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The Funeral Services Held Over the Remains of the Rev. Charles Stewart, at the Olivet Baptist Church, Thirty-First Street and South Parkway, Was Largely Attended. The Church Was Filled to Overflowing. Its Eloquent Pastor, Rev. Lacey K. Williams, D.D., Preached a Powerful Sermon SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE The Funeral of Charles St. Street and Church W. Lacey K. W. REV. A. M. TOWNSEND OF THE SUNDAY LISHING BOARD TIONAL BAPTIST SERVED AS MASTER MONIES. MORE THE ISTERS AND OTHER MEN AND WOMEN PARTS OF THE CONTAINED THE FUNERIES. MANY TELEGRAMS, ENCE AND SYMPATHING A LETTER FROM CHARLES S. DENE STATES SENATOR FOUND RECEIVED REAVED WIDOW, M. THE FLORAL TRIBUTE NUMEROUS, RARE FUL, EXTENDED BY THE CHURCH ALTA. INTERMENT IN THE FALL LINCOLN CEMETERY AUTOMOBILES, FILM CLOSEST AND WARN FOLLOWED HIS RELIEF THEIR FINAL REST. KERSEY, McGOWAN AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR REV. A. M. TOWNSEND, SECRETARY OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL PUBLISHING BOARD OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, SERVED AS MASTER OF CEREMONIES. MORE THAN FIFTY MINISTERS AND OTHER PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ATTENDED THE FUNERAL SERVICES. MANY TELEGRAMS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM HON. CHARLES S. DENEEN, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, WERE RECEIVED BY HIS REAVED WIDOW, MRS. STEWART. THE FLORAL TRIBUTES WERE VERY NUMEROUS, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL, EXTENDED CLEAR ACROSS THE CHURCH ALTAR. INTERMENT IN THE FAMILY LOT AT LINCOLN CEMETERY. FIFTEEN AUTOMOBILES, FILLED WITH HIS CLOSEST AND WARMEST FRIENDS FOLLOWED HIS REMAINS TO THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE. KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL, FUNERAL DIRECTORS IN CHARGE. --- Rev. Lacey K. Williams, President of the National Baptist Convention, the able and eloquent pastor of the great Olivet Baptist Church, paid the following glowing tribute to the memory of his warm friend of many years' standing, Rev. Charles Stewart. My comrades in the Gospel, the ministry and my friends who are here present—this bereaved family and relatives: I am choosing a rather peculiar way and theme for this occasion and for this funeral oration or sermon, which ever you may choose to call it. I am motivated for two reasons for this seemingly unusual manner and theme. The first reason is very clear to you. It has been stated in the obituary this man who now lies prostrate in death before us was a very unusual and unique character. I don't know by what paragon you could measure him. I don't know into which mode he would fit exactly. There wasn't but one Charlie Stewart. My next reason or explanation or even an apology for this unusual manner, we rode in the car together and at Wichita, Kansas, the last evening I was there we carried him to his stopping place. He said to me, "I don't think I will see you again; and I am sure I won't see you again alive unless I can move this obstruction in my leg." "But," he said, "you are my pastor." And then he said in a jocular way, "when I am dead and stretched out all you can do is to pass by and say 'Don't he look natural?' " THE BROAD AX 5 CENTS PER COPY GENERAL SER Stewart, and South Was Filled . William SEND, SECRETARY DAY SCHOOL PUB- RD OF THE NA- ST CONVENTION, MASTER OF CERE- THAN FIFTY MIN- THER PROMINENT MEN FROM ALL THE COUNTRY AT- FUNERAL SERV- AMS OF CONDOL- MPATHY, INCLU- DER FROM HON. BENEEN, UNITED OR FROM ILLINOIS, VED BY HIS PE- N, MRS. STEWART. OUTES WERE VERY ARE AND BEAUTI- D CLEAR ACROSS ALTAR. THE FAMILY LOT AT MIETERY. FIFTEEN FILLED WITH HIS WARMEST FRIENDS IS REMAINS TO RESTING PLACE. AN AND MORSELL, ACTORS IN CHARGE. And then he said to me, "I want you to preach my funeral and say to the people that I have destroyed my nerves, wasted my physical energy and wrote my arm off in their defense." I am choosing, therefore this subject and using this as a text: "He wrote the vision." One translation has it "He wrote the dream." I think you will find that in Daniel the Old Testament, 7th Chapter at about the 7th verse, if my memory is correct on that point. Every faith is made for some distinct purpose. There are no useless appendages anywhere in nature; that which very often appears to be superfluous and useless appears only, to the umsophisticated in that particular theme. As being that I mean it appears to people as being useless because they don't know everything on that subject. The evening storms that shake creation and run through the earth with mighty convulsions charge the air with heavy streaks of lightning and ponderous voices of thunder are needed to shake all its impurities and send the air back with beautiful ozone through the bodies of men to revive and sustain them. Scientists have divided the world on two theories, the atomic and molecular. A man never finds his rightful place in the world until he catches a vision. A man doesn't know his place until he has had a vision; a man doesn't know the needs of human society until he has a vision; a man don't know the possibilities of his own individuality, his own destiny until he THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 25, 1925 THE LATE REV. CHARLES STEWART, D. D. Funeral services were held over his remains last Monday morning at Olivet Baptist Church, which is one of the largest churches in this city, and which was filled to overflowing by thousands of his steadfast friends. dreams a dream. He gets a vision. The first vision that any man ought to get to be useful, ought to catch a vision of himself; catch a vision of himself; self discovery, self development, self possession, self control; the use of self and not for self. There are hidden and latent possibilities that lie buried in every individual; some time these possibilities are rich, potential and abundantly rich; some times the man who possesses them sleeps and fails to make a contribution to human society that he ought to make and he goes through life crippled, destitute, not knowing himself nor even his place in human society. The discovery of man's potentialities, to know that he is a human being a composite character, bulit up of intellect, body, mind and soul, a social and a strong character made for contact in human society—to know what's in him, know what he can do and the greatest tragedy of our day and time is the human being that don't stop to study himself and get a vision of his possibilities and his latent powers. I am saying to you here is a man lying in death who discovered himself. Did you hear that obituary, that he had a very humble and unpretentious beginning and lived up to his opportunities in that small village or city and pushed his way through what is now known as Simmons University in order that he might work on himself, having discovered himself, to develop himself. A man catching a vision of himself and his possibilities. He never forgot that he's an intellectual character; he's made to think. And one half the trouble that the world has today is in bad thinking more than in bad hearts. People don't think transparently and conclusively; they deal in half truths; they build promises that are fallacious and they draw conclusions that are superficial and incomplete—bad thinking is one half the world's trouble today. Discovering of one's self, the power of concentration; to center his mind upon one thing and exclude the world for the moment and that's why the teacher in school makes the story from correct verbs and geometrical propositions to go step by step so there will be no erroneous statement so that it may be approximated correctly and appraised. Discovering one's self, the preparations of one's self; man must remember that he is an emotional character; that his emotionality must be subjected to reason; that people must not think that he is impatient; that people must not be frantic and fevered in their effort to elevate the problems of human life. In the discovery of one's self or development thereof he must needs