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Col. Robert S. Abbott in 1922 Failed to Support Hon. Peter M. Hoffman for Sheriff of Cook County. On the Other Hand He Boosted the Late James M. Dailey, His Democratic Opponent, for Sheriff of This City and County SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXX. Col. Robert M. Hoffma He Booste nent, for S THE HON. N. D. McGIL IN-LAW OR SON-IN- ROBERT S. ABBOT HOLDING DOWN HIS THE STATE'S ATT FICE OF COOK COU THE HON. N. D. McGILL, BROTHER-IN-LAW OR SON-IN-LAW OF COL ROBERT S. ABBOTT, IS STILL HOLDING DOWN HIS EASY JOB IN THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OF COOK COUNTY. --- It has been forever far beyond a reasonable doubt from time to time in these columns that Col. Robert S. Abbott has never been true or loyal in his support of the regular Republican candidates seeking the votes of the people residing in this city or county, for in 1918 even after Hon. Harry Olson had honorably won the nomination at the primaries for Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago. Col. Abbott turned him down cold and threw his weak influence and his old time turn coat newspaper to the late M. F. Sullivan, Democrat for Chief Justice of that court. At that same election he side-stepped the late United States Senator McCormick and trotted along behind the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic candidate for United States Senator from Illinois, and seemingly after having his hands well greased with both Democratic and Republican money, at the same time on the last Saturday before the election that year, he finally jumped into the McCormick's band wagon. It will be recalled that Col. Abbott would not publish one line in favor of the renaming of the Hon. Robert E. Crowe for State's Attorney of Cook County prior to the primaries in 1924. Notwithstanding all of the foregoing Col. Abbott has the brass nerve or SERGEANTS JOHN J. FORD AND JOHN J. DOHNEY HAD A WONDERFUL TRIP WHILE HUNTING FOR AUTOMOBILE THIEVES The first part of this week Sergeant John J. Dohney, Second Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the City Council, who has become exceedingly popular with all of the City Fathers by simply attending to his duties and not attempting to lord it over them and over the others who come in contact with him and Sergeant John J. Ford, who is in charge of the auto detail and it is his duty to run down and catch all the boys who think that they have the right to run away in any auto which happens to strike their fancy. Mrs. Dohney and Mrs. Ford accompanied their dutiful husbands on the stolen auto trip. Sergeant Dohney sat at the wheel while Sergeant Ford was engaged in looking for the auto robbers. After driving several hundred miles through the tall woods or high timbers of Wisconsin and not finding any auto thieves, they wound up the pleasant vacation trip by landing at Mackinac Islands, Michigan, from which point after having spent the time of their lives they returned to Chicago safe and sound. Mrs. Harry Love, Mrs. Beatrice Shaw and Mrs. Lillian Rogers, of St. Louis, Mo., are the house guests of their warm friends, Mrs. Jennie Johnston and Mrs. Lottie Carter, 4725 Vincennes avenue. THE BROAD AX Robert S. All man for S ted the L er Sheriff McGILL, BROTHER- N-IN-LAW OF COL. SBOTT, IS STILL N HIS EASY JOB IN ATTORNEY'S OF- COUNTY. gall to state that his brother-in-law, Hon. N. D. McGill, was placed in the State's Attorney's office in order to reward him for his past loyalty to the leading Republican candidates in this city and county, which is all hogwash. Hon. Peter M. Hoffman, the high sheriff of Cook County, can truthfully testify in relation to the raw deal which was dealt to him by Col. Abbott prior to and after the primaries in the spring of 1922. Before the primaries of that year Col. Abbott played up his Republican opponent good and strong and Mr. Hoffman's name was kept away in the background or it was hid away down in a small space in one of the corners of his newspaper and not one person in a thousand would see it. Mr. Hoffman naturally thought that Col. Abbott posing as a true blue Republican that all of his troubles with him would be over after the primaries, but in that Mr. Hoffman and his friends were sadly mistaken for Col. Abbott to all intents and purposes was looking for more Democratic money and he fell in behind the late James M. Dailey, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Cook County in 1922, and Col. Abbott and his notoriously unreliable newspaper played Mr. Dailey right up to the election that fall against honest Peter M. Hoffman for Sheriff of Cook County. GIRL RECANTS STORY OF AT: TACK BY "BIG BURLY" NEGRO FIEND Petting Party Turns Out Disastrously for Fair Maiden; Attempt to Shield White Escort Fails (Preston News Service) Rockville, Md., Aug. 21.—In a frenzied effort to shield her companion from the fury of her parents a 16-year-old white girl whose bruised face, arms and body as well as torn garments bore undeniable testimony that she had been the victim of a vicious attack, told the age-long story, which always causes the public spirited whites to form hastily a group of law-abiding citizens who promptly secure justice in the lynching of a Negro, that she had been attacked by a Negro man. But it somehow appears that the whites of Rockville were not over enthusiastic to hold a public expression of an American pasttime without being a little more certain of the facts in the case and consequently the young lady was subjected to some questioning which soon caused her to recant the story about being attacked by a burly Negro. She then named a white youth, Robert S. Parkhurst, aged 22 years, the son of a prominent family, and whose mother, Mrs. Virginia Peters Parkhurst recently announced her candidacy for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Young Parkhurst was charged with criminal assault. He is held in jail, the charge being non-bailable. The girl finally admitted to the Montgomery county officials that she and Parkhurst had been on intimate terms, but that she had broken with him after learning that he was paying attention to another girl. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 1925 [Image of a man in a suit with a tie and glasses, looking directly at the camera. The background is plain and light-colored. There is no text or additional details in the image.] --- Member of the Board of Review of Cook County, who is one of the big West Side leaders of the Republican party, who may become the harmony candidate of its fighting factions for Mayor of Chicago in 1927. SAYS HUSBAND IS COLORED AFTER MARITAL SHIP CAPSIZES Richmond, Va., Aug. 21.—Mrs. Maude Monahan, who is said to be under the care of a physician here following a beating by her husband, told local police that her husband is a colored man. She said that she married him about 18 months ago. They lived in Washington, D. C., where, she says, he was employed in the government service. Following some domestic troubles the woman said she left him and came to Richmond and obtained employment in a real estate office. She says that her husband followed her here and she caused his arrest recently. According to the police, while Mrs. Monahan was on her way from work in an automobile with a white man, to the Y. W. C. A. where she roomed she was attacked by her husband and beaten over the head, her escort fleeing for assistance. When the escort returned with assistance, it is said the woman's assailant fired two shots and escaped. The woman was unconscious. Richmond police are making an investigation of the woman's assertions that Wilson is colored, and the marriage records of 18 months ago, in Washington, D. C., are being consulted. The woman gives her name as Maude Monahan and she says her husband's name is James Wilson. Miscegenation is forbidden by Virginia law. HAITIAN YOUTH SPEEDY SPRINTER (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington.—From Paris comes the news that France has at last found within her borders a colored sprinter who can compete with the world's best with an even chance of success. It is claimed, however, that the discovery will not assist France in the 1928 Olympic games at Amsterdam, because the new speed merchant is a Haitian youth named Andrew Theard, who is a student in Paris. He cannot enter for France because it is not his native country. HON. CHARLES V. BARRETT The Board of Review of Cook County, West Side leaders of the Republicaome the harmony candidate of its figure of Chicago in 1927. MANY DISTINGUISHED FRIENDS WERE THE HOUSE GUESTS OF MRS. PATTERSON THE PAST WEEK The following were some of the honored guests of Mrs. Hillard Patterson, 4421 Indiana avenue, the past week. She was pleasantly surprised by receiving an unexpected visit from Mr. Martin Powell, member of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., accompanying him was Miss Estelle Kennedy, formerly of St. Louis, Mo. Miss Helen Fields, an instructor in the public schools of St. Louis, Mo., is also one of the house guests of Mrs. Patterson and she will visit in this city some time. Mrs. Jeannette Gahan, committeewoman in the 23rd ward, St. Louis, is also spending her vacation in Chicago visiting relatives and with her warm friend, Mrs. Patterson. THE BIGGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD JUMPS ON SOME OF ITS LADY READERS The following is reproduced from the biggest newspaper in the world and true to its past, record, it always delights to cat-hop some of its lady readers. A Correction Last week's Defender contained an article stating that Elvira Williams, 18, and Mattie Mosby, 18, who were taken on a raid on an alleged vice nest at 544 Liberty St. gave their addresses as 2935 Prairie Ave. when taken to the police station. Mrs. Isadore Winters, who has lived at the Prairie Ave. address for more than nine years, states that no such persons live or have ever lived there. The Defender wishes to make note of the correction. Mrs. Winters is very well known in club and church circles, being a mem SENATOR BUTLER AGREES TO OPPOSE FEDERAL SEGRE-GATION Divulges That Someone Has Reported That Extent is Slight, But His Mind Is Open. Will Introduce Dyer Bill —League Appeals to Race to Act Boston, Mass.—A direct attack on federal segregation, resulting in the start of a positive move to eliminate it, was made recently here at a face-to-face interview with the Chairman of the National Republican Committee in an audience granted by Sen. W. M. Butler, whose campaign for return to the U. S. Senate is about to begin, at his Boston office, 77 Franklin street, to a delegation of the NationalEqual Rights League of national and local officers and Rev. H. H. Proctor of the Brooklyn branch. Rev. D. L. Ferguson opened the appeal, Sec'y Wm. Monroe Trotter elaborated in the prevalence and injury of the practice and urged Mr. Butler to remove it through his power as national party chairman and chief adviser to the President, stating the League urged the race to support the party in the belief that with a President and a Chairman, both from Massachusetts, segregation will be removed. Senator Butler said he was opposed to segregation and would work against it. While it was a matter of principle, yet he had been told there was little of it at Washington, yet his mind was open as to its extent. He did not favor legislation against it, as segregation was an executive and administrative matter. He said he would introduce the Dyer Bill at the coming session. He might not be able to have his way on segregation but would try and would confer later with representatives of the League. Requested to Get President to Act Rev. E. K. Nichols, of Cambridge, on getting admission that the evil was executive said that, therefore, the President could stop it by order and that the delegation asked him to get the President to act. Senator Butler replied that it was not customary for President to interfere with Department office regulations. He admitted, however, that evidenced displeasure at a condition by the President usually caused a change. Secretary Trotter declared that seg- SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 49 rt Hon. Peter e Other Hand ocratic Oppo- BOOK CHAT By MARY WHITE OVINGTON. Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "THE NEGRO AROUND THE VICE, easy morality and supreme lazi-ness * * * WORLD" By Willard Price. Published by The George Doran Company, 244 Madison Ave. New York City. Price $7.5. By Mail $8.5. In this book of seventy-five pages "every chapter contains the essence of five thousand words boiled to five hundred." So the cover reads and it is certainly remarkable that, pursuing this method, the book is interesting. The writer points out that the Negro will soon be an enormous factor in international life. It is as far around Africa as around the world, and in this vast continent, now that Science is beginning to halt disease, "it is estimated that due to the remarkable vitality and fecundity of the race, the black population will double every fifty years." Moreover, Africa is a rich continent, with twelve crops of alfalfa a year raised in parts of East Africa, with the finest cotton, with a large share of the world's rubber, with more cocoa than from any other continent and in the South with gold and diamonds. And this continent, save for the fringe of whites around the edge, is populated by Negroes. Of the black people in Africa we are told that their worst sin is idleness. "Idleness brings after it an endless train of evils. Idleness has sunk the African native in a degradation of mind from which he can be lifted only by being taught the attractiveness and value of hard work." Their treatment of women is a second sin. Women are sold as slaves were sold. "At a bargain sale two inferior wives were sold for a good goat." Superstition is a third fault and this is but slowly being removed by the missions. "Of every hundred people in Africa, three are Christians, thirty-six are Mohammedans." There is of course, no education in Western sense, only one African tribe having a written language before the missionaries came. One does not read far to see that the book is written with the Protestant missionary basis. No American women is likely to look kindly on Mohammedanism, but I cannot but think Mr. Price is over severe when he says, "Mohammedanism, as taught among the blacks, is a religion of excused regation was extensive, asked if the Senator welcomed information and receiving an affirmative reply, told what he had personally seen, especially in the Department of Justice, Registry of Treasury, etc., and urged the eradication as to toilets, lockers, rest rooms and eating places. Rev. H. H. Proctor stated that in New York the Colored people believed that segregation was prevalent and presented it politically and Colored leaders could hold them in line he would remove the practice. Rev. B. W. Swain, national vice-president-at-large, agreed with the senator that segregation started before Wilson, was Republican, and so should be removed by Republicans. He declared that a nod of the head by President Coolidge to Cabinet officers would remove it and the league asked that he get the President to give that nod. Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson's offer to again send data as to where segregation existed, and how much, was accepted. Segregation is too notorious to be called slight. It can be seen by senators. The League appeals to every member of the race, who doubtless will criticize the Republican Chairman if he does not discover its extensiveness, to let Senator Butter know the facts and the feelings of the race at once, (also to send data to Sec'y Trotter at 9 Cornhill) especially the --- vice, easy morality and supreme laziness * * * It is chloroform for an already too sleepy continent. It is making a bad situation vastly worse." And is this true that Mr. Price says with much emphasis?: "It is the everlasting lesson of mankind that he who never feels like hurrying physically will never run very far mentally or morally." Half of the book deals with Africa and half with the new world. The chapters on the progress of the Negro in the United States are full of praise. Of the West Indies the story is less friendly. Dutch Guiana is admired and the Barbadoes; but Jamaica, or rather Kingston, is described as a place of pirates. Mr. Price evidently only knows Port Antonio and Kingston. The Jamaicans of the hills, away from the demoralizing influence of the whites in the seaport towns, are as honest and law-abiding a people as any in the universe. Haiti, as usual, receives the most censure. This is the Island where the green serpent is worshipped. Along the coast there are a few missionaries but they are "like a drop of water in a sea of blood." This is insulting, as the Protestant is too often insulting, to the work of the Catholic Church whose priests are busy throughout the Island. The cultured Haitians are utterly ignored. We would suggest that Mr. Price read the article in the August Crisis on Negroes as Poets, translated from the Danish of Carl Kjersmeier, and learn how well-known and highly praised are Haitian poets in France and on the continent. The book ends with a word as to the future. "There are two chief factors in the future of the black race. One is its amazingly rapid increase in numbers. The other is the equally amazing rapidity with which it progresses wherever it is brought under progressive influences." The right progressive influences are Protestant missions and the Negroes of America are urged especially to support them with money and their personal efforts. One may say of the book that it has interestingly boiled down current knowledge and current prejudice. And the fact that it is on the whole kindly shows how much prejudice is waning. Colored campaign workers, and thus to make sure of this opportunity to remove the worst of all degradations. COLORED HOTEL OWNERS MEET Washington—Last week the colored hotel owners met at the New Liberty Hotel to discuss the progress and development of their national organization which represents 247 hotels. The organization is especially interested in highly trained management and superior sanitation. The meeting was addressed by Joseph I. Greenlease, president, on "Hotel Management, Cooperation and Service." Owners of all our leading hotels from the Atlantic to the Pacific were in attendance." DENSITY OF POPULATION (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington.-The average density of population for the United States is about 36 to the square mile. The most densely populated state is little Rhode Island with 56 inhabitants per square mile. The second state in density is New Jersey, with 420 people to the mile. New York State has 217, and Pennsylvania, 194. No. 49 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 strictly or absolutely independent in politics Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to Vol. XXX Chicago, August 22, 1925 No. 49 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago 13. Under Act of March 8, 1879. 2. On Board Dixieland's Special. 3. An Italian Protest. 4. John Temple Graves, Deceased. 5. Colorgrams. Our boss says "too many young Negroes do not value sufficiently the importance of laying a good foundation upon which to build their future," to which we would add "Amen!" The call of gold and the lure of the social world are yearly taking a heavy toll from the academic class rooms, where youths in their "teens" should be absorbing English, Algebra, History and kindred subjects or useful training in preparedness. There are two distinct elements involved in the academic courses which youth should greedily endeavor to grasp. (1) The fundamentals of educational necessities and (2) brain exercise. The former admits youth to refined contacts, and the latter gives him poise and reasoning capacity when dealing with life's later problems. Too often does youth argue that Physics and Geometry will not add to his prestige as a butcher, baker or candlestick maker. Yet, actual experience proves that the youth trained in academic lines is superiorly efficient over his contra-type, regardless of the occupations each may be pursuing. And the brain exercise which comes from concentration in preliminary and high school courses fits youth for stern battles with the great things of life. In this day and time there is no excuse for youth's early abandonment of the academic class room, where he may avail himself of education's essentials. There are countless night and day high schools; and last but not least there are schools of correspondence from which a fair knowledge of academic courses may be gained. Negro youth, each day nearing a strenuous life of double competition, within and without the race, owe a special duty to themselves and their racial seniors to ground themselves in the virtues of academic studies. State and public are working hand in hand in supplying funds and equipment for this training; and whether leaning towards the trades, industries or minor gainful employment, youth should, for his and her sake, drink deeply of the spring of knowledge. Particularly, youth should make sure that he has drained the public school courses up to the gates of the university. Believe it or not, last week we spent a "delightful" six-hour period riding a Jim Crow car just behind the engine of a Dixieland Special. We traversed the Mississippi border through Tom Lee's district. We were a bit uneasy from the time the conductor said: "Whar you goin', boy?" to the time we alighted at Princeton, Ky., and found the "colored" waiting room. We had not tried to purchase Pullman seats because a porter told us the conductor told him that the Company had ordered that no such accommodations should be sold to colored passengers. Furthermore, a colored woman who had recently eased through on a Pullman from Chicago had been handled very roughly just a few weeks prior to our "pleasure" trip. Anyhow, on boarding the Dixieland Special we are cautiously guided to the engine end of the Jim Crow car, great pains being taken least we come in contact with the white folks. This particular coach was a "mixed" smoker. That is to say, it was for colored ladies, gentlemen, and children—but it was a smoker right on. The non-smoker car was for whites only. The conductor ambitiously audited his accounts in the Jim Crow coach, and, of course, no one dared to trespass the sacred seat of the "Captain." An industrious colored porter seemed to be performing a myriad of duties. He was first assistant to the "Captain" as well as the brakeman. Now and then he gave the engineer a signal at the conductor's bidding. He kept the Jim Crow coach clean; and when the white coach behind developed a hot box, he seemed to be the only expert present who was versed in packing boxes and greasing the cups. For these duties, I learned he received the princely sum of fifty-five bucks per month, with occasional tips. So far as we could see, the colored passengers matched the whites in intelligence, conduct and general appearance. Now and then brothers in overalls boarded the Jim Crow coach, in greater number than the whites. Occasionally, a white passenger would enter the coach, and upon seeing its content would hasten to find his "equals." The ride was genuinely depressing, but not without some inspiration; for just before we crossed the river into Ohio, a brother looked up and said "Don't you know, mister, I don't think this Jim Crow business is going to last much longer." The people are getting tired of it, and the companies don't like it. I would not be surprised if some day it's broken up." And we breathed a sigh of