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Col. Robert S. Abbott in 1918 Loyally Supported Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, for United States Senator from Illinois, Right up to the Last Week Prior to the Election that Year. Then Col. Abbott, as Quick as Chain Lightning, Turned a Double Back-Action Sommersault, Wheeling in Line for Hon. Medill McCormick for United States Senator from Illinois SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Col. Robert Hamilton Illinois, Right Year. There a Double Hon. Medi PRIOR TO THAT ELECT BOTT URGED THE O PLE TO REFRAIN ALL OF THEIR EGGS IN REPUBLICAN BASE THE BASKETS SHOT TO FALL, THAT W END OF THE EGGS COLORED PEOPLE RY SOME OF THE MARKET IN DEMO KETS, THEY WOULD SAVE SOME OF THE KETS SHOULD HAP NOT LONG BEFORE THE COL. ABBOTT PUBB THE WORLD THAT CONKLIN SIMMONS AND BURIED IN A LOO YARD NEAR MEMBER THAT BEFORE LI WORLD, COL. SIN ROBBED HIM OUT SUMS OF MONEY; T A GRAND RASCAL CLASS SCOUNDREL NOT MANY MONTHS TIME COL. ABBOT NEW LIGHT FROM WITHIN THE TWINE EYE, HE TRANSFER SIMMONS INTO A ING ANGEL AND "THAT HE WAS THE STATESMAN AND ELOQUENT ORATO WORLD HAS EVER AT THIS TIME VERY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE MONS EVER ROBB BOTT OUT OF ONE AS SHAKESPEAK WHO HAS BEEN R NOT MISSING THAT BEEN STOLEN, IS NO ALL." PRIOR TO THAT ELECTION, COL. ABBOTT URGED THE COLORED PEOPLE TO REFRAIN FROM TOTING ALL OF THEIR EGGS TO MARKET IN REPUBLICAN BASKETS, FOR IF THE BASKETS SHOULD HAPPEN TO FALL, THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE EGGS, BUT IF THE COLORED PEOPLE WOULD CARRY SOME OF THEIR EGGS TO MARKET IN DEMOCRATIC BASKETS, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SAVE SOME OF THEM IF THE BASKETS SHOULD HAPPEN TO FALL. NOT LONG BEFORE THAT ELECTION COL. ABBOTT PUBLISHED IT TO THE WORLD THAT "COL. ROSCOE CONKLIN SIMMONS WAS DEAD AND BURIED IN ALONELY GRAVEYARD NEAR MEMPHIS, TENN.; THAT BEFORE LEAVING THIS WORLD, COL. SIMMONS HAD ROBBED HIM OUT OF LARGE SUMS OF MONEY; THAT HE WAS A GRAND RASCAL AND A FIRST-CLASS SCOUNDREL AND SO ON." NOT MANY MONTHS FROM THAT TIME COL. ABBOTT RECEIVED NEW LIGHT FROM ON HIGH, AND WITHIN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, HE TRANSFORMED COL. SIMMONS INTO A BRIGHT SHINING ANGEL AND DECLARED "THAT HE WAS THE GREATEST STATESMAN AND THE MOST ELOQUENT ORATOR THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER PRODUCED." AT THIS TIME VERY FEW SANE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT COL. SIMMONS EVER ROBBED COL. ABBOTT OUT OF ONE DOLLAR, FOR AS SHAKESPEARE SAYS, "HE WHO HAS BEEN ROBBED AND, NOT MISSING THAT WHICH HAS BEEN STOLEN, IS NOT ROBBED AT ALL." --- Col. Abbott has stated from time to time "that he has for years served the leaders of the Republican party in this city, county and state in season and out of season, that he always follows the cow bell, and for that reason alone the big leaders of the Republican party decided to reward him for the past services which he has so faithfully rendered to all of its high priests by appointing his brother-in-law, the Hon. N. K. McGill, Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County." In that respect Col. Abbott is side stepping the absolute truth ten thou- THE BROAD AX 5 CENTS PER COPY ELECTION, COL. ABHE COLORED PEOPLE FROM TOTING EGGS TO MARKET IN BASKETS, FOR IF PUSHOULD HAPPEN IT WOULD BE THE EGGS, BUT IF THE PLE WOULD CARRY THEIR EGGS TO EMOCRATIC BAS-HOULD BE ABLE TO THEM IF THE BAS-HAPPEN TO FALL. WE THAT ELECTION PUBLISHED IT TO WHAT "COL. ROSCOE MONS WAS DEAD ALONELY GRAVE-EMPHIS, TENN.; WE LEAVING THIS SIMMONS HAD OUT OF LARGE KY; THAT HE WAS CAL AND A FIRST-REL AND SO ON." THIS FROM THAT BROTT RECEIVED FROM ON HIGH, AND SWINKLING OF AN NSFORMED COL. A BRIGHT SHIN-AND DECLARED IS THE GREATEST IN AND THE MOST VATOR THAT THE VER PRODUCED." EVERY FEW SANEVE THAT COL. SIM-OBBED COL. ABONE DOLLAR, FOR WE ARE SAYS, "HE EN ROBBED AND, THAT WHICH HAS NOT ROBBED AT sand times much faster than the boss or the head devil can trot or run. It will be recalled that the late Medill McCormick and Mayor William Hale Thompson were the two leading Republican candidates at the state-wide primaries in September, 1918, that after a spirited and bitter contest between them and their camp followers, the late Senator McCormick won the nomination for United States Senator from Illinois over Mayor William Hale Thompson, and after it was finally decided that McCormick was the regular Republican candidate for that highly hon- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 20, 1925 ored position, the leaders of all the factions of his party came together and united their forces and marched solidly behind him in the successful effort to put him over at the polls at the November election in the year 1918, for it must be remembered that McCormick was the head and front of the McCormick, Crowe, Barrett and Brundage combination, but not one of those big leaders nor none of the prominent leaders of the Republican party could induce Col. Abbott to write one line in favor of the election of Mr. McCormick to the United States Senate. Each week his newspaper ran long-winded articles or editorials advocating the re-election of Hon. James Hamilton Lewis to the united Senate; he frequently admonished the colored people not to carry all of their eggs to market in the Republican basket, take some of them to market in Democratic baskets and then they would feel safe in feeling that all of their eggs would not fall out of either the Democratic or the Republican basket at the same time. Right up to almost the last week before the election Col. Abbott continued to hit 100 licks through the columns of the greatest newspaper in the world, in favor of the Democratic candidate for United States Senator against one in favor of the Republican candidate for United States senator. On the last Wednesday evening in October, 1918, the late George W. Holt and his great musical wife, Mrs. Holt, 4404 Prairie Ave., gave a grand reception in honor of Congressman McCormick. Mrs. Holt playing some of her most wonderful creations or selections for his special benefit on her Baby Grand piano which cost $3,000. Mr. McCormick rode to the pleasant affair in a Yellow Cab and after he had mingled with his host and hostess and their invited guests, he and the late B. F. Moseley were conveyed to their homes by Col. Abbott, and on the following Saturday morning, or the last Saturday morning before the election in 1918, when the greatest newspaper in the world hove in sight, it contained a large double column front page cut of Mr. McCormick, and some claim although it may not be true and we don't believe it, that some way or other that $1,000 fell mighty close to the wise feet of Col. Abbott, for switching from Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, from Illinois, to Hon. Medill McCormick, Republican candidate for United States Senator, from Illinois, over night. With this shameful political record in front or behind him, if any of the big white leaders of the Republican party in this city or county who still feel that they are indebted to Col. Abbott for his past loyal support of the leading Republican candidates, they are simply short sighted fools and they are fit subjects for the mad or crazy house. It will be recalled that not so long ago that Col. Abbott let the whole world know that Col. Roscoe Conklin Simmons was dead and buried without honors in a silent grave yard at After soundly sleeping on these two statements slung out to the world by Co. Abbott we firmly believe that Col. Simmons has never robbed him out of one dollar in money. For as Shakespeare says, "he who has been robbed and not missing that which has been stolen has not been robbed at all." HON. ALEXANDER FYFE ADD DRESSES PHYLLIS WHEAT. LEY BANQUET The Board of Directors of the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association gave a complimentary banquet, Monday evening, June 15, at the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes Avenue. This occasion marked the opening of a campaign for $50,000.00 for the purpose of providing a better home for our girls. Hon. and Mrs. Alexander Fyfe were the guests of honor. The following program was rendered: Piano solo by Mme. W. Carry Thomas; soprano solo by Mme. Roberta Crawford; cornet solo by Captain W. Carry Thomas. Mr. Harvey A. Watkins, master of ceremonies, introduced Mme. Bertha L. Hensley, president of the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, made a splendid address, outlining the plans and purposes of the P. W. H. A., and stressed the importance of providing a larger home for our girls. Hon. Alexander Fyfe, president of the Hamilton Club, was introduced as the speaker of the evening. His address was full of helpful advice and will be long remembered by those who heard him. Among other things, he said, "What appeals to me in connection with this home, is the great opportunity for character making among your young women. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Get the right kind of women and you will get the right kind of boys and girls. If a child has been raised properly he never forgets his training. He can always look everybody in the eye and give an account of himself. Why should a Negro girl come to Chicago and not have any place to go until she can get work? We have less trouble with the black skinned people than the whites who come to Chicago. If there is a group in this country entitled to help it is the colored group. Regardless of what a certain army officer thinks or has said, I say they have earned everything they have. Why not step in with this little group of women and help them secure a larger building for their work? The responsibility has been on them and they are willing to continue to carry it. They only want us to tell others that this Home has outgrown itself and they must have a new home. We all know this is a just cause and that you are not asking for something which is unnecessary. The things that MISS ANNA L. CRISP Recent graduate of the Kent C Law School. Her many wcess as she enters the wor MISS ANNA L. CRISP SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATES FROM THE CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL Recent graduate of the Kent College of Law and the Chicago Law School. Her many warm friends wish her great success as she enters the world of Law. After attending the Kent College of Law, and the Chicago Law School for the past three years, Miss Anna L. Crisp, who is successfully engaged in the Court or Law Reporting business, at 112 N. La Salle Street, graduated and received her L.L.B. degree on June 10 with a number of other aspirants who expect to become legal shining lights at the bar in this city and in other states. are worth while are the things that live. I would rather be known as a man who had a heart and tried to help all he could, than the other fellow who dies with his riches. $50,000.00 will not be hard to get if everyone will see the other fellow and ask him to give something. The Phyllis Wheatley Home Association is a character building institution. It is a benefit to the community, to me and the other fellow. I admire the spirit of this little group of women who started this association." Mrs. Fyfe made a few interesting remarks and Col. J. Reynolds Kline made a short address. Mr. Watkins requested expressions from guests. Mrs. Walton, Mr. L. Lindsey, and Mrs. W. H. Lee, responded. The meeting was turned over to the chairman of the campaign committee, Mrs. Irene M. Gaines. Total amount of subscriptions taken in $1,056.00. The campaign ends June 30. Campaign headquarters, 3256 Rhodes Ave. VIRGINIAN HOLDS CONFERENCE Mrs. Lelia W. Bankett of Richmond, Va., representative of The Independent Order of St. Luke from headquarters at Richmond, held a conference on Tuesday evening with many of the local representatives at The Vincennes Hotel. Now that the South is manufacturing cotton goods on a large scale we hear less democratic objection to the protective tariff policy of the republican party. --- college of Law and the Chicago firm friends wish her great suc- sid of Law. Miss Crisp deserves much credit for becoming a deep student of Blackstone by earning her own living in the Court Reporting business and paying her way through the school of law. She expects to take the bar examination soon and be admitted to practice in all the courts, all of which is indeed gratifying to her numerous friends. Among those friends none are more highly delighted than Miss Elizabeth C. Clark, who now has a position with The Illinois Industrial Commission, and who is planning on taking several advanced courses at the University of Chicago. HISTORICAL REVOLUTIONARY LEAFLET Boston, Mass.—The first edition of the Peter Salem leaflet issued by the National Equal Rights League is already exhausted by requests sent to its National headquarters, No. 9 Coruhill, Wm. Monroe Trotter, Secretary, in charge. But one more edition is to be printed, and in order that it may know how large an edition to print without late orders going disappointed, the League requests that all individuals, schools, libraries, lodges, and organizations who desire a copy for themselves or to place in the hands of white persons, send for the leaflet at once, enclosing 4 cents in stamps. The document, with addenda of colored soldiers in all American wars, is sold at cost, 2 copies can be had for 5 cents, 5 copies for 10 cents, in stamps. Mrs. J. M. Higginbothan, 213 E. 48th Street, left Tuesday morning for Pittsburgh, Pa., where she will visit for two weeks to be at the bedside of her sick brother, Mr. Goldstone. More than $10,000,000 worth of meat animals are sold daily in the United States. Nearly one-third of a million cattle, hogs and sheep bring this total. Mr. Leon N. Hefflin, a progressive colored citizen of Los Angeles, is the president of a household furniture manufacturing company for which a modern factory is being erected. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 40 Hon. Jamesinator from election that ng, Turned n Line for rom Illinois --- MR. ANTHONY OVERTON, PRESIDENT OF THE DOUG- LASS NATIONAL BANK, ADDRESSED THE METROPOL- ITAN SUNDAY EVENING CLUB AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL SUNDAY EVENING Last Sunday evening Mr. Sandy W. Trice, as Master of Ceremonies, con- ducted the services or the affairs of the Metropolitan Sunday Evening Club, at the Wendell Phillips High School and he made a good presiding officer. After several songs, including America, by the choir and congregation had been sung, an invocation by Dr. William D. Cook, Hon. George T. Kersey, was introduced by the master of ceremonies, who in turn presented Mr. Anthony Overton, president of the Douglass National Bank, to the vast audience and he was warmly received by it. Mr. Overton talked on the "National Bank," and he pointed out that the National Bank, with the United States Government behind it, is far superior to State Banks; that ninety-nine National banks out of every hundred, broadly speaking, are conducted along safe, sound and honest lines. That the Douglass National Bank is the only national bank conducted by colored people in the United States; that it stood on the same level or footing with the other national banks in the eyes of the comptroller of the United States Currency. In short, the talk of Mr. Overton was highly interesting and instructive. Most of the directors of the Douglass National Bank occupied seats on the platform. Prof. Hilbert Earl Stewart and his wonderful piano class occupied the remainder of the evening with piano recitals which were indeed very remarkable for some of his pupils had only received ten or twelve lessons on the piano. Prof. J. Wesley Jones, director of the Metropolitan choir, assisted Prof. Stewart with his piano recital. TWO NEW BOOKS ON RACE QUESTION (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington, D. C.—Two new books on the so-called racial problem have made their appearance. "The Basis of Racial Adjustment," by Dr. Thomas J. Woofter (white) of Georgia, sets forth his opinion of how the different races of mankind are to dwell together in peace and harmony; while "The Menace of Color" by Dr. J. W. Gregory (white) deals with the same topic in a very detailed way and attempts to prove that "the color classification is of more value in political guidance than that based on the skull or hair." The first-named book is published by Ginn & Company, of New York; while Dr. Gregory selected the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia, as his salesman-in-chief. MISSISSIPPI NORMAL TO OPEN JUNE 22 Prentiss, Miss., June 16.—Principal J. E. Johnson, of the Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute announces the State Normal for colored teachers will open at the institute, June 22 and run five weeks of six days each. Special attention will be given to the public school branches. MOTOR TO CITY Ambrose H. Robinson of Milwaukee, Wis., in company with several friends, motored to the city and to Gary, Ind., where they spent the week end. 