The Broad Ax

Hon. William E. Dever, Mayor of Chicago, Freely Predicts That the Enemies of the New Traction Ordinance are on the Dead Run-That the Majority of the People of this City Will Vote in Favor of its Adoption Tuesday April 7 SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXX. Hon. Willi That the E Dead Run- Vot h. William at the Ene d Run—T Vote i 17-12-2022 HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER Mayor of Chicago, who is working hard for the new traction ordinance which will meet wit of the majority of voters in this city on Tu ago, who is working hard for the an ordinance which will meet with pority of voters in this city on Tu Mayor of Chicago, who is working hard for the adoption of the new traction ordinance which will meet with the approval of the majority of voters in this city on Tuesday, April 7. Hon. Dennis J. Egan, who is one of the most prominent citizens on the West side, who has honestly served in the past as chief clerk of the Board of Election Commissioners and as Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago, is solidly regaining his health again and he is now able to run in and out of his home at 645 W. Eighteenth street, like a young school boy. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 4536 Calumet avenue; is spending a pleasant two weeks vacation trip at Hot Springs Ark., where she is enjoying the warm bright sunshiny days. Hon. and Mrs. John G. Drennan, and the other members of their family, have removed from their old home, 5510 Hyde Park boulevard, into their new and elegant home at 6840 South Shore Drive. Mrs. Mitchell Hyde entertained the Royal Sixteen Whist Club on Friday afternoon—March 27th—at her residence, 4235 St. Lawrence Avenue—with a delicious luncheon and whist. Mrs. Mitchell Hyde, Pres.; Myra Williams, Secty. and Allene Beasley, Reporter. SPECIAL NOTICE The review of the pleasure trip of Julius F. Taylor, through the east will not be resumed until next week. will not THE NEW YORK TIMES [Name] Highly honored member of the City Council Fourth Ward; the able Chairman of its Co. Transportation, who continues to work improve the street car system in every w and member of the City Council ward; the able Chairman of its Com- tition, who continues to work h the street car system in every way Highly honored member of the City Council from the new Fourth Ward; the able Chairman of its Committee on Local Transportation, who continues to work hard to greatly improve the street car system in every way in this city. ing hard for the adoption of the ch will meet with the approval this city on Tuesday, April 7. and the other members of their family, have removed from their old home, 5510 Hyde Park boulevard, into their new and elegant home at 6840 South Shore Drive. Mrs. Mitchell Hyde entertained the Royal Sixteen Whist Club on Friday afternoon—March 27th—at her residence, 4235 St. Lawrence Avenue—with a delicious luncheon and whist. Mrs. Mitchell Hyde, Pres.; Myra Williams, Secy. and Allene Beasley, Reporter. SPECIAL NOTICE The review of the pleasure trip of Julius F. Taylor, through the east will not be resumed until next week THE HISTORY OF THE UNION The City Council from the new man of its Committee on Local issues to work hard to greatly im in every way in this city. THE BROAD AX Great Meeting Held at the Wendell Phillips High School March 29, in Favor of the New Traction Ordinance. It was Eloquently Addressed by Hon. C. M. Doty, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, in Behalf of Mayor William E. Dever. Hon. Walter M. Farmer, One of the Leading Afro-American Lawyers in Chicago and Major Adam E. Patterson, Loudly Sounded the Praises of Mayor Dever. Rev. W.D.Cook, the Honest and Popular Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Center Church Declared, That the Lord is on the Side of Mayor Dever and That He Will Assist to Uphold His Hands, Tuesday, April 7th. Last Sunday evening a great meeting was held at the Wendell Phillips High School, Metropolitan Community Center Church, Rev. W. D. Cook pastor. The wonderful meeting was held in favor of the adoption of the new City Traction Ordinance which will be voted for on Tuesday, April 7. Not less than twenty-five hundred of the best thinking, property holding and tax-paying class of colored men and women were in evidence. It had been almost exclusively announced in the columns of this newspaper, that Hon. William E. Dever, the history making mayor of Chicago would be present and deliver his set and convincing oration in favor of the new city Traction Ordinance, hence the great army of people were present to greet him, but owing to the fact that Mayor Dever had caught such a bad cold and had a frightful sore throat, that his Doctor had bluntly informed him that he must stay at home for two days and if he failed to do so that he would have him carted off to the hospital and order him locked up in a room for one or two days. That was the main or the chief reason why Mayor Dever was unable to be present on that occasion. Hon. Walter M. Farmer had been selected to present Mayor Dever to the great audience and his eloquent remarks in relation to the chief executive of this city appears in another column of this newspaper and instead of presenting Mayor Dever to the great number of people present who were eager to hear His Honor on the new City Traction Ordinance, Mr. Farmer introduced Major Adam E. Patterson, Assistant Corporation Council of Chicago who in well chosen words which appear in another column of this newspaper presented Hon. C. M. Doty also Assistant Corporation Council of Chicago, who delivered an able, logical and very brilliant oration on the all important Traction question and the proposed new Traction Ordinance in behalf of Hon. William E. Dever, mayor of Chicago. Mr. Doty who is a very forceful or convincing speaker and expresses his ideas in plain and simple words so that it is very easy for anyone possessing one tenth part of an ounce of brains to understand him and drink in every word which falls from his eloquent lips and after paying a high tribute to Mayor William E. Dever and to his honesty of purpose and so on his uniting labors for the best interest of all the people residing in the great city of Chicago and after THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 4, 1925 paying his highest respects to Rev. W. D. Cook, the honest, straightforward and eloquent Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Center Church, and heartily thanking him for permitting him to stand in his presence and in the presence of his vast congregation in behalf of His Hon. Mayor William E. Dever; Mr. Doty spoke in part as follows. Oration of Hon. C. M. Doty on the All Important Traction Question "It is a pleasure for me to come before this meeting and discuss this traction ordinance. "One of the criticisms leveled against the ordinance is that it is a long ordinance, that it is a complicated ordinance, that it is an involved ordinance, and I am willing to plead guilty to every one of those specifications, with just this offered by way of defense, that