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SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXX. 5 [Name] [Name] HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELLE One of the greatest Irish-American lawyers and o United States, who will on the fourth day of J the commencement exercise sermon at the W versity, Kansas City, Kan. Those attending the ment exercises at that great educational ins enjoy a rare treat of high-class oratory. greatest Irish-American lawyers and o. states, who will on the fourth day of commencement exercise sermon at the W Kansas City, Kan. Those attending the exercises at that great educational ins rare treat of high-class oratory. One of the greatest Irish-American lawyers and orators in the United States, who will on the fourth day of June, deliver the commencement exercise sermon at the Western University, Kansas City, Kan. Those attending the commencement exercises at that great educational institution will enjoy a rare treat of high-class oratory. M. E. CHURCH EDUCATION BOARD MAY MERGE MANY OF ITS NEGRO SCHOOLS Chicago, Ill., May 28—The board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church has been in session here during last week at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. The Educational institutes for Negroes received very careful consideration. According to close observers it looks as though the merger of the Board of Education for Negroes into the general Board of Education for which many of the leading Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church stood at the General Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts will result in the merger of some nineteen schools in the South, reducing the number to ten literary and three professional schools. A commission was appointed to make a survey of the entire system and report recommendations to the Annual meeting of the Board in February 1926. The commission consists of Bishop W. F. Anderson, President, of Boston Mass.; Dean Thos. F. Holgate of Northwest- [Name] M. M. H. HON. MICHAEL ZIMMER The straightforward Warden of the Cook City who has been one of the many strong su newspaper and a warm friend of its editor years, and Mr. Zimmer has legions of warm city who would be greatly delighted to serve race for Mayor of Chicago in 1927. Lightforward Warden of the Cook Court has been one of the many strong supporter and a warm friend of its editor for and Mr. Zimmer has legions of warm foes would be greatly delighted to see him Mayor of Chicago in 1927. The straightforward Warden of the Cook County Hospital, who has been one of the many strong supporters of this newspaper and a warm friend of its editor for twenty-five years, and Mr. Zimmer has legions of warm friends in this city who would be greatly delighted to see him enter the race for Mayor of Chicago in 1927. Vol. XXX. 5 CENTS PER COPY [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. nican lawyers and orators in the fourth day of June, deliver e sermon at the Western Uni-. Those attending the commence- at educational institution will pass oratory. ern University, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. W. J. King, Professor in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta Ga.; Dr. Arlos R. Brown, President University of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tenn. Bishop Robert E. Jones, President Department of Educational Institutions for Negroes, New Orleans, La. Corresponding Secretary, W. S. Bovard, Chicago, Ill.; Secretary P. J. Movecety, Chicago, Ill., and Secretary I. Garland Penn Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio. It is stated that many of the Negro leaders who stood for the merger of Boards at Springfield are in consternation now that the merger proposition is likely to also mean the merging of some of the institutions in their territory. This they did not expect. The merger, however, will not destroy the identity of any institution but change the place of location of some of them and make for strength, economy, and efficiency. MAKE TRIP TO HARVEY B. J. Mitchem, M. T. Bailey and Langdon C. Smith, officers of The Pyramid Building and Loan Association, made a flying trip to Harvey and Pheonix, Ill., on official business. ```markdown ``` of the Cook County Hospital many strong supporters of this end of its editor for twenty-five legions of warm friends in this delighted to see him enter the in 1927. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 30, 1925 1. Oh Lord, How Long? 2. Railway Mediator Appointed. 3. Peaceful Politics. 4. Colorgrams. Whipped on his bared back with bludgeons, brutally scarred with instruments of extreme cruelty, intimidated with threats of instant death, "framed-up" on theft charges, cheated from his due wages, and defrauded in food purchases are a few of the experiences of George Diamond, a Negro worker in the turpentine camps of the Pensacola, Florida, district, now a witness in the Government's case of peonage against five soulless employers, on trial last week in the United-States Court. The experiences of Diamond and his fellow workers make a New York "third degree" seem like a Heavenly dream. They even make the life of a slave on a Spanish gallon, centuries ago before Democracy had made much headway, seem like a vacation outing. To know that in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, such uncivilized acts are still in vogue, it is but to know that there is so much yet undone in civilization's onward march. The beast that is within some men is still a mocker of Love and Justice and the laxity that prevails in Florida and its sister southern states in the preservation of law and order, where Negroes are concerned, is still a mocker of the customs of the United States. Has Florida a competent labor inspection staff which has any semblance of regard for the Negro worker? Does Florida still yearn for the lash and the baying of bloodhounds? Is Florida statehood asleep that condonation of peonage is open and notorious? Are there not enough red-blooded men of pride to stamp out the parasitical practices of unjust employers, themselves too lazy to work and too dishonorable to pay others just hire for their labor. As Napoleon once said: "Good God, How rare men are!" we wonder how he would feel in the midst of a Floridian peon camp. Sympathetic and thoughtful employers, even in the South, have realized, particularly during the last decade, that their own preservation depends, more than anything else, upon humanization of their conduct towards labor. Upon the majority of them the dawn has broken that ill treatment of labor, like chickens, always comes home to roost. The black man's stultification in the South has exacted the heaviest toll in sectional progress that this country has ever seen; and it has been only recently, since Northern capital, believing that the South has undergone a change of heart, has lent its aid to southern industry, that the South has begun to recoup its losses. But, the peon camps of Florida and Georgia are again making deep sores in the Southland, and unless it's well-wishers and well-doers can stamp out such inhuman storehouses of torture the South cannot hope to march forward. How long peonage practitioners can live and thrive in the South, apparently no one but God Almighty knows; but how long southern states will continue to pay the price which uncivilization always exacts from its proponents depends upon whatever quickening spirit of justice there yet remains in a section of the U. S. A, which continues to lust the body and soul of the suffering black men and women within its borders. C. Cornelius Webb, trusted employee of the Pullman Company for many years has been advanced by his appreciative employer to the first position of its kind ever held by a Negro. Webb has veritably become an official of the company, for whom he will new act a mediator and court in industrial relations matters which involve the 11,000 Negro service employees of the Pullman Company, who use their skillful hands and ready brains to provide comfort and luxury for the thousands of passengers traveling in Pullman palace cars by day and by night. Thus, for the first time, the humble but conscientious knights of the road who forsake their own fireside and families to make a car seem homelike to those persons who are en route between home and hotel, are to have direct representation and voice in making smoother the industrial relations which exist between them and their company employer. Grievances as to hours, wages, and other conditions of labor are to be heard by Webb, who, having his Race and employer at interest at one and the same time, will make wise recommendations to each party, thus promoting greater harmony and a greater appreciation, each for the other, on the part of both the Pullman Company and its faithful Negro corps of experts. Arbitration is frequently the master of discord, and while, due to the