relief as we changed trains to just a plain ordinary, B. & O. day coach, mixed, and without the sullen looks of suspicions we had observed on board the Dixieland Special. According to Count Antonio Cippico, an Italian Fascist, Fair France is now dreaming of a supremacy in Northern Africa similar to Germany's pre-war dreams. The Count asserts that it is now the French policy to exert oppression in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, in order to consummate a gigantic program of continental and eastern expansion. In this contemplation, the weaker wing of French serifdom must bend to the group of selfish projectionists who would elevate the strong upon the backs of the weak. There must be much virtue both commercially and economically in Africa, so intense are the efforts of nations to exploit her resources. King Leopold, of Belgium, had his day in Africa, and paid his toil. Great Britain has tenaciously clung to her African holdings with 99-year leases and other instrumentalities which permit self aggrandizement. And now comes France, according to Cippico, with eager hands of invasion of the moral rights of a peaceful people, who have paid their respects to France in past years by sending "shock" troops to line the battle trenches in defense or offense of France. Of course, it does not take a Bancroft or a Musssey to foretell the failure of such selfish aims. The period of international proscriptions is about at its end. This truth is realized the world over, even to Dixieland; and France, if it is really seeking a supremacy based upon conquest, physical or economic, is wasting her usefulness upon a desert which is strewn with the bleaching bones of vanquished conquest seekers. Our old newspaper colleague, Editor Ryan, of Ryan's Weekly, Tacoma, Washington, was kind enough to refresh our recollection of the Atlanta, Ga., riots and flowing blood of Atlanta streets when hundreds of innocent Negroes were wantonly slain. Editor Ryan says: "An investigation was started by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the best white people of the South rushed to Atlanta. The church took an equally prominent part. John Temple Graves teeming with hate, was asked to leave Atlanta. Negroes were asked by the Chamber of Commerce to tell their side of the story and a tale unfolded that put the Belgian Congo atrocities to shame." Exit John Temple Graves, nationally mourned hero of the white press and wielder of a pen of bold and conquest, bestirring racial hatred and condoning crime. Such literary exploits as Mr. Graves performed were sadly overclouded by his prolonged fomentation of trouble between the races in Atlanta. Thus it is, that the evil some men do is written in the sands of forgetfulness and washed away, while their "noble" deeds are made the play tops of typesetters and linotype experts of that sector of the great THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 1925 [Name] DOCTOR ALFRED N. DIGGS The latter part of last week our fellow townsm and his beautiful and highly accomplished Diggs, arrived in this city from their ho through the West and for the present they a their hosts of friends at the Alpha Hotel, 3 Parkway. The latter part of last week our fellow townsman, Dr. Diggs and his beautiful and highly accomplished bride, Mrs. Diggs, arrived in this city from their honeymoon trip through the West and for the present they are at home to their hosts of friends at the Alpha Hotel, 38th and South Parkway. white press which still advocates arson and rioting. We delight in paying homage to great men, both past and present, and of whatever hue their complexion might be; but Editor Ryan is right in his portrayal of the departed John Temple Graves, whose soul, we pray, is resting in peace, but whose contributions to one hundred per cent Americanism were nullified by his conduct towards the dark tenth part of America's population. was more than a match for the two. At this moment I. M. McCullen, aged brother of the murdered man, came into the house, seized a shotgun and fired it into the face of the crazed man. Neighbors say the murderer had been regarded as a peaceful man. Several weeks ago he became demented over religion and could talk nothing else. LIBERIAN MINISTER ARRIVES Of the Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, the Chicago Tribune says; "Pickaninnies and their mammies ran hilariously up and down the Washington sidewalks, looking at the parade." We opine that there were also present some mulattoes and their white daddies, the latter of whom, however, were veiled by secrecy. Tips from a Southern city: 'Fine public library; splendid churches with emblazoned "Welcome Stranger" signs; magnificent edifices; well-equipped hospital. But a brother with appendicitis must be carried 150 miles away to the nearest Negro hospital, or have the job done at home. With Governor Smith and Mayor Hylan of New York at each others throats, what will Fred Morton and his machine do? Ye Gods! The little white girl who was outraged last week at Silver Spring, Md., has discovered that the "burly Negro" who assailed her is an Anglo Saxon gentleman. RELIGION-CRAZED MAN KILLS WITH BARE HANDS Aged Brother and Sister Dashed to Floor, Skulls Crushed (Preston News Service) Charleston, Miss., Aug. 21—Jacob McMullen, 65 years old, farmer, was killed near here and Mrs. Mamie Long, his 70-year-old widowed sister, is dying of injuries received when they were crushed and flung to the floor Tuesday afternoon by a man crazed over religion. The man, Sydney Towns, was shot by the slain man's 72-year-old brother, I. N. McMullen, and is not expected to live. Towns, whose home is near the McMullen place, had been acting strangely for several weeks. Tuesday morning he began beating his wife, Mattie Towns, Robert Simmons, a white man, and John Hollis, heard her screams and came to her assistance. Towns then dashed away from his cabin and made straight for the McMullen home. Seizing Mr. McMullen around the waist Towns lifted him high in the air and then dashed him to the floor, crushing his skull. Mrs. Long, seated beside her brother, was struggling from her chair when the crazed man seized and dashed her to the floor, crashing in her skull. Simmons and Hollis, who had been pursuing Towns arrived. Neither were armed. They threw themselves upon the murderer, but his strength ```markdown ``` our fellow townsman, Dr. Diggs highly accomplished bride, Mrs. May from their honeymoon trip the present they are at home to the Alpha Hotel, 38th and South was more than a match for the two. At this moment I. M. McCullen, aged brother of the murdered man, came into the house, seized a shotgun and fired it into the face of the crazed man. Neighbors say the murderer had been regarded as a peaceful man. Several weeks ago he became demented over religion and could talk nothing else. LIBERIAN MINISTER ARRIVES TO PUSH TRADE RELATIONS New York, Aug. 20.