a strong will and man only can control his will. God doesn't attempt to control it. When God gets ready to come into a man He's got to stop on the outside and say "Who-soever will." In discovering one's self he catches the vision. In discovering one's self he catches the vision and development of self. He's got to think of these things. The Apostle Paul caught a vision and it isn't accidental that his name was changed from Saul to Paul. That isn't an accident. That vision he saw as he was writing to persecute the church where God came out in splendor more magnificent and glorious than that of the noon day sun until it threw this mighty character prostrate upon the earth and made him cry out "What will You have me to do?" and the key note of that man's life ever after that was in obedience to the Heavenly King. And Paul was one of the most magnificent characters this world ever saw. One man in writing about him said when Paul was converted it was such a big accomplishment against the kingdom of the Devil that the Devil ordered Hell in mourning when Paul was rescued and surrendered to the Church of Jesus Christ. The Devil ordered Hell in mourning when he lost Paul, because he thought the most vulnerable stroke that had ever been driven against Hell was made when Paul was rescued from his bad conceptions of religion by that vision and subjected his life entirely afterwards to it. The vision I am arguing changes a man; it lifts them from the low level of the common herd; makes him a pioneer in a common field and very often a martyr, for the world's makers haven't been the most popular men. People didn't love Roosevelt so much as they feared him; they had to respect him because of his personality, and because of his character. Again, the man that catches the right SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No.45 If the Rev. Thirty-First ded. The Pastor, Rev. rmon --- vision is supplied with a dynamic force, for in his life there are so many lives flabby and indecisive because they're not buoyed upward by some entrancing charm out yonder on the western horizon; they have no future, they have no definite aim and when a man has no future and has no destiny he has nothing in him to make him overcome difficulties, to make him withstand the storm. When a man is armed with a conception that his cause is right he is stronger than armor in battle; he's got something inside of him to make him see the light when it flickers on the evening skies over yonder. He has something in him to make him hope against hope; to make him believe that I come to conquer. He has something in him to make him stand. He is inspired, he has dynamic force inside of him that makes him more powerful than an engine in his efforts to accomplish his task; and what the steam is to the engine that this dynamic is to the man who catches the vision; what electricity is to any electric plant, that this vision is to a man who catches it properly. I tell you it gives him something to live for; it gives him something to die for. Garrison got it and what did he say? He became the librator of our race. He said "I'm in earnest." He said I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch and he said I will be heard on this cause of human liberty." And the man that caught the vision of the other and made emancipation—and I hope I am not fanciful when I say it—I think there must have been moving through the mind of Garrison like a moving panorama this scene today. We are sitting around the body of a man who caught the vision. Like Garrison he dedicated his life to writing that vision in human flesh; he must have seen it. I think the whole thing revolved before him, because the Bible says Moses saw the invisible. He saw Joppa in slavery with chains on it; he saw an uncollected mass of humanity; he saw Mount Sinai smoking, spitting fire; and fever shook him as if he had a chill; he saw Israel moulded into a mass of humanity. These people living from hand to mouth die soon; they have no inspiration and the quicker they die the better it is for the world. Raphael says somebody asked him "How do you make your accomplishments?" I dream my dreams. I see my visions; then I write them." A man that is armed and sees his correct vision watches the proper inspiration. He's got something to help him when the stars shoot up to heaven; he's got something to help him when there's 'not a ray of light penetrating anywhere. The great trouble with the world today it isn't thinking in universal terms; there's a narrow, restricted jingoism that's falling down on us; the world has been congested; the world has been brought together; it's no longer cast; it's no longer south; no longer north; it's one great big old world; and men who are to make the largest contributions to human society cannot think only in narrow terms; cannot draw their equations for their race along but they must think for the universe for this whole No. 45 world is united; it's God's world and every one of us is a child and we are brethren together. The vision then therefore should have to do with a world's needs. One half the trouble in our world problems today people are coming forward with an antidote to cure the world's disease and they have never been able to understand what's the matter; not have they yet known what to give the world. I am arguing that the correct vision is not only a vision of some narrow fenced-off corner of the world, some section that belongs to one person, that the other fellow hasn't anything to do with it, but I am arguing that we need a world's vision of the inequalities that exist in human society in the industrial, political world, in national life. All these inequalities will be smoothed out if people will only consider that their greatest tie and limitation on their lives is not their family, not their own nation but they are in debt to the world. After you learn that you got to fill your common sphere in human society according to certain limitations self imposed very often voluntarily; and there are some of those are imposed by others. Here is a man that lies prostrate in death before us today that believed in the world, but he believed above everything in his own people. He believed he had a vision of the possibilities of the Negro race; and you hear me today, the man who doesn't believe in the Negro race has no right to endeavor to be a leader. I never want to hear a man getting up talking about the Negro race not rising; the most upstanding set you ever saw in you life is this set that's building up. Nobody else would have gone through what we have gone through and hold up our heads and some on anyhow. Take Russia as compared with us today, 90 out of every 100 is in ignorance and they have had better opportunities than we; the richest country with natural resources in all the world is Russia. We have reduced ours to 20 the last time I heard of it. The man that's going to lift our people, my friends, is the man that must believe in the possibilities of our people; he must be a man that must love his people. Moses loved his people so dearly that he raised a fuss with God, if you will pardon the common vernacular. He said, "If you don't go up with us to Philistine you take my name off the book." Here was a man linked with his own people with hooks of steel and he believed in them, not believing in them to exploit and get something out of them but the man that has a vision is a man that's willing to lay down his life for his people, like this man did. How he decided after catching his vision to dedicate his life? He decided to dedicate his life to writing. He wrote the vision. I think it was Dr. George Peabody said the greatest accomplishment anybody on this earth could make is the transformation of ideals into flesh. It's the changing of thought into blood, putting dreams to work on the earth. If somebody can see the vision and dream the dream and after a while a lot of people can think and dream, build air castles, but the greatest and (Continued on Page 2) THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th. 1899, without missing one single issue. 