the problem itself is an intensely complicated problem, and it is necessarily an involved problem and a solution or an approximate solution, or as near a solution as you can get to that problem must necessarily be somewhat complicated. As a matter of fact, the first nine pages of the printed booklet cover everything there is really about the ordinance; the balance of it is taken up with a description of the form of trust deed and with an inventory of the properties of the different companies that are being taken over. And, of course, when you are dealing with an ordinance of this sort you are dealing with a contract which is going to have a far reaching effect and be of great consequence to many different interests and the city particularly, and it is important that everything should be drawn with the utmost care and the greatest nicety. "There are certain fundamentals, however, upon which this ordinance and this structure is built and which are comparatively simple and about which there need be no confusion. "Before taking up the details of the ordinance, however, it is well to spend just a moment or two in a statement of the situation that we are in at the present time, as far as the traction question is concerned, because if you understand the situation we are trying to meet, you will have, I think, a better understanding of the ordinance. And I hope to convince you of its necessity and perhaps that it is the only way by which the necessities of the occasion can be met. "You are all familiar, of course, with the fact that the City of Chicago as a municipality, is not an independent self-governing body. We have just such powers as a city as are granted to us by the Legislature. And it is rather a case of 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.' The Legislature may give us a grant of power at this session of the Legislature and may take it away from us at the next session of the Legislature, and until we have something in the nature of a definite charter or home rule guaranteed to us by a constitution we are going to remain in pretty much the same plight. The City of Chicago has its definite limitations as to just what it can do and just what it can't do. The State of Illinois is likewise limited by a constitution that is archaic, which has long since outgrown its usefulness and its applicability to a state such as the State of Illinois is at the present time. It was passed to meet conditions as they existed in the year 1870 and not to meet conditions as they present themselves in the year 1925. "Now, what are those limitations as applied to our traction situation? In the first place I want to discuss with you the possibility of settling the traction question on some other basis than the basis under which it has been settled in this ordinance or attempted to be settled. "What is the necessity of a settlement? The necessity of a settlement is just this: The present ordinances under which the Surface Lines are operating expire in 1927, in February. The Elevated franchises were granted at different times for different strips of roads and some short pieces expire as early as 1930, I believe, and running from then to 1944, the major expirations coming along in 1942 and 1944,—the franchises of the entire South Side system expire in 1938. There isn't the urgency in the way of doing something, as far as the Elevated Lines are concerned that applies to the Surface Lines. But the franchises are expiring, as far as the Surface Lines are concerned, in 1927. "There is one figure that it might be well to bear in mind because the relative bearing and proportion between your Surface Lines and your Elevated Lines is important. Eighty per cent of your passengers, roughly speaking, are carried on the Surface Lines; twenty per cent of your passengers are carried on the Elevated Lines. That will do for a rough division. You have to take out about two and a half per cent to allow for the buses. But that, for rough figures, will give you the relative line-up as far as transportation is concerned reely Pred nce are on this City W April 7 The able and far-seeing Corporation Counsel of reflects great credit on Mayor William E. Deministration who has led a successful fight adoption of the new Traction Ordinance, Tu and far-seeing Corporation Counsel of great credit on Mayor William E. Deveion who has led a successful fight in of the new Traction Ordinance, Tues The able and far-seeing Corporation Counsel of Chicago, who reflects great credit on Mayor William E. Dever and his administration who has led a successful fight in favor of the adoption of the new Traction Ordinance, Tuesday, April 7. Eighty per cent of your car riders are carried on the surface lines and twenty per cent on the elevated lines. So that when you say the surface lines' franchises are expiring in 1927 you are dealing with the major portion of your problem as your problem is physically presented now. "In 1927, when these franchises expire under their terms the city has an option. The city has the option to purchase for cash the properties of the Surface Lines at the so-called capital account value. We can do that or we can throw them off the street and tear up their tracks and stop trans- portation. Of course, nobody seriously contemplates for a moment that we are going to do anything of that sort. It will be just as necessary for people to get down to their offices and factories and shops on the 2nd day of February as it was on the 1st day of February or the 31st day of January. "Not only do the franchises expire at that time but all of the financing that has been done by the Surface lines has been done with the idea of having the several and separate obligations of the companies, which are in excess, as a matter of fact, of the cap (Continued on Page 2) ```markdown ``` M. J. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. Member of the City Council from the new 32nd will be re-elected to it on Tuesday, April 7th. votes right on all public questions. Hon. P. his hosts of other friends will manfully work success at the polls. (Story on Page 3) the City Council from the new 32nd are-elected to it on Tuesday, April 7th. Right on all public questions. Hon. P. A. of other friends will manfully work at the polls. (Story on Page 3) Member of the City Council from the new 32nd Ward, who will be re-elected to it on Tuesday, April 7th. He always votes right on all public questions. Hon. P. A. Nash and his hosts of other friends will manfully work hard for his success at the polls. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX y Predicts are on the s City Will il 7 Corporation Counsel of Chicago, who is Mayor William E. Dever and his added a successful fight in favor of the Traction Ordinance, Tuesday, April 7. ders are twenty es. So e lines' you are of your physically uses ex has an aition to of the capital that or meet and portation. Of course, nobody seriously contemplates for a moment that we are going to do anything of that sort. It will be just as necessary for people to get down to their offices and factories and shops on the 2nd day of February as it was on the 1st day of February or the 31st day of January. "Not only do the franchises expire at that time but all of the financing that has been done by the Surface lines has been done with the idea of having the several and separate obligations of the companies, which are in excess, as a matter of fact, of the cap- (Continued on Page 2) Irishman council from the new 32nd Ward, who sit on Tuesday, April 7th. He always public questions. Hon. P. A. Nash and ends will manfully work hard for his Story on Page 3) [Name] HON. JAMES G. COTTER Assistant United States District Attorney James G. Cotter continues to make good as a prosecutor for Uncle Sam in the Federal Building. Within the last few months the daily papers have published reports of cases successfully handled by him in the Federal Building from time to time. Among the most notable cases handled by Mr. Cotter are the Leo Koretz case, where the government claimed $753,000, as income taxes, but was later withdrawn upon discovery that Koretz's income was derived from the money alleged to be embezzled. Mr. Cotter states that the government, however, has its eye on other funds in the estate against which a tax may be collected. All criminal extradition, habeas corpus and removal cases are assigned to Mr. Cotter for prosecution. Among the most notable of these cases is the United States versus National Malleable Iron and Steel Castings Company, where 49 big iron and steel corporations and 52 individuals were indicted at Cleveland, Ohio, charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Four of these individuals and corporations reside in the Northern District of Illinois. The indictment charges that they entered into a combination in restraint of trade, in order to control the prices of iron and steel. Mr. Cotter started extradition proceedings before the United States Commissioner. After a legal battle lasting ten days, the Commissioner ruled against the government and discharged defendants. Attorney Cotter then took the case to a higher court and Judge Evans held with the government and overruled the Commissioner, thereby supporting the contentions and points of law raised by Mr. Cotter. The case is now in the MAYWOOD HIGH PETTING CLUBS BARED IN COURT Maywood high school girls' and boys' petting and drinking parties and their more serious misbehavior in the back rooms of stores and ice cream parlors in the school neighborhood were disclosed a few days ago in Police Magistrate George W. Carr's court when Eric Gustaf Gilgasch, store owner at 522 Lake Street, Maywood, was tried and fined $200 and costs. One 17 year old girl told the court she was intimate with Gilgasch and four high school boys on the same day. Another, 15 years old, gave particulars of petting parties in several places near the school. Chief of Police E. H. Dudley was incensed at the testimony. "I am going to clean this stuff up," he said. "They tell me there are a number of such places in Maywood." If Chief Dudley can clean that stuff up he can beat all the police on earth, for it is natural for men and women, both young and old to make love to each other and they will continue to do so until the end of time—Editor. United States Supreme Court at Washington on appeal from Judge Evans' decision. Last week Mr. Cotter filed a motion to dismiss and he will be called to Washington shortly to argue the case. Another very important extradition case recently won by Mr. Cotter was the celebrated case of the United States versus Harry E. Thompson, et al. Six men were indicted in Indianapolis, Indiana, for a conspiracy to steal merchandise from interstate shipments of freight shipped over the New York Central, the Santa Fe and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. The shipper in this case was B. Kuppenheimer & Company, one of the largest men's clothiers in the world. Three of these defendants live in Chicago, and the district attorney started proceedings for their removal to Indianapolis. After a bitter battle lasting five days in which some of the most prominent lawyers in Chicago defended the three, Mr. Cotter won his case and the court ordered these defendants removed to Indianapolis for trial. Attorney Cotter has been assigned to represent in numerous cases the Attorney General of the United States, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the United States Shipping Board, the Secretary of War, the post office department, the Collector of Internal Revenue, and the Collector of Customs. The appointment of Mr. Cotter was the result of interest taken by Congressman Martin B. Madden, of the First Congressional District of Illinois. He has lived in Chicago for 22 years, owns real estate and belongs to many organizations. He has never refused to lend a helping hand to those who have sought his advice and assistance. His friends are legion. TRY TO END SUIT OF RHINE LANDERS WITHOUT A TRIAL New Rochelle, N. Y.-An effort is being made, it became known here, to settle out of court the marriage annulment suit brought by Leonard Kip Rhinelander, member of a wealthy New York family, against Mrs. Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander on the ground of her alleged negro blood. Judge Samuel's Winburn, counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander, it was learned, has received affidavits from England stating that Mrs. Rhinelander is not of Negro blood. The whereabouts of Rhinelander are not known. He has been out of the state for several weeks. HARRY C. SMITH OF CLEVE LAND GAZETTE. ON WILBER FORCE UNIVERSITY BOARI Cleveland, Ohio—Two new trustees were appointed by Governor Donahey to Wilberforce University. They were Captain W. S. Commers of Columbus, Ohio, for the term expiring June 30, 1928; Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland Gazette for term ending June 30, 1929; Joseph L. Johnson, former minister to Liberia (Democrat) was re-appointed for the term ending June 30, 1930. Mr. Smith succeeds Sully James, Attorney at Law, who was chairman of the board. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 4, 1925 Mayor William E. Dever Predicts the Adoption of the Traction Ordinance, Tuesday, April 7th (Continued from Page 1) ital account to the amount of some four or five millions of dollars, all mature February 1, 1927. So that at that time you have a double situation: You have the situation that the Surface Lines have to deal with the city on some sort of a daily franchise or a permit by sufferance or the extension of a franchise or some other arrangement by which they can go on operating, either under a temporary settlement or permanent settlement; and you have the companies faced with the proposition of about $167,000,000 worth of obligations maturing at that time, which will have to be paid either in cash, and that is impossible because there is no cash with which to pay them—or be paid by refinancing arrangements, by issuing other securities in their place and by refinancing the properties. "I want to take up with you first the possibility of going on under something of the same arrangement that the