uniform consideration which President Carry and the staff of the Pullman Company officials have ever had for Pullman porters, misunderstandings have been few and far between, it is genuine good will which is being served by assigning a Negro mediator to officials of importance and dignity. Industrial relations can become a seething childron of discontent or they can be made as mellow as the moonlight. They are the Alpha and the Omega of the industrial advancement of labor, and, particularly in this country, of Negro labor. The Pullman Company has set an example which could be profitably adopted by other employers. As to Mr. Webb, of personal knowledge we know him to be a high class gentleman, competent, energetic, and broad in his vision and understandings. He will make good. With the appointment of the veteran barrister, Thomas L. Jones, as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, it appears that the anticipated policy of greater recognition of colored people has become effective and that the future months will witness the falling of many plums to the faithful heirs of the fourth estate who have waited so patiently for their share of the spoils of political combat. The colored women, headed by Miss Hallie Q. Brown, of Wilberforce, and in cooperation with the Matthews organization have already made is understood that the same has a reasonable chance to be consummated by the appointment of colored women to a number of outstanding positions. In New York, it is patent that the Republican National organization must do something to offset the prestige which Tammany Hall, through Governor Smith and Mayor Hylan, has gained among the colored voters. With Senator Wadsworth preparing to enter the running again next year it will be necessary, as Chairman Butler announced in Philadelphia, last week, to prepare for a stern battle. The New York vote is heavy and if the brethren en masse could be induced to desert the Tammany Hall crowd it would be a simple matter to swing the Empire State safely into the Republican fold. However, plums talk louder than words, and if the national Negro organization will be sufficiently definite in its requests, agreeing upon candidates for placement and showing a real, rather than a visionary harmony, there is every reason to believe that key places will be restored to the Negro voters. A large measure of difficulty seems to have been brought about by disagreement upon personnel and plan, about fifty-seven different varieties of groups and programs having been submitted to the white folks, but not to the colored. Creative ability has been below normal and coalition has been made difficult by a disgruntled few, who seem still to imagine that antiquated political procedure is to be resurrected. Silence reigns concerning the Register of Treasury's office, for which there are myriad of candidates. But, listen man, there are dozens of other prospects in agriculture, Public Health, Education, Commerce and Finance within the gift of Uncle Sam. Why not do like Charles E. Hall, the eminent Census expert, who created a prospective place in the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, and visualize something original, even though some one may, as they did in Hall's case, wait until you've put everything but the roof on the place and then try to purloin it. Even so, such an effort as Hall's is a constructive one, and in the end constructive effort will win nine times out of ten. However, it's almost certain that political plums will soon begin to rain in an organized way, and it's up to the thoughtful people of our group to 'have a spoon, and not be caught with a fork. The South is probably saying of Tom Lee, the hero of the Mississippi River: "He acted just like a white man." Wonder what the Negro Democrats of New York will do if strife continues to pervade the state and city organizations. California cities are still feeling the strain of "bootlegged" Mexican labor. which works at a low wage for unscrupulous American employers. Numerical supremacy of the Japanese in Hawaii is creating the prophecy that Japanese rule will prevail in Hawaii within the next decade. Dissensions caused by objections to Jew, Negro and Catholic prospective appointees, continue to rock the political shores of New Jersey. The scientific exhibit of Prof. George W. Carver, the Tuskegee chemical "wizard" was featured last week at the Southern Industrial Exposition, Grand Central Palace, New York, N. Y. Now that the Republican League has been organized in the South, with headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., we may begin to count upon getting within arm's length of a ballot box. Hattie Wilson Tobourne, noted Negro hairdresser for film stars, died, in New York City last week. Even in her last days she was vigorously opposed to the "bob." THIS WEEK By: Ernest Rice McKinney Harry H. Pace Proves It Can Be Done A friend of mine recently remarked to another friend of mine something to the effect that I was getting into too many fights with "This Week." Therefore to be agreeable, This Week we try another tack. The remarkable achievement of Harry H. Pace in raising the $100,000, the required fund to get the Northeastern Life Insurance Company on its way, is a thing for which the best of roses should be given. Remember this is a real insurance company and not a little "catch-penny" sick and accident concern or a "jerk-water" fraternal association or burial society. Mr. Pace has raised the money and put this company on foot right in the wake of failure of the Standard Life Insurance Company and the blow-up of the Brown and Stevens Bank. This is something to think about. Two Negro businesses fail yet another rises immediately out of the ruins, so to speak. This demonstrates that we are not a race of Quitters and Crepe Hangers. We've got more sense now than we used to have. There was a time when we said that if a Negro business failed there was no need for anyone to try starting another during that generation. Mr. Pace has exploded that theory. Some of our publishers claim that if you tell the world about the failure of a Negro institution there is danger that a few more will die from fright, lack of confidence or some other ghost. Mr. Pace has had considerable experience in the insurance business. He knows the business and can make it go. When he has developed a trained sales force that can sell his policies properly he and his company will be on the way to something that has been needed for a long time in the North. That something is: a Negro insurance company strong enough, broad enough, efficient enough and with enough liberal intelligence in its management to compete with the white companies. With the development of the Northeastern Life Insurance Company there will not be so much cockiness on the part of the white companies in rejecting Negro risks, in charging higher premiums and in refusing to put Negro solicitors to work. Perhaps, in the days to come, the statistics of these white companies will be bent a little backward to show them that Negroes don't have such a high relative death rate after all. It is very pleasing to us colored Pittsburghers to learn that our most prominent citizen—at least as far as national affairs are concerned—Mr. Robert L. Vann, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Northeastern Life Insurance Company. Due to a high order or legal ability and administrative experience Mr. Vann will make a valuable counsellor for Mr. Pace. TO ATTEND CHICAGO UNIVERSITY A number of teachers of The Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Va., will enter the summer school of the Chicago University in the early part of June. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX PEX No. 37 466 IPEO HON. HUGO PAM One of the high-class judges in County, who has been selected to serve as chairman of a p citizens of this city to visit and cities abroad to inspections and to familiarize advanced methods of handling BAPTIST UNION IN ANNUAL SESSION high-class judges of the Superior Court who has been selected by Hon. Anton as chairman of a prominent committee of this city to visit many points in the es abroad to inspect their prisons and and to familiarize themselves with the methods of handling the criminal element judges of the Superior Court of Cook en selected by Hon. Anton J. Cermak, of a prominent committee of the best to visit many points in this country inspect their prisons and penal instiliorize themselves with the most ad- andling the criminal element. One of the high-class judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, who has been selected by Hon. Anton J. Cermak, to serve as chairman of a prominent committee of the best citizens of this city to visit many points in this country and cities abroad to inspect their prisons and penal institutions and to familiarize themselves with the most advanced methods of handling the criminal element. The eighth annual session of the Union Baptist Association of Chicago was in session at Beth Eden Baptist Church, 111th Place and Loomis Blvd, Chicago, May 20th to 24th, both inclusive. Rev. O. W. Williams, moderator presided. All of the morning, afternoon and evening sessions were well attended and excellent programs were enjoyed by all present. Wednesday afternoon, the women's department was in session, Mrs. F. L. Martin president. BISHOP W. SAMPSON BROOKS RETURNS TO THE UNITED STATES FROM AFRICA Bishop W. Sampson Brooks, who has charge of the A. M. E. Chuch work on the West Coast of Africa arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., on the steamship Majestic from South Hampton, last Tuesday. He came to attend the Bishops Council at Los Angeles and to make financial arrangements for the large and growing missionary activities he has initiated in Libera and Sierra Leone. He was met at the boat by Dr. E. H. Coit, Missionary THE WORLD'S FIRST AFRICAN WRITER THE MUSICIAN The greatest and the leading Bishop in the A. M. who has charge of all of his Church work on the of Africa, who has arrived back in the United the purpose of raising more money for education in Africa. He will attend the Bishops' Coug Angeles, Cal., in June. st and the leading Bishop in the A. M. s charge of all of his Church work on the ca, who has arrived back in the Unitedpose of raising more money for educa ca. He will attend the Bishops' Couni , Cal., in June. leading Bishop in the A. M. E. Church, all of his Church work on the west coast arrived back in the United States for doing more money for educational work and attend the Bishops' Council at Los time. The greatest and the leading Bishop in the A. M. E. Church, who has charge of all of his Church work on the west coast of Africa, who has arrived back in the United States for the purpose of raising more money for educational work in Africa. He will attend the Bishops' Council at Los Angeles, Cal., in June. Both bodies held election of the year's officers, Friday, May 22nd when the following officers were elected: Rev. J. W. Coleman, moderator; Rev. E. G. Abner, vice-moderator; Dr. E. T. Martin, corresponding secretary; Rev. O. W. Williams, treasurer. The women elected as their officers, Mrs. Janie Mason, president; Mrs. W. M. Bennet, vice-president; Mrs. Irene Thurman, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. J. Foley, treasurer. The meeting adjourned Sunday, more largely attended than any of Beth Eden's recent meetings. Secretary, and other Missionary workers of the A. M. E. Church. On Thursday night he spoke to a large audience in Freeport, Long Island, where the annual conference was in session. Bishop Brooks' budget needs immediate increase. He has built the largest school building in the West Coast of Africa—The Monrovia Industrial School, and one of the finest show places in the Black Republic. Bishop Brooks has and will continue to accomplish a great and lasting work in Africa and the members of his great church and the people in general should rally to his support and dig up all the money he needs in Africa. THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago. Phone: Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Vol. XXX No. 37 Chicago, May 30, 1925 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago. Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. SOME OF THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Major Moton Speaks at Orchestra Hall; Eighth Regiment Memorial Services By Charles Stewart, Jr. Sunday evening, May 24th, there gathered at Orchestra Hall one of the largest gatherings of the season for the purpose of listening to the principle address to be delivered by Major Robert R. Moton. The audience of three thousand people was deeply impressed by the music rendered by the Hampton Quartette. The meeting was opened by Hon. Clifford Barnes, President of the famous Sunday Evening Club, where some of the greatest lecturers of the time have spoken. Hon. Charles M. Moderwell, former president of the Board of Education, read the scripture lesson; prayer was offered by the Rev. John A. MacIntosch, D.D., of the McCormick Theological Seminary. From the beginning of the address by Major Robert R. Moton, president of the Tuskegee Institute, the audience gave to him their closest attention. He told his story of the want and needs of the Institution that sank deep into the hearts of his hearers. He made plain the fact that the object of the Institution is to carry out the principles laid down by the father of industrial institutions in America. He sought to make plain that their efforts were to give to the nation scientific men and women in the fields of agriculture in order that they would be fully fitted to supply the food to make strong in body and in mind the men and women who occupy positions in other avenues of life. Having driven this point clearly in the minds of his hearers he told of the other side of the work as planned by the founder to give mechanical education to his people, that they would become a stronger part of the building section of the nation. In the factories they made their own shoes and from the tailor's bench measured and fit their own clothes and out of the clay of its earth they moulded the bricks that go to build additional parts of the institutions, and better fit the men and women to compete with others after they had completed their course there Then Major Moton called to the attention of these people the fealty of the American Negro and every act that had gone to defend the principles for which they fought. So vividly did he tell the story of the fighting blacks at Valley Forge that the picture will ever remain vividly as a lesson. Then he brought to memory the gallant twenty-fifth Infantry, ninth and tenth Cavalry, marching up San Juan Hill under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt, saying "there will be a hot time in the old town tonight." At this point in honor of those who sleep upon the hillside, he laid wreaths upon their graves, then he passed on to the World's War and again reminded him that this same fighting people furnished seven hundred thousand of the best blood of the American Nation and that a more comprehensive democracy would be given after the final adjustments. He told the story of the continued lynchings and burnings of the south and then asked what that the American white man failed to give to the Negro the full rights guaranteed under the rights of the Constitution of the nation. As a contribution to them, he was glad that he was born black, that his color could not fade and that some day out of these chaotic conditions justice must come. In conclusion Dr. Moton thanked the Rockefeller foundation, Julius Rosenwald and Mr. George Eastman for having given freely and being responsible for the fund having reached the sum of $4,750,000. Last Sunday was the day set aside for the annual sermon of the Eighth Regiment. They gathered at their armory in Giles Avenue at 35th Street. Comrades chatted together from every section in the armory, recalling incidents which happened at San Juan Hill, the Philippines, and in the late world war on the soil of sunny France. At the appointed hour, the bugle sounded, they formed their line of march through streets and avenues to Berean Baptist Church, 52d and Dearborn Streets, to listen to the annual sermon preached by their eloquent chaplain, Rev. W. S. Braddan, who had told them of their spiritual guidance on the lines when in battle. From every viewpoint, his sermon was a story of how to live better and become more staple citizens of the government. He pictured their hardships and injustice meted out to them even from the department where they are now a part. He impressed upon them reasons for fighting for their rights in civil life as they fought amidst shot and shell defending this government in what they believed would result in a wider citizenship which would include all of their rights equally and alike with the citizens of every other nationality. He urged upon his comrades to visit the hospitals where the wounded soldiers lie and bring to them words of cheer, he impressed upon them that these wounded ones were comrades when in the fullness of life and health and now in their afflicted hour their presence means much to them. "Tell them," he said, "that the cause for which they fought shall never lack in their personal endeavor to obtain all of the principles which democracy implies." The American Red Cross were there as they were on the battlefield, the comfort part of the army, to bind the wounds and carry the last message of the dying soldier to his relatives and friends. The Louise D. Marshall Auxiliary, which has rendered many services in an endeavor to supply the needs and comforts to the members of the regiment were also in attendance at the sermon. Sunday, May 31st, a patriotic meeting at Orchestra Hall will be held under the auspices of