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COL. ROBERT S. ABBOTT AND COL. TONY LANGSTON HAVE COME TO THE PARTING OF THE WAY AND COL. LANGSTON IS NO LONGER CONNECTED WITH THE GREATEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD Minister Dismissed from His Civil Service Position on the Chicago Censor Board, Which Position He Had Honorably and Creditably Held for More Than Ten Years, for Justly Resenting an Insult on the Part of a White Employee to a Race Woman SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXX. Minister D cago Cense Creditably ing an Ins Woman RACE ANTIPATHY RU WOMAN'S CITY CLU TEXAS WOMAN, WH RESIGNED HER H CHIEF OF THE CHIC BOARD, FROM A VE AND CROWDS CIV ROOM TO INFLUENC ICE COMMISSION. REGULAR CORPORAT FOR THE CITY OF ALLOWED TO PEN DUTY. TWO OR PRICED LAWYER PLOYED. RACE ANTIPATHY RUNS HIGH, AS WOMAN'S CITY CLUB, LED ON BY TEXAS WOMAN, WHO HAS SINCE RESIGNED HER POSITION AS CHIEF OF THE CHICAGO CENSOR BOARD, FROM A VERITABLE MOB AND CROWDS CIVIL SERVICE ROOM TO INFLUENCE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. REGULAR CORPORATION COUNSEL FOR THE CITY OF CHICAGO NOT ALLOWED TO PERFORM HIS DUTY. TWO OR THREE HIGHPRICED LAWYERS ARE EMPLOYED. --- Caucuses held for two weeks by the head of the Investigation Department on the tenth floor with members of the Censor Board and others in an attempt to boost up a weak case. Letter sent out with a false statement to Rev. Dr. A. J. Bowling, did not obtain his position through Civil Service. Prominent Colored Citizens to whom the letters were sent, tore the letters up with indignation. A careful reading of the records of the investigation will prove that none of the charges preferred were substantiated by unconflicting testimony. Why then, such strenuous efforts to make a case in this instance when two well known white men have fought brutal fights in the department, one before and one since this happening of Dr. Bowling, neither of which have been reported. Several efforts have been made to eliminate the Colored man from the Chicago Censor Board. Dr. Bowling highly praised for his courageous efforts to protect womanhood. The entire South Side aroused at this flagrant case of prejudice. Every Minister's Alliance and every Civil Organization has taken up the fight. Alderman Louis B. Anderson of the Second ward, Alderman Robert R. Jackson of the Third ward, as well as the two committeemen of these wards are interesting themselves and working hard to see that justice is done. It is believed that when the facts are presented to Mayor Deven the damnable wrong will be righted. On or about May 19, 1925, in the permit room of the Chicago Censor Board, Dr. A. J. Bowling, a member of the said censor board, resented an indecent and unbecoming remark concerning a lady with whom he was about to engage in conversation over the phone. Just preceding the conversation while the line was still open, an employee, clerk of the permit section, began to harass and provoke the Rev. Dr. Bowling with indecent and vulgar remarks concerning the lady, Mrs. Beulah Mitchell Hill, Secretary to Mr. Anthony Overton, the president of the Douglass National Bank. The annoyance was so loud that the vulgar and untimely remarks of the THE BROAD AX 5 CENTS PER COPY Dismissed Sensor Board Only Held for consult on BY RUNS HIGH, AS CLUB, LED ON BY BEN, WHO HAS SINCE ER POSITION AS CHICAGO CENSOR A VERITABLE MOB B CIVIL SERVICE JENCE CIVIL SERV- N. RATION COUNSEL OF CHICAGO NOT PERFORM HIS OR THREE HIGH- YERS ARE EM- employee were heard by Mrs. Hill, who was waiting to speak with the Rev. Dr. Bowling. Mrs. Hill made an affidavit to the fact and so testified before the Civil Service Commission. Dr. Bowling, in a very gentlemanly way, requested the permit clerk to desist, telling him that such vulgar language was out of place and unfair to him and the lady with whom he was about to converse. That for more than ten years, he, the Rev. Dr. Bowling, had been courteous to all the other employees and demanded high respect and esteem from them. This white employee became abusive in his remarks. And the Rev. Dr. Bowling continued to demand courtesy. Mr. Albert S. Waller, an operator, who was on his lunch hour and standing on the other side of the partition in the room, decided that Roy G. Harris, the permit clerk, needed the assistance and began to assail Dr. Bowling with epithets, whereupon Albert S. Waller was reminded that he had nothing to do with the conversation and the Rev. Dr. Bowling impressed him with the fact that it was an unwarranted intrusion on his part, and just as Dr. Bowling was leaving the permit room or the hall, Albert S. Waller called him a low down dirty cur and attempted to strike him, but was prevented by a blow struck on the face by the Rev. Dr. Bowling with his open hand. Dr. Bowling Well Prepared for His Work Has Several Degrees Dr. Bowling was educated in the Kansas State Normal and Albion Colleges; the Universities of Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Boston, Chicago and Harvard, his special work has been in the fields of education, philosphy, sociology, and religion. He has published six bulletins on education while doing graduate work while at the universities at Harvard and Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Geographic Society, and a member of the Royal Society Clubs of London, England. For a number of years he has been one of the Directors of the Oakland Council No. 1 of the Committee of Fifteen, director of THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 27, 1925 A. B. Assistant pastor of the Metropolitan Community Center Church and for the past ten years he has been one of the honest and hard working members of the Moving Picture Censorship Board of Chicago. education of the Y. M. C. A. and the Dearborn Social Settlement, 38th and Dearborn streets—the Institutional A. M. E. Church, Bishop A. J. Carey, Minister and Warden. He has commendatory notices from the Kansas City "Journal," Detroit Daily "News," Ohio State "Journal," Boston "Transcript," Boston "Globe," Chicago "Herald-Examiner," "Evening Post" and "Daily News," and has won unstinted praise and commendation from the late Judge M. W. Pinckney, of the Juvenile Court; Chief Justice Olson, of the Municipal Court, and the late Dr. Jenkins Lloyd Jones, of Abraham Lincoln Center, as well as the late Dr. Booker T. Washington. Herbert Weir Smith, Dean of the Graduate School of Harvard University, said of Dr. Bowling in awarding him a scholarship, that he is intelligent, straightforward, clear in his statements, earnest, incisive and profound. We would be glad to have more specimens of his race at Harvard if they have the qualities that this man possesses. REV. A. J. BOWLING ferior training and scholarship. Out of 385 who took the examination for Moving Picture Censor, 20 passed, and Dr. Bowling is the sixth man, and the only Colored who passed, he had previously successfully passed ten or more Civil Service Examinations in the U. S. Civil Service, County Civil Service, State and City Civil Service, and resigned a Civil Service position in the engineering department to accept a position as Moving Picture Censor in the City of Chicago. Church Activities in Chicago For five years he was assistant and director of the Dearborn Social Settlement, 38th and Dearborn streets For three years he was