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(Continued from Page 1) finest accomplishment of any man's life is to take his buildings out of the clouds and put them on the streets and cities. And this man did that. He translated in cold though eloquent ink this vision; so that there wasn't a single outstanding man in any denomination in America that didn't know Charlie Stewart; there wasn't a single outstanding white man in America that had to do with great problems that didn't know Charlie Stewart; and I say to you that aphorism that the pen is mightier than the sword swings before me now in letters of gold upon the clouds—the pen is mightier than the sword. And never did I see it so splendidly exemplified until I was coming the other day out of Nashville, when a white man said to me your putting your convention on the front pages of the Banner in Nashville last September enabled us to close out just a week before last a deal where we borrowed more than $500,000 by this man's pen setting the Negro Baptists correctly before the world, and $250,000 coming from the Tennessee Life Insurance Company. Who put it there? Charlie Stewart. And pardon me for putting it that way. He called me L. K. I called him Charlie; his is a familiar name. The pen is mightier than the sword. Think of the Negroes able to get $500,000 of Southern capital by the stroke of a man's pen. He wrote his vision. He translated his vision; his dreams made them a reality. He wasn't an impractical visionary. The visionary man never brings anything to pass; he lives in the future always; but the man who catches visions and is able to translate them, to write them like Dr. Stewart did, is a practical man. Crystalizing his thoughts, reincarnating himself he will live a thousand years—throughout eternity,—because of his trenchant pen and his fearless character. We need writers; the most powerful physiological, psychological thing today in the world is public opinion. Nothing shapes public opinion more than the writers; modern writers, newspapers with the pulpit are the most powerful agencies today in American life and the man that can work himself up into the lime light coming from the Negro race so that he can catch the ear of the white newspaper world to distribute and disseminate our propaganda, our public work, to do our agitation, constructive criticism finds himself today upon an unusual pedestal; making contributions equal to that of the pulpit today. Charlie Stewart didn't try to specialize as a preacher and yet he could preach but he said like Luke, I am going to set some things in order with my pen. The great trouble with the world today as I said is bad thinking. Here is a man that had clear thoughts. Here lies the frame of a man that was the most obliging character I ever saw in my life. Here was a man that didn't live for self; here was a man who would pull his shoes off, so to Moffett HON. CHARLES S. DENEEN United States Senator from Illinois, whose very touching letter to Mrs. Charles Stewart, expressing sorrow over the death of her husband, Rev. Charles Stewart, appears in another column of this newspaper. speak, and walk barefooted miles to help a friend; and after all you aren't big by what you get; you are big according to what you give. And this justly entitled Dr. Stewart to have his name to be written among the galaxy of the great today. He was a most tenderly, kihd hearted man, most obliging character that you ever knew, translating his vision; he's made another noble contribution. There isn't a man that has done so much to promote proper secuional relationship and the preservation of our physical resources as Charlie Stewart has. He sounded no uncertain note from any platform in America for strong, robust manhood of the race and insisted that Negro men had no right to do everything in the world and expect Negro women to be virtuous. The double standard he was against and there was no man ever sat upon the American platform that has done more to make Negro men rightly appraise their physical stamina than this man whose frame lies prostate before us today. He's done his work; he wrote with a mighty and trenchant pen. He stayed right at the post until the last hour. Gone to the 'phone between 11 and 12 o'clock that night, asking for a friend. I think she's here today, to talk with her at 12 o'clock—that's reported to me—put in the call about half past 11 and 12 and they rang up again from Kansas City to find out why he didn't ring again, they were waiting for him; and the answer came over the 'phone that he's gone into death; stayed at his post until the last hour. The men have been world makers have seen visions; they have been the most substantial assets of human society; they have been pioneers. Isn't that true of Homer, isn't it true of Socrates? Isn't it true of Newton who saw the apple fall and went on to find what subtle force that drew it down? Isn't it true of Columbus, he went around with one idea in his mind unable to finance it—men who have translated their visions for God and humanity. IN MEMORIAM By Wm. H. Steward Charles Stewart, son of Henry and Harriet Stewart, was born in Frankfort, Ky., May 28, 1869. He was converted in his youth and was baptized into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church by the late Rev. Robert Martin. He attended the private school taught by Miss Mattie Anderson and in 1881 came to Louisville, where he entered what is now known as Simmons University of which Rev. Wm. J. Simmons was then president. Like many of the young men of that day, he had to work his way through school and in that desire he found service with the American Baptist as collector and reporter. His taste for journalism was in that way encouraged and he subsequently had the courage to approach the manager of the Courier-Journal on that subject and he made such a favorable impression that he was engaged to furnish a "Colored Column" for that paper. He has maintained a connection with both of their papers from that time until his death. Finishing the Normal Course at Simmons University, he went to Chi- cago where he has since made his home. He joined the Olivet Baptist Church then under the pastorate of Rev. John F. Thomas, under whose administration he was licensed to preach the Gospel. He took a course in the Metropolitan Business College and became an expert short-hand reporter and typewriter, which was a valuable asset to him in his journalistic work which he has so successfully followed. Mr. Stewart was married to Miss Elvie L. Washington of Galveston, Texas, June 6, 1901, who with one son, Charles, Jr., survive him in addition to two brothers, John Stewart, Clifton Stewart, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Morton. He was perhaps the most widely known member of our race and has traveled continuously all of these years from one end of this country to the other, reporting great meetings of every character among our people to the Associated Press, the great dailies and our race journals. As General Missionary of the National Baptist Convention, his services were always in demand as a preacher, lecturer and platform speaker. It is said that he has visited every college, academy and university in the country for the training of our young people and was always a popular speaker among them. He was a unique character, was patient, cheerful, jovial, witty, hopeful and congenial and had rare talent in making friendships and in retaining them as well as in remembering faces and names. His large frame and heavy weight made it irksome and tiresome for him to travel and especially has this been true in late years and it has been telling seriously upon his health and strength. Following medical advice he had changed his method of traveling and was making shorter and less frequent trips and stopping for rest, mainly in the homes of his friends and they were legion, who found pleasure and delight in caring for him. While at Wichita, Kans., attending the Baptist Congress, he decided to go to the Park Sanitarium, Guthrie, Okla., which he often did and take treatment from his old friend and