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 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MASONS AT ODDS Washington, D. C., June 19—Mingo Sanders, Dorsey F. Seville, Joseph E. H. Shields, and William H. Thomas, describing themselves as grand master, grand secretary and trustees of Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Friday sued Alfred E. Robinson, Henry Washington, Henry C. Scott, Elijah Smoot and John H. F. Fisher to require the defendants to show by what warrant of the law they claim to be the grand master and trustees of the lodge. The plaintiffs say they were duly elected and claim the defendants are usurping their authority. The lodge owns premises at 1111 Nineteenth Street, northwest. The petitioners are represented by Attorneys Benjamin L. Gaskins and Walter A. Pinchback. IRATE WIFE "BUTTERS" HUS BAND'S BISCUITS WITH STRONG LYE (Preston News Service) Charlotte, N. C., June 18.—Ralph Moore, aged 40 years, ran to the police station here Tuesday morning with a couple of biscuits nicely "buttered" with concentrated lye and his mouth so badly burned that he could hardly talk. After much effort he finally explained to the officers that his wife, Hester Moore, had tried to kill him by poisoning him and that he wanted her arrested. Moore then swore out a warrant for his wife and she was promptly arrested and charged with attempt to commit murder. The man's mouth was terribly burned and he was evidently in great pain, according to the story related by the police. Moore was not injured other than the local burns in his mouth. He told the police that the lye burned so fast and quickly and hurt him so much that he didn't get a chance to swallow any of it. He said that he had a suspicion for some time that Mrs. Moore wanted to get rid of him. But he had no idea that she would take the poison method. SECRETARY WILBUR MAY PROBE THE VIRGIN ISLAND FIGHT (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., June 19—According to an announcement made by an official of the U. S. Navy Department, Secretary Wilbur has indicated that he might give his personal attention to questions which have arisen concerning the administration of the Virgin Islands as a result of representations made to him by the Civil Liberties' Union, which directed charges against the American Judge and the Governor of the Islands. It has been charged that the Governor arbitrarily disbanded the Council of St. Croix because it had refused to recognize or seat his appointees, but it is said here that no question had been raised of the Governor's legal right to take such a course. The charges against the Judge involve his alleged course in sentencing a native editor to jail on charges of criminal libel. Secretary Wilbur, it is said, has asked the Island authorities for reports on the incidents. 456 HON. JOHN K. LAWLER One of the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago, first class and successful business man, who is very popular with all classes of his fellow citizens. Some of his many friends would like to see him enter the race as the Republican candidate for Treasurer of Cook County in 1926. COLORFUL NEWS "MOVIES" newspaper galleys filled with mere By the Cameraman 1. Howard Is Ill. 2. The Negro Press. 3. Refreshing Hopes. With a high temperature and rapid pulse, Howard University wearily lies upon a bed of pain and sickness. Specialists have been called in and Howard alumni have preferred their curatives, but the big school, which has so long been a heaven of knowledge for Negro youth, is the victim of an epidemic of dissension and unrest, the final effects of which may leave wounds for time and tolerance to heal. The student strike which seems to have been won by the protestants has apparently inoculated other Howard elements with a feeling of restiveness, and internal and external groups, perhaps sincere and perhaps otherwise, have filled the university organization with educational antidotes—mostly painful ones. We have no arguments to advance which involve the Howard organization in detail. We do not know who ought to be who at Howard, or what man, woman or child should be hired or fired in order to return Howard to the educational vigor which the University at one time enjoyed. However, there are those essential facts concerning Howard, which we do know. (1) Howard was created primarily for the higher education of Negro youth, and as such its past history is enviable in the annals of Negro education; (2) Howard is a quasi-public institution in that funds from the public treasury are appropriated yearly by the people's representatives in Congress for the maintenance of the school; and (3) Howard is an eyesore to many members of Congress, who believe that higher education for the Negro should by no means be fostered and preserved. It follows that the dissension and strife now present on Howard hilltop are spectacles happily observed by "I told you so" enemies of Howard, who may, during the coming year have a say in the dispensation of public funds. The days of President Wilbur Thirdield should be hastily recalled as exemplary days at Howard, when peace, harmony and unity made Howard what it was yesterday. The education of Negro youth should be the paramount item for consideration by Howard's well-wishers, and the cooperation of the public should be courted rather than jeopardized by all who would see Howard rise to the heights of its longed-for career. Conservative and substantial thought, with the big idea of Negro education and public welfare as a foundation for any reconstruction which may be needed at Howard should quickly be prescribed in the stead of unrest and agitation. The situation should be reversed by making molehills of personal strife and by making mountains of Negro education. The increasing power of the influence of the Negro press is nothing short of marvelous, and the alertness of Negro editors, who fill their editorial pages with a plain talk concerning current events marks a new day in the moulding of public opinion among the Negroes of America. No longer are newspaper galleys filled with mere words. Quite to the contrary, they are laden with modern opinion built by an honest, straightforward analysis of everyday affairs-affairs of vital importance to the hundreds of thousands of Negro readers who yearn for the truth and are skeptical of the propaganda so widely dispensed in past years by a large percentage of the white papers and periodicals. The results of the wide-awake attitude of the Negro press are becoming more and more noticeable, as readers and their associates calmly absorb the opinion of Negro editors. The day of fooling all the Negroes all the time has become Medieval, as thoughtful subcribers of the Negro press become informed of wages, employment, legislation, history, statistics, education, health, and dozens of kindred topics of everyday effect upon Negro life in America. It is almost safe to assume that the philosophy of reason which accompanies the effectiveness of Negro journalism is stronger than that of racial group contemporaries of the colored people who are wondering just how much of the real truths of life the latter are absorbing through the means of printers' ink. It follows then that the Negro press is helping the Negro to outgrow the skein of thought which a great part of the white world has so long thrown about the former, and that parallelism of opinion must ultimately emerge from the journalistic evolution which is now going on through the heroic endeavors of the Negro press. The facts must be faced and all people must realize that American Negroes are thinking in terms of modernism—not heated modernism, but safe, same modernism, dealing with the naked truth and seeing it just as the rest of the modern world, white, yellow, brown and red, see it. The transition is to be commended by all honest people, who should, reciprocally call a spade a spade and discontinue attempting to deluge the Negro with a veneered surface of American events and American hopes. And now comes Senator Royal S. Copeland, of New York, and for a plea doth say that "sectional, occupational, and religious differences of the Democratic Party" must be thrown upon the scrap pile of disuse. Eurekai! And the rose should have been as sweet by any other name, we think. Nevertheless, the Senator's hopes are encouraging, and if they are materialized, there'll be peace on earth and good will toward men. Geography, creeds and skin tints have wielded so much power through all the ages