Minister and director of the Turner Memorial A. M. E. Church and neighborhood center where he won the praise of the Oakland Review, a White Publication for his intensive work in that community. And the past three years he has been assistant to the Pastor at the Metropolitan Community Center, the Peoples Church, 3118-22 Giles avenue, of which Dr. W. D. Cook is Pastor. Dr. Bowling's Work on the Chicago Censor Board He proved an able assistant to Hon. Edward H. Wright in an effort in the Superior Court before Hon. Judge M. M. Gridley, to suppress the "Birth of a Nation." Succeeded in having Police Chief Fitzmorris issue an order prohibiting the showing of the Ku Klux Klan Picture, after the entire Chicago Censor Board had signed a permit over his protest; wrote a resolution which Major R. Jackson presented to the judiciary committee of the City Council, preventing the use of such terms and slurs as "Dago." "Nigger," "Turk," "Coon," "Mick" and "Darky" in pictures. He has frequently been called in to the Chief of Police, Morgan A. Collins' office, and Dr. Bowling's judgment has been accepted as final on the restoration of cuts in picture after the Censor Board had completed its work; he has been equally as keen and alert concerning any picture, theme, sub-title or term that ridicules any race of people. Unfortunately, the Negro People are held up more frequently to ridicule in pictures as stupid, dull and the butt of jokes than any other race of people, and always in the capacity of servants. Dr. Bowling, in the more than ten years that he has been a member of the Chicago Censor Board, has been a credit to his face and to the City. It was because of his strenuous efforts to prevent slurs on the race and especially on the womanhood of the race and to retain his respect and manhood, that he is having this difficulty. MR. AND MRS. STEPHEN WOO- TON DEPART FOR NEW YORK CITY, THEIR FUTURE HOME The first of this week, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wooton relinquished their home at 6208 S. Elizabeth street, where they have resided for the past five years, still owning it, have removed to New York City, where they will reside for some time. For some years Mr. Wooton was one of the trusted and faithful employees of the Englewood branch of the Chicago Postoffice. He will be connected with the postoffice in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Wooton have many friends in this city, who wish them well in their new eastern home. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX on the Chiorably and tly Resent- to a Race Mrs. Robert Cott, Col. and Mary B. Lewis many of the Shining Lights High Society in the Colored in This City, and Dined His Highness, Kojo of Da- Africa a charming blue-eyed white lady with finery to more than one hundred dars. Col. and Mrs. Robert S. Abbott, Col. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis and Many of the Other Shining Lights of High Society Among the Colored Folks in This City, Wined and Dined His Royal Highness, Prince Kojo of Dahomey, Africa He presented a charming blue-eyed blond-haired white lady with finery amounting to more than one hundred and fifty dollars. --- Near the first of October 1924, His Royal Highness, Prince Kojo Toudor-Houenou of Dahomey, Albina, breezed into this big town and settled down in a fine suite of rooms at the Vincennes Hotel and for about five weeks after his arrival in this city he cut a wide swath among the leading and the most prominent colored society folks in this city and they all fell down on their hands and knees in order to do homage unto him. The Prince was wined and dined by them in the most lavish manner and feasted on the fat of the land all of the time. He employed a private secretary and one of his first speeches he delivered was at the Wendell Phillips High School after delivering his orations in French. His seety, interpreted them into English for the Prince and his friends boasted of the fact that he fluently spoke all of the most important languages except the English language which in our humble opinion is the greatest of all the languages in existence at the present time, and as long as he did not know much about that language we did not take much stock in him from the very first time that we came in contact with him. Col. and Mrs. Robert S. Abbott, Col. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis and their high stepping social lights took complete charge of Prince Kojo, and they so hedged him about and so well protected him that it was almost utterly impossible for common colored folks to come near him for at every turn in the road, Col. and Mrs. Abbott, Col. and Mrs. Lewis and their social followers were right at his side. The Prince was their highly honored royal guest and occupied a private box with them at the Auditorium Theatre, Friday evening, October 17, 1924, where they witnessed "Milestones or the Pageant of Progress." After gazing at it and beholding the best and the leading colored gentlemen and ladies in this city being bought and sold on the auction block to remind them of slavery days before the war of the rebellion, the Prince and his party of the royal high social lights were driven to the Ideal Tea Rooms, 32nd and Michigan avenue. The writer and a party of ladies followed the Prince and his social kings and queens into the front part of the Ideal Tea Rooms and after our party had been seated we eased up towards the rear part of the rooms. Cary B. Lewis beheld us approaching the door leading into the room where the Prince and his subjects were seated and Col. Lewis gave us the names of the highest social leaders in this city who graced the table where the Prince ruled over them. At the same time Col. Lewis intimated that it would not do for us to butt up too near the table for the Prince was subject to severe fainting spells if common people came too close unto him. After the Prince had enjoyed the French hospitalities of the colored high society rollers, he suddenly disappeared from among them and he settled down among the whites on the North side, becoming the highly (Continued on page 3) THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxes, 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 stricty 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 Chicago, June 27, 1925 No. 41 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. THOMAS L. JONES APPOINTED ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY Washington, D. C., June 26—Attorney Thomas L. Jones, recently nominated for the position of assistant district attorney by District Attorney Peyton C. Gordon, was confirmed Thursday by U. S. Attorney General Sargent and sworn in. Attorney Jones has enjoyed a long and successful career in political and legal affairs both in the District of Columbia and Virginia. After graduation from Howard University Law School in 1892 he became Commissioner of revenue in Lunenburg County, Va., and was chairman of the Republican organization in that county. Attorney Jones ran for Congress from the Fourth District of Virginia. After coming to the District of Columbia, Attorney Jones immediately became active in political circles, and gained considerable prominence as a criminal lawyer. He has practiced law for 20 years in the District. THE NEGRO SOUTHERN WHITES ADMIRE AND PRAISE IN PRINT (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., June 26.