish and nearly all place names are in the language. It is a very simple tongue with a total vocabulary of less than 800 words. The only numerals are 1, 2, 3 and 4. Cleanliness is a virtue of the Guarana. No matter how ragged and dilapidated a Paraguayan peon may be his clothes and his person are clean. That he was not unskilled in certain artistic crafts is shown by the exquisite nudity duty, peculiar to Paraguay, the most sheer, cobweby, delicately beautiful thing of its kind in all the world. The art of making it has been lost.-Detroit News. The Inside Maude—What a beautiful new gown Helen is wearing. She says it's imported, doesn't she? Meire—Not exactly. It's her last season's dress. The dressmaker has turned it inside out, and now she says it's from the other side.—Pausing Show, London. Something Wrong Proud Father—Well, Tommy, what do you think of your new bouncing brother? Tommy—Something's the matter with him, paw, I dropped him as hard as I could on the floor but he wouldn't bounce. Radio on Delivery Trucsk A Philadelphia bakery has installed receiving sets on its delivery trucks. The driver wears his phones at stated intervals and picks up instructions from his manager, and thus makes calls that he otherwise would not be able to make without telephoning and taking extra time. Each truck owned by the company is outfitted with an aerial and receiving set and with a little knowledge of conditions in the city and routes of the various trucks the manager has no difficulty in getting into constant touch with his drivers. New Aerial Bomb Powerful New Aerial Bomb Powerful Capable of making a crater 150 feet in diameter where it strikes, a new aerial bomb, ten times as large as any used in the World war, has been perfected by the United States ordinance department and was recently placed on exhibition as showing the aerial war devices used in 1917 and 1918 are already obsolete. It weighs 4,000 pounds and is designed to be carried in a bombing plane. 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 Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4751 Champlain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO An Ancient Anesthetic In prehistoric times, Zunis and other tribes of North American Indians used a substance obtained from the jimson weed as an anesthetic during surgical operations. Some Exposure Perhaps if the subterfuges of the whole world were exposed simultaneously, after the first shock, there would be a great sheepish laugh. JOHN BAIN President MICHAEL MAISEL Vice-President EDW, C. BAREY Vice-Pres. and Cashier W. MERLE FISHER Asst. Cash. and Trust Officer Asst. Cashier CARL O. SEBERG Asst. Cashier N. E. Corner 63rd and Marshfield Ave., Chicago, Ill. Telephone Republic 5000 Capital and Surplus $700,000.00 Affiliated Member Chicago Clearing House Ass'n. Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. Corner 31st Street, Chicago The Commonwealth Edison Company Chas. Krutckoff, Pres. Hugh Norris, Treas. J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. Kirby Ward, Secy. Telephone Calumet 805 Norris-Ward Coal Co. YARDS AT 26th St. and South Park, I. 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