that we wonder, at times, if the new civilization has so very much on the old. Racial differences trickle through all the elements named by the good senator, and if sections, occupations, and religions can mend their variances and smoke the pipe of peace in all sincerity, then racial differences will go along to the scrap heap with all the baneful differences named by Senator Copeland. The task, of course, depicted by the Senator is a superhuman one, and it will be necessary, first of all, for him to secure the hearty co-operation of his confreres below the Mason and Dixon line, where the church south is alienated from the church north; where history begins with the Battle of Gettysburg; and where occupations frequently suffer from the intervention of practices which challenge law, order and Christianity. There's virtue, though, even in a hope; and there can be consummation of that hope if the good old preamble of the U. S. Constitution can be stamped into the minds of all who claim the right to its inspiration and the benefit of its protection. SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN ROSE ART AND CHARITY CLUB IS CELEBRATED AT 1826 SO. MICHIGAN AVE. A Synopsis by the Rev. Theodore Stephens, Member of Negro Research Society of New York In the magnificent parlor of the building located at 1826 S. Michigan Ave., on the afternoon of the 11th of June, a large group of members of the American Rose Art and Charity Club, with their friends and invited guests, congregated to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of the existence of the club. At 2 P. M., the doors were thrown open to the public, and as the guests arrived they were confided to the care of the reception committee from whom they received the most sympathetic attention. At 3 P. M., Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, seated in the chair of honor, as Mistress of Ceremonies, announced the formal opening of the programme with an address of welcome by Mrs. Carrie Johnson, vice-president, who in the name of the American Rose Art and Charity Club welcomed the "convives" in the most affectionate manner. The response to this address was made by Mrs. S. J. Fountain in words befitting the representative of the guests of the American Rose Art and Charity Club. Music, elocution, song, oratory, made the programme the most wonderful we have heard for some time. We give the details "en bloc:" The speakers were Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Mrs. Amelia Brooks Chase, Mrs. Irene Gaines, Rev. Theodore Stephens. The Musicians Little Miss Mary Anderson, who presided at the piano on two occasions, Miss Harriette Gaines, Miss Ruth Rolling, Miss Zenobia Laws. The Cantatrices Mrs. Lily Jackson, to the accompaniment of Mrs. Black Thompson. A unanimous "encore" brought both the cantatrie and her accompanist again to the fore. The elocutionists were: Miss Harriet Bunch and Master Cannon. The Year's Work Is Reviewed by the President Mrs. Fannie Bowers, president of the American Rose Art and Charity Club, reviewed briefly the work of the year just closed. She presented to the audience the members of the various auxiliary clubs who had been most successful in raising funds last year as well as this year for the organization. Mrs. Bowers also stated that about $140 had been donated to genuine charity, and that a substantial balance of $429 is in the bank to the credit of the organization, furthermore that the Club takes care of 12 THE NEW YORK TIMES [Name] MR. SANDY W. TRICE One of the Directors of the M Church, the Wendell Phillips Avenue, who ably presided Wendell Phillips High Scho One of the Directors of the Metropolitan Community Center Church, the Wendell Phillips High School and 3122 Giles Avenue, who ably presided at the great meeting held at the Wendell Phillips High School Sunday evening. The Programme The Musicians The Cantatrices blind persons who are visited semi annually. The Art Exhibit which was held in a room adjoining the main auditorium, was in itself a "chef-d'oeuvre" (masterpiece). Linen doilies, table covers, center-pieces, spreads, and a host of other articles, all cunningly worked, as if by the hand of some ancient Egyptian weaver, skilled in embroidery and needlework, and who, possibly catered to Cleopatra or Tut-Ankamen, or Amenhotep, or Ramses. The workmanship exhibited in the works of art by the ladies of the American Rose Art and Charity Club shows the genius of the women of our race in general, and the ability in particular, of the members of the above organization. One of the speakers in commenting on the Art Exhibit, compared it to one of the Art Exhibits held in Greece in the time of Pericles; he furthermore showed, by comparison, with the art group that was chissled by Creon, the Greek slave, how our race, once in slavery, had so evolved, that to us works of art are as natural as to the Egyptians, the Greeks, or those of the Incas civilization. Mrs. Minnie Pattersen, chairman of the Art Exhibit Department, is to be complimented. We wish the American Rose Art and Charity Club abundant success, and a long and unhampered career of perennial usefulness. CLOSES SUCCESSFUL SESSION The General State Baptist Convention of Illinois, which met in its 26th annual session at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 33rd St., and Indiana Ave., from June 8 to 13, at which time a most harmonious session was held. More actual work was accomplished than ever before: more than $1,500 was raised. Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church and president of The National Baptist Convention, inc., delivered a splendid address before the association. Among the newly elected officers were Dr. J. J. Olive of Cairo, re-elected president; Anthony Overton, president of The Douglass National Bank, and treasurer of The Pyramid Building and Loan Rev. J. W. Coleman, pastor of Lilydale First Baptist Church, recently elected moderator of The Union Baptist Association of Chicago and vicinity, was elected corresponding secretary. The session closed to meet in 1926 at Quincy, Ill. IN GREAT ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The various councils of A. U. K. & D. of A., and the military department of Illinois, held their anniversary exercises last Sunday at The Institutional Church, 38th and Dearborn Sts. The anniversary sermon was delivered by the pastor, Rev. H. E. Stewart Among others who spoke were Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois; Col. Wm. Williams, 1st Regiment of Illinois Military Department; Mrs. Henrietta Dean, state grand mother queen of Illinois, and many others. In Fayette County, Tennessee, there are 800 less colored farmers than five years ago. ```markdown ``` Metropolitan Community Center pops High School and 3122 Giles at the great meeting held at the ool Sunday evening. DR. JOHN W. BURRELL One of the popular surgeons and physicians on the South Side, who has many patients who have great faith in his ability to pull them through whenever sickness overtakes them. REV. THEODORE STEPHENS, MEMBER NEGRO RESEARCH SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, SPEAKS BEFORE THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM. SUBJECT: HAITI'S CONTRIBUTION TO CIVILIZATION HIGH CLASS MUSICALE RENDERED BY THE CHOIR OF BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH By Louise Bond On Monday, June 15, the choir of Berean Baptist Church, 52nd and Dearborn Streets, directed by Mr. In the presence of about 100 members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which Miss Jane Addams is International President, on the afternoon of the 9th of June, on the 18th floor of the Stevens Bldg., 17 N. State St. Rev. Theodore Stephens delivered an academic address on Haiti's Contribution to Civilization. Rev. Stephens said in part: "Haiti is not in that category of nations which claim the honor of being the founders of civilization, such as India, Egypt, China, Assyria, Persia, Phoenicia, Chaldae, Greece, etc. Haiti has notwithstanding, made immense contributions to modern civilization." "These," argued the speaker, "may be enumerated in the following order: First, by being the first to abolish slavery in the Western World; second, by the establishment of an independent government; third, Haiti helped President Bolivar on two occasions, with men, money, arms and ammunition to fight the war against inquisitorial Spain, and the result was, the independence of Venezuela, Columbia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala. Fourth, Haiti has contributed