—The obstreperous Negro is the one who insists on thinking for himself and protesting against whatever seems to be an infringement on his rights as an American citizen, according to unexpressed views of southern whites. Adah Roussan Blackburn, writing in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on "The Blue Mud Bank of the Mississippi Became Heart of Great County," says in part: "No story of Mississippi County would be fair or complete without some recognition of the large part played by the Negro citizen. From the first there was a considerable Negro population, which rendered invaluable service clearing land, felling timber and cultivating the soil. For the most part they worked nobly for their schools and churches and better social conditions for their children. I know of several washerwomen who from their own earnings gave their children college educations. The 'Black Hawk War' of 1872 was instigated by renegade whites, and in nearly every instance, when trouble broke out between the races, it was traceable to a white man's whisky dive. Today the Negroes have their separate home economic and demonstration leaders, and educationally and financially are abreast of their race in the most favored sections. In times of distress, as in the great flood years of 1912 and 1923, when the very life of the county depended on holding the levees, they were found faithful and reliable. In the world war many companies of soldiers answered the call to service and made highly honorable records." Mr. Blackburn and General Bullard do not agree on the values of the Negro as a soldier, not even as a citizen. It is felt that Bullard likes this benighted brother of Chattanooga Tenn., who, according to E. F. Ames, who has charge of the distribution of memorial half dollars, an 80 year-old Negro—Uncle Doc Crow, former a slave, timidly entered Ames' office and falteringly requested permission to buy coins "in honor of Marse Robert E. Lee." The old man, Ames said, purchased 29 coins, one for himself, one for his wife and one each for his 27 children and grandchildren. Uncle 191 HON. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS One of the most prominent lawyers in this country, eloquent orator who is ready to enter the race for United States Senator in 1926 from Illinois. Doc Crow is not an obstreperous Negro. He is the type much beloved in the southland. tion, and menace to citizens of the United States of America. Even sixteen lynchings, we repeat are sixteen TOM PERKINS KILLED AS ENGINE OVERTURNS Goldsboro, N. C., June 26.—Tom Perkins is dead as the result of an accident that occurred Thursday afternoon on the tracks of the Virginia and Lumber Box Company near Neuse river. Several other men were taken to local hospitals from injuries received in the accident. The engine caught Perkins underneath it when it overturned. COLORFUL NEWS "MOVIES" By: The Cameraman 1. Lynching Declines. 2. Broadcasting Crime News. 3. Melvin J. Chisum, Benefactor. 4. To Bathe or Not to Bathe. Sixteen cases of lynching are reported for the year 1924 by the Federal Council of Churches, which adds to its report the statement that growing public opinion is having slow but sure effect upon America's greatest evil, the Court of Judge Lynch. It is pointed out that 16 of these crime events is the lowest figure since records have been kept. And even though, as we go to press, word comes from Utah of a lynching there is cause for rejoicing that this monster evil is on the decline, no matter what the cause may be. Lynching, of course, reverts to the days of prehistoric man. It is not unlike the early English custom of having accused folks thrust their hands into cauldrons of boiling water to test their guilt or innocence, in which latter case the flesh was not supposed to become scalded. That lynching has endured so long in this land of the free and the home of the brave, tinted with modern Christianity, is one of the anomalies of Civilization. Even in the face of decline, sixteen lynchings are sixteen too many; and so long as one man, woman of child is victim of the mob, just so long will this country be unable to boast of simon-pure Civilization. We feel that the testing-time of the dual citizenship of Americans—one in the State and one in the United States—is at hand. And the time to punish mobs which execute American citizens without due process of law is long overdue. The draft of sons for the World War, the interstate commerce traffic, the federal laws of taxation, and dozens of other matters have been and are amenable to federal power. Who then dares continue to presume that an American citizen, beset by the mob, is not entitled to federal protection, whether he be in Georgia, Mississippi, Utah, or Maine, for that matter. When state protection ends, it is time for Federal protection to begin; for the Constitution says a person is a citizen of the United States and of the state wherein he resides. For a man whom the Federal Government drafted to fight in France to be unprotected from mob violence, or for that mob to go unpunished for its lawlessness, is, we think, one of the present great incongruities of American justice and independence—a challenge to civiliza- tion, and menace to citizens of the United States of America. Even sixteen lynchings, we repeat are sixteen too many. The boss wired us from the Smoky City to give him our opinion regarding the publication of crime news, asking whether or not headline space depicting murder and other evils was an accelerator or a deterrent of the perpetration of the felonies and misdemeanors. Without design to pose either as a criminologist or a psychologist, we would answer our boss by saying that broadcasting of crime news is a patent accelerant of evil itself. When it is considered that the mind is fertile to criminal intent from the age of seven years upwards, and that there are various stages and types of weakness tending toward the propagation of crime, it must be admitted that the struggle for mastery between good and evil is influenced by recitals of each, and that a marked influence may be noted from crime news told from screaming headlines downwards. When lynching was in its heyday in this country, embellished headlines of the mob formation and action, with accompanying photographs, had no quelling influence upon that miserable outlawlessness. Rather, to the diseased criminal mind glowing stories of crime were a stimulant, and narrations of felonious deeds quickened weaklings to aspire to similar accomplishments much alike to the youths who were wont to imitate, in play, the deeds of Jesse James and Captain Kidd. News censors of today have brought about stringent lines for the suppression of vice and crime news. Publications and news coursing through Uncle Sam's mail must be clean and wholesome. Municipal ordinances and state statutes are guarding the types of plays and pictorials which exhibitors are providing for public amusement, and even though the "Jazz" age is in full bloom, and modesty is somewhat restrained, the world realizes that the public mind is in its safest sphere when it is kept apart from visions of crime and vice, for which, since Adam ate the apple weak men have craved; and which must be kept under restraint to prevent infant minds from propagating the spirit of rivalry and attempting