physician, Dr. H. W. Conrad, who had expert technical knowledge of his condition. The disease yielded apparently to the treatment and he was preparing to leave for his home in Chicago when the summons came and without a murmur he crossed the dark river and entered into rest. He was a great leader in the work of his life, a devoted and loyal friend, a kind and affectionate husband, an indulgent father and a good citizen. Today all over this country where Charles Stewart was known and loved, his friends are looking toward Chicago expressing words of cheer and sympathy to his bereaved family. His life was given to his race, his denomination and his friends and after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. List of Pallbearers Rev. L. K. Williams, Rev. Branham. Active—Julius F. Taylor, David Roach, George C. Hall, M.D. Jesse Trice, M.D., Harvey Watkins, Melvin J. Chisum, Honorary—Rev. W. D. Cook, Rev. W. S. Braddan, Rev. B. U. Taylor, Rev. C. H. Clark, Rev. Moses Jackson, Rev. Edward Wil- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 25, 1925 liams, Mr. Anthony Overton, Mr. M. T. Bailey, Dr. James E. White, Mr. Joseph Bibbs, Mr. B. W. Fitts, Mr. Oscar De Priest, Mr. Claude Barnett, Mr. Robert S. Abbott, Mr. W. R. Cowan, Mr. Frank Henry, Mr. A. L. Jackson, Mr. F. L. Barnett, Mr. E. H. Morris, Mr. A. L. McBride, Mr. Joseph Bowles, Mr. Fred S. Bosworth, Mr. S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. Andrew McDowell, Mr. D. J. Brooks, Mr. Jerry Brumfield, Mr. Albert Morgan, Mr. Phil Green, Mr. S. B. Turner, Rev. D. H. Harris, Judge Albert B. George, Ald. Louis B. Anderson, Sen. Chas. S. Deneen, Maj R. R. Jackson, Mr. Chas. Griffin, Mr. E. H. Wright, Mr. C. B. Lewis, Atty. W. H. Harrison, Sgt. Julius Glenn, Atty. W. L. Martin, Mr. Morris Lewis, Mr. A. S. Malone. Members of Talma Chapter No. 2 CFS Department Grants O.E.S. Present at Grave Mrs. Mae Johnson, Worthy Matron, Mrs. Annie White, Mrs. Maud Toles, Mrs. Bessie Hammond, Mrs. Hattie Woolridge. List of Floral Designs List of Floral Designs Major and Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Chicago; Miss Blanch Smith, Chicago; Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Trice and family; Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Adams, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gaines, Philadelphia; Mrs. Alice Andrews Huggins and Mrs. Jessie Lucas Armstrong, Chicago; Faculty and students of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Fitts, Chicago; Miss Bertha E. Garrett, Leavenworth Kans.; Ideal Women's Club, Chicago; Mrs. Alice A. Brown, Nogales, Ariz.; North Carolina Mutual Life Ins. Company, Durham, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Booker, Chicago; Mme. Pocahontas Scott, Chicago; Mr. H. L. Reichman and Family, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone, Poro College, St. Louis, Mo.; Misses Stewart, Morton and Kibie, Chicago; Heroes of Jericho, Esther Court No. 2, Chicago; Talma Chapter No. 2, O.E.S., Chicago; Fidelity Court No. 22, H. of J., Chicago; Signet Club, O.E.S., Chicago; Prince Hall Lodge No 52, F. and A. M., Chicago; Western Consistory No. 28, Chicago; R. S. Abbott, Chicago; Damon Lodge No. 1, K. of P., Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. David a Roach, Chicago; Mrs. F. S. Blevins, Birmingham, Ala.; Sunflower Grand Court, O.O.C., Leavenworth, Kans.; C. F. Starcks and family, Dallas, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Chicago, Ill. Letters of Sympathy Letters of Sympathy Mrs. Mamie E. Stewart, Louisville, Ky.; Woman's Mite Missionary Society, Mrs. M. A. Bell, Pres., Mrs. Oneida Watson, Cor. Sec.; White Rose Court, Leavenworth, Kans., Mrs. Beatrice Contee, W. C.; Thomas Kennedy, Kansas City, Kans.; Rev. J. R. Ransom, St. John A.M.E. Church, Topeka, Kans.; E. H. Reichman, Central Passenger Association, Chicago, Ill.; Atty, and Mrs. W. H. Harrison, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. Ralph E. Tervalon, Terre Haute, Ind.; Mr. William E. Canada, Tere Haute, Ind.; Mrs. Daisy E. Conrad, Guthrie, Okla.; Signet Club, Lottie A. Calloway, Pres., Hope I. Dunmore, Sec.; Mrs. Billie Brumfield Dent, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Rosa C. Gibson, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Resolutions from the local Board of Managers of Western College, C. A. McDowell, Chairman, Mary Grims, Sec'y, S. W. Bacote, Mamie Johnson, W. H. Hill, Clement Richardson, Pres., W. H. Patton, J. M. Booker, S. M. Daniels, Letitia Carter, D.G.M.N. G. of K. Kansas City, Kans.; Dr. U. G. Mason, Birmingham, Dr.; Senator Chas S. Deneen, Chicago, Ill.; Anna Lasley, Lansing, Mich.; D. C. Phillips, Dallas, Tex.; M. Avery, North Carolina Mutual, Durham, N. C.; Rev. and Mrs. A. Acey, Vicksburg, Miss.; Martin A. Menefee, Denmark, S. C.; Hattie J. Wells, International Grand Guild Heroes of the Templar Crusades, Urbana, Ill.; Dr. Isaac W. Young, A. and N. University, Langston, Okla.; W. L. Lewis, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Susie L. Evans, Topeka, Kans.; Mr. Walter Russell, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. E. Neai, Chicago, Ill.; Miss Effie P. Simmons, Washington, D. C.; Miss Mary Briscoe, Baltimore, Md.; Rev. W. F. Graham, Philadelphia; Rev. and Mrs. S. N. Vass, Nashville, Tenn.; T. V. Overton, M.D., Houston, Tex.; Prof. W. H. Holtzclaw, Utica, Miss.; C. T Stamps, Topeka, Kans.; Mr. T. G. Macon, Cheyenne, Ariz.; Capital City Lodge No. 1597, G.U.U.O.O.F. Frankfort, Ky.; Mr. Jas A. Ray, Frankfort, Ky.; Western Baptist Convention, Rev. G. W. Robinson, Pres. Des Moines, Ia.; Atty, Elisa Scott, Topeka, Kans.; Rev. L. G. Jordan, Louisville, Ky.; Cleveland G. Allen, New York City; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Steward, Jr., Denver, Colo.; Miss Emily C. Kinch, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. J. C. McClain, Rock Island, Princess Hagar Chapter No. 7, O.E.S. Chicago; Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Agnes Quarey, Hannibal, Mo.; Rev. S. W. Bacote, Kansas City, Mo.; Western College, Board of Trustees, Kansas City, Mo.; Woman's Mite Missionary Society of Chicago Conference, Mrs. M. A. Bell, Pres, Aurora, III.; Prof. N. B. Young, Jefferson City, Mo.; Mrs. Daisy Belle Williams, Washington, D. C.; Rev. R. H. Fauntleroy, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. O. L. Hailey, Nashville, Tenn.; III. Federation Colored Women's Clubs, Mrs. Irene Goins, Pres., Chicago; Misses Mary and Florence Pamplin, Danville, Ill.; Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Idlewild, Mich.; Mr. A. A. Chapman, Richmond, Va.; Atty. Elam H. Johnson, Chicago Charles S. Deneen 29 S. La Salle Street Chicago July 18.1925. Mrs. Charles Stewart. Dear Mrs. Stewart:— I have learned with sorrow of the death of Dr. Stewart. I am writing to express to you my sympathy in your great bereavement. He was widely known throughout the country and I am sure that the sympathy of his many friends will be a comfort to you and your family in your hour of sorrow. Yours truly, (Signed) C. S. DENEEN. List of Telegrams folk Ledger-Dispatch, Henry D. Perkins, Mgr., Norfolk, Va.; Rev. S. A. Williams, St. Petersburg, Fla. OUT OF TOWN PERSONS ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF DR. CHARLES STEWART AND TAKING PART ON THE PROGRAM WERE AS FOLLOWS: Dr. A. M. Townsend, Sec. Sunday School Publishing Board, N. B. C., Nashville, Tenn, Master of Ceremonies; Prof. R. B. Hudson, Sec. National Baptist Convention, Selma, Ala., Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, Editor National Voice, Nashville, Tenn; Dr. J. T. Brown, Editor Sunday School Literature, N. B. C.; Dr. B. J. F. Westbrooks, Indianapolis, Ind.; Rev. S. B. Butler, Indianapolis, Ind.; Dr. W. H. Jernagin, Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Steward, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Maxwell, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. Earnest Hall, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. Geo. W. Robinson, Pres. Western States Convention, Des