—Edwin Barclay, Minister Plenipotentiary from Liberia, arrived on the French liner Paris Wednesday and was met at Quarantine by Henry Carter, special representative of the State Department. The Liberian representative said his visit has nothing to do with loan negotiations but was chiefly to further commercial relations between his country and the United States. He will be at the Hotel Ambassador for several days before proceeding to Washington. Mr. Barclay is forty-three years old and speaks English fluently. He said that Liberia was a country for young men and that if he were asked to speak to American Negro organizations relative to negroes from the United States going to his country to settle he would be pleased to do so, Referring to Marcus Garvey, he said that neither Garvey nor any one identified with him would be welcome to Liberia. Asked about rubber concessions, Mr. Barclay said: "The Firestone Rubber Company has a concession, 1,000,000 acres, and can have as much more land as its desires. Rubber is thriving well in Liberia and there will be a good crop this season. Fifteen hundred acres, planted by the Firestone concern as an experiment, have turned out a success, and 20,000 acres are now under cultivation." HENRY FORD STORES FOR EMPLOYEES ONLY (Columbian Press Bureau) Detroit—Negro employees of the Ford Motor Company are reaping full savings in the purchase of meats, groceries, drugs and shoes on sale in the Ford Stores and available only to employees and members of their families. The reductions in prices under the Ford Stores plan became so noticeable recently that it became necessary to exclude the general public in order to safeguard Ford workers, whose employer buys in such bulk as to effect marked savings. MRS. JACKSON OUT AGAIN Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois of A. U. K. & D. of A., is able to be out again after being quite ill while in Indianapolis, Ind., and since returning to the city from the grand session of A. U. K. & D. of A. COOPERATION IN KENTUCKY YIELDS COLORED HOSPITAL (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington—Interracial cooperation in the Blue Grass States is yielding splendid returns, and aside from the recent slight of Democratic Governor Fields, who refused to address the K. of P. Convention, the Kentucky colored people, in cooperation with public-spirited whites, are receiving their just dues in the State's civic advancement. According to authentic reports a colored hospital is soon to be erected in Louisville, where race physicians and nurses will be given the chance to practice their professions. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Senators Fred M. Sackett and Richard P. Ernst are said to be deeply interested in giving the colored people of Louisville a fine institution of healing, and it is believed that earnest and sincere citizens throughout the city will pull together in this laudable project. Republican leaders of both races have been working together in close formation in making the city an ideal place to live in, and this new project caps the climax of welfare work in behalf of the race. The local Urban League, under the direction of the efficient J. M. Raglan, Attorney-at-Law, is deserving of much credit for building up a strong bond of understanding between the races; and the feeling of equanimity which prevails at Louisville can be traced all over the State. The exact fund which is to be allotted to the contemplated hospital has not been ascertained, but the building will be modernly equipped and will take its place on the city staff of regularly chartered institutions. OUR TWO NORTHERN "MECCAS" (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington.—Characterizing that section of New York City, known as Harlem, as "The World's Largest Negro Capital," the "Negro Zion," and as the "Mecca for all Negroes who seek opportunity with a capital O," a versatile writer, Mr. Chester T. Crowell, presents a very fair and interesting sociological story in a recent issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" concerning that much talked of community or city within a city. A careful analysis of the facts, however, seem to indicate that Harlem is a Mecca only for Colored people in the Atlantic Seaboard states, the West Indies and in our outlying possessions. People from these places, in addition to the native New Yorkers, constitutes 92 per cent of the colored population in the "Negro's Zion." Out in the great Middle West, on the shore of Lake Michigan, is another "Mecca," but not a Zion. Including Alabama, which is not on the Atlantic Seaboard, the states that have contributed more than 50 per cent to the colored population of Chicago are located in the Mississippi Valley and west of Pennsylvania in the North and Georgia in the South. Chicago is called our "Industrial Mecca," and because our group there supports two large banks with two millions on deposit, several successful life insurance companies, our biggest newspaper plant and numerous other thriving business enterprises, the Chicago colored citizens make the claim that they lead all other so-called "Meccas" in productive industry, in business and in finance. In fact, they boldly assert that the dwellers in Harlem, "The World's Largest Negro City," do not get the proper mileage out of their gas, and that a "Mecca" without a banking institution, or a Judge is a joke. CAR SHORTAGE MAY SWELL NEGRO EMPLOYMENT (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington.One of the largest steel makers in the Youngstown, Ohio, district has notified its customers that a car shortage is becoming apparent, which is likely to spread to other steel making centers. This prediction has been partially confirmed by the fact that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has ordered 100 caboose bodies. This "boom" in the iron and steel industry, which is the first of its kind since the war boom, is expected to "take up" a large portion of the "overflow" of Negro steel hands in the Pittsburgh, Pa., Middletown, Ohio, and other districts where Negro labor has made a particularly commendable record in the iron and steel plants, and where, during the past quarter year, there have been enforced "layoffs" of both white and colored iron and steel workers. Dr. Emmett J. Scott of Howard University, one of the most astute manipulators of propaganda in the country, will address the Movement of Practical Propaganda in putting over a program. Dr. Gilbert H. Jones, president of Wilberforce University, and a profound student of psychology, is expected to aid the conference with a discourse on the Potent Effects of Practical Psychology. The Youth Movement, to an unusual degree, has adhered to its task of putting over the idea of "Business Preparedness" in the race, and it is now gathering information and seeking methods to carry out a beneficial program. Offers Cash Prize for Best Plan for Practical Program The president of the Movement has proposed a unique method to formulate the 1925-26 program of the Movement. A friend of the Movement has offered a prize of twenty-five dollars, and the Movement will confer the honorary title of "The Thinker, to that person who proposes the most practical constructive program that the Negro Youth of America should put into effect at its Atlantic City conference. The plans, methods of operation and manner of financing must be specified, and must not contain more than three hundred words. Proposals should be typewritten, and must be mailed to reach the President of the Negro Youth Movement at 425 S. 15th street in Philadelphia, Pa., before August 25th. The Movement, is interested in improving the Social, Political, and Economic condition of the Negro, and believes that Negro youth, regardless of station, should M-O-V-E to attain these ends in an organized effort. Any phase of these questions may be considered. Announces National Quiz The following are a series of questions which the Movement asks in effort to secure a cross-section of opinion and to determine in what channels our thinking is done: 1. When does a person think? On the average, do you think "too late?" If so, why? 2. What do you regard as the greatest need of the Negro today? Organization? Character? Wealth? Etcetera. 3. What is your opinion of the college-trained person? 4. What is your criticism of the Negro professional man—lawyer, doctor, teacher, etc.? 5. What is your opinion of the Negro business man? 6. It is said that the average Negro business lives three years. Why do you think it is so short lived? 7. Is it beneficial to mention to northern born Negroes that the majority of Negro business in the North was built and is being built by southern born Negroes? 8. Do you know any way to increase confidence among members of the race in each other? 9. Should we establish a Phi Beta Kappa of our own among our better colleges as a means to raise the curricula and standards of our colleges? 