to outdo the doers of evil. No, sir, Mister Boss, crime news should not be broadcast. The telephone rang the other day, and we listened to a joyous "Hello" from our old friend "Mel" Chisum, who was about to serve another one of his famous dinners. You have probably heard that Chisum is America's "dinner king" from coast to coast, and that whether he is at the Vincennes, the Whitelaw, or Travelers' Inn, somehow or other Melvin seems to be able to induce the chef to put the same touch into all the eats, from soup to nuts. In other words, a Chisum dinner is one hundred per cent perfect—cooked with a feeling—and satisfying to the nth degree. It was after the dinner, though, that we looked down into "Mel" and we found that Chisum the benefactor, outstripped even Chisum the giver of dinners. Here was a man who had THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 27, 1925 imbibed deeply of that theory that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Here was a man who was helping out here and helping out there—a veritable friend in need, as unselfish as the noon day sun. He had reached town just in time to save the day for a buddie, and was sorry he could stay no longer; but friend Bill had wired him from Chicago and he had to make time to the Windy City where he was much needed. Service! Service to the Race seemed to be the ace card that Chisum held, and it wasn't up his sleeve by any means. It was in the palm of his hand and in his fertile brain. The only time we saw him frown was when an injustice to "his people" was mentioned. And so it is with unselfish people of the Chisum type, who discard the "I" and "M" for "You" and "They." A few more to take the places of personal profiteers would result in sincerity in the Negro world which would be outstanding and helpfully influential internally and externally, so far as racial endeavor and progress are concerned. Self-preservation, of course, is the first law of nature; but that doesn't mean that a fellow has to fold up in his shell and keep his hands away from the other fellow's troubles. At least, it doesn't mean that to Melvin Chisum and other benefactors of his calibre. Washington is all "het" up, both physically and mentally. The rare June days brought beads of perspiration to the brows of Washingtonians, and sweltering heat has scorched the smiles of those few Christian scientists who make believe that Washington is a cool place in the good old summer time. Alas, too, the bathing beach down on the cool Potomac which has so often brought temporary relief to burning bodies, is no longer available; for Congress blue-penciled the appropriations for the maintenance of the beach when it became painfully apparent that the colored folks of Washington, so often jim-crowed where public utilities are concerned, would not accept the secluded spot on Buzzards Point, where "Sunkissed" Washingtonians could desport themselves for cooling or cleansing purposes, as the case might have been. Six drownings during the hot spell quite convinced white Washington that it had cut off its nose to spite its face in permitting Congress to fail to provide funds for the beach. So a compromise was undertaken to provide funds and space for a beach, at the same time allotting similar advantages, excepting as to location, for the brothers and sisters. So insistent were white proponents of the beach that wild and rockless promises were made that space and equipment, exceeing as to location, as aforesaid, would be made available to the colored people whose skins, however, tanned by God may not suffer as much as lighter tints do under the burning rays of the Washington sun. The compromisers, though, reckoned without their host, who far and away have wide sway in the First Congressional district of Chicago, from which cometh Congressman Madden, though appealed to by Congressman Blanton and other influential folks who, last spring, had gone without a beach in order to keep the brethren without one, remained adamant and immovable, saying: "I was not in favor of the law as passed, but now that it is a law I do not sanction its violation." All of which leads us to conclude that the good old porcelain tub, heretofore despised in the Capital City in [Image of a man in a military uniform with a hat.] [Name not visible] REV. W. S. BRADDAN Captain and Chaplain of the o who bravely fought for his France during the World speak Sunday afternoon at on the past fighting record Captain and Chaplain of the old Eighth Regiment of Illinois, who bravely fought for his country on the battlefields of France during the World War for democracy, who will speak Sunday afternoon at Wendell Phillips High School on the past fighting record of the Colored Soldiers the summer time, will be in high favor this year. And as a City Councilman said: "Nearly all colored people have bathtubs nowadays." We should worry. WHITE AND NEGRO STUDENTS SEPARATED BY CHURCH (Preston News Service) Anderson, Ind., June 25.—Withdrawal of the Anderson Bible Training School from control of the Gospel Trumpet Company and establishment of a separate institution of the training of white and Negro ministers, with schools in Anderson and Augusta, Ga., was voted by members of the ministerial conference of the Church of God, being held here Tuesday. The Anderson school, which is for training white candidates for the ministry, will be the parent organization and will have under its control the Church of God, school for Negro ministers at Augusta. MRS. FANNIE BROWN FILES SUIT FOR $50,000 FOR DEATH OF HUS- BAND Atlanta, Ga. June 26—Mrs. Fannie Brown has filed suit in the Fulton superior court through Attorney T. J. Lewis for $50,000 damages against the Southern railroad and Engineer J. E. Mooney for the death of her husband, Oscar Brown, who is said to have been struck by a train at the North avenue crossing on June 4. ARKANSAS AUTHORITIES PROBE DEATH OF NEGRO CONVICT Forrest City, Ark., June 26—After investigating the death of Nasel Johnson, Negro convict, who died about 1 o'clock Tuesday on the Magnes place, the St. Français county convict farm, a coroner's jury decided that it did not know the cause of death. Witnesses testified that Johnson died after a beating had been administered, and Coroner F. P. Todd announced that he might continue his investigations. According to testimony at the inquest, Johnson refused to work and told Officer Whitted that he would rather take a whipping than work. He was made to lie down and six or eight blows with a arap were given him, it was said. Johnson sprang up and jumped at Whitted, who struck him over the head with the butt of the strap, according to witnesses. At the end of the row, the man lay down and was taken to the stockade on a horse, where he died soon afterward. Dr. Alley Caldwell and Dr. P. P. Boggon, who examined the body, testified that they did not know the cause of death, and the coroner's jury returned that verdict. HARVEST WORKERS WARNED BY WRITER Should Have Assurance That Work Awaits Them Before Traveling, He Says (Preston News Service) Columbus, O., June 25.