to civilization by the role she played when, under the immortal Washington, at the battle of Savannah, Ga., 800 freed Haitians fought with the result that Cornwallis handed his sword to General Washington. Fifth, the active part Haiti took in the World's Fair held in Chicago in the year 1893, and at the St. Louis Exposition in 1900. Sixth, Haiti was the first nation to send first-hand aid to the terror-striken inhabitants of Jamaica, B. W. I., at the time of the Jamaica earthquake, January, 1907. Seventh, Haiti has supplied the world's markets with her products, viz., coffee, cocoa, logwood, goatskins, hides, sisal (or hemp) castor beans, mahogany, fustic, lignum-vitae, tobacco, etc., etc. Eighth, by receiving Ambassadors, sending delegations, and making her flag known and respected in the different capitals of Europe, U. S. America, South America, and the West Indies." Rev. Stephens, at the close of the address, received numerous congratulations and many favorable comments. It is understood that Rev. Stephens will soon be among the pastors who have churches in Chicago. I wish him success. BISHOP BROOKS SAILS New York—Bishop W. Sampson Brooks sailed for Liberia on board the S. S. Homeric Saturday, June 13. He carried equipments and supplies with him to aid in his work in Africa. While in Baltimore, Bishop Brooks received a check for $8,000 from the Woman's Mite A. M. E. Missionary Society. The check was presented by Mrs. John Hurst. and physicians on the South Side, have great faith in his ability never sickness overtakes them. HIGH CLASS MUSICALE RENDERED BY THE CHOIR OF BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH On Monday, June 15, the choir of Berean Baptist Church, 52nd and Dearborn Streets, directed by Mr. Isaac T. Yarborough, gave a musical at the church and presented Stabat Mater by Rossini and Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by S. Coleridge Taylor. The soloists of the evening, Jamesana Weathers, soprano, William J. Powell, tenor, Katherine Iles, contralto, Emmett Berger, baritone, Lewis White, bass, and the Berean Choir of sixty voices, were accompanied by the Ferrell Symphony Orchestra. Reverend William S. Braddan is pastor of Berean, Estella C. Bonds, organist, and Mary Perryman, secretary. Sabat Mater ..... Rossini Introduction ..... Orchestra 1. Chorus and Quartette, "Lord Most Holy, Lord Most Mighty." 2. Air Tenor, "Lord, Vouchsaie Thy Loving Kindness," Mr. Paweil 3. Duet, "Power Eternal," Mrs. Weathers and Mrs. Iles. 4. Air Baritone, "Through the Darkness Thou Wilt Lead Me," Mr. Berger. 5. Recitative Bass and Hearts, "Thou Hast Tried Our Hearts," Mr. White and Choir. 6. Quartettes, "I Have Longed for Salvation," Mrs. Weathers, Mrs. Iles, Mr. Powell, Mr. White. 7. Cavatina, "I Will Sing of Thy Great Mericles," Mrs. Iles. 8. Inflammatus "When Thou Comest," Mrs. Weathers and Choir. 9. Quarette, "Hear Us, Lord." Mrs. Weathers, Mrs. Iles, Mr. Powell Mr. White. PART II. "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast," S. Coleridge Taylor; Introduction, Orchestra; "You Shall Hear Hoy Pau Pu Kee Wis," Chorus; "Then the Handsome Pau Pu Kee Wis," Chorus; "He Was Dressed in Shirt of Doe Skins," Chorus; "First He Danced a Solemn Measure," Chorus; "Then Said They to Chibiibas," Chorus; Soloi "Onaway! Awake, Beloved," Mr. Powell; "Thus the Gentle Chibiibas," Chorus; "Very Boastful Was Lagoo," Chorus; "Such Was Hiawatha's Wedding," Chorus. TO HAVE BIG AFFAIR The 1925 Ft. Dearborn Marching Club, of which Jas. M. Brooks is president, is preparing for a big affair at The Coliseum, new hall, on the evening of July 3, in preparing to make the "On to Richmond" trip a most successful one. James C. Martin, exalted ruler of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, is general chairman. MANY VISIT MORGAN PARK Many people from the city proper and surrounding suburbs visited Morgan Park last Sunday and looked over the many choice sites and beautiful bungalows and cottages offered for sale in this rapidly thriving part of the city. By Louise Bond CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS WITHIN THE PAST TWO WEEKS VISITED ALL THE LEADING TOWNS IN THE LONE STAR STATE. Houston, Texas—I have been walking the streets of Houston with my hat in my hand ever since I have been here, and I shall continue to do so until I leave town. I have been on the business streets and have left my hat at my stopping place, because I don't want to come in contact with the business end of a police billy. It is all I can do to keep my mouth from jumping out of my heart and I am sure you do not blame me when I tell you that poor Charles Norvell Love, editor of the Houston "Times," was arrested one day, toted off to the police station without cause and when he entered the holy of holiest, a police said "Nigger take off your hat in the presence of white men," and he did not act fast enough and the Lord God of creation, so to speak, knocked the editor down, and they beat him up, and then toted him before the judge, charging him with using abusive language and on one charge he was fined $100 and on the other charge he was fined $5. Now that is particular hash-esquare-lull. Now you want to know what the trouble was? Love had the misfortune to be born a Negro, and then he had the misfortunate to live in Houston, where law is made for white men and to punish a Negro, right or wrong, if charged by a white man. I am not going to say all the things I have on my mind and heart to say this time and you will excuse me, but just look in my heart and read what is therein and you would almost be disgusted at me, a Baptist minister, thinking such hellish things, but you will not blame me when you know what is going on. I thank God that my mother at her feet taught me how to pray, commencing with "Now I lay me down to sleep," and going on to "Our Father which art in heaven," and then the last prayer was for those who would persecute me unjustly, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." I am glad that I belong to a Christian race, and not a vindictive race. A race that can truly portray the life of Jesus Christ on earth, and a people who can carry their mistreatments to Jesus will some day triumph. I was in New Orleans when I wrote the last letter, there I was mingling with big men and educated women. The Rev. Dr. B. G. Dawson toted me around in his automobile car carriage, and I was entertained by Mrs. Porche and her daughter, Miss Enola E. Porche, a teacher in the public school system, and Mrs. Myrtle Marshall, the married daughter, who is a first-class dressmaker, and the other daughter, Miss P. Grace Porche, was sick in bed and she was having a hard time. I am informed that she is much better. She finished at New Orleans college, one year ago, and at once got a position in the public school system, while her sister finished the college course there a long time ago and taught first in Hope, Ark., and later was employed in the system in New Orleans. She has been teaching now three years, and this is the year she gets the permanent appointment. I congratulate her. They tell me she is a good teacher, and weighs about 90 pounds, and 80 pounds are supposed to be brains. She is indeed a smart young woman. Mrs. B. G. Dawson is sick, and let us all pray that she will soon be fully restored to health, also Miss Grace Porche. Mrs. Dawson has helped to make her husband all that he is and I want to have her live to see him made a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He deserves the promotion, and will do well. In my letter I told you about the death of a great woman of our race, Mrs. Booker T. Washington. She was laid to rest in Tuskegee Institute just a few days ago, there to await the resurrection day. She has gone to join her sainted husband, the wizard, the man who helped his race so much and just in the prime of life he was called to his eternal rest. It is just one more gone into the Great Beyond to welcome us when we shall cross over to join her and other friends who have gone ahead of us. Just one more to say "Thou too shall surely die, so get your house in order." Mrs. Washington lived a useful life and she will be missed at Tuskegee Institute. I shall never forget her kindness to me while I was in the hospital there. She had sent to me ice cream every day while I was there and I enjoyed it so very much. I wanted to go to the funeral and there place a flower on her bier, but the physicians would not permit me to do this, hence I shed a tear, and in my prayer, said farewell Sister Washington, I