Moines; Rev. W. R. Jackson, Rockford, Ill.; Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Penick, Milwaukee, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Aaron E. Malone, St. Louis, Mo. Other speakers were: Mr. R. S. Abbott, Dr. Geo. Cleveland Hall, Dr. C. H. Clark, Dr. I. A. Thomas, Rev. W. L. Petty, Rev. Patton, Mr. Melvin J. Chisum, Secty. National Negro Press Association; Rev. McCracken, and Editor Julius F. Taylor. JULIUS F. TAYLOR AND MELVIN J. CHISUM, FIELD SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION FOLLOWED THE REMAINS OF THE LATE CHARLES STEWART TO THE END OF THE ROAD Many of the leading colored newspaper men in this city attended the funeral services held over the remains of the late Charles Stewart, at the Olivet Baptist Church, but Julius F. Taylor and Melvin J. Chisum of Washington, D. C., field secretary of the National Negro Press Association were the only two of his old newspaper friends to follow him to the end of the road Lincoln Cemetery. PROMINENT NEWSPAPER MAN EXPRESSES HIS SYMPATHY TO MRS. STEWART Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch Norfolk, Va. H. L. Perkins, Managing Editor H. L. Perkins, Managing Editor Norfolk, Va., July 21, 1925. Mrs. Charles Stewart, Chicago, Illinois Dear Mrs. Stewart:— It was with the most sincere and deep grief that I received the notice of the death of my old and valued friend, your husband. For many years I have been accustomed to look forward to his letters and to welcome his visits to Norfolk. I want to say that I have never known a better man, no matter what his color and that I was proud to have him call me his friend. That he is now safe and happy in heaven, his work on earth done and well done, we can be sure. God bless you and your family. Cordially and sincerely, (Signed) HENRY D. PERKINS CARD OF THANKS The family of the late Rev. Charles Stewart wish to express their sincere appreciation for the many kindnesses extended to them in their recent bereavement—Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, Charles Stewart, Jr., John H. Stewart and family. JUDGE MALMIN WILL CON-TINUE TO SERVE AS JUDGE OF THE WRIGHT JO- Shortly after the 4th of March last, Judge Lucius T. M. Malmin forwarded his resignation to President Coolidge but he has since withdrawn it, and he will continue to sit in judgment on the judicial acts of the natives of those islands as in the past. There are about twenty-five to thirty thousand colored people in those islands as against three hundred whites. Judge Malmin will address the American Bar Association which meets in Detroit, Mich., in August, on the "Virgin Islands." His talk will be held on CAMPBELLS VISITING CITY Jas. H. Campbell and wife, St. Louis, Mo., are in the city visiting relatives and friends. Sunday they were the dinner guests of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Wallace, 3638 Indiana Ave. Philadelphia, Pa.-Editor Chester A. Franklin, of the Kansas City Call, was married to Miss Ada Crogman of this city Wednesday evening at seven o'clock at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. R. R. Wright, Jr., 925 N. 48th St. Rev. C. A. Tindley of East Calvary Methodist Church performed the ceremony in the presence of a number of friends, many of whom came from far distant points. Both parties are nationally known. Mr. Franklin having developed one of the best Negro weeklies in the country and Miss Crogman being for years the national organizer of dramatics and pageanting for national community service, a graduate of the college department of Clark University, of which her father, Dr. W. H. Crogman was for many years president, and also of Emerson School of Oratory of Boston. The bride was beautifully gowned and attended by the following maids Maid of Honor—Miss Edith Wright of Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Margaret Davis Brewer, teacher in Douglas School, Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Hattie Wright, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Evelyn Crawford, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Gene White, Zanesville, Ohio; and the following matrons: Matron of Honor, Mrs. Edith Cogman-Brook, of Austin, Texas, youngest sister of the bride; Mrs. Eva Simpson Waters, Gatsburg, Ill.; Mrs. A. H. Martin, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs Nancy Barnes, Camden, New Jersey; Mrs Blanche Stubbs, Wilmington Del. Miss Grace Wright, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Wright, Jr., was flower girl and Master Warren Redd, son of Dr. and Mrs. Redd of Youngstown, Ohio, was ring bearer. Mr. Russell Johnson, Philadelphia, officiated at the piano, and Dr. O. A. Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, was best man. Dr. L. C. Crogman, Lorain, Ohio, was escort for the bride. Many social functions were given in honor of the popular couple, who after a tour of New York and the West as far as Denver, will make their home in Kansas City, Kansas. MAYOR APPOINTS NOAH D THOMPSON AS MEMBER OF HOUSING COMMISSION On last Friday, Mayor Geo. E. Cryer submitted among others the appointment of Mr. Noah D. Thompson as a member of the Housing Commission. This marks a new departure for our Mayor and is his first effort to give recognition to his colored constituency. The appointment is a very satisfactory one from all angles and we have yet to hear of any person who has voiced anything except praise for Mr. Thompson. In fact Mr. Thompson is a live, energetic and worth while citizen, alert to all the problems which confront the people and thoroughly equipped by his rich and varied experience in public affairs to fill the position. We congratulate the Mayor on his selection and Mr. Thompson upon the honor which is his. Col. Noah D. Thompson, who is one of our oldest and warmest friends in the west, justly deserves all the honors which the Mayor of Los Angeles can bestow upon him.-Editor. NEW DANCING CLUB ENJOYS AN OUTING AT THE FOREST PRESERVES Mrs. H. L. Patterson, 4421 Indiana avenue, motored to the Forest Preserves in her Oakland high powered touring car the latter part of last week to enjoy the woods with the Ont-re News Dancing Club. Those in the party aside from Mrs. Patterson were 'Mrs. L. O. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Williams, Miss Edna Elliott and Dr. T. Y. Hunter. 5,000 MOURN AT RITES FOR REV. S. E. J. WATSON More than 5,000 people attended the funeral service of the Rev. S. E. J. Watson, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Temple, 33rd and Indiana avenue. He died last Tuesday morning in Mayo Brothers clinic at Rochester and the body was returned Monday morning. The Rev. L. K. Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, preached the sermon and interment was in Mount Greenwood cemetery. ENJOYING LIFE AT IDLEWILD MICHIGAN Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, 3262 Vernon avenue, and her two little sons, Harris B. Jr., and Charles Ellis Gaines are greatly enjoying their summer vacation at Idlewild, Michigan, occupying her own cottage. She and the boys expect to return home about August 1. The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax Will Ap- pear Saturday, September 12, 1925. It Has Been Published _ cmneet for Twenty-Six Years, Without Missing One COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES” By: The Cameraman 1. Cotton Is Not King. 2, When Marian Sings. 3. The Mob Goes North. 