the Sunday Evening Club. Addresses will be delivered by Senator Charles S. Deneen, Honorable Morton D. Hull, and the Rev Von Ogden Vogt. Members of the Grand Army and the American Legion will be the guests of honor and a program of stirring music in keeping with the occasion will be given by the choir. START CAMPAIGN FOR HAMP TON AND TUSKEGEE (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga., May 29—Announcement here Wednesday tell of the opening of a Southern campaign in the interest of Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. Headquarters have been opened and an advisory committee composed of well known Southern people has been enlisted. The movement is expected to play a part in the raising of $5,000,000 throughout the country for the endowment fund of the two institutions. The advisory committee as announced in part includes Governor A. W. McLean, Raleigh; Sidney Frissell, Raleigh; Dr. Howard Odum, Chapel Hill; Dr. W. P. Few, Durham, N. C.; Mrs. C. P. McGowan, Charleston, S. C.; Richard I. Manning, Columbia, Dr. Josiah Morse, Columbia; Thomas F. Parker, Greenville, S. C.; John Stewart Bryan, Richmond, Va.; Frank W. Darling, Hampton, Va.; Homen L. Ferguson, Newport News, Va. Dr. James H. Dillard, Charlottesville, Va.; Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, Charlottesville, Va.; Governor E. Lee, Trinkle, Richmond, Va.; Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va.; T. S. Southgate, Norfolk; Southgate Leigh, Norfolk. HAYGOOD SCHOOL AWARDS DIPLOMAS TO 19 (Presston News Service) Pine Bluff, Ark., May 28- S. C. Alexander, president of the Merchants and Planter Bank, delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of the Arkansas Haygood College near here Tuesday. There were 19 members of the class who received diplomas. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 30, 1925 M. The extremely popular Postmaster of Chicago, who has thousand of warm friends scattered throughout this city and county who honestly feel that he would make an ideal Republican candidate for President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County in 1926. PETER SALEM DAY June 17th Marks 150th Anniversary of Heroism of Colored Patriot in First Battle for American Independence Free Historical Leaflet on Colored Soldiers Offered Boston, Mass., May 27.—The National Equal Rights League has begun its annual campaign for a nation-wide observance of "Peter Salem Day," in honor of Peter Salem, colored soldier of the American Revolution, and his comrades of color who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, first pitched battle of the American Revolution which was waged for American liberty and the founding of this first American Republic. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, at Charleston, Mass., a part of Boston, where a lofty monument was erected on June 17, 1825. Peter Salem shot and mortally wounded the British Commander as he was declaring the victory. Salem Poor was later commended by the Massachusetts Assembly for bravery. Brazilian Lew was fifer for a whole colored company. Boston will have a mammoth official celebration jointly by city and state with the Federal Government participating, as it is the 150th anniversary, which fact the League claims in its call issued today makes the occasion especially opportune for us to make known by mass meetings and newspaper articles what American histories obscure from both colored and white Americans, namely that our race contributed soldiers brave and valiant as far back as the very beginning and helped bring this nation into being. Peter Salem Leaflet Free As in the case of "Attucks Day" on March 5th, Citizenship Foundation Day, the League urges colored citizens to observe "Peter Salem Day" on June 17, through Equal Rights Committees or Branch Leagues organized permanently celebrate historical race days as a means of preserving our rightful place in American history and to emphasize title to equal freedom, rights, privileges and respect with all other citizens, for which cause these Equal Rights Committees and Leagues will contend under race leadership and control. Other racial bodies, religions, fraternal and civic are also urged to observe the day. As an aid, the League will send an historical leaflet upon receipt of 3 or 4 cents in stamps, on Peter Salem at Bunker Hill, together with a summary of colored soldiers from 1770 to 1918. Pamphlets and information on the "Peter Salem Day" movement can be secured by writing to the Corresponding Secretary, William Monroe Trotter, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. BURGLARS ROB VIRGIL WILSON'S STORE (Preston News Service) Ozark, Ark; May 28—The store operated at Charleston by Virgil Wilson, was robbed by burglaries last Thursday. The marauders obtained $200 and approximately $250 worth of merchandise. HON. ARTHUR C. LUEDER y popular Postmaster of Chicago, arm friends scattered throughout o honestly feel that he would mall candidate for President of the Boa Cook County in 1926. JURY FINDS "DRUNKEN" AUTO DRIVER IS INSANE (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., May 28—For the first time in the annals of police records, a jury in Police Court Thursday brought back the verdict of not guilty in a case of driving while in- toxicated, stating as a reason for its decision that the defendant was in- sane. The defendant was James Harrison, aged 18 years old, who on the night of March 16, is alleged to have run rampant in Lafayette Park with an automobile. Harrison was also charged with three separate charges of joyriding and one charge of carrying concealed weapons. These latter cases are now pending before the grand jury. One of the machines the defendant is alleged to have taken belonged to an attache of the British Embassy, and at the time of his wild ride he is said to have possessed an expensive car owned by W. M. Ritter, millionaire lumberman, who recently divided his fortune with some of his employees in West Virginia and this city. Charles L. Carson, attorney for the defendant immediately filed a motion after the verdict of the jury that their finding be certified before the Secretary of the Interior and the man be sent to an institution for the insane. SHOW APPRECIATION OF SCHOOL PROVIDED Weldon, N. C., May 27—During 1924, by special bond issue new school building were erected in Weldon for both the white and colored children. In the year just ending the friends and patrons of the colored school have maintained a domestic science department which has been well attended and made much progress. On Monday evening, last, the faculty of the school, through this department and in their building gave a dinner to the school board, their wives and the faculty of the white school. There was no display but a most excellent dinner was served and enjoyed in a most pleasing manner. The decorations appropriate the serving in good taste and the menu well prepared. The principal of the school, J. O. Jones, welcomed the guests and explained that the dinner was given in appreciation of what the school board and the white people in general had done for the colored race. This was responded to by Prof. Akers, of Roanoke Rapids, G. C. Green, chairman of the Weldon Board, Prof. Barnhart, Superintendent; Mrs. George C. Green, and the Misses Burrus and Daniel of the faculty. TEACHERS NORMAL SCHOOL OPENS IN OSCEOLA Osceola, Ark., May 28.—Fifty Mississippi county Negro teachers enrolled in the normal school which opened Wednesday morning at the Grider school. Mrs. Robin H. Whitworth, county superintendent, and Annie Curry Jeans teachers for the county are instructors. INTER-RACIAL LEAGUE ES TABLISHES QUARTERS IN MEMPHIS Memphis, Tenn., May 28—The Colored Inter-Racial League, has opened permanent headquarters in the Fraternal Bank Bldg., 174 Hernando Street. There are more than one thousand registered members. The business is handled through sub-comittees in education, health, housing, recreation, charity, juvenile delinquency, labor, child welfare, civic relation, courts and justice, rural education, etc. The executive committee is composed of Negro citizens from all walks of life. A bureau of information will furnish data on all phases of Negro life and activities in Memphis and Shelby County. Rev. T. O. Fuller is general chairman, Rev. A. L. Demond, secretary, Rev. S. E. Owen, statistical secretary, H. C. Shepperd, treasurer. Their present phone number, 5-8070-R. NOTED HAIRDRESSER TO FILM STARS BORE HATRED FOR BOB (Preston News Service) Hollywood, Calif., May 28—Mrs. Hattie Wilson Tobourne, noted hair-dresser for celebrated film stars, who died here recently bore to the last a hatred for bobbed hair that was overshadowed only by the love of her work, according to a statement by a celebrated film star. Mrs. Tabourne, creator of georgeous head dresses that were admired throughout the feminine world, was virtually unknown until her death. It was her sad