10. How can we secure better employment for the Negro? 11. What can and should the Negro contribute to the Sesqui-Centennial International exposition to be held in Philadelphia in 1926? 12. Will you attend the National Youth Movement Conference in Atlantic City? Give reasons for your answers. Every person is requested to mail his answer to I. J. K. Wells, President of the Negro Youth Movement of America, suite 1, Gibson Building, Philadelphia, Pa. BUSY WITH TRANSPORTATION M. T. Bailey, chairman of the Transportation Committee of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44 and the 1925 Marching Club, "On To Richmond Trip," with the assistance of H. B. Williams, Edgar L. Walker, Geo. B. Gray, J. C. Martin, E. R. and Jas. M. Brooks, pres., have arranged fine equipments for the delegation from the west to travel to the grand lodge session at Richmond, Va., Aug. 23. LEAVE FOR HOMES Mrs. Mary A. Parker, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Prudence Penn, of Philadelphia, Pa., left for their respective homes after spending three weeks in the city and state visiting the Households of Ruth in the Illinois jurisdiction. They were both highly entertained while here and were given several useful gifts for their work. SEPTEMBER "CRISIS" LINKS ANTI-EVOLUTION WITH RACE PREJUDICE (The N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) An editorial in the "Crisis" for September, commenting on the "evolution trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, asserts that it was evidence of the ignorance of Nordic America, the same ignorance which brings about oppression of the Negro. "The folk who leave white Tennessee in blank and ridiculous ignorance of what science has taught the world since 1859," asserts the editorial, "are the same ones who would leave black Tennessee and black America with just as little education as is consistent with fairly efficient labor and reasonable contentment; who rave over the 18th Amendment and are dumb over the 15th; who permit lynching and make bastardy legal in order to render their race 'pure.' It is such folk who, when in sudden darkness, they desyre the awful faces of the Fanatic, the Fury and the Fool try to hide the vision with gales of laughter. "But Dayton, Tennessee, is no laughing matter. It is menace and warning. It is a challenge to Religion, Science and Democracy. The September "Crisis" also contains a vigorous attack upon General Bullard's slander of the American Negro soldier, in which the Army's Anti-Negro conspiracy is outlined "Up North," an essay by "A Mulato"; "Negro History, Harvard Style" by Augustus Granville Dill; and illustrations, poems, and other essays. WITH WESTERN DELEGATION Senator Adelbert H. Roberts, well known orator and member of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, is a member of a very large delegation from the West which will attend the grand lodge session at Richmond, Va., Aug. 23rd to 29th. VISITING IN THE EAST Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Emery, 1253 N. Wells街, left the city on Aug. 11th on a trip to Niagara Falls and Buffalo. N. Y., to spend some time visiting with friends. Returning, the Emerys will stop for some time at Dowgiac, Mich., with friends. MISS JOHNSON IN CITY Miss Rhoda M. Johnson, of Quincy, Ill., and a teacher in the public school of Kansas City, Kans., is in the city in attendance of the grand lodge session of S. M. T. While here, she is the house guest of Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet avenue. MOTORING TO RICHMOND Gentlemen Harvey A. Watkins Wm. J. Morsell, Chas. B. Travis, Jas. M. Brooks and several other automobile parties are touring to Richmond, Va., during the week to attend the meeting of the Elks. READY FOR RICHMOND The Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44 Special train to the grand lodge session of Elks to be held at Richmond, Va., Aug. 23rd to 29th, will leave the city on Saturday evening, Aug. 22nd at 11 o'clock. MOTOR TO MICHIGAN Members and friends of Crystal Radio Social Club, of which L. F. Emery is president, enjoyed a very pleasant motor trip to Eagle Lake, Mich., and returned on Aug. 8th. Old-Time Shoes Henry VIII suffered from gout and, judging by their footwear, so did most of his subjects. Shoes became of such extraordinary width that, owing to the fact that England is an island and space limited, a law was passed forbidding any one to wear shoes wider than six inches across the toe. Elizabethan boots were the most ornate. Worked in gold and silver, they cost at least $50 a pair. In 1633 the present type of shoe was evolved, and in 1668 buckles came into fashion; but it was not until the Nineteenth century that shoes were made specially to fit the right and left foot.—From T. P. and Cassell's Weekly. Ancient Use of Copper Copper and copper-alloy objects are found in the prehistoric remains of Egypt, dating back to the fourth dynasty, 3800 to 4700 B. C. It was found in Asia Minor dating probably to 3000 B. C., and in China to about 2500 B. C. The remains of the Mt. cenean, Pheniclan, Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations (1180 to 500 B. C.) have yielded a variety of copper and bronze objects. The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax Will Appear Saturday, September 12, 1925. It Has Been Published in Chicago for Twenty-Six Years, Without Missing One Single Issue IT WILL REACH THE HIGHEST WATER MARK IN ARTISTIC AFROAMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THIS COUNTRY. IT WILL BE PRINTED ON AMERICAN HALF-TONE ABERDEEN BOOK PAPER, THE PAPER COSTING 15 CENTS PER POUND SPOT CASH. MORE THAN TWO TONS OF PAPER WILL BE USED IN BRINGING FORTH THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX, THE PAPER WILL BE FURNISHED BY BRADNER SMITH AND COMPANY, WHOLESALE PAPER DEALERS, 333 S. DESPLAINES STREET. THAT ISSUE OF THE PAPER WILL CONTAIN LETTERS SOUNDING ITS PRAISES FROM HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN; HON. WILLIAM SULZER, EX-GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK; HON. CHARLES S. THORNTON, MEMBER OF THE EMINENT LEGAL FIRM OF THORNTON AND CHANCELLOR, AND HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER, ONE OF THE MOST HONORABLE AND POPULAR JUDGES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF CHICAGO; OTHER FRIENDS OF THE PAPER ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SEND IN SHORT LETTERS TO APPEAR IN ITS COLUMNS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. IT WILL CONTAIN A COMPLETE REVIEW OF ITS REMARKABLE CAREER AND BRILLIANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING ITS THIRTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE. IT WILL CONTAIN MANY BEAUTIFUL HALF-TONE CUTS OF THE MOST PROMINENT BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CITIZENS OF CHICAGO, BOTH WHITE AND COLORED. Arabian city of Mecca, situated 245 miles south of Medina, is famous for being the birthplace of Mohammed (571 A. D.), and the holy city of Islam. Mecca contains the Great Mosque, or Caaba, a magnificent temple, which is annually visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Near the city is a cave where it is said the prophet was accustomed to retire to perform his devotions, and where in 604 the Koran was revealed to him by the angel Gabriel. In 622 Mohammed, to escape from his enemies, fled from Mecca, and after a journey of 16 days entered Medina amid the acclamations of the populace. This event is called the Hegira, and marks the commencement of the Mohammedan era—Kansas City Star. Curious "Cures" To wear a spider in a nutshell round one's neck is supposed to cure fever. The superstition comes from Brittany. But the practice might imply that the wearer of the spider suffered from mental trouble, or perhaps the fever would be preferable! Some of the Breton superstitions are astonishing. Smallpox is said to be curable by eating a fried mouse! Lost Her Lunch When I was seventeen I weighed nearly 200 pounds. I had been invited to a picnic and had been asked to furnish two fried chickens. I boarded a street car so crowded that standing room was at a premium. The conductor called a street and a large passenger with two suitcases center-rushed through the crowd just inside the entrance. When the pressure was diminished a veritable rain of fried chicken began. First the drumsticks went past, then the wings. I was too embarrassed to speak. When all the chicken had gravitated to the floor I edged away as if to disclaim any previous ownership. My embarrassment reached its climax, however, when a "otherly looking woman said; "Oh, look! The poor fat girl has lost her lunch."