city and the companies have had during the last twenty years," the last eighteen years, and I think without going into details, by two or three observations I can convince you that you must look elsewhere for a solution than in a suggested continuance of the present arrangements. "In the first place, the law limits the duration of a private franchise to twenty years. We cannot under the law of Illinois, grant a franchise for a longer period than twenty years, and all of the people who are interested in the traction properties, bankers, managers, operators, with one single exception, are unanimous in saying that it would be impossible to finance on a twenty-year franchise. In other words, they say that in February, 1927, if the city were willing to say "We will write this contract for another twenty years and carry it on for another twenty years," that with this $167,000,000 of obligations maturing at that time they would be unable on the mere security of a twenty-year franchise to go out and refinance the properties; that is to say, they would be unable to get $167,000,000 worth of new money under some new form of bonds either at five per cent or a greater rate of interest and with the moneys that they would derive from the new issue take up the old issue, or to exchange new securities for the old. It would not be possible to exchange the old securities for the new securities, we are told, and I believe that is true. It could only be worked out after very extensive reorganization planning that would require a permanent receivership and a lot of other things. "Of course when these bonds come due, the first mortgage bonds particularly, the property is an ample security for the first mortgage bonds, and there is no reason why, if some other arrangement is not made, the holders of those first mortgage bonds cannot come in and bring a foreclosure suit, the same as you would if you had a mortgage on a house that fell due and was not paid, and on the theory of a diversity of citizenship, stockholders in different states would go into the Federal Court, as they have always done, and have a Federal Court receivership, and I am perfectly willing to go on record from experience as a lawyer observing that sort of management of property in saying that it is the most unsatisfactory, wasteful and expensive management on earth—Federal Court receivership management. "But we do not have to speculate about it. The records of the old Chicago Union Traction Company and the records of the Chicago Railways Company under Federal Court receivership furnish a very illuminating contrast as against operation under normal and proper conditions. "So far then as a twenty-year franchise is concerned, it is useless to talk about a solution of the traction problem. The companies themselves say they could not do anything with it if you did give them a twenty-year franchise, that they would be unable even to refinance their present obligations. "On the other hand, the City of Chicago needs a lot more than refinancing of the present obligations. A refinancing of the present obligations simply means taking care of the present money that is loaned against the companies and replacing it with other money, it would not mean the bringing in of an additional dollar for the purpose of building extensions or making additions or betterments to the system. And it is conservatively estimated that in the next five years there should be expended at least $25,000,000 in additions, betterments, and extensions of the present Surface Lines system. The companies say they would be unable to raise any money—probably be unable to refinance their present obligations—and certainly it would be impossible to bring in any such great amount of new capital to provide these extensions to the system. "The companies say that under an indeterminate franchise or under a fifty-year franchise they would be able to refinance, they would be able to raise the necessary money to give Chicago the extensions and betterments that modern transportation needs. As to that, we are balked again by the laws of the state. "Now, that is all you can do, that is all you can do as a matter of private operation and private management,—a twenty-year franchise which the companies say would do them no good because they cannot refinance under it, or a fifty-year or an indeterminate franchise, which we could not give without enabling legislation, possibly a constitutional amendment." "There are states in this union where the obtaining of enabling legislation and even of constitutional amendments is not an insurmountable task. In Illinois, however, I think anyone's experience will readily prompt the conclusion that if you want to do something, if you want to get something done you have got to go ahead on the basis of trying to act within the law as you have it and not speculate on the law as you would like to have it because our record in the speedy obtaining of remedial legislation or constitutional amendment is certainly not attractive enough to lure anyone into that field. "In such a situation, and still confronted with the necessity of a settlement to avoid the chaos and confusion that will result in 1927, the question arises what next to do, what can be done?" In 1913 the City Council passed what is called a unification ordinance, unification of the South Side lines and the North and West Side lines, which provided for interchange of transfers and really was the one-city one-fare, as far as the Surface Lines are concerned. The city could not, without the consent of the companies, have imposed that ordinance upon them. To do that would be to deprive them of their property without due process of law, and that ordinance is what is known as a contract ordinance. It was an ordinance passed by the City Council and accepted by the companies. It is a contract ordinance as are the 1907 ordinances and that ordinance expires in 1927 just the same as the other ordinances do. "So that our arrangement for through-routing—it wouldn't be fair to say all of it; for through-routing in a measure is provided in the 1907 ordinances, but a portion, a big portion of our through-routing and the interchange of transfers from one side of the city to the other expires in February, 1927; so that it is within the range of possibility, at least, that we will return this system to its divisible units and not have the advantage of that one-city one-fare as far as the Surface Lines are concerned. That, I say, depends on what arrangement can be made—in the spring of 1927 when that contract expires. "Then with regard to the granting of private franchise, which is nothing more or less, of course, than a contract between the city and the companies, the city faces a situation now which it did not face in 1907. In 1907 we had a grant of power from the Legislature which enabled us to contract with utility companies. We could make binding contracts with them. In 1913, the utility law was passed, the state utility law, and that, as you know, created a commission, first called the Public Utilities Commission, later changed to the Illinois