fate to see the bobbed hair she detested become a fixture during the nine years of her association with the film industry. It is said that she used to stay up nights figuring out ways to combat the bob among film women. Failing in this she evolved the most elaborate methods of disguising it. This motive was responsible for some of the most unique coiffure effects that adorned the heads of the screen stars, and caused many women to wonder who the designer was. MEMPHIS SCHOOL BOARD DE FERS ACTION NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL Memphis, Tenn., May 28—A special meeting of the school board last Wednesday night deferred action on the acceptance of architect's specifications for the proposed Negro industrial high school. The specifications were read with little discussion. The only things rejected being blackboards made of fiber instead of slate and a fireproof vault for the principal's office. Acceptance of specifications will be considered at the meeting next Monday. Action on taking the school census as required by law was deferred because no suitable applicants had been found. In the State of New York the colored population represents only about two per cent of the total population. A. E. DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS One of Chicago's most popular M. D.'s, who will spend the next four or six months in traveling through many parts of the Old World and in attending medical lectures and taking special courses at several of the oldest and most noted medical institutions in the world. LYNCHING WAS MURDER SAYS GEORGIA JUDGE Instructs Grand Jury to Investigate Rocky Ford Affair Sylvania, Ga., May 27.—The recent lynching at Rocky Ford, the only occurrence of the kind in Georgia this year, came in for a severe arrangement by Judge H. B. Strange, in his charge to the grand jury on the convening of Superior Court here. "I do not condone or palliate in the least the crime the victim of the mob is alleged to have committed," said Judge Strange. "If he was guilty, he deserved the extreme penalty of the law, that was death. But the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Georgia expressly provide that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Instead of giving the case this direction, the mob disregarded the law and, I understand, burned this party at the stake. As much as the victim may have deserved death, every man engaged in that lynching is guilty of murder. They have a stain upon them that will be hard to eradicate." Judge Strange embodied in his charge a striking story of a relative whom, as a boy, he heard make the statement at Springfield camp meeting that God had forgiven him for every sin he had committed except one and that he never expected to be forgiven for that. "I was quite a boy," said Judge Strange, "but I knew what he referred to. During the war between the states he had helped to lynch Brad Jones for buying cotton and other produce from the slaves and because he sympathized with the Yankees. This man was no weakling; he was then in his prime and looked every inch a man. But he had made the mistake that a great many men make. He had helped to take a life contrary to law and he was suffering the pangs of his acts. What will these men do when they have to stand before the Judge of all the earth? There will be no escape there. You may escape an earthly judge, but then we shall see Him face to face and we shall know as we are known. You as grand jurors investigate this matter and relieve your own consciences, as this court has done." The charge made a profound impression, and Judge Strange is backed by the leading people of this section in his courageous stand. The result of the grand jury's investigation is awaited with deep interest. HARRIS B. GAINES, JR., CELE BRATED HIS THIRD BIRTH DAY ANNIVERSARY Monday, May 25, Harris B. Gaines, Jr., the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harris B. Gaines, 3262 Vernon Avenue, celebrated his third birthday anniversary. Quite a number of little boys and girls about his same age in the neighborhood joined in with him and Mrs. Gaines, mother of H. B., Jr., endeavored to make it pleasant for all of them. Even little Mr. Charles Ellis Gaines, who belongs to a younger class of boys, joined in the festivities of the older boys and like his older brother he received his share of the birthday gifts. ONCE MORE A DISTINGUISHED TRAVELER The very last glance of Bishop A. D. Hankins for three or five years will be at the Wendell Phillips High School, 39th street and Prairie avenue, Sunday May 31st, 1925, 2 to 6 P. M., as this is the beginning of a complete trip around the world. The trip is planned as follows: 1. A visit to every capital of every Nation in the inhabited world also every tribe to view every great body of water on which a ship has sailed, and every land on which the foot of man has ever trod. 2. The object of the trips is (a) to make a scientific study of the World's Religion, (b) to make a general research of the history and origin of religion and why the vast difference in operation, (c) to worship at every shrine, as the Bishop believes that God can be reached from every point with equal deference and devotion. 3. A thorough and complete survey of the Holy Land and Africa and to familiarize himself with the general history of the Negro. All citizens are cordially invited to be at the meeting, all free. The Bishop world be glad to bid you farewell with a hope of a safe return. Hear Bishop Hankin's Farwell to Chicago. Subject: "The Last Call." Bishop E. D. L. Thompson. Subject: "The Present Age." Bishop J. D. Snowden. Subject: "The Unity of the Church." Committee: Rev. S. Beens, Rev. Joe Neery, Rev. J. W. Cook, Little Sister, Rev. S. G. Watkins. IS MARY B. TALBERT FOR GOTTEN? (Columbian Press Bureau) When the members of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs prepared the copy for the Quinquennial official souvenir program it appears that they made the inexcusable blunder of omitting the photographs of Mary B. Talbert and Hallie Q. Brown. Notwithstanding her splendid work and tireless efforts in connection with the purchase and dedication of the Douglass Home, the name of the late and lamented Mary B. Talbert is mentioned only at the bottom of the page in fine print and marked with a star. This blunder has occasioned considerable unfavorable comment among the members of the organization and will doubtless be the subject of an acrimonious discussion at the next national convention of the Federation. GRAND MASTER U. B. F.'S HERE Rev. I. Stone, national grand master, U. B. F. & S. M. T. Illinois and jurisdiction arrived in the city Tuesday from Centralia, Ill., and spent most of the week on his visit with U. B. F. lodges and temples, giving instructions and making arrangements for the coming of the State Grand Lodge in August. He left Friday for Cairo, Ill. He was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Harding, 3710 Indiana avenue, while in the city. Mrs. Harding is state grand princess of Illinois and jurisdiction. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SOROR ITY OBSERVES EDUCA- TIONAL WEEK Wilberforce, O., May 29—The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority rendered a splendid program, Sunday evenings, in observance of its Annual Educational-Vocational guidance week. Owing to the absence of the principal speaker of the evening, Lawyer Hazel Mountaine-Walker, of Cleveland, Ohio, her place was filled by the local Basileus, Miss Lillian M. Weaver. The four sides to Four Square were: Physical fitness, mental equipment, social development and spiritual appreciation. In each case she made an impassioned plea to her sisters to go out and help toward the making of woman four square. She exhorted her audience to pass on the four qualities so that this "down trodden, scoffed and scorned race of ours will produce women four square." "Vocational guidance" said Miss Weaver is Alpha Kappa Alpha's youngest child and you, my sisters, as loyal members of the A. K. A., must so mature and properly feed that the child will wax and grow strong and make its influence felt to the utmost corners of the earth. Be a "woman four square" go out and get those poor misguided youth of my race and keep them from pursuing courses for which they are absolutely unfitted. WOMEN'S FEDERATION, MELT ING POT MASS MEETING, CLUB HOUSE CAM- PAIGN A great mass meeting, featuring the "melting pot," will be the supreme effort of the Chicago Northern District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, in their $5,000 club house campaign. Just what is meant by the "melting pot," Mrs. Carrie S. Horton, chairman, declares will remain a delightful secret until Sunday afternoon, 3:30, Bethesda Baptist church, Michigan avenue and 53rd street, where the meeting will be held. The Odds & Ends Club of Bethesda is co-operating. The principal speakers will be Mrs. Harriet Vittum, nationally