4. Good Evenin’ Mister Dempsey. Frank Bohn (white), feature writer and economic. speciaist, _ gloomily writes from New York that Cotton is no longer king of the Southland. “Our cotton states,"says Mr. Bohn, “face the second great change of their history since their labor system was destroyed during the Civil War.” Lamentingly, Mr. Bohn continues by saying: “A totally false notion obtains in the North that the South is prosperous. This is true only of a very small class of cities. The job of teaching the majority under present conditions, is a task before which anybody might despair. Considerably more than half the workers in”the southern fields east of the Mississippi are Negroes. About hali the remainder are white tenant farmers. Both these classes are gen- erally incapable of modern farm prac- tices. *** “Mr. Bohn concludes his lamentations by saying that “the South deserves what she never received from the North — She deserves to be under- stood, She has been looked upon as though the burdens which have bowed her down for a century sprang from a moral and not an economic evil.” A painstaking check-up of Mr. Bohn’s assertions reveals grave incon- sistencies. While the South is having great difficulty in applying modern agricultural methods to its cotton cul- tivation and other similar pursuits, Negroes who have abandoned the old- time cotton fields of the South for new ongs in cotton states farther north, Missouri, for instance, have readily acquired a working knowledge of modern methods, This is openly attested to by the jump which Mis- souri is taking, under Negro labor, in cotton production. It is axiomatic, of course, that manual labor is dis- tasteful to the white man of the South, who is still grieving over Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its resultant constitutional amend- ments, The hide-bound South is equally dormant in installing modern cotton and farming machinery. The experiment which was made by North Carolina, in the textile industry, with- in a five-year period brought that State and industry up to a near parity with Massachusetts, It is no one’s fault but the South's that it is still ane ss pe : Pee y) eB cp ee HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN One of the high class Judges of the Circuit Cé County, who is one of the best and warmest f editor of this newspaper, who will assist it to 30th anniversary on Saturday, September 12. a Ra a aR LS a oo li One of the high class Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County, who is one of the best and warmest friends of the editor of this newspaper, who will assist it to celebrate its 30th anniversary on Saturday, September 12. half asleep as to the efficacy of med- rn farm methods now in constant use North and West. Low wages, long hours, the deprivation of its black citizenry of modern training an¢ education will never produce a labor army of efficiency. Where the South has done otherwise, in the steel indus- tty, for instance, her progress has been marked. With much respect for Mr Bohn, we think that the North doe: understand the South, and sugges that for the last half century the ef. fect has been made to create in the South full respect for the U. S. Con- stitution and its amendments, the eva. sion of which has raised the South's moral backwardness to mountain size and her economic dormancy to mole- hill dimensions, And the fact that Cotton is no longer king in Dixieland is directly due to the former evil rath. er than the latter, Modernism in ethics and law is the parent of mod- ernism in agriculture, and even in cot ton cultivation, itself. Once more the great white world has had to doff its hat to the voice of color, and word comes from Littl Old New York that the doffing was done with grace and congratulations. Our own Marian Anderson, Mezzo- soprano, in a contest with three hun- dred singers, who were competing in the New York Stadium auditions, was judicially proclaimed to be the winner. According to the judges, Miss Anderson “Possesses a phenom- enal voice,” and her voice when care- fully compared with 300 other natural and trained soprano voices of artistes laying claim to world honors, was unanimously selected as being entitled to first honors, Thereafter Miss An- derson was selected to head a list of soloists which will later tour the country with the Philharmonic Or- chestra, comprised of such musical premiers as Dorys Le Vene, Nina | Wulfe, Katherine, Bacon, Barbara Lull and other white musical celebrities o} international distinction. Miss Anderson's triumph reminds us that among European critics Hazel Harrison, pianiste, of Chicago, an- other Chicago girl, who is a musical genius, is rated as ranking among the world’s five greatest pianists. It is admitted, at least outside of America that the German and Italian music critics are the most learned in the world. Those schools of music class Miss Harrison along with Harold Bauer, Josef Hoffman, Ignace Pader- ewski and Vladimir de Pachman, to say nothing of Ossip Gabrilowitch, THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 25, 1925 IT WILL REACH THE HIGHEST WA- TER MARK IN ARTISTIC AFRO- AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THIS COUNTRY. IT WILL BE PRINTED ON AMERICAN HALF-TONE ABERDEEN BOOK PAPER, THE PAPER COSTING 15 CENTS PER POUND SPOT CASH. IT WILL CONTAIN A COMPLETE RE- VIEW: OF ITS REMARKABLE CA- REER AND BRILLIANT ACCOM- PLISHMENTS DURING ITS THIRTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE. iT WILL CONTAIN MANY BEAUTIFUL HALF-TONE CUTS OF THE MOST PROMINENT BUSINESS AND PRO- FESSIONAL CITIZENS OF CHI- CAGO, BOTH WHITE AND COL- ORED. NOW IS THE TIME TO SECURE AD- VERTISEMENTS AND WRITE-UPS IN IT AND TO ORDER EXTRA COPIES OF THAT ISSUE OF THE PAPER TO SEND TO YOUR FRIENDS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Rachmaninoff and Madame Olga Sam- aroff. Those who worship at the shrine of musical art should make an inventory of how art toils not, néither does it spin. They should note that skull formations, finger tips, and vocal cords seem to know no bounds in their allot- ment of interpretative musical art and natural ability. Apparently the only conditions necessary to place color in art, at least in the musical world, is a fair board of judges and an unbiased promotional orchestra, such as the Philharmonic. What moving picture show is life, when void of God-given attributes. In the dark, where musical art rises to its greatest heights, who would’ know whether brown Marian Anderson or white Anna Case were singing? Last, but not least, the great white news dailies of Little Old New York were neither unafraid nor ashamed to print; in conspicuous posi- tion, Miss Anderson's three-quarter photograph. Last week the mob went North, first to Detroit, Mich, where it sought to annihilate the life and property of a Race man who had bought and occu- pied a home in a white neighborhood. Then the mob journeyed to Toledo, Oregon, where 200 strong, it attacked 35 Japanese who were peaceably at work in a wood mill, the employees of a corporation, which though un- American in its employment policies, was one hundred per cent more Ameri- can than the mob. Comforting news comes from Oregon in the arrest of fifty or more offenders, who, says the ‘District Attorney, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. From Detroit comes the report of bitterness not unlike that which followed in the wake of the Chicago and Washington riots. Thus went the mob. The remedy which the mob sought to apply was, an ill one and badly ad- ministered. In Detroit, it had no justification. In Oregon, the proxi- mate cause of the mob’s fury was an unscrupulous American employer who ricochetted Japanese labor in the face ‘of American labor. An appeal to the Americanism of such employers, of whom there are hundreds, and not to the mob spirit, is the one and only appropriate method of handling such infractions upon American indepen- dence. Colorfully speaking, American- ism formed no part of the mob's mo- tivations for its similar onslaughts have been too many times spent upon Americans themselves. Witness Ches- ter, Pa, and East St. Louis, Ill. Thus went the mob. In Detroit—and we speak from per- sonal knowledge—the advance agents of the mob should have delved down into the interracial admixture of gay night life on East Adams and in other localities of that city, and peacefully estopped the exploitation of vice by local distorters of white Christianization and civilization. Then, perchance, such hatred might not grow against onc who sought merely to raise an edifice of home, pointing Heavenward. A mob, though, the most cowardly en- semble of human courterparts ever ‘wrought by fury, never reasons, never ‘thinks, Hence, the mob is the master- piece of ignorant persecution,—the instrumentality of a perfect barbarism. Isn't it a shame that the mob is such an outstanding institution