Commerce Commission. And that commerce commission act gave the power of regulating matters of fare and comfort and convenience and service into the hands of the commission. That is why, in spite of the fact that the 1907 ordinances say that the companies obligate and pledge themselves to maintain a five-cent fare from 1907 until 1927, that has been abrogated, and we have the rate of fare which is fixed by the Illinois Commerce Commission, or fixed by the courts when there is no application to review the findings of the Commission by the courts, as happened in the seven-cent rate case. In other words, the contract which the city made in 1907 with there companies is binding in certain respects on the city, binding as far as the right granted to them to operate, but it is not binding on the companies as far as questions of fare or questions of service are concerned. "A city has not the same liberty of contract, the same liberty of action that individuals have. It can do just those things that it is permitted to do by the Legislature and by express grant. We have two acts of the Legislature on the books, one the Act of 1903, commonly known as the Mueller Law, and the Act of 1913, commonly known as the Public Ownership Act. The 1913 act was passed at the same time that the Utilities Act was passed, and was undoubtedly passed by the Legislature to show a way by which some of the limitations that were put upon cities could be avoided by some different kind of operation. Those two acts are very much alike. The 1913 act supplemented the 1903 act and corrected it in some respects where it was deficient—strengthened it. But you can treat them as one act because the legislation is very similar. "It provides that any municipality may acquire, own and operate any public utility, not only transportation utility but any public utility, and that it may acquire such a utility by purchase or construction or condemnation or in any other lawful way and pay for the cost of acquiring those utilities by the issuance of certificates. We have called them public owner- 94 HON. P. A. NASH One of the most popular leaders of the Democratic party on the West Side, who can always be counted upon to ring true in his friendship for the Colored people, and Mr. Nash continues to work hard to assist to re-elect Hon. Joseph Higgins Smith to the City Council from the new 32nd Ward, Tuesday, April 7th. ship certificates or municipal railway certificates. Because of Alderman U. S. Schwartz' early identification with this plan, they have been called Schwartz' certificates. But they are provided for in the 1913 act, and the certificates there provided are simply this, that if the city wants to acquire a utility it may issue for that utility public ownership certificates in any amount that the city sees fit to authorize for the purchase or acquisition of the particular utility. Those certificates are not general bonds. They are not liens upon taxes, they won't be paid out of taxation, they can't be paid as ordinary city obligations are; in fact, they are not city obligations, they are not general obligations, but they are limited obligations of the utility system itself. Those certificates are payable only and solely out of the earnings of the property acquired, and the only security for the certificates is the property acquired for the certificates or constructed with money In drawing towards the end of his wonderful and highly instructive oration Mr. Doty declared that he only had time to touch upon the following high spots in the proposed new Traction Ordinance. Municipal Railway Board Created select one of these three whom the Mayor will appoint to fill the vacancy. If a dispute arises between the Mayor and the Certificate Holders' Committee as to whether or not any one or more of the three persons so tendered possess the qualifications specified, provision is made that this question shall be submitted to and finally determined by three judges constituting the first division of the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District. The members of the Board are subject to removal for palpable omission of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in the discharge of their duties. No passes shall be issued to any persons who are not employees of the Municipal Railway System. Policemen and firemen in uniform are permitted to ride without payment of fare, and so far as lawful, mail carriers in uniform. The ordinance will become effective only in the event that it is approved by the voters at the referendum to be held on April 7, 1925. The law requires and the ordinance provides for the submission of two separate propositions, viz., First: As to the ownership of the properties. Second: As to the operation of the properties. Each proposition must receive a majority of the votes cast on such proposition. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN COLORED WOMEN IN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Washington, D. C., April 3-It has been announced that a systematic effort is being made by the officials of the National League of Republican Colored Women to increase its membership. It is said that more than 400 women's clubs in various parts of the United States have enrolled which includes the following states: New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana Connecticut, Mississippi, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Texas and Kansas. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Washington, D. C., is president of the League; and Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is chairman of the Executive Board. At the meeting held in Metropolitan A.M.E. Church here, March 5, it was decided, among other things, that the league would begin its program by working for the passage of a Federal Anti-Lynching law, Child labor Law and the elimination of discrimination in the Federal Government. In the appeal for funds to carry on the campaign—such as printing and postage, women are asked to send an annual membership fee of $1.00 to the national headquarters 1115 Rhode Island Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C., and each woman is also asked to endeavor to secure as many other members in her community as possible. Referendum THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON She is the highly accomplished wife of Mr. Ernes son, the popular Funeral Director at 5121 S. St Mrs. Williamson is a licensed undertaker and embalmer; and a public school teacher in Chicago, she is actively engaged in the work of several fraternal organizations, also In Electa Chapter No. 1 O. E. S., she is the organist, is the Treasurer of Philothea Household of Ruth No. 153. She is a member of Brilliant Light Tabernacle No. 122, International Order of Twelve and a member of the Ladies and Gentlemen's Friendship Benevolent Association. She was President of Williamson Circle No. 1790 S. R. C. F. W., but has resigned and has severed all connection with the order. Williamson Circle at the time of her resignation had a membership of more than 300, turning in to headquarters monthly