known club woman; and Judge William Harrison. There will be special music, and the public is cordially invited. Mrs. Pauline Reed and Miss Mildred Henson, heading up the committee in charge of the religious picture distribution, have a large number of workers active in this phase of the campaign effort. A number of the workers are in drug stores and other places of business, while others are in a house to house effort distributing tags and disposing of the group of pictures which have proven to be popular subjects. A large number of churches have taken part in this part of the campaign for the club house. EDITOR, 82, USED COAL OIL LAMP Frank H. Cooney, who founded the Detroit Mail many years ago in the days when kerosene lamps were the stylish form of light and postage stamps were a fairly recent invention, celebrated his eighty-second birthday in this city the other day. Mr. Cooney is the oldest living newspaper editor. He was born in Albany, and when a boy attended a school near Rochester, N. Y., run by Susan B. Anthony, the patron saint of woman suffrage. "In those days she was just an ordinary country school teacher," said Mr. Cooney. "She used to go tearing round the country wearing a pair of old bloomers." Mr. Cooney remembers Henry Clay and President Martin Van Buren, too. His father was caretaker of the Van Buren country estate, and the boys used to go fishing together in the river. Mr. Cooney retired from active business only ten years ago. He makes his home with his daughter, Mrs Genevieve Porter, at 4054 Oakenwald avenue, Chicago. MRS. ROSA TYREE OBTAINS DIVORCE Mrs. Rosa Tyree, who resides at 4426 So. La Salle Street, obtained a decree of divorce from her husband, Archie Tyree, who left her on or about October 6, 1924, when he was charged with contributing to delinquency. He has never returned. Mrs. Tyree, the mother of James Barrett, who is the able and efficient stage manager of the Grand Theatre and both of them have many friends in Chicago. They also have a large and beautiful summer home at Idlewild, where they go each year to join the other visitors who come to that ideal spot from all over the world. WITNESSES RECITE GRUESOME TALES OF "BLACK-JACK" FLOGGINGS ON FLORIDA PRISON FARMS (Preston News Service) Pensacola, Fla., May 27—Another revolting scandal involving tales of peonage, "farming-out" of prisoners to labor, concerns in swampy timber tracts, flogging of exhausted victims and coercion to silence accusing witnesses has developed in Florida. At the trial it was testified that the white land owners and timber operatives forced certain Negroes at the point of revolvers to severely flog other Negroes with sticks of blackjacks and cat-o-nine tails. It is said that the victims were compelled to lie down on the road on their stomachs after being stripped of their clothing and take from five to ten minutes' beatings from the enforced "whip" weilder. Dewitt Stoner, a prisoner, testified that he was forced, at the point of guns in the hands of the white defendants, to beat five Negroes, one at a time, with a large stick. Stoner said that he was not whipped. He said the white men looked on as he whipped the naked men. Stoner said he was compelled to whip each one about ten minutes. He told the court that the blows caused lacerations on the backs of the beaten men. Nothing was done to stop the flowing blood of the victims. They were taken back to the prison farm and put to work, ill fed and half sick. It is said that the victims had attempted to escape from the prison farm, traveling by night and hiding in the day time. REV. W. A. JONES FILES BILL OF PARTICULARS AGAINST WIFE IN DIVORCE ACTION Pittsburgh, Pa., May 27—Rev. W. Augustus Jones, pastor of Central Baptist Church, who recently created considerable comment and wonderment when he told newspapermen that the conduct of his wife, Mrs. Edna Jones, was intolerable and that he contemplated divorce, brought divorce action in the Allegheny County court here Wednesday when he filed particulars in which he charged his wife with misconduct with other men, some of them being ministers. It will be recalled that last winter in the press reports a certain minister who was designated as "Irene" caused many to wonder who "Irene" is. It is said that "Irene" will be made public when the case comes up for trial. THE WEST AFRICAN WOMEN'S CLUB The West African Women's Club is pleased to announce that on May 11th the sum of one hundred, three dollars, seventy cents ($103.70) was forwarded by New York bank draft to Mrs. Adelaide Casely-Hayford to assist in the work of her vocational school for girls at Sierra Leone, West Africa. Those persons who pledged financial assistance to Mrs. Hayford may be encouraged to come forward with their pledges now that they know the school is in operation. Mrs. H. Evelyn Richey, Pres. 4834 Langley Ave., Tel. Kenwood 4621 Mrs. Evelyn Casey, Sec. 616 E. 46th St., Tel. Kenwood 3479 JUNE "VANITY FAIR" GIVES PAGE TO POETRY OF COUNTEE CULLEN (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) An entire page in the June Number of "Vanity Fair," (19 West 44th Street, New York City) is given to the poetry of Countee Cullen, with an accompanying note by Carl Van Vechten, in which that critic and novelist compares Cullen with the Russian poet, Pushkin. These poems will be included in Mr. Cullen's book of verse to be published this Fall. WOMAN HELD BY MAN BEATEN TO DEATH BY AN- OTHER WOMAN Richmond, Va., May 21.—Mrs. Hattie Flippen is in jail here charged with beating Mrs. Bertie Brently to death in a fight at their home Wednesday night. Cornelius Banks is charged with being an accomplice. It is said the women disagreed and a steel rod was used by the Flippen woman. The police say that Banks held the Brently woman while Mrs. Flippen rained blows on her head and face with the iron bar. The Department of Agriculture has been advised that a shortage of hogs in Germany is in prospect for 1926. This is so different from 1916. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 30, 1925 THE BEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD MADAM FLORENCE COLE-TALBERT WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE ADDITION TO OUR EQUIPMENT OF A FULLY EQUIPPED CUNNINGHAM AMBULANCE. WHEN WE SAY "CUNNINGHAM" WE MEAN ABSOLUTELY THE BEST MADE IN THE UNITED STATES: THE "CUNNINGHAM" BEING THE LAST WORD IN AMBULANCE CONSTRUCTION. WE PLACE THIS AMBULANCE AT THE SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC FOR TRANSFER WORK IN THE CITY AT THE NOMINAL FEE TO THE PATIENT OF $5.00: LONG TRIPS ON A MILEAGE BASIS. SHOULD NECESSITY ARISE IN A WORTHY CHARITY CASE, THE AMBULANCE WILL BE AS CHEERFULLY SENT AND THE SAME SERVICE RENDERED AT NO CHARGE AS WHEN FEE IS PAID. THE ENGRAVING WILL GIVE BUT A FAIR IDEA OF THE BEST AMBULANCE IN THE CITY. OUR NEW CUNNINGHAM. MADAM FLORENCE COLE-TALBERT CONTINUES TO MEET WITH EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS ON HER SINGING TOUR THROUGH THE WEST Madam Florence Cole-Talbert, who has within a short time become the leading coloratura soprano songstress in this country, and to her great honor THE QUESTIONNAIRE By Miss Louise Bond 1. Mention seven important government buildings in Washington. * * * 2. Mention ten noted monuments in Washington. * * * 3. How does Baltimore rank as a manufacturing and commercial city? * * * 4. What city of the United States ranks first in commerce? Second? Answers 1. The Capitol, The United States Treasury Building, The Congressional Library, The Building of the State, War, and Navy Departments, The Building of the Patent Office or the Department of the Interior, The Building of the Land Office, The Pension Building. * * * 2. Washington Monument, Naval, Monument, Lafayette Monument, statues of Washington, Franklin, Webster, two of Lincoln, Admiral Farragut, President Garfield, Chief Justice Marshall. * * * 3. Baltimore has some of the largest ironworks in the United States and in its vicinity is found the finest clay for brickmaking in the world. Its harbor is very extensive. * * * 4. New York. Chicago. A contract has been let by the Louisville Board of Park Commissioners for the construction of a swimming pool and bath house for colored people. --- and distinction, she has been one of the winners of the Diamond Medal, of the Chicago Musical College. Madam Talbert left this city on her western and southwestern tour shortly after May 1, where she will remain until the latter part of June and so far she has sung in the following cities and towns: Oakland, Calif., San Francisco, Stockton, Los Angeles. Hollywood, Pasadena, San Diego, and Denver, Colo., where she will sing for the BRIEFS (Columbia Press Bureau) There are 30,000 banks, of all types in the United States. Keep your eye on the fellow who is always seeking a vindication. Physicians and chiropodists have just discovered that few girls have perfect feet. Of the 575 colored retail dealers in candy and