will meet you after while." I got so much out of my stay in New Orleans, and the friends I did not see, I talked with them over the phone. The several days were spent there in town and when I got through then I got myself together bright and early Tuesday morning and Rev. Dr. B. G. Dawson was on hand with his automobile car carriage to tote me over to the stable to join the Rev. Henry Allen Boyd and his party, on their way to Beaumont to attend the National Baptist Sunday School congress. They had a special train and I was permitted to ride on this special train without money, without price Henry Allen Boyd was nice to me, but he did not do what he use to do, invite me to eat with him or anything like that. He talked with me freely about many things, but we did not discuss the Congress. I met Mrs. Lizie Fouse, from Lexington, Ky., who was one of the experts. Of course I was interested in Lizize because she trained under that frat Baptist divine, William J. Simmons, and is a graduate from Simmon's University. She was in school the same time old man Charles Stewart was there, but I am not to talk about that. She was as happy as could be. I met Rev. David Over, and then I met some others, but I will not take time to tell you all. The special train checked up to 103 from Nashville to New Orleans, and they got on some more in New Orleans, including me. They went into Beaumont 40 minutes ahead of the schedule time. Don't ask me anything about the Congress, because I did not attend the meetings. I was out there one day, met President J. P. Robinson of Little Rock, and I was out one night and heard a program rendered, which I shall refrain from commenting on. I know you want to know why. You see I had been invited to Beaumont by Dr. C. B. Charlton, the tooth dentist doctor, and his wife, Mrs. Juanita R. Charlton, to be their guest, and they charged me before coming that I was to spend the time in resting and not in working, and believe me when I tell you they kept me at home, and when I left them I felt so much better. As to eats, they furnished me anything I could eat, or according to the order of the doctor. I was old enough to eat, and then I had a great big front room, connected up with a bathroom, and it seemed to me that I took a bath every hour in the night. They have a fine broadcasting station, and I just enjoyed myself. These young people declare that they want me to live, and they are willing to do anything in their power to help me live. Will divide their food, their money, their beds, their baths—in fact all they have that can be divided. I knew both of them when they were in school. Here I am now into Houston, and I am the guest of Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Harrison. Dr. Harrison is pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, and this is one of the largest churches in Texas. They have outgrown their present church, and will build soon. They have purchased a corner church lot for building which cost $25,000 and they are going to put up a real church, believe me, honey. Dr. Harrison is one of the best preachers in this country and a real pastor. His wife is a queen, and their three daughters are queenlets and the son is a kinglet and thus they are going through life. Every thing is now ready for the National Baptist Sunday School Congress in Wichita, Kan., June 24, and I am sure that you are going to be there. It is going to be a great big meeting. The people of Wichita are just going to put the big pot in the little one, and of course you are going to be there to enjoy it. The new home of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist convention is now being completed, and we are congratulating Dr. A. M. Townsend on the wonderful work he has done. He is a great organizer, and in his work he has had the help of Dr. L. K. Williams and others. I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop. Write to me, 1241 Wabash Avenue, Wichita, Kan. CHARLES E. STUMP. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 20, 1925 "MR. CROWE GETS ANOTHER ASSISTANT" "ATTORNEY N. K. McGILL TAKES OATH" "Lawrence Cuneo, secretary to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, administering the oath of office to Attorney N. K. McGill, assistant state's attorney, in Mr. Crowe's office Tuesday morning. Reading from left to right: State's Attorney Crowe, Robert S. Abbott, Lawrence Cuneo, Attorney McGill, Edward H. Wright of the Illinois commerce commission, and Alderman Louis B. Anderson of the Second Ward." The above caption and the picture are from a recent issue of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world and one thousand years from now it will be worth ten thousand dollars. BRIEFS (Columbian Press Bureau) There are only two colored motor- men on street railways. We have 90 retail dealers in curios antiques and novelties. Of the 5,000 females employed in button factories, 227 are colored. The knowledge of smelting and forcing iron is of ancient date throughout Africa. "Before" or "After the Birth of Christ" has been in general use only since the middle of the eighteenth century. The night schools of Washington recently graduated 141 colored students from the eighth grade and from courses in domestic art, millinery and dressmaking. One of our "natural-born orators" recently told his audience at the Fortieth Baptist Church (there are 65 in Washington) that "The Ethiopian is prognathous and dolichocephalous." Great applause followed the statement. The total attendance at Howard University this year was 2,064 from 47 states, the British West Indies, Africa, British Guiana, Canada, Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Columbia and the Virgin Islands. THE QUESTIONNAIRE By Miss Louise Bond 1. What countries are separated by the English Channel? How wide is it? * * * 2. Mention six English cities. * * * 3. Name the chief rivers of England. * * * 4. Where and what is Great Tom? * * * 5. What is the number of the islands of Scotland? Answers 1. The English Channel separates England from France. At its greatest breadth it is about 150 miles. * * * 2. Six English cities are London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and Hull. * * * 3. The chief rivers are: Severn, Thames, Trent, Mersey, Ouse, Humber, Medway, Tyne, Dee, Tees, Wear, Derwent, and Eden. * * * 4. Great Tom is a bell, weighing about 17,000 pounds, in the tower of the Tom Gate of Christ Church, Oxford. Every night at ten minutes past nine (closing time) it is tolled. 5. The islands of Scotland number 800 in all. NEW JERSEY WOMAN ON MURDER JURY Morristown, N. J., June 19.—In the selection of a jury to hear the case of John Coolack, charged with murder, Miss Bella Polk, a school teacher, was the first woman chosen to serve on the jury and accepted. Woman Famous for Gift of Clairvovancy Mary Sprouse was one of the most remarkable characters, and was known throughout the United States during the early part of the Nineteenth century. She was born in Albermarle county, Virginia, in 1739, and at a very early age developed the gift of clairvoyance. Her gift first attracted attention when the "guessing games" of her fellow pupils in the little country schoolhouse were set to naught. As she grew into young maldenhood this gift developed without any special effort on her part, and soon her fame spread throughout the surrounding territory and then throughout the country. It is greatly to her credit that she never accepted any fees for performing her feats of clairvoyance and she never went into the business of forecasting the future. On the contrary, she raised vegetables and poultry and sold these at the market in Charlottesville, making the trip on foot daily. In fact, she continued her marketing until the day before she died, May 7, 1888, at the age of ninety-nine years. Chicago Journal. Eros Small Planet. Eros is known to astronomers as the name of a very tiny planet, but one of the highest importance, because it has enabled them to measure with the greatest accuracy the distance of the sun. Not only that; it has helped them to find the distances of the stars, and even to measure the dimensions of the universe itself. Eros, discovered not many years ago, was a great surprise to astronomers, as no one had an idea that any planet came so near the earth. It is only a few miles across. If anyone could reach it from the earth he would be able to jump a mile on it with the same effort as he would jump a few feet on the earth. If he had been accustomed to carry, say, a hundredweight of coals on the earth, he could easily carry sixty or more tons on Eros. Supposing he were a man of average weight, he would be a remarkably light creature on Eros—eight of him would go to the pound. Famous English Prison The "Fleet" was a famous prison in London, built over the Fleta, or Fleet, a once small creek, now a sewer. It was founded in 1189, and became a debtors' prison in 1640. It was burned in the great fire of 1698, and again in the Gordon riots of 1788; was rebuilt in 1781-82, and finally demolished in 1845. Many distinguished men were confined there, and Pope called it the "Haunt of the Muse" from the number of poets imprisoned within its walls. Fleet prison was also notorious for the so-called Fleet marriages performed there by clergymen imprisoned for debt. They were the occasion of innumerable scandals, and were finally declared illegal by an act of parliament in 1753.