—Ohionans who have planned an invasion of the great harvest fields of Kansas and Oklahoma with a hope of securing profitable employment are warned against going West unless they have absolute assurance that work awaits them. Herman R. Witter, director of in- 1914 old Eighth Regiment of Illinois, country on the battlefields of War for democracy, who will Wendell Phillips High School of the Colored Soldiers. [Name] HON. ROBERT R. JACKSON Member of the City Council from the Third Ward, who enjoys the respect of all the members of that body. Prairie Avenue from 39th to 46th Streets in the 3rd Ward is being resurfaced and made into a new street. Alderman Jackson secured the improvement without assessment of the property owners and the work is being dustrial relations, Thursday, received a warning issued by the federal farm director at Kansas City, who asks him to discourage unemployed Ohioans from flocking to western states with a hope of securing work in the harvest fields. The harvest, because of the extremely hot weather, began 10 days earlier than usual this year, the federal advices indicated, and a sufficient amount of farm help is available. The warning issued is given for the benefit of expectant workers who may save the expense of the western trip. In the northern spring wheat states a demand for help may come later, but if it materializes, as expected, due announcement will be made by Director Witter. GENERAL ROBERT LEE BULL ARD SLANDERS NEGRO SOL DIERS, N. A. A. C. P. SECRE TARY CHALLENGES Asks Publishers to Amend General Bullard's Book A slanderous article by General Robert Lee Bullard, maintaining that the Negro soldiers of the 92nd Division were cowards and could not be made to fight, that they had been guilty of rape and that they showed the Negro generally to be inferior and incapable of soldierly qualities, was published in the Herald-Tribune and drew a prompt and hot response from James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mr. Johnson's letter appearing in the Herald-Tribune of June 10th. The N.A.A.C.P. communicated with Col Hayward, Major Hamilton Fish, and Emmett J. Scott, former Special Assistant to Secretary of War, requesting them to write to the Herald-Tribune in protest against General Bullard's article. The N.A.A.C.P. has also written to Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., who are to publish a book containing General Bullard's articles, calling their attention to the libel upon Negro soldiers and the Negro race written by General Bullard, and asking that those chapters be amended before the book is published. BAILEY HEADS COMMITTEE M. T. Bailey, 3638 S. State st., pres. The Bailey Realty Co., has been appointed by the president of The Ft. Dearborn 1925 Marching Club, chairman of the Transportation Committee composed of five members, including Tom Jackson, H. B. Williams, Edgar Walker, George W. Gray and the chairman, to see that efficient arrangements are made to take the hundreds of Elk Brothers and Sisters who expect to go from Illinois to Richmond to the grand lodge in August. Service of this character and kind is creditable and all other wards in the city street repair for this year. The Alderman is now directing his attention to Vernon Avenue and Rhodes Avenue and other macadam streets in the ward he has the honor to represent. He is really protecting the small property owner. MAMMOTH MASS MEETING TO BE HELD AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, PRAIRIE AVENUE AND PERSHING ROAD Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 2 oclock, a great Mass meeting will be held at the above mentioned place, under the auspices of the Crispus Attucks League. Subject, "Is the Negro Soldier a Coward?" The following speakers will answer General Robert Lee Bullard: Brig. Gen. Franklin A. Denison, Col. Otis B. Duncan, Col. John R. Marshall, Lieut. Col. James H. Johnson, Lieut. Col. John H. Patton, Lieut. Col. Rufus M. Stokes, Major R. R. Jackson, Major A. E. Patterson, Ninety-second Division: Captain W. S. Braddan (The Fighting Parson), Lieut Earl B. Dickerson, Ninety-second Division. John R. Jenkins, Chairman. Reserve seats for Gold Star Mothers. DR. GANDY VISITS IN CITY Dr. John M. Gandy, pres. The Virginia State College at Petersburg, Va., accompanied by Mrs. Gandy, passed through the city during the week and spent two days as the guest of The Vincennes Hotel enroute from Estes Park, Denver, Colo., Kansas and Missouri where he has attended The National Assembly of Boys, Y.M.C.A., visited relatives in both Colorado, Kansas and Missouri While in the city, Dr. Gandy held a conference with M. T. Bailey, president of The Alumni Association of The Virginia State College, and other members of the Association, graduate and former students of the school including Atty. Jesse N. Baker, Dr. L. L. Shelton, V. D. Johnston, Reid Thomas and others. He also met and shook hands with some of the leading citizens at this time, among who were Editor R. S. Abbott, Alderman R. R. Jackson, A. L. Jackson, general manager of The Chicago Defender, Dr. Homer Cooper and others, many of whom he had not met since their days at Fish University. Dr. Gandy delivered an address before The Citizens Economic Club on Tuesday noon. The address was received with great applause. Mr. Anthony Overton, president of The Douglass National Bank, is president of the club; his address was received with great applause. Dr. Gandy was shown many of the principal parts of the city, Evanston and several suburban towns. He visited the Binga State Bank, The Douglass National Bank, The Chicago Defender, The Liberty Life and Victory Life Insurance Company. Most of the time was spent in company with cousins of Dr. Gandy, Leonard G. and Mrs. Grace Outlaw and M. T. Bailey. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS PULLED OUT OF TEXAS AND HAS LANDED OVER INTO OKLAHOMA. Park Sanitarium, Guthrie, Oklahoma.—Why is it that Col. Charles E. Stump is sick so much? Is he getting ready to cash in and join his friends who have gone ahead of him? We would like to know, and we want to assure him that we are praying for him. Just about the time I get out and get a little strength, then I am called up to back into the round house for repairs, and some day I am going to back in for the last time, for the old engine will refuse to respond to the skill of human doctors, and unless Jesus takes hold all will be over, and the people will look in my face for the last time and declare I look natural, but I will not be listening then. I will have ended my career on earth and will join many of my friends who have gone ahead of me to make me welcome. They will serve on the reception committee. Down here I have had some of the most noted physicians in the country and they have labored hard. Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Dr. Timothy V. Overton, and Dr. H. W. Conrad, and they are strong men, able men and are working hard. Just now I am with Dr. H. W. Conrad, of the Park Sanitarium, in this city, and my nurse is Miss Edna L. Marchand, of Louisiana, full of the Holy Ghost and skill. But I must tell you some other things and then tell you how I got here and what I am doing here this week. When I wrote you that other letter I was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Harrison, and you know Dr. Harrison is pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston. I had a big time there, but I was suffering with a swollen leg, yet that did not prevent me from getting around some. I had the pleasure of being in church on Sunday morning and hearing Charles Stewart preach, and in the afternoon I remained in, and at night I went over to hear Dr. E. L. Harrison, and he preached a great big sermon. One of the great features about this church is the choir, under the direction of Mrs. Florence McBride-Sledge, formerly of Macomb, Illinois, but now a full-fledged citizen of Houston, Texas. I am studying now religious terms of expressions, and I am not going to say things that may not have the proper ring in the Sunday school lesson, for when we get old and full of aches and pains, it says to you: "Be admonished and remember that thou must die." For the men who beat up Charles Norvell Love, editor and publisher of the Texas Freeman, I will simply say, "Forgive them, Father, and consign them to the place of perpetual summer and where the wind was never known to blow, and water is as scarce as gold teeth in the mouth of a chicken hen or rooster." Is that putting it in mild language that even a baby may understand, and they had better secure all the palm fans and linen dusters to be obtained, for all that means a free trip to hash-e-square-hull, and when you once get there you are there to remain, and just what your diet will be I do not know. I certainly feel sorry for the men in Houston who are to take the trip. Leaving Houston, I went to Beaumont, and spent about an hour there, seeing the remains of the meeting which was held there. Then to Texarkana, and I had the pleasure of seeing some friends there. I stopped at the home of Mrs. S. A. Mathes, and her son was home from Fisk University, where he has been a student, and has been singing with them. She is proud of her Homer, and I am sure that some day he will make the world know he has passed this way. With his education, he is getting common sense. This is what all graduates should have. The schools may put into you education sense, but that well trained mother, trained in the practical school of experience, is the one who must graduate you from the common sense school. She is often called a fogy, and said that she is a back number, but if you will follow her advice she will land you safe on the shores of success and none will be able to pull you down. She will follow you all the way, even into the doors of death, and will die for you if necessary. She fills her place and passes on and it is up to you to decide which way you will go, up or down. I spent just one night in the city of Texarkana, and then off for another part of the world, the city known as Dallas, and I sent one of them hurry up things to Dr. E. Arlington Wilson to meet me at the stable, but while he was away his wife was right there and received me, had provided chicken and other good eats for me, but I did not eat at night. Put it down that I fixed it the next morning. The morning before I left for this place. Dallas is some growing city, and if you will recall it went on the map the other day, when it refused to allow a man to be lynched and some fellows who thought the city would wink at it and let a white man lynch a black man, because he was black, got fooled and went into the other land where they will never come out again. One more to make hot weather. Getting through with Dallas, coming in touch with C. F. Starks, proprietor of the Dallas Express, I was soon on my way to another part of the world. But believe me, this young man did tote me around some in his automobile car carriage, and Dr. C. W. Abington, pastor of St. James A.M.E. church, and who is booked for Africa to succeed Bishop Brooks, who will be given work at home, furnished me with a good supply of fruit to last me up here. I want to thank him, and say that if I belonged to the A.M.E. church, I would get elected a delegate to vote for him to go to West Africa. I left at 11:45 over the Rock Island for Oklahoma City, and sent word to Rev. E. W. Perry, of the Baptist church, I was on my way, and to my surprise he met me in his automobile car carriage at El Reno, and had me to get off there and go and hear him tote the word that night, and then on to the city. He preached a wonderful sermon, and he is a great preacher. He is president of the Oklahoma Baptist state convention, and a leader of men in this part of the world. The night was spent in Oklahoma City, and the next morning I was up and on my way to this place, and you will note that I am in the Park Sanitarium, one of the best places in this country. This is truly a national health resort, and if your health goes on a vacation, Dr. H. W. Conrad with his medical skill and the use of the water here knows how to induce it to return and serve you a little longer or a long longer. He received me with a smile, and told me that I was welcome to his quarters. I went over, got the welcome from Mrs. Conrad and the daughter, and then back to the sanitarium where I met Miss Edna R. Marchand, the head nurse, who was as full of smiles as could be. She is just one of the young women, courteous, polite and full of common sense as well as nurse education. She paid me a high compliment by asking me if I were Lawyer Stump. I wish you could have seen me smile, grin and laugh, and I believe my head increased several inches if not feet. Just think of it, I was called a lawyer, and I suppose a first-class one and that until I now feel like putting before my name "Judge" and I wonder how it would look. Somebody would be sure to call me a damphule and then I would have to do some real fighting. People come here from all parts of the country, and go away well. They come from as far west as California and from New England, and all searching for health. It is a combination of Hot Springs, Mayo Brothers, Johns Hopkins and Battle Creek. Four in one. I shall have more to say about Park Sanitarium in my next. I am to be here for treatment, and mail will reach me here for two weeks at least. For a long time some of the Missouri politicians have been trying to get rid of President Nathan B. Young, as president of Lincoln University, and the vote has stood three to three, making what they called a deadlock. C. G. Williams, an old educator and high grade politician sought to have a change, because he understood, I am told, that the Governor was not for the school, being what the doctor had ordered, a high-grade first-class college, hence he opposed N. B. Young, and sought to get in a pipkin, but fortunately the Governor of Missouri had appointed two strong men of our race on the Board, who had no favors to ask, and who wanted for the Negro Youth all that any other race wanted, Dr. J. E. Perry, and Prof. Aaron E. Malone, A.M. These are men of means, men of influence, and men who are not job seekers, and then there was Mr. Kirshner, a man of the other race who wanted to get what is coming to us, while Mr. Williams, Mr. Scruggs and Mr. James voted against it, and there was a man with common sense, the state superintendent of education, a democrat at that, but honey, he put in the vote that elected Presi- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 27, 1925 COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL Ex-commander of the old Eighth Regiment of Illinois, who will speak at the meeting at the Wendell Phillips High School, Sunday afternoon. Dent Young for another year and I shall stop here, and have more another time. —Charles E. Stump. ATTORNEY RICHARD HILL, IN-NOCENT OF ANY WRONG-DOING IN CONNECTION WITH THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS AND MR. PEARL SHAVERS. Late on Thursday afternoon members of the Chicago Bar Association THE ANNUAL APPOMATTOX PICNIC FOR ITS MEMBERS AND THEIR FRIENDS THURSDAY, JULY 30 On Thursday, July 30, from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. the Appomattox Club will give its annual picnic at National Grove, Thirtieth and Desplaines avenue, Riverside, Ill. Dancing afternoon and evening. Twilight baseball game, Appomattox Club, vs. Court Robert Elliot, Order of Foresters. General committee: Wm. J. Kelly Charles Settles, Benj. F. Mitchem Macon Sanders, B. H. Hughes, J. L Fry, Fred Reeves, W. H. North, Oscar Randall, Chas. F. Johnson, Edw. S. Code, Delbert Lee, B. E. Pinkney, Robt. B. Brewer, Edw. Peecher, Lewis Berry, W. T. Hall, Ralph Davenport J. Edgar Hodges, Thos. Thuston, W. W. Lawson, Fred Carter and O. W. Collins, John H. Weaver, Chairman MRS. ALMIRA STEELE·IS DEAD Chattanooga, Tenn. — Throughout the country news spreads that Mrs. Almira S. Steele, an aged and respected white lady of the first school who came South years ago and established a school for colored people in this city, passed away at Battle Creek Hospital in Michigan June 18. Annually Mrs. Steele visited the colored colleges in all parts of the South. She was well known in educational circles among our leading citizens, and her passing will be a regret to the people of this section. During the month of April Mrs. Steele was at Slaw University, Benedict College, Voorheese institute and other institutions in this section. She was loved by the people who knew her. It is safe in saying that Mrs. Steele, who attended the meeting of the National Federation of Colored Women held in this city last July, at which time a review of her life work among the colored people appeared in these columns, and so far the white race has never produced a truer nor better friend of the colored race than Mrs. Almira Steele. She was more than 80 years old at the time of her death. Peace be unto her for all time to come—Editor. THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO The members of the Ladies Auxiliary associated with the physicians, dentists and pharmacists and the citizens' committee of Chicago, entertaining the National Medical Association, August 26, 27 and 28, attend the first Mass meeting and afternoon tea Thursday afternoon, June 25, at the Appomattox Club, Music, business and refreshments. SOUTH PARKWAY TO BE OPENED JULY 15 The new South Parkway, an extension of Grand blvd. into Grant Park, will be officially opened to the public July 15 with a parade and a distribution of 50,000 souvenirs. It seems that just as soon as the colored people have become fairly settled on Old Grand blvd., the south Park Commissioners made up their minds to change it to South Parkway. —Editor. dent Young for another year and I shall stop here, and have more another time. —Charles E. Stump. ATTORNEY RICHARD HILL, INNOCENT OF ANY WRONG-DOING IN CONNECTION WITH THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS AND MR. PEARL SHAVERS. Late on Thursday afternoon members of the Chicago Bar Association at one of its important meetings declared that Lawyer Richard A. Hill was not guilty of committing any wrong in the bankruptcy legation in connection with Mr. Pearl Shavers and the Douglass National Bank. ANNOUNCEMENT New Church (Swedenborgian) The public is hereby informed that a colored branch of the Church of the New Jerusalem, better known as the Swedenborgian Church, has been organized in this city. Dating from Sunday, July 5th—the date of the opening service—the regular Sunday services of this church will be held at the South Side Community House, 32nd street and Wabash avenue. Sunday A. M. services at 10:45, Sunday School at 12 o'clock. All cordially invited. Rev. Theodore Stephens, Pastor. BRIEFS The victims of automobile accidents in 1924 alone were nearly twice the number killed and wounded in the American Army in the World War. The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has now approximately 13,000 stores in the United States and they are increasing at the rate of forty a week. COL. AND MRS. ROBERT S. AB- BOTT AND COL. AND MRS. CARY B. LEWIS (Continued from page 1) honored house guest of Mrs. Knowlton on Deleware Place and from that time on the Prince shook the dust of the colored society leaders from his would-be Princely feet and he freely mingled with the white fast smart set on the north side. One very charming white lady belonging to the fast smart set on the north side, with large wicked blue eyes and beautiful blond hair, coldly laid her plans to rope the Prince in and after falling for her love making, she walked with him arm in arm to the exclusive and high priced shop of Miss Pearlie Powell on North Michigan ave., where the beautiful blond white lady selected a lot of expensive finery consisting of a hat for $18, a bag for $45, a pin for $30, and a rich French dress for $65, making all told one hundred and fifty eight dollars. The charming blond lady lit out with her finery from the Prince for New York City. Just before the Prince was brought into court charged with paying for it with a bogus check. Within the past week the Prince rushed around among his friends and dug up enough money to make the check good. Seemingly Col. and Mrs. Abbott, Col. and Mrs. Lewis and their great army of high society leaders are not breaking their necks to rush to the defense of the Prince for bestowing his presents upon a lovely white, blue-eyed blond lady, after he had been wined and dined by the leading colored social lights residing in Chicago. WILL ORDERS PEWS FOR SERVANTS AT WOMAN'S FUNERAL Little Rock, Ark.—Mrs. Margaret T. Rose, white, widow of U. M. Rose, at one time United States ambassador to France, who died June 18, left instructions that singers at her funeral sing in their natural voices. "I do not want my funeral to be gloomy," a letter written shortly before her death said. Her letter, giving many details for the ceremony, asked that there be no eulogy. Pews on the side of the pulpit are to be reserved for the Negroes, her letter directs. "I want the pews on one side of the pulpit to be kept for any Negroes who may choose to come," she said. "The Negroes have done much for me; have waited on me and kept me from drudgery all my life, and I have never received an act of unkindness from one of them. So I feel that I owe them a debt I can never repay." MADAM FLORENCE COLE TALBERT TO APPEAR IN RECITAL AT BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH Monday evening, June 29, Madam Florence Cole Talbert, who has become the most noted soprano singer in this country, will appear in her farewell recital at Bethesda Baptist Church, 53rd street and Michigan avenue. She will be assisted by Mr. Morton Dennis, and Miss Goldie Guy, at the piano. J. FINLEY WILSON HERE J. Finley Wilson, Washington, D. C., accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, dropped into the city Sunday, enroute to California and Mexico. While here, they were the guests of the Huntington Hotel. Mr Wilson addressed the 1925 Marching Club of The Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44. He told in detail of the splendid record he had made during his administration and of the great work he has accomplished in the last twelve months. In conclusion, Mr. Wilson was highly applauded and responses