confectionery, 176 are females. The Superior Shoe Company of Bangor, Maine, employs a colored traveling salesman. Haiti may become our chief source of rubber supply as a result of American occupation. The "Boll Weevils" have worked north as far as Boston, where they recently gave an annual ball. All hats off to the members of the executive board of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Norfolk, Virginia, boasts of a new fraternal organization known as "The Grand United Order of Morning Glory." California, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, in the order named, receive most of our people who migrate north from Oklahoma and Texas. benefit of Shorter's Chapel, recently burned. Madam Talbert deserves to be highly commended for her generous act in that respect. As stated above, Madam Talbert will arrive in this city June 25, and on July 18, she will sail for Italy on the steamer S. S. Conte Rosso, where she will study from some of the best music teachers for the next six months in beautiful, far away Italy. WILL VISIT CITY Hon. Wm. H. Fields, national grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A., together with the national grand secretary-treasurer, Dr. George M. Cathrell, St. Louis, Mo., are expected to spend several days in the city on official business, concerning the meeting of the National Grand Council in August. Old Banking Institutions The oldest bank in the world is the Bank o. England, established in 1694. Banks were established on the continent of Europe, particularly in Venice and Amsterdam, about two centuries before that, but none c. them now exist. The largest bank in the world is Barclay's Bank, Ltd., London. England, with a total capital of a little over 24,000,000 pounds, equal to about $120,000,000. Bird Migration In certain parts of the ocean are to be found "bad atmospheric belts" in which atmospheres of great intensity are experienced at all times of the year, and it has been noted that these belts nearly always coincide with a route of bird migration. It is an interesting problem as to how far the birds in their passage are able to sense these magnetic disturbances. Landslide Forms Peninsula Near Sebastopol on the Black sea a landslide recently removed about 130-000 tons of earth, thrusting it into the sea in such a way that when it settled it had formed a peninsula and several new small islands that may be made habitable. Pianist Works Fast Experiments have shown that a first-class pianist can touch the keys more than 1,000 times with one hand in one minute. ADDITION TO OUR AMBULANCE. SOLUTELY THE BEST "M" BEING THE LAST OF THE PUBLIC FOR FALL FEE TO THE PA-SHOULD NECESSITY BLANCE WILL BE AS REFERRED AT NO A OF THE BEST AM- EMANUEL JACKSON CO. 2961 SO. STATE ST. CALUMET 6164 Indian Always Ready All Indians of both sexes are inveterate gamblers. They have been known to gambage away everything they owned, including their wives and their lives, which is raising the white man's ante to a considerable degree. As a rule, Indian dice have but two sides that are marked. These markings are of a thousand and one different designs and colors. The dice are cast either from the hand, a cup, bowl or basket. Many of the dice are thrown on stones, either held in the hand or on the ground. The object of this is to make the dice bound over and over, thus insuring a fair cast. The Indian, even as does the white man and the African enthusiast, speaks endearingly to his gaming implements, beseaching the Great Twin Brethren, the Spider Woman or whoever happens to be the delty presiding over that particular game of chance to cause "Lady Luck" to hover in his or her vicinity. Some of the younger generation living on the Mesa Grande reservation coin their own phrases, decidedly modern and the elder men and women chanting gaming songs so old that even the most ancient of the tribe had forgotten the meaning of the words. Roach, Pantry Pest, Is Native of India Sir Francis Drake, buccaneer of three hundred years ago, once took as a prize a Spanish ship loaded with spices from India. It is recorded that on that ship was a strange "black bugue" which the Spanish called cucarache, which strictly speaking, meant "wood louse." This cucarache became the modern cockroach. It was a native of India, never until that time seen in Europe. These cockroaches, however, were sturdy fellows, given to living in dark and narrow places, and therefore happy in the holds of ships that plied the seas. Thus these argosies of commerce have served as a means of broadcasting the cockroach, and it is found in abundance wherever man dwells. His bones have provided suitable breeding and dwelling places for these children of the warm countries. New species, one in America and one in Australia, were found and distributed. So have world-girdling multitudes of them appeared where before there were none at all or but local tribes. This increase in the range and numbers of the cockroach is typical of the man influence in the insect world. Purr-rr-rr Unlike Dickens, Thackeray did not delight in placing among the men and women of his novels unforgettable little portraits of their dogs and cats, parrots or canaries. Nor do we think of Thackeray as having that personal fondness for domestic creatures which was characteristic of Dickens, whose own dogs no less than his favorite raven, Grip, figure largely in his letters. But Thackeray's daughter, Lady Ritchie, gives in her recently published letters several delightful little glimpses of her own and her friends' pets; and in one brief and charming note she even ventures to interpret a few words from Fellinese into English. She writes to her friend, Mrs. Gerald Ritchie: "Solomon (the cat) has been purring messages, tell Peggy. He proposes to write, but says it is superfluous to say how much he misses her, and that he is purpurely lost without her to stroke his back. He has tried my lap, but he doesn't much like it; he finds it too purpendicular, and he sends his love lurp me."-Youth's Companion. "Corking Idea" Is Right **Corning Idea Is Right** The Boston Transcript credits the following to a Texas newspaper: "Milt Simmes had a narrow escape yesterday. While working on his water tank his holts slipped and he fell in. All he had to get out by was a rope, and with overdoses and overcow it was hard climbing. He worked 'till he almost give out and in desperation stopped, but failed to let loose the rope, in a very short time his hands froze to the rope which gave him a corking idea, he would reach as high on the rope as he could, hold a time 'till his hand would freeze to the rope, then blow his breath on the lower hand 'till it turned loose, then reach again, so finally reached the top. His feet are frozen, but he is able to be at his business." Early Coffee Houses Coffee houses were places of refreshment first opened in the Sixteenth century in Constantinople. In London they were, so to speak, club houses, free to all who could buy a cup; and yet each was known for its special circle of visitors, literary, scientific, religious or political. In the absence of newspapers they were a great means of spreading news and of discussing public questions. Nearly all of the middle and higher classes attended them daily, and they came to exert so powerful an influence in politics that in 1675 Charles II attempted to suppress them, but 'n valn. Milk as a Food Milk as a food for every one has been extensively advertised in the United States in the past few years, and apparently with convincing force. Statistics from 300 cities and 30,000 farms indicate that in 1923 the consumption of milk was 53 gallons to a person, as compared with 50 gallons in 1922 and 49 gallons in 1921. In Boston the consumption to a person has advanced in eight years from 35 to 64 gallons. Pheasants Predict Owakes The pheasant is the best earthquake predictor known, the bird crowing before or during every slight shock, according to a Japanese writer. 