from $400 to $500. The Supreme Circle declared a suspension of sick claims for three months and refused to pay sick claims during that Largely Attended M of Re-Election of Smith to City Coun Largely Attended Meeting Held in Favor of Re-Election of Hon. Joseph Higgins Smith to City Council from 32nd Ward Among the Speakers were Mr. Eugene Sullivan, Mr. Joseph Sabatello, Julius F. Taylor, Alderman Louis B. Anderson, Alderman George M. Maypole, Alderman Dorsey R. Crowe, and Hon. James F. Faridy Last Wednesday evening a largely attended meeting was held at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 2158 Carroll ave., corner of Leavitt st., on the West side. Rev. E. F. Smith its hustling pastor, in the interest of the re-election of Hon. Joseph Higgins Smith to the City Council from the 32nd ward. The above mentioned gentlemen were the leading speakers who were re-inforced by the following west side orators: Rev. L. R. Driane, the popular and eloquent Pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church, who declared among other things that Alderman Smith in the past has been weighed in the balance and was not found wanting; that he has made a tip-top Alderman and that he has made a splendid City Father—that he has voted and worked in the interest of all the people residing in this wonderful city and that he should be re-elected to the City Council, Tuesday, April 7. Attorney William J. Mannion proved himself to be a live wire and without gloves he whipped into the unknown opponent of Alderman Smith and as he was unable to pronounce his name we will not attempt to spell it out. Attorneey Mannion declared in winding up his fiery speech that Alderman Smith would on Tuesday, April 7, be re-elected to the City Council from the 32nd ward. The other high lights when it came down to speaking were, James Martin, Joseph Sabatello. Eugene Sullivan. ```markdown ``` wife of Mr. Ernest H. Williamrector at 5121 S. State Street time, throughout the entire organization. This caused much unrest and dissatisfaction in Local Circles. All money of the Circles are by law sent to the Supreme Secretary in Arkansas, but the Supreme President R. A. Williams, so it is said has ordered all money paid to him by check personally drawn to him. He has recently purchased a 38 flat building on Grand Blvd, and is riding around in a high powered car. He claims to have a hospital down south, but it is reported that the same has been turned over to a man named Thompson. Members want to know why they cannot receive their sick dues when due. In the financial statement of the president some time ago it is said there was cash assets of $643,142.41 and a solvency of the 2127 Circles of 106% why the 6% will pay the sick dues, why not pay them. "C." eeting Held in Favor Hon. Joseph Higgins il from 32nd Ward Crowe Brundage Commiteeeman, Joseph Porcara, Deenen Ward Committeeeman, Mrs. Gertrude Brown, and Wm. Mannion, Ward Committeeeman, Mr. Eugene Sullivan and Mr. Joseph Sabatello, who are the two politicians or local statesmen in that neck of the woods and Mr. James P. Teirney who has resided in that part of this city for many years, do not hesitate in stating that Alderman Smith will win out at the polls Tuesday, April 7. The following committee had charge of the lively and largely attended meeting, Mr. John W. Booker, Mr. L. R. Johnson, Rev. Smith, Mrs. Gertrude Brown and Louis S. Kenbrew. Mr. Booker who is president of the Baptist League in connection with Friendship Baptist Church also served as chairman of the meeting. On Sunday afternoon, March 29, a meeting was held at the Friendship Baptist Church which was addressed by Alderman Smith, several other speakers and the writer. They all declared that it was all over for him right now but the shouting—that he will be re-elected to the City Council Tuesday, April 7. REV. ANDERSON BETTER Rev. George Anderson, 4509 Dearborn St, who received injuries when knocked down by an automobile several weeks ago, is improving at Provident Hospital and is expected to leave in a few days. Mrs. Cora B. Giddens, 3614 Calumet Ave., who recently underwent a serious operation at Wesley Memorial Hospital, is much improved, but still in the hospital. Committee THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS. APRIL 4. 1925 MAYOR WILLIAM E. DEVERS PLAN OR CHAOS, ASSERTS HON. WALTER L. FISHER Traction Expert Raps the Apathy of Ex-Mayors. Five mayors of Chicago and their handling of the traction problem—Hon. Walter L. Fisher, former special traction counsel under one of them and framer of the 1907 ordinance under which the car lines operate today, drew a thumbnail sketch of each of them Tuesday as he talked in favor of the proposed ordinance before the City club. Tabloid of Mayors And the tabloid pictures were something like this: Hon. William E. Dever—He has learned a lot about traction; he has learned how much more difficult it is to build than to tear down; he has learned how bitter it is to have one's sincerity and honesty attacked by those who formerly had worked with him. He has been forced to revise many of his ideas. He has had the manhood and courage to recognize when he was wrong and to say so. The late Fred A. Busse—He took a very lukewarm attitude about the subway. And now we come to the triom who Mr. Fisher termed the "three musketeers, or buccaneers, if you prefer that term," who oppose the new ordinance. Hon. William H. Thompson—His administration's attempts to settle the traction problem furnished a ludicrous and pitiful sight. Did any one ever hear Thompson advocate anything except providing him with a fund he could turn over to experts, the fund to be raised by increased taxation? Hon. Edward F. Dunne—He would like to do things, but he hasn't got the capacity. If he had had intelligence and manhood he could have carried out the 1907 ordinance program with great benefit to Chicago. Hon. Carter H. Harrison—That apostle of do-nothingism! He never said "yes" in his life. He stopped when he had said "no" to Yerkes. Chicago Not New York "Mayor Dever has learned that there is no possible effective transportation system except one coordinating rapid transit lines and feeder lines." Mr. Fisher declared. "Chicago is not New York. A comprehensive subway system is out of the question because of the cost of building it. Harrison had plans for one drawn up and asked bids on it. He received one, which was later withdrawn. You can't give away a franchise for a comprehensive subway in Chicago. "We have got to vote for this ordinance or vote for chaos. There are things in it that I would like to see changed, but it is the only way out. No law can take away property except by giving money in return for it or, by agreement, giving some equivalent value. "If this ordinance is not passed the car lines must go into the hands of the federal courts." THE AMATEUR BIGGER MINS TREL CLUB The Amateur Minstrel Club is entering upon its new task of enlarging as well as raising an endowment fund for the "Old Folks Home" filled with pep. The rehearsals are well attended and many special features and side splitting jokes are programmed. Word comes from rather an authentic source that as a sequel to the contribution made by Cook's famous orchestra last year, Miss Florence Mills and her "Dixie to Broadway Co." will give a number on the program and Miss Mills in her unique male attire will lead the grand march, followed immediately by the handsome prancing members of her company and then all Chicago will fall in line while Cook, "The man who knows," does the rest. THEATRE TO PAY $1000 FOR "COLOR PREJUDICE" Brooklyn. N. Y.