to his address were made by president James M. Brooks; exalted ruler, James C. Martin; Treasurer Frank W. Henry, M. T. Bailey and others. Grand Exalter Ruler Wilson was joined in the city by Judge W. C. Houston of Gary, Ind., Dr. O. C. Clayborn, grand auditor and Dr. Fred H. Rubel of Chicago, all Elk Brothers. SPECIAL NOTICE All news articles or items, intended for publication in the next issue of this newspaper, must reach the editor not later than Wednesday morning July 1. I AMONG ESTABLISHED STYLES IN THE SUMMER WARDROBE A TO VISIT the juvenile realm of things knitted is like journeying through an Alice-in-Wonderland scene of enchantment. One fascinating discovery after another greets the eye, in the way of cunningly devised sweaters, frocks, capes, scarfs and other charming knitted items too numerous to relate. Gay color? There's a wealth of it. That is what this season's knitted togs for little boys and girls is noted for and this is as it should be, for what more joyous combination than children and color? The little girl in the picture radiates cheer in her sweater of tan illuminated with stripes of brightest-orange. Note that this sweater is of brushed wool. The fact that the brushed wool of nowadays is as light in weight as a feather bespeaks its continued favor. Then, too, there is another argument in its behalf, in the pleasure the "kiddies" take in these soft-as-down fuzzy-wuzzy knitted coatees. The popularity of bright red extends into the sweater field for children. Another beloved color this season for little folks' sweaters is madonna blue. AMONG ESTABLISHED IN THE S WHEN the business of assembling a summer wardrobe is under way, the question is not, "Will you have an ensemble suit?" but, "What kind of ensemble will you have?" The attractiveness of ensembles made so strong an impression on the feminine world that the ensemble idea has been exploited in every direction, greatly to the advantage of women. They have made rapid progress in learning to buy things that harmonize and belong together, in their street and other clothes—even when the outfit is not an ensemble suit. A fine example of the ensemble suit for summer is pictured here in flannel and printed silk, and it consists of a dress of figured silk and plain flannel, combined, and a long coat of the flannel. A suit of this kind might be developed in any of the season's popular colors—the tan, wood and sand shades, light brown, navy, lamin green or gray. All the natural or "unbleached" shades are well established in the modes for summer and they Odd Cause of Leprosy The ancient Hindus are said to have looked upon leprosy as man's inevitable punishment for killing a serpent. —Hygein. 5 In fact blues of all shades are important. Some adorable full-length fine lightweight coats are being displayed among distinctive knitted outerwear for tiny folks. They are knitted in ribs, and are double-breasted. A little hat to match is made up with a wee roll brim and a perky yarn pompom. Among clever new ideas which a tour of adventure into a fairyland of knitted finery for children reveals, are tots' Jersey frocks, these having lots of buttons and sometimes trimmings in contrast color. Bloomers come with these suits. Then there are jumper suits to be had at prices most reasonable. These serve admirably for school and play time. Other knitted luxuries for children include knitted rayon tunic frocks with knickers to match. Such lovely colors are exploited as mauve, red, brown, blue and pink, bordered at the neckline, hem and cuffs with either beige, fawn, bliscuit or white. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ( @ 1925, Western Newspaper Union. ) ED STYLES SUMMER WARDROBE combine well with other colors. But the model is adapted to other cloth besides flannel, kasha, twills, pongee and the crepe weaves. The underdress is a long tunic with a deep band set on at the bands above it. Ensemble suits of this kind may be varied by making a plain skirt to match the coat and wearing long overblouses or tunic blouses with it. In the wood, sand, natural or gray colors, and even in lively hues, a long, plain coat, like the one pictured, will make itself very generally useful over light summer dresses. Among the new showings in ensembles there are suits for formal wear, in which figured silk and black georgette are charmingly combined. 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East Indian Time The Samvat year is generally used in reckoning time in India, except in Bengal. According to tradition it was introduced by King Vikrana in 58 B. C. A Samvat given date represents the year last completed. WILLIE UNI JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J. E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.G.M. Bookkeeper Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN 5121-23-25 "TheWilliamsonFuneral" is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars OUT AGAIN Rev. George Anderson, 4509 S. Dearborn st., who spent many weeks at Provident Hospital recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident is much improved and able to be out again. GOES TO FLORIDA Mrs. Fannie E. Streeter, 5828 Indiana ave., well known resident of Chicago left the city Tuesday evening for Daytona, Florida, where she intends to spend a year with her son-in-law and daughter, Prof. and Mrs. John C. Wright, vice-president and teacher of The Daytona-Cookman Collegiate Institute. PASSES THROUGH CITY Mrs. James Hugo Johnston, Richmond, Va., the widow of the late James Hugo Johnston, for many years president of The V.N. & C.I. at Petersburg, Va., spent a few days in the city with her sons, V. D. Johnston and Lowell P. Johnston enroute from Columbus, Ohio, where she witnessed the graduation of her daughter, Dorothy, who accompanied her mother on this trip. While here they met many friends. To Re-Erect Temple A temple on the Acropolis of Selinus in Italy is to be re-erected. Originally it was 220 feet long by 85 feet wide. Six columns decorated the front, 18 the side. This particular temple occupied the most prominent place on the Acropolis. To whom it was dedicated is not known. Toper's Glass The British museum has acquired a new treasure—a yard of ale. It is an ale glass a yard high, narrow at the base, but larger at the top. Fifty years ago it belonged to a young man who put on exhibitions showing how to drink all the ale in the glass without stopping. Legal Phraseology Escrow is a writing which has been fully executed but which has been placed in the keeping of a third party, to be held by him until such time as the specified conditions under which the instrument was prepared have been fulfilled. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 27, 1925 Cranberry Cultivation Out of a total of 29,964 acres of cranberries in the United States, 14,000 are in Massachusetts and 13,000 in New Jersey. Cranberries are little grown outside of the United States. About 100 acres are being cultivated in Nova Scotia and they have been tried with little success in Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark. Toad's Great Value Some form of toad can be found in each state. Toads were formerly more numerous. They are now becoming rare, for they are destroyed by all classes of vertebrates and by drought in summer and severe cold in winter. 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