—Rehoboth Sunday Herald. Wealth of Colleges Harvard is the richest educational institution in the United States, with an endowment of $25,031,769. Columbia is second with $41,300,909. Yale, Leland Stanford, Jr., Chicago, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie, Princeton, Rochester and Pennsylvania come in order. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 1925 The best and the most popular Principal of the Wendell Phillips High School, who knows no color line in dealing with its many hundred students. Without any question about it, he is the right Professor in the right place. Mankind Vainly Seeks We may be quite certain that Nature holds in reserve causes of resurrection, as it also holds in its hands the causes of destruction. For Nature, time is nothing. An action which requires a hundred thousand years to accomplish is as clearly determined and planned as an action which requires only a minute. Absolutely speaking, eternity exists alone, and time is but a relative form. As to our human personalities, which are a part of this universal matter, and their immortality or resurrection, it would be of the highest interest for us to know the essence of the soul. Each of the constituent atoms of our bodies is indestructible and incessantly travels from one incorporation to another. Logic leads us to think that our vital force, our psychic monad, our individual self, is equally indestructible, and more justly. But in what conditions does it exist? Under what forms is it recarnicated? What were we before birth? What shall become of us after death? Astronomy gives us the first reply worthy of the majesty of Nature. But this reply cannot be merely the corollary of a psychological solution. Let the philosophers imitate the astronomers. Let them work with facts instead of speculating with words, and one day the vell of Isis shall be entirely raised for our souls, which so eagerly long for the truth. Positive science, science alone, will reply: "Life is universal and eternal."—Dr. Arthur Selwyn Brown in the New York Herald Tribune. Earning Her Keen A statistician claims to have discovered that a married woman, who does all the work of her own household, will, in the course of 80 years' married life, prepare nearly 200,000 meals. This is counting a meal as the amount of food required by one person. During this time she will probably order for household consumption about 3,000 jars of jam, will boll 500,000 potatoes, and devote about 35,000 hours to sweeping, washing and scrubbing. Valuing this work at the accepted prices now palder for "professional" ald, the housewife who does her own housework probably earns fully as much as her husband. But that is not to say that she gets it—ob, dean, neil—London Answers. PROF. ALBERT W. EVANS Basque Is Difficult Where are we? We are in a land where the names of the villages and the names of the families themselves are redolent of Asia, distant in both space and time. Dancharinea, Inoha, Beobie—these are the names of villages. Irizabal, Mendizabal, thuralade—these are the names of the families. Do not the names of ancient eastern civilizations rise before you? Once more, where are we? We are in the ancient fatherland of the sons of Altor, we are in Eskuarian territory. We are in France, in the Basque country, Francois Vallie writes in La Revue Mondiale. Do not try to understand the language, for it is a strange dialect of inexplicable origin, which you will find as beset with pitfalls, as full of perils as the coast where it is spoken. The devil himself, so runs the story, gave up the attest—to learn Basque. Do you wish more definite information? The language has four conjugations, according to whether you are speaking to a woman, a child, an equal or a superior. Each name has six nominatives and twelve different cases. Prepositions, conjunctions and the characters of the alphabet are definable like nouns or adjectives, and may be conjugated like verbs. The adjectives have 20 cases. The noun changes according to whether it stands for a person or a thing. People Today Longer Lived People Today Longer Lived The English races are healthier and longer-lived than famous ancient peoples, such as the Egyptians and Romans, says the New York World. And American descendants of European parents are, on the average, bigger and taller than their fathers and mothers, according to Dr. F. C. Brushsall. Stature and weight today, he said, are not less than in the days of Agincourt or Waterloo. Modern civilized man is decidedly not deteriorating. Our expectation of life is far greater than ever before. The fossilized bones of the earliest human beings indicate that our most ancient ancestors seldom lived beyond the early adult stage. Mummy cases in Egypt show that an Egyptian child of five years might expect to live to be only thirty-five. A five-year-old child of Rome under the Caesars could expect a life of only twenty-nine years. But a child of five living in present-day London or New York can expect to live to be at least sixty-four years old. Are Things That Count As you have watched a skyscraper rise slowly from a deep foundation, has it ever occurred to you to liken your life to the erecting of a building? A huge skyscraper is under construction in our neighborhood. It seemed to take a long time to dig the foundation. Progress in getting the basement built also appeared very slow. It took quite a while for the walls to rise to the street level. After that, however, the skyscraper rose rapidly. To anyone who had not followed the early stages, it must have appeared that the building towered up almost overnight. Isn't it very much the same with a successful career? Every now and again a man seems to climb spectacularly. To those who don't know him, his progress looks phenomenal. But that is because they have not followed closely all the foundation-laying the man has done. Usually those least astonished by a big man's rise are those who have been most familiar with his earlier record. They have seen the digging, the planning, the sweating. Any man who aspires to raise a monument to himself must first expend endless toll in preparing the right kind of foundation.