—Kansas City Star. Caught on a Technicality Judge Blank has a six-year-old niece of whom he is very proud. The other day she came to him with a serious air and said: "Uncle Robert, if a man had a peacock and it went into another man's yard and laid an egg, whom would the egg belong to?" The judge smiled indulgently and replied: "Why the egg would belong to the man who owned the peacock, but he could be prosecuted for trespassing if he went on the other's property to get it." The child seemed very much interested in the explanation, then she observed with an innocent expression: "Uncle, did it ever occur to you that a peacock couldn't lay an egg?"—Boston Transcript. Fox in Tight Corner When a fox is cornered by a dog and knows it cannot escape, it will often feign playfulness, gambolling and prancing about, before it closes with its enemy in a fight to the finish. Right in this line a well known naturalist relates the following. An eagle was seen to be repeatedly swooping at something till it finally alighted on a bowder. As fieldglasses were brought to bear, it was seen that a large fox was the object of the eagle's attentions, and the animal was now walking round and round the bowder close up against it with its tail brushed out and extending vertically in the air. The eagle was seen to peck again and again at the tail as it came within reach, at which the fox would instantly drenr it, then raise it again. When this had gone on for some little time, the eagle flew off and alighted in the heather some distance off, at which the fox began to approach with the most playful antics, circling round the great bird until the latter eventually made off in disgust. Usually when an eagle attacks a fox there is little hope for Reynard unless suitable cover is at hand, but this fox, knowing that it was in deadly peril, managed by feigning playfulness to deceive the enemy, and thereby save his own skin. Time Spent in Sleep Spanish siesta at midday never gained a foothold north of the Rio Grande; nor has going to sleep at 10 p. m. been as thorough in its practice as it needs to be. True "early to bed and early to rise, and you meet very few prominent people," but this only makes apparent that any effective propaganda must be directed toward the prominent people. They will have to set the fashion, if it is ever set, a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat remarks. Sleep, enough of it, is superior to the work of beauty parlors; it knits up the raveled sleeve of care and unknits the wrinkles. Why not have the balls and parties at five o'clock in the morning, when everybody looks pretty? In mythological history, we learn that the festivities on Olympus and in Valhalla's halls were not markedly reserved for the night hours. What the gods did at night is not made entirely clear, but we have every reason to believe that darkness was the revelling time only for the evil gods. The well-behaved ones preferred the sunshine. "Mad as a Hatter" Originally this expression meant very angry or furious. Now it is more often used in the sense of violently insane. Lexicographers have been unable to trace its origin. Some think "hatter" in this phrase is a corruption of "atter," which is the Saxon way of writing adder. In German it is "natter." Since this is an old English phrase, and since many people in England have a trick of omitting "h's" where they are needed and supplying them where they are unnecessary, this seems to be a plausible theory. It would be very easy for "mad as an atter" to become corrupted into "mad as a hatter." However, this is only a theory without any concrete evidence to support it—Pathfinder Magazine. Temperature Variation As a rule the temperature is the lowest just about sunrise. This is due to the fact that on account of radiation, heat is being given off during the night more rapidly than received from external sources. As this continues until the heat from the sun overcomes this disparity, it is the natural consequence that the lowest temperature should occur just preceding the moment when added heat from the sun overcomes the loss occasioned by radiation during the night. TOTS REVEL IN PIQUANT FROCKS OF ENGLISH PRINT I CHIFFON AND SHOULDER BOUQUET DEFINE FAVORITE PARTY FROCK V JUST about now two kinds of mothers are planning little daughter's tub-frocks for play time, school time and summer time to come, namely, those who choose to buy their children's dresses "ready made," and those whose joy and pride it is to make them themselves. To either "quaint English prints" offer a timely word of advice. Firstly, the designs in these prints express all the quaintness and charm of childhood; secondly, they come in colors as lovely as flowers in spring-time; thirdly, their assurance of perfect laundering is not lightly to be overlooked. If one chooses "to buy" rather than "to make," a visit to juvenile shops and departments will impress one with the preponderance of English print dresses for children as displayed. They are shown in every conceivable color and styling. The cunning little "panty frock" in the picture is an illustration of the adorable models to be CHIFFON AND SHOU DEFINE FAVOR IF THE crystal globe of fashion-design reveals the future truly to those who peer into its depths to learn of "styles to be," then assuredly this summer will see chiffon enthroned as the reigning fabric for evening frocks. At this very moment dance and party dresses are unfolding a continuous and fascinating story of diaphanous georgette crepes and chiffons, always with the shoulder bouquet playing its part of coquetry and loveliness. It is peach-colored georgette, touched with the magic of the stylist's art which accounts for the charm of the party dress in the picture. Even our party dresses flaunt a flowing necklec, for neckties are a very important trimming item this season. Artificial orchids are worn on the shoulder. Sheer materials reign supreme throughout advance costume collections. Billowy masses of chiffon manifest in tiered circular ruffles on evening frocks, in insets of circular portions that make the skirt measure yards around the bottom; in voluminous bows of chiffon at the left hipline and in countless other entrenching ways. Notwithstanding all this super- Credit to Paul Revere It will always be to the credit of Paul Revere that he didn't stop to make a speech — Toledo Blade. had for the buying. This frock of English print is obtainable in almost any color, but the one photographed happened to be a bright clear yellow with a tiny white and deep orange figure. All its edges are piped with orange yellow percale, the pocket showing an inset of same. Of course there is smocking about the neck, for that is what everybody is doing this season, lavishing smocking on tiny tots' dresses. Far-seeing mothers will welcome the suggestion that it is the better part of economy and good taste to buy several lengths in various colors, with a view to making up a number of these little frocks for daily utility wear. One might select a fresh-looking lavender, a shade for which English prints are famous. Make this up with white pique clupe, collars and borderings, embellishing with colorful daisies with bright green stems and leaves. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) ULDER BOUQUET WRITE PARTY FROCK fliity of transparent fabric, the effect as a whole is of extreme simplicity, for there is little or no trimming save the inelegible never-to-be-omitted shoulder bouquet. Another item, very important is the satin costume slip over which these frocks of transparency are posed. It must be nothing less than perfect, both as to color and fit. Very many of the new chiffon frocks are trimmed in lace dyed an accurate match. Not only are airy-fairy delicately meshed silk laces used, but those of the heavier sort are employed for vokes, bandings and insets. So pronounced is the vogue for sheer materials, that even our daytime dresses are being made of georgette crepe. New wood tones are especially emphasized, also belge in these exquisite frocks. A new note is sounded in the chiffon shawl which accompanies this sleeveless dress of like material. These scarf-like shawls use the full width of the georgette or chiffon. They are fringed on three sides with hand-tied floss, the selfsame color. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@ 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) Virtue Alone Counts They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan ISH ave q LY) | Ernest Fi. 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Coagress in 1924 passed 2 lave preserving this land from drain- age for a breeding and feeding place for ducks, There have been two oF three Instances where land In this vi- ‘cinity has been drained for agricuitural Purposes and found absolutely useless. ‘It was through the efforts of the Izaak ‘Walton league that this land was pre- served. Producing Liquid Air Liquid air is a transparent, limptd and intensely cold liquid, slightly bine in color, and of about the same density as water. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cool ing {t by its own expansion to a tem- erature below the boiling point of Its constituents (nitrogen, 194 degrees centigrade; oxygen, 188 degrees centi- grade). Its chief use is as a refrig- ‘anak, Glorious Contemplation An EBglisht parliamentary candidate ‘Wound up a frenzied oration as fol lows: “Gentlemen, the glorious victory which will swamp our opponents when the eve of the election dawns upon us Will re-echo im words of gold through the corridors of time, until the last gnind trump shall sound through the Valleys om the mountaintops.” Not All “Tuskers” ‘Tusks are present only in the males of the Asiatie elephunts and are only about half as large ay those found-in African elephants, Both sexes of African elephants have tusks, which contribnte to the dwindling of the species, as the females are as lable as the males to be killed for the sake oi the Ivory, Not All Blank Verse In the main, “Hamlet” 1s written em tirely In blank verse. ‘The exceptions are the scenes in which Hamlet feigns insanity, those in which he converses with Rosenerans and Guildenstein, with the actors and with Osrle and the scene with the grave dixxers. All these are in prose. Sure of One Thine ‘The sun was going down, clouds were banking up, and they had driven for tiles in silence. Finally, the wife isked, “Da you know where you are datling?” Briend hushan stepped on the accelerator and replied a bit short ly: “No, If I did we wouldn't be here.” Then He Understood A little Neorlesha (Kan.) boy, ac- cording to the Sun, was shown a drop of water through a powerful micro- scope, and was impressed at the tiny objects whieh ie was told were m- crobes. “I know now,” he said, “what bites you when you drink soda water.” Hot Springs and Geysers ‘The hot water efeered by hot springs and xe¥sers does not come from deep within the enrth, Init is surface water that lias trickled down through under: by steam from subterranean lava beds.—Science Service. Infectious Diseases The Public Health service says that extensive Investigations and_ surveys made by the medica! authorities have shewn that the prevalence of infee- tious diseases among civilized nations fs infinitely tess than among tnhab- Latte of macivfined counteiea, THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 20, 1925 Thumb Not “Finger” Strictly speaking, the thumb should not be referred to us a finger and we have on each hand four fingers and a thumb. The term that refers to all five of the divisions of the hand Is digit. However, the word “finger” has come to be used loosely th reference to the four digits and the thumb. Signaling by Drums In South Afriea messages are siz~ naled by means of drums made of Dark, the tapings on which ean be heard many miles away. It Is by this method that the defeat of Sir Redvers Buller at Colenso was made known to natives 00 miles distant in a noece of (We hours Barber Philatelist A London barber spends all his odd moments collecting stamps, and the walls of his shop are papered with stamps of all descriptions. He is also fan art critic, his advice being songht when a person desires to purchase what Is claimed to be a valuable ple- ture. Valuable Ouality Blessed are the pure in heart, and fortunate are those they bless. Intel- lect, station in life, opportunities are Incomparable to companionship that 1s void of evil, and filled with that purity Which emits the light of a soul filled with nothing but kindliest thoughts — Grit. English Easter Custom The custom of eating a “xammon of bacon” still exists in certain parts of England, and, according to Aubrey (679), was established by the people “to show thelr abhorrence to Judaism at Eastertide, the solemn commem- oration of our Lord's resurrection.” That’s the Question “I say, doctor, did you ever doctor another doctor?” “Oh, yes.” “Well, does a doctor doctor a doctor the way the doctored doctor wants to be doc- tored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the other doctor in his own way?’—Lrovidence Journal. Average Air Consumption In the Gee of a normal person about 400 cubie feet of air, weighing In all ove, thirty pounds, puss through the lungs every 24 hours, Great Writer’s Idea Solomon's proverbs, 1 think, have omitted to say that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy conscience beareth innuendoes.—George Kilot. STRAITEY ot S mi HAIR PREPARATIONS = Ve of these preparations in the cul- R ture of your hair will give you best R results. 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Vlcr-President GEORGE’ s“CAMPBELL, Coskior : OA RBELAURIER, Autt, Cocher CARNGILLELAND, Bier Savings’ Dent. | ‘Ielephone Victor - Holes in Cheese ‘The bureau of dairying does not believe that there Is any cheese in which the holes are made by worms. Most cheese in which holes are found is made in such a way as to develop gas which produces a specific orgam ism which causes holes. Injurious Dasi ‘The Public Health service says mar ble and stone cutters. dry grinders, drillers and other workers who in- hale “hard” dust. are espectally sub- Ject to tuberculosis, “Soft” dust from coal, limestone, wood, cotton or wool Js not very injurious. Honor Washington’s Alone James Monroe received afl bat one of the electoral votes in 1820, An elec- tor from New Hampshire voted for Jobn Quincy Adams in order that no President other than George Washing- ton should have the honor of receiving @ unanimous vote, Record Emerald The largest emerald known today Is the Muzo stone; an unent crystal, six- sided (as iit enieralds ave), about two inches lou, of the sinie diameter. and weighing over 1,200 karats, more than nine ounces, and ix owned hy the duke of Devonshire. Graveyard Yields Necklace While walking ameng the tomb stones in Winchester cathedral zround recently an English workingman found # necklace valued at $5,000 for whieh a reward of $425 had heen of- fered. Jews in Abyssinia Abyssinia Las a Jewish population of 50,000. Telephone: State 3278 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. Notary Publie Phones: Office Main 4153: Residence, 4751 Champlain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Chas. Krutckoff, Pres. Hugh Norris, Treas, J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. Kirby Ward, Seey, Telephone Calumet 805 . Norris-Ward Coal Co, YARDS AT ; 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. R. 18th and Canal Sts., C.B, & QR. R. Root St, C. R. I. & P. R. R. Roscoe and Pacific Aves., C. M. & St. P.R.R. 2556 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE CHICAGO Phone Main 2017 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Swite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 3685 Prairie Ave Phone Douglas 9133 W.G. Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. ee een Serer Fee ees ere Ee ee ee ee a ee ee JAS. B. McCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary ; FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer ESTABLISHED 1877 ‘ JOHN J. DUNN COAL CO. Telephone Oakland 1550 . - §100 Federal Street CHICAGO | Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. 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