-Mrs. B. Phinnie and daughter, a 14-year-old high school girl, were given verdicts of $500 each against Keeney's Bedford Theatre, Bedford avenue and Bergen street, Brooklyn, as a result of being refused orchestra accommodation in that theatre when they presented tickets for orchestra seats on March 27. MRS. BERRY RETURNS Mrs. Ella G. Berry, 3329 S. State St., vice-grand daughter ruler of Lady Elks throughout the U. S. has returned to the city from an extensive trip east in interest of the organization. While at New York, Mrs. Berry was highly entertained by Lady Elks and other friends. SOCIAL HYGIENE INSTITUTE To be held April 6 and 7, 1925, at Lincoln Center, 700 Oakwood Boulevard, under the auspices of The Social Hygiene Council and The American Social Hygiene Association in co-operation with The Chicago and Northern District of Women's Clubs, Cook County Bar Association, Associated Business Men's Clubs, Phyllis Wheatley Home Association, Young Women's Christian Association, Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago Urban League, The Appomattox Club, South Side Community Service, Business Women's Association, Physicians Assoc, of Cook County, Douglas League of Women Voters, Second, Ward Branch of Women's City Club, The King's Daughters, American Red, Cross—Washington District, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Chicago Inter-racial Committee, Wendell Phillips Settlement, Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Wendell Phillips Parent-Teacher Assoc, Frances Willard Parent-Teacher Assoc, The Chicago Neighborhood Improvement and Protective Association and the Churches. TENTATIVE PROGRAM Monday, April 6th Morning 10:00—Opening Remarks 10:30—Our Social Hygiene Problems 11:00—Film "The Gift of Life" 12:00—The Biology of Sex Education Afternoon The Problems of Sex Delinquency 2:00—Juvenile Sex Delinquency 2:30—Sex Delinquency and Probation 3:00—Adult Sex Delinquency 3:30—Delinquency and the Courts 4:00—Discussion Evening The Problems of Venereal Disease 8:00—The Dangers of Syphilis 8:30—Gonorrhea in Men 9:00—Gonorrhea in Women 9:30—What are Chicago's Facilities for Diagnosis and Treatment? Tuesday, April 7th Morning Sex Education 10:00—The Sex Impulse and Part it Plays in Normal Life 11:00—Sex Education and Character Building 12:00—Discussion Afternoon Social Protective Measures 2:00—Film, "Social Protective Measures" 3:00—What is Chicago Doing to Protect Its Youth? 4:00—Discussion Evening Community Responsible for Health and Welfare 8:00—The Health of the Community 8:30—The Responsibility of the School 9:00—The Responsibility of the Home 9:30—The Responsibility of the Church HON. GEORGE E. BRENNAN MANAGER OF THE UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUAR- ANTY COMPANY. DOES NOT HESITATE IN STATING THAT THE NEW CITY TRACTION ORD- INANCE WILL BE ADOPTED TUESDAY, APRIL 7. THIS GREAT CITY HAS THOUSANDS OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MEN IN IT BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE ANY- THING ON HON. GEORGE E. BRENNAN. WHO EASILY RANKS WITH THE BEST BUSINESS MEN IN THIS CITY. MR. BRENNAN OCCUPIES A GREAT SUITE OF ROOMS ON THE 20TH FLOOR OF THE ILLINOIS MERCHANTS TRUST BUILDING AND HE HONESTLY FEELS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS CITY WILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE NEW TRACTION ORDINANCE TUES- DAY, APRIL 7. COLORED EPISCOPALIANS TO HOLD MISSION Raleigh, N. C. Apr. 3- A Preaching Mission for colored people at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church at the corner of Wilmington and Cabrya Sts., beginning last Sunday evening and lasting through Saturday, April 3. Rev. Willett acted as Missioner. A. B. C. HOLDS FINE MEETING The Associated Business Men's Club of which R. S. Abbott, publisher is president, held a very fine meeting on March 27th. The Pilgrims Rest Temple, 33rd and Indiana Ave., Rev. S. E. J. Watson, pastor, delivered the address of welcome. Among the speakers were Atty. Eugene J. Marshall; Jesse Binga, secty-treas.; Mrs. R. C. Ole; J. Turner Wall and M. T. Bailey, vice-pres. These meetings are to be held from time to time at various churches throughout the city. --- MAJOR A. E. PATTERSON DELIVERS STERLING ADDRESS TO LARGE AUDIENCE AT WENDEL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SUNDAY NIGHT Major Patterson urged every voter in the city of Chicago to vote yes on the two municipal propositions April 7, if they desire greatly improved local transportation and cheaper street car fares. Under the proposed ordinance, he said, a passenger may take a surfact line car, transfer to an elevated line and again transfer to a subway train if he so desires, for one fare of seven cents. In addition to improved transportation, Major Patterson laid great emphasis on the great volume of work necessary in digging the subway and making extensions, thus giving employment to thousands of colored men for the next ten years. During this period every laboring man and many mechanics and artisans may become independent; wages from six to ten dollars per day will make them so. All property values will be increased from 25 to 150 per cent. There will be a general waive of prosperity such as Chicago has never experienced before and may never experience again. There can be no reasonable excuse for voting against this ordinance, the adoption of which not only means better and more adequate transportation, universal transfers for one fare and millions of dollars paid to Chicagoans for labor and materials, but we get all of these things without their costing the taxpayers or the city of Chicago a single dollar. This is not in any way a political issue. It is a measure designed to benefit the whole city regardless of politics. All honor to Mayor William E. Dever for his great work in behalf of the new Traction Ordinance. MISS BURROUGHS APPEALS FOR HELP Facing a Crisis Lincoln Heights, Washington, D. C. My dear Friends—North, South East and West: Will you do me a favor?