—Forbes Magazine. Qarsmen Work Hard A professor at Yale university has been making tests with regard to the energy used by trained racing oarsmen. He tells us, London Tit-Bits notes, that they are more efficient than most gasoline and steam engines, as one-fourth of the energy produced by the men goes directly toward driving the boat. Special apparatus showed that during a race an oarsman breathes 16 gallons of air a minute. Each man produces nearly four horse-power in energy at the start of a race, and in a four-mile event his body will use up fuel equal to nearly half a pound of sugar. Land of Silver The Argentine republic, called Argentina, is Spanish and derived its name from the Latin word meaning silver. The original name for the country was De La Plata. The reason that silver has been thus associated with the name of the country is that Díaz de Soils, the discoverer, so named it in consequence of the silver ornaments worn by the natives. Henry Alston was very careful and methodical—a circumstance that called forth much good-natured teasing from his college roommate, Tom Bowers. "If the card with your name and address that I just saw you putting in your pocketbook ever does a particle of good, Hank," said Tom, "please let me know how, and where. You lose the purse and see how quick you get it back." "Bet you that card would help!" declared Henry. "Bet you it wouldn't!" Some time later Henry's sailing canoe upset, and Henry was rescued after he had been in the water several hours. On removing his wet clothes he discovered that his pocket-book containing twenty-two dollars was missing. He could ill afford to lose the sum. "Never you mind, though," Tom comforted him, "some big kind fish is going to read that address card and come waddling up here with your money stuck right under his fin!" All that fall and winter a knock at their door usually elicited from Tom some remark as, "Hurry up, Hank, hurry up! Here's that obliging old fish with your wallet." One warm day the following May Henry received a letter bearing the postmark of a nearby town. As he finished reading it he uttered a joyous howl and thrust it under the eyes of his roommate. "Dear Mr. Alston," the letter ran, "yesterday my wife asked me to pound up some ice for ice cream, and while using the mallet in vigorous style I came across something black and pilable—a leather wallet containing twenty-two dollars in bills and a card bearing your name and address. The case is a little the worse for wear, but the money is O. K. A queer chance, my finding the article, and I'd like to hear the history sometime. Am returning all to you intact by registered mail. Yours truly, L. M. Hawkins."—Youth's Companion. English Cider Customs English Cider Customs Cider making is quite an institution in England. John Phillips, the poet, praised the sweet Hereford cider as surpassing Tokay and all other foreign vintages. A footnote to history relates that the earl of Manchester, ambassador in France, frequently palmed off this sweet cider on the French noblesse as a wine beyond price. In the West country the old ritual called "Griggling" is remembered, country boys forming bands to tour the orchards, and climb after the small worthless apples, or griggles. The ringleader would be expected to report at the farmhouse, and resite a certain moral fable, entitled "A Rude Boy Stealing Apples," and telling of such rude ones' fates. The good wife of the farm would then pour out cider for all, a libation to insure her protection, another year, against rude robbers. Regrowing Forests The regrowth of timber provided for in the national forests where the original stand of timber is cut and removed varies with the forest types involved. In many forest types the regrowth is present in the form of seedlings or saplings at the time that the overstore of old and mature timber is removed. Where this is not the case carefully selected trees are left standing. From these trees come the seed that regenerates the area. In the case of Douglas fir on the Pacific coast, seed is stored up of such quantities in the duff on the ground that the best results are obtained by cutting the area clean and depending on this stored seed supply for regeneration. In some cases it is necessary to plant after cutting in order to insure a second crop within a reasonable time. Only a Dream Hubby listened intently. His wife and her mother were talking. The latter was saying: "You have indeed secured a splendid husband, and I think you ought to treat him with a little more tact and consideration. Don't always want to know where he is going, and if he comes home a little late, be agreeable and wait until he explains before you begin asking a lot of awkward questions. He's just the sort to appreciate any generosity on your part. Be kind to him." Hubby stirred uneasily, trying to hear more, when—he awoke. Uncle's Will Great Help They were discussing the things which help a man to obtain success in the world, when one young man said: "There's nothing like force of character. Now, there's Jones. He's sure to make his way in the world. He's a will of his own, you know." "But Brown has something better in his favor," argued his friend. "What's that?" "A will of his uncle's." Keep Parental Line Intact in Odd Way Respect for one's elders is a praise-worthy custom, which, nevertheless, may be carried too far, observes J. D. Newsom in Adventure. On Raga, in the New Hebrides, it has become quite bad form to let one's parents die. Of course, it is rather difficult to keep them alive if they fall out of a tree and break their necks, or meet a shark while they are swimming about in mid-ocean, and extreme old age is also responsible for many casualties. Even so, the respected parent must not die; he must, on the contrary, live more vitally than ever, and the practical-minded indigenes have found a perfectly simple solution to this awkward problem. They go to the next village or a neighboring island and buy a child of the desired sex, whom they adopt—as their father, mother or grandparent, as the case may require. The child is given the deceased's name, rank and precedence. He is treated with every mark of respect formerly accorded the real relative—at least when the occasion calls for ceremony. This makes for astonishing confusion among relatives, and it drew from one visitor, who came from another island, the scornful comment: "Raga! Oh, that is the place where they marry their granddaughters!" Cliff's Fall Laid Bare Pressure Long Traction One of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of archeology occurred when a fall of the cliff near Byblos, Syria, scooped a corner out of a rock-cut tomb over 4,000 years old, the existence of which had long been suspected but never proved. The slide revealed to a passer-by a huge sarcophagus with a unique lid, having large mushroom-shaped knobs by which, no doubt, it was originally handled. The rock hereabouts is very porous, and a layer of muddy soil, knee deep, which had filtered down through the ages, covered the floor. In the gallery a further small tomb or grotto was found. The tomb was originally entered by three pits, which were afterward walled in below and filled in above. Among the objects found were anatomical ashes and bone fragments, a lamp of bronze or gold, silver vases, a goblet of obsidian and gold, two gold salvers, an alabaster vase, a bronze vase, and plaques of ivory or luster ware. Symbolic Ice Skates A curious sight it was, an old pair of rusty skates hanging outside a shop on a tropical island in the West Indies! I wondered, says Mr. A. Hyatt Verrill in his book "In the Wake of the Buccaneers," whom the proprietor expected to sell them to, so I entered and inquired. Imagine my astonishment when the shopkeeper solemnly informed me that they had been there for years, and that no one knew exactly what they were used for. "But," he added, "I am aware that they are significant of the holiday season, and so I hang them outside regularly each year as an indication to passers-by that my Christmas stock of merchandise is on sale." The Too-Perfect Woman "Milicent did not make life easy. She meant so damnably well; there are moments when it drives one to hysteria to find all one's buttons on, and all one's socks darned; I couldn't discover a vice in Milicent, even in the linion cupboard. Milicent was a woman who lived in fetters, she had reduced her life and mind to a sort of switchboard so magnificently organized that one only had to press buttons to get perfect life, feed with enough proteld in it, dinner-parties where the couples properly sorted, donations to hospitals that would eventually lead me to *knothood*." From "The Triumph of Gallio" by W. L. George. How She Saved It Betty's mother had been away all day shopping. When she returned home Betty met her at the door and proudly announced: "I saved