in this Christian Nation? Thus went the mob. _ The loquacious Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion of the worta (with reservations) has returned from abroad full of smiles and over- ‘burdened with diplomacy, but appat. ently with as much desire as ever ‘to keep on the outside of any prize ring ropes which might enclose him and ‘a brown-hued gentleman from Louis- jana, by the name of Mister Harry Wills. Life on the Montemarte has, however, made Jack a bit talkative, and he admits that for a sufficient number of rocks to float a bank he is willing ‘to fight any of the white second raters, with which the ‘pugilistic market is now surfeited. Will he fight Mister Wills? Well, says Mister Dempsey, fon a never-do-today-that-which-you- can-put-off-until-tomorrow-basis, “af ter a while.” Once upon a time (ignoring race as we always do whenever we can) we believed that Mr, Dempsey was a bet- ter man than Mister Wills; but, actions speak louder than words, and after all these months of stalling, we are con- vineed that deep down in his heart Tack knows that Harry could knock ‘the champion into the solar system. Jack is a better runner than Tommy ‘Burns, a better talker than Gentleman ion: Corbett, a superior diplomat tc Kid Lavigne; but as a shock absorber, sportsman, and fighter, the compari- son is odious; and we are forced to ad- mit, without reservations, that our belief in Jack’s pugilistic prowess has waned down to zero, We dare not prophesy that the champion will ever agree to put on the gloves with Harry Wills, who is run- ning the gamut of disappointment in his challenges to Dempsey. White su- Premacy must not, cannot fail; and when it might, failwell, the law of evasion steps in and makes it quit cold, knocked down to the mat, as it were, by Fear, the disturber of the peace of men and the undeniable master of near-men, The spectacle of slick-footed, globe- trotting Dempsey is the saddest pic- ture of might we have ever seen. Had such evasions been condoned in the days of Peter Jackson, George Dixon, John L. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Tom Sharkey, the Marquis of Queensbury would have committed hari-kari, and Kid McCoy would now be the undisputed champion of the world. And if it were not condoned by the white sport world of today, it would probably be “Good Evenin’, Mister Dempsey—the stars are shin- ing.” DISTRICT DIRECTORS OF TRANSPORTATION APPOINT- ED FOR THE 2TH ANNUAL MEETING OF NATIONAL NE- GRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—Dr. Robert R. Moton, President of the National Negro Business League ha’ announced the selection of the District Directors of Transportation in all parts of the country to cooperate with Mr. Bryant A. Hammond, 211 East 39th — Chicago, Illinois, the General ‘Transportation Agent for the Twenty- ‘sixth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League, which will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 19, 20 and 21. These gentlemen have been asked to co-operate with delegates in organizing Pullman car parties and ar- ranging with the District Passenger Agents for through rates and other ac- commodations to insure a comfortable trip to Tulsa. The District Directors of Transportation are as follows: Alabama: V. H. Tulane, Montgom- ery; G. W. A. Johnston, Tuskegee In- stitute, Alabama; P. D, Davis, Masonic Temple, Birmingham. Arkansas: John L. Webb, Hot Springs. California: George Martin, 560 17th Street, Oakland. | Colorado: L. H. Lightner, Arapahoe Building, Denver. Connecticut: J. E, Kefford, 95 Bank Street, Waterbury. Florida: A. L. Lewis, 101 East Union Street, Jacksonville; Charles H. Anderson, 132 Broad Street, Jackson- ville, | Georgia: (South) L. E. Williams, c-o Wage Earners Banks, Savannah. (North) Dr. W.H. Harris, Good ‘Samaritan Building, Athens; J. 0. ‘Thomas, 200 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta. Illinois: Bryant A. Hammond, Chi- cago. Indiana: F. B. Ranson, 640 N. West Street, Indianapolis; Logan H. Stew- art, 3 North Evans Street, Evansville. | Kansas: (and Western Missouri) J. A. Stevenson, 170534 E. 18th Street, ‘Kansas City. _ Kentucky: I. Willis Cole, “Editor, Louisville Leader, Louisville. Louisiana: Walter L. Cohen, 624 aoe Street, New Orleans. Maryland: (including Washington) 'W. T. Andrews, 1127 Druid Hill Ave- nue, Baltimore, _ Minnesota: Fred D. McCracken, 315 Newton Building, St. Paul. Michigan: C. A, Campbell, Depart- ment of Labor and Industry, State Building, Lansing, Michigan. | Mississippi: E. P. Booze, Mound Bayou, M, L. Rogers, 219 North Far- ish Street, Jackson. + Missouri: Joseph E. Mitchell, Editor, The St. Louis Argus, 2312 Market New York: Fred, Moore, 230 West 135th Street, New York City; John E. oo. ee Pee Oe a = 2 Pee Ee PE . ees S35: aS “ace cae ein = ee ee aa eer NE oe > : i Pe ee ih \ iS ee ger et lS ee = eee ee i ME a Soi ee ae ee ee ee pee ae ee a oe oye eee a ceca So MR. HARVEY A. WATKINS One of the leading and successful real estate b South Side, who with a party of friends | Richmond, Va., where he will attend the Ell in August and from there they will visit mar before returning to his home in this city. One of the leading and successful real estate brokers on the South Side, who with a party of friends will motor to Richmond, Va., where he will attend the Elks’ convention in August and from there they will visit many other cities before returning to his home in this city. Fei as sec Al Nail, 145 West 135th Street, New York | K. E. Clay, 404 State Street, Bristol. City. Texas: Clarence Starks, 2600 Swiss North Carolina: J. M. Avery, c-o| Avenue, Dallas; N. Dudley, vice- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance | president, American Mutual Benefit Company, Durham. Association, 714% Prairie Avenue, Ohio: Mr. T. K, Gibson, 1005 East| Houston; H. L. Price, Cuney. Long Street, Columbus; Ruebent| Virginia: W. M. Rich, Metropolitan Black, Hotel Majestic, Cleveland. | Bank, Norfolk; Mayor Allen Wash- Oklahoma: Roscoe Dunjee, Editor,| ington Hampton Institute, Hampton. Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City. Pennsylvania: (Including Delaware) Robert L. Vann, Editor, The Pitts-| MRS. HAACK ON VACATION burgh Courier, Pittsburgh. — South Carolina: I. S. Leevy, Colum-| Mrs. Amelia M, Haack, 4423 South bia. Dearborn St, chief clerk and book- Tennessee: Henry Allen Boyd, Ed-| keeper in the offices of The Bailey itor, Nashville Globe, Nashville; Dr.| Realty Co. and Milton Mercantile J. B. Martin, 907 lorida Avenue, | Agency, 3638 S. State St, started her BMicnphis: tor Rastern Teanesied) | two week vacation ut Mites, ee a = . ; “ ee . a * a 4 a ‘ HON. THOMAS A. DOYLE Member of Congress from the Fourth Congres: of Illinois, who is getting ready to be re-electe body in 1926. Since his election he has becom ical factor at the capitol of the nation. Member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois, who is getting ready to be re-elected to that same body in 1926. Since his election he has become quite a polit- ical factor at the capitol of the nation. 