—Please read and answer this appeal. I am facing the darkest hour in my public career. Words of cheer from friends will be a real tonic. I have given my life for my race—all of my time, my limited talent, my strength and my earnings. I have sacrificed everything to build the Training School. Unless you and other friends give or solicit help, the school for which I have given my life will suffer. In fact, it is now suffering for want of money to meet pressing obligations. My heart and mind are greatly troubled, and I am making this public appeal because I do not feel that I can stand the strain. I have prayed day and night for Divine guidance in this crisis. The answer has come: "Pour out your heart to the people: tell them, and they will respond." These words have come to me over and over during the past two months. I am now obeying the command, and I shall leave the result with you and God. I have served my whole race unreservedly. To all of my friends who would have any flowers or words of praise to give when I am dead, I am saying frankly that a few words of cheer while I can hear them, and a dollar or more to be used in building up this work, will be of greater value than great eulogies and sweeter than a million roses when I cannot hear the words nor smell the fragrance of the flowers. Do not wait until I am gone, and then chisel into marble love's warm words on ice cold stone. What you, and I, and all others who are trying to help our race need, is more practical cooperation in life. I love the school and the race well enough to go from door to door and plead the cause of each, but I would not have strength to do anything else. I have no endowment or permanent income. Third—The Heating Plant is on the grounds. We have no money with which to install it, but it must be put in. The contractor is insisting that the work be begun. It takes $12,000.00 to execute the contract. We have splendid credit because we keep our promises with business men who extend us credit. Our obligations must be met. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie and a mustache, looking slightly to the right. The background is plain and light-colored. There is no text or additional details in the image.] --- HON. WALTER M. FARMER One of the most eminent and leading Afro-Ameri in Chicago, who is loyally supporting Mayo Dever to secure a far better traction system for zens of Chicago. HON. WALTER M. FARMER SOUNDS THE PRAISES OF MAYOR WILLIAM E. DEVER without adequate trai tities. The ordinance is presenting to the them to support is One of the most eminent and leading Afro-American lawyers in Chicago, who is loyally supporting Mayor William E. Dever to secure a far better traction system for all the citizens of Chicago. Dr. Cook, ladies and gentleman; I deem it an honor to be assigned to the pleasing duty of introducing to this splendid audience, the Mayor of our great City. News however, has just reached us of the illness of our mayor and his inability to be with us tonight. Notwithstanding I am denied the distinguished honor of introducing the mayor, I cannot refrain from saying a word about Mayor William E. Dever as I knew him as a judge as well as saying a word for the ordinance he is urging the people to support. As a lawyer I have appeared before him several times when he was judge of the Superior Court of Cook County. He was not only courteous and considerate but he appeared to be a man possessed with a keen sense of justice and fair treatment, which made him an ideal judge. I do not believe that any personal or extraneous influences had any bearing upon his decisions. Chicago, as is the case with any other city, cannot spread or develop Will you give what you can and tell your friends about our great need and the crisis we now face? I cannot bear this burden alone. If we can get from under this Heating Plant, these notes and these bills, the future of our school is secure. The school will be a benediction to the race if we can get the support that the work deserves. Churches, organizations and individual friends—please help us! Yours in the Service, (Signed) Nannie H. Burroughs. DAWES ATTACKS ANOTHER RULE TO SAVE POST FOR AGED NEGRO Door Keeper at Office of Secretary of State Has Been on Duty Since 1869, But Age Limit Threatens Retirement (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., Apr. 2—Vice President Dawes has found another rule of which he does not approve, and, in his characteristic way, he has gone to work to have it changed. This time it has nothing to do with the Senate, but concerns a Negro who has been the doorkeeper for all Secretaries of State in the past fifty-six years. His name is Edward Augustine Savoy, and it has been on the diplomatic register longer than any name. May 2 Savoy will be 75, and under the statute, he must retire. He became doorkeeper of the Secretary of State when that office was occupied by Hamilton Fish in 1869, and he has served in the same capacity for eighteen succeeding Secretaries, including Secretary Kellogg. In addition to being the oldest man in point of service in the diplomatic corps, "Eddie" has other claims to fame. It was he who carried America's ultimatum from Secretary John 101 edt without adequate transportation facilities. The ordinance which the mayor is presenting to the people and urging them to support is designed to meet this crying need of our great city. By the adoption of this ordinance, Morgan Park and other remote parts of our city will be brought into closer touch with the business center of this great community. Time and distance will be shortened and work will be more plentiful. For the last eighteen years the transportation question has been kept before the people in one way or another. In most cases attempt has been made to make political capital out of our transportation needs. The question however is not a political one but purely one of civic betterment. Mayor Dever has been broad enough and so free from unselfishness that he has taken the question out of politics. He has let it be known that he would rather give the city of Chicago a comprehensive and adequate system than be a candidate for re-election to the office of mayor. He deserves our support and commendation; for, "Who saves his country, saves all things, and all things saved will bless him." Sherman to Senor Polo de Barnabe, Spanish minister, when the United States declared war on Spain, and when "Eddie" delivered the ultimatum he delivered the minister's passports. The same year he accompanied Secretary John Hay to Paris, and when the treaty of peace was signed it was "Eddie" who affixed the great seal of the United States to it. But, notwithstanding these claims to distinction, and the fact that he is as spry as many a man half his age, he must be retired, according to the rule. But "Eddie," knowing Gen. Dawes' aversion to rule, has appealed to him and told the Vice President he couldn't get along on the retirement pay. "We'll see about that," was the general's reply, and he informed Washington in general and Secretary Kellogg in particular that a way to the contrary notwithstanding. WORKING LIKE TROJANS The Grand Lodge Committee of fifty members from Great Lakes Lodge No. 43 and Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, I. B. P. O. E. W. is very busy lining up the lodges and temples of the west and other sections in order to bring the grand lodge to Chicago for the meeting in 1926. Mrs. Eliza Jackson, 3739 Elmwood Ave., state grand queen of Illinois of A. U. K. & D. of A. is making preparations for the annual tour of Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan in interest of the organization. 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