3 Considering the large influence colors exert upon us and the fact that we cannot afford to redecorate every few days if we do not care for a color scene, certain facts about colors should be well considered before any paint is purchased. On this subject an authority has said: "Color materially affects the appearance of surfaces, according to the speed at which the light rays travel—reflective ability, that is. Red is an aggressive color, irritating to some. Blue, a receding color, is soothing. A dull red does not bring a surface, apparently, as near the eye as a brilliant red. Green is considered a static color, while gray, as well as green, unless influenced either by yellow or blue, retains the apparent position. Yellow appears to enlarge the size of an object or surface without changing its position. For this reason orange can make a surface appear smaller, depending upon the amount of red it contains, or larger if the yellow predominates. Violet can be either aggressive or receding, depending upon the amount of red or blue it contains. Light violet, like gray, is static unless it leans more to the red." The Kudsa Bagh or the Kudsa gardens in Delhi, India, where tennis tournaments are held, were originally laid out in 1748 by Qucki Bengam, the mother of Ahmed Shah, emperor of Delhi. They have been well looked after, and although they cannot compare with the more ambitious pleasure grounds of the earlier Mughals, well worth a visit. No wall adorned with serrated battlements encircles the grounds, nor is there any imposing entrance gateway which is a great feature of the larger pleasures. In the center of the gardens, however, there is an old gateway. Now but a picturesque ruin, it was, a writer in the Montreal Family Herald understands, the gateway to Quuds Begam's palace, of which nothing now remains. To the southeast of this gateway there is another picturesque ruin—an old mosque which, though attached to the palace, was not included in it. In many ways the mosque is the more interesting of the two structures which give the gardens an air of bygone times. Important Japanese Feast Important Japanese Feast "The Feast of the Banners" as celebrated in Japan is a holiday in honor of male children, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month, which is now May 5. On every house that can boast of a male child is affixed a pole of bamboo, and floating therefrom are one or more gaudy fish made of paper. The exact number is determined by the number of boys in the household. The wind, blowing into the mouth of the fish, inflates them and makes them writhe and wriggle with a curiously lifelike motion. The fish are supposed to be carp, which in Japan are recognized symbols of health and long life. Other staff support pennants of every color while banners blazoned with heraldic devices float in the wind. Boys of all ages appear in the street in gala attire, some having little sabers in their belts, some bearing on their shoulders huge swords of wood, gayly painted and decorated, and others carrying miniature banners. Tribute to a Painter Millals (the painter) told me of a real and graceful compliment paid him by an American who bred horses. When Millals had finished the American's portrait, he was allowed to see it for the first time. There was a long silence while he gazed at the picture so long, indeed, that the painter got anxious. At last the man said, "I breed horses, and it is my habit every morning after breakfast to stand at a certain window in my house, and the filles come galloping up at the sight of me and feed from my hand. When I get that picture home, I shall stand it at that window, and I am very sure the filles will come galloping up."—Sir Johnson Forbes Robertson in the Sunday Times, London. Hopi and Apache Dolls The bureau of American ethnology says that the dolls of the Hopi Indians are never made of clay, but are manufactured from the subterranean branch of the cottonwood tree. They are not necessarily rain gods, although the need of rain is so omnipresent and these images are copies of certain idols which appear on rain altars, that they are sometimes called rain gods. They are, however, not gods, but dolls, and are made by the parents and given to the children as playthings. The dolls of the Apache, as well as certain other tribes, are often made of adobe, and are probably used in much the same way as the Hopi dolls. 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Many a “dead” weasel Is the ilvest thing you ever saw when your back is turned. “Etiquette” Extraordinary In a bor of etiquette published In 1480, directions are given as to how to grab the meat with the hands, ‘The Writer advises the use of three fingers only, and among his “don'ts” are: “Don't keep the hand too long feeling about in the dish; don’t take too large & piece; don’t wipe the fingers on the mate Much Used Word “Thing” 1s one of the most fre quently used words in everyday speech. One large standard dictionary has seven and a half columns of small type devoted-to illustrating Its uses. It occurs about 1,050 times in the Bible. Persian Legend The discovery of wine, a Persian legend says, was due to the toothache of a queen, who sought death in some fermented grape juice which the king had set aside as polson. Her tooth- ‘ache was cured Instead. Victims of Terror More than 2,500 persons were put to death in Paris during the Reign of ‘Terror in the French revolution. At Nantes 5,000 men, women and even children were drowned in the Lotre by tas Wesveniate: THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 30, 1925 Potato’s Importance ‘The potato is one of the many val able gifts of America to the world. Most histories, busy chronicling wars and elections and perhaps inventions, fall to emphasize the Introduction of the potato from America to Europe, or else mention it quite incidentally. Economists and sociologists, however, could make a good case for the potato as the New world product which has most deeply affected life in the old world. Porcelain Old Product Porcelain factories and stores were gor im Arabia as long ago as A. D, The Arabian geographer Mohamed-el-Efgdi, in 1154, published am account of the town of Djankoy where “Chinese glass” was made, and added that there was no finer trade than that of potmaker. Certain towns and villages became known for their porcelain and other ceramic products, though the industry was obviously limited to certain towns, Sheridan Refased Gift Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Brit- ish dramatist who wrote “The Rivals” and “The School for Scandal,” was in parliament during the American Revo- lution and took the part of the colo- nies. The American congress voted him a gift of $20,000 in gratitude for his services In pleading the cause of America, but he gracefully refused to accept the offer. _ Alibi for Homer A new and interesting light bas been shed on the disputed authorship of the Homeric poems. An English schoolboy wrote: “It Is said that writ. ing was not invented when Homer composed his poems. He must there fore have lived a ood deal later.”— Boston Transcript. 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[>A STRALT- 4 E-x RESOURCES Statement | us se segngner Bonde and Securities: 2:2. 9oeseat Fornitare and Fisterenss:, “48,08008 of Batic ketal Doreen 20 Banks eesserssess cece, 650,558.11 Other Resources 20202.) “Peeteat Condition Total.....ceabuatessec88 72789049 LIABILITIES: Se Genital Stock ........--.-8 490,000.00 Setptne 00S coasters eeeeegs Reserved for Taxes and ta. SOOM At the SeOON cases cuicas secs 6,203.58 other ‘Liabilities’ “221210212 aARRSE Deponite enees 20LIITLL aataceaoces Close of Totals... sees sesees BEART AOEAD Business ‘This Bank invites you to avail yourself rot es ‘complete, thaltio. on First Gola tate Usvestinents yield 1% erect *) Boxes in our completely equipped Safety April 6, 1925 ‘Depouit Vaults rent for 44.00 per year ‘Int at the rat allowed on / sivsaringe, Seances Satieey =e Rerumgnt eben trom # a.m te 8 pe. GEORGE F. LEIBRANDT, President CHARLES: A MITE, Vice President GEORGE 5. ‘Cashier MAURICE Ht ‘Asst. Cashier CE. h r. Savings Dept. | ‘Bleyhone Victor Ss | Canadian Shipbuildis 4s early a. 1728 shipbuilding was a branch of industry in Canada of the French regime. During that year six ‘Merchant ships and two men-of-war were built in the colony. In 1752 a ‘Té-gun ship was built at Cape Dis- mond, Quebec city. In 1810, fifty years after the surrender of Canada by Governor Vaudreuil to General Amherst, 26 vessels were built in Canada, having a total tonnage of 5,836 tons. These statistics show that they must have been small vessels. Gold in Canada Gold was found in the gravel in the bed of a small stream flowing into the Chaudiere river, south of Levis, prov- Ince of Quebec, in 1828, by a womar named Gilbert, In Nova Scotia gold was found in 1858 by Captain L’Es- trange while moose hunting. Gold: bearing quartz was discovered in 1860. ‘The Richardson mine at Mudoc, in Hastings county, was the first gold mine worked in Ontario. The preciou metal was discovered by a man named Powell in 1866, Treating Snake Bite Rattlers despise musk, tobacco and turpentine. They do most of their sleeping tn the daytime and hunt at night. Permanganate of potash placed in the wound after it has been sliced deeply with a knife will neutralize the venom it comes in contact with, but will not follow it through the system. If applied within five or six minutes after the subject has been Ditten, it will hold him up until he gets fo a doctor. Barnum of Finance “A fool ts born every minute, but the death rete isn't what it should be,” says an exchange. This wasn't exactly the view of the old fnancler. “They teli me," he remarked, “tha: every minute a fool is born into the world. And,” he added plously, “thank heaven scme of them live."—Bosto Transcript. 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