1 fe MW]. Evnest H. fe = LL A M GN fa =e fare TMT PLEASE A ry y=) & an f= =] UNDERTAKER & 4 =e a ZS — vasa? eh ee ee ceca 7 IRN yey 6 ve Si) et ee Sg pete nd eh ES eee iad neem —— —~ on DOSS Ae |_| = (e)) is aa \ F __\ “TheWilliamson Funeral” om ©) ts distinguished by Ne) the up-to-date designs NW) of its Cunningham ousservee Limousine Hearse MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON eae and Cars spent ets ; : im Unexcelled for Quality Service and_ Price AUTOMOBILES FOR ALL OCCASIONS re) KENWOOD 0455 Wee 5121-23-25 South State Street Tells How She Got Fine Suit of Hair “When admire my hair and ask “Es to make it so soft and lovely, I tell them my. 5 a “I used to have dandruff and it) made my hair coarse and hard to fmanage. I wished with all my) heart for soft, pretty hair but did| not know how to have it until I — of Exelento Quinine Pom-| “With this wonderful prepara-| ‘tion my hair soon become silky, ig Pe lovely as it is today.’” “Exelento Skin Soap too did lwonders for me. It cleared my face of sallowness and pimples, leavirg it velvety and admired by ‘all who know me."” . Any woman who wants beauti- ‘ful hair and facial lovliness should get Exelento Quinine Pomade and ‘Exelento Skin Soap at once. ‘They ean be obtained at all drug- gists, only 25¢ each, or will besent, || postpaid, upon receipt of price. pars! cape ae Seeder deg ented co, aceasta EXELENTO MEDICINE CO_ Atlanta, C2 AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE See Swore by the Beard In the Middle nges the seal on docu- ments of great Importance contained three hairs from the soverelgn's beard as a sign that matters of much mo- ment were concerned. Seals Once Land Animals? — Seals are probably of land origin, but have become almost perfectly adapted to Ife In the water, ‘They seek land or ice floes only for breed- ing and rearing of young. Municipalities A municipality isan incorporated city, town, village or borough possess Ing a charter of incorporation confer ring privileges of local self-covern- ment. Use Wisdom in Giving Liberality is not giving much but giving wisely—BenJamin. Franklin. EASTERN LODGE OFFICERS VISIT CITY ‘Mrs. Mary A. Parker, Washington, D.C, worthy grand superior of the Grand Household of Ruth (Grand United Order of Odd Fellows) will a. rive in the city July 29th, with Capt Prudence Penn of Philadelphia, Pa., to attend the Eden District Grand House- hold of Ruth No. 18 They will be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 4114 Calumet Ave. Both ‘are high officers of Eastern Star. GRAND LODGE CONVENES HERE ‘The State Grand Lodge of U. B. F & S. M. T. will convene in this city Aug. 17, Great preparations are be- ing made to make it a session long to be remembered. Hon. J. E. Bish is chairman of the general committee on artangements. Mrs. Elizabeth Rochon is secretary. ROBINSON AND HUGHES VISIT CITY John Robinson and Reid Hughes, “Metropolis, IIL, brother and nephew of Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Ave,, were visitors in the city during the week. Leaving here they visited relatives in Milwaukee, Wis. . BRIEFS (Columbia Press Bureau) There are approximately 3,100 col- ‘ored women employed as elevator operators. Farm wages have increased over 200 per cent during the past sixty years. The report is current that our hair- dressers are forming a national organ- ization. Charleston County, South Carolina, has 398 less colored farmers than five years ago. ‘When more of our leaders adopt the old slogan “Not for self but for all,” our progress will be more pronounced. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 25, 1925 SOUTHERN EDITORS ADOPT CODE OF ETHICS Asheville, N, C—Of very much in- terest to Negroes is the code of ethics adopted by editors:of southern news- Papers at ‘a conference of the South- rn Newspaper Publishers’ Association, held in this city last week. Among the points made in the code were these: “Recognizing honest differences of opinion exist, we may vigorously main- tain our own position without de- nouncing others as dishonest and un- fair.” s“Deceney should be the ‘guiding star’ in the printing of news, editorials, advertising and all feature articles or illustrations.” “Is it fit to print and to be read by my own mother?” should be the test rather than “Will it sell more papers?” “Consideration for the unfortunate and for guiltless victims of the faults of others.” “No story justifies needless damage to a good reputation nor wanton pain to an innocent.” “Respect and tolerance for those o' different religions, races and circum- stances of life.” “Honesty in all dealings, whether with readers, advertisers, employees or competitors.” “Truth first, last and always.” ON TO INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Between thirty-five and forty thou- sand members and friends of the An- cient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, together with the military department throughout the United States and jurisdiction are making big Preparations to meet in Indianapolis, Ind. to the 18th annual session of the National Grand Council, and the grand encampment of the military depart- ment. All will leave home in time to arrive in Indianapolis on Sunday, August 2nd. The National Grand of- ficers, Wm. H. Fields, National Grand Master, Dr. Geo. M. Cathrell, National Grand Secretary-Treasurer, Major John A. Shackleford, Major-General of the military department, will go ahead as an advance guard in order to welcome the thousands of visitors when they arrive on the 2nd. Chicago members will travel in a special train PP mY pt ae Ee ee ake SOS = eS ee ge oe eee . JAS. B. McCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary ; FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer 4 E ESTABLISHED 1877 ‘ JOHN J. DUNN COAL CO. : Telephone Oakland 1550 5100 Federal Street cuIcaco | : RESOURCES Stat t Loans and Discounts. .....$2,002,602.57 Bonde ang, Becta: 22°" *992R 8887 Bee uiding'tad'Aaaez.. Leese of Snehae nied and Boros tO Bene nO gsoase rt Other Reoarees 220000051 SHEET Condition Totals sseeeeeessecsene DRTRTADAD > LiaBILiTiEs — ita Stock sees sous 8 400,000 Serine Sores 2222222225 Baen ge Untied Soda sis HESS At the ferent ec reeset, 6.308.68 gckee Laces T0000 ETRE Bepeuts tines lessee gehen Close of Totals seseseseseeese AOARTAOEAD Business ‘This Bank invites you to avail yourself of Rs "comlaty thellen on First Mortgage tafe Ynvestmente pied 1% taverese : Roses tn our completely eqalpped Safety Westerns — April 6, 1925 ‘Deposit ‘Vagita rent for 64.00 ber . imu Intret the rte of 8% Ie alowed Brtment open from 9 a.m to's pr Balers GEORGE F, LEIBRANDT, President signee’ Mckurssiy, Cones im See Asst. Cashier CAENGILLELAND, Bdge Savings Dent. . ‘Telephone Victor’ Behe ae ‘over the Big Four Railway, leaving ‘Chicago Saturday evening, August 1, ‘at 11:55. In the Chicago party will be Mrs. Eliza Jackson, State Grand Queen; Col. Wm. Williams, miltary department; Mrs. Leona Dixon-Mc- Kinley, N.G.A..M. T. Bailey, chair- man publicity committee, and many others. | ‘TRANSPORTATION COMMIT- , TEE BUSY | The Transportation Committee of Fort Dearborn Elks, No. 44, com- ‘posed of M. T. Bailey, chairman, J. C. ‘Martin, exalted ruler, Jas. M. Brooks, president, H. B. Williams, Geo. W. Gray, Edgar L. Walker, Thos. H. Jackson, are very busy visiting the various temples of Daughter Elks, in- viting them and other people who de- sire to make a trip to Richmond on Angust 22nd, to go on their special train which will leave the Illinois Cen- tral Station Saturday evening, August 22nd at 10 o'clock, VISITORS HERE COUNTRY OVER Visitors, including ministers, busi- ness and other professions have been seen in the city during the week, com- ing here to attend the funeral of the late Dr. S. E. J. Watson, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church, 33rd and In- diana Ave,, and the late Rev. Charles Stewart, D.D., writer and lecturer. Rev, Watson died in Minnesota and Rey. Stewart in Oklahoma, The “Ozarks” Ozark 1s a corruption of the French word aux ares, and means “with bows,” & term descriptive of the Indians who formerly inhabited the country. Corner Worth While | What a great and glorious thing tt would be if some enterprising mam Would corner the trouble market. Reach of Gold Sixteen ounces of gold are suMetent to ild a wire that would encircle the earth Weak Humanity It Is as diffiemt to get a man to ad- mit that he snores as it 1s to get @ women to admit her age. Learning One’s Self Find out what your temptations are and you will find out largely what you are yourself.—Henry Ward Beecher. Most Men Can Do That ‘A man's mind must he very barren of ideas if he cannot tell bis wife of some way in which he thinks she eam economize.—Boston Transcript. Was Once “Wyandotte” ‘The original name for Kansas City was Wyandotte. Utopian Idea Chas. Krutckoff, Pres. Hugh Norris, Treas, J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. Kirby Ward, Secy, Telephone Calumet 805 ° -Norris-Ward Coal Co. | ‘YARDS AT eth St. and South Park, LC. R.R. 18th and Canal Sts., C. B. & Q. R. R. Root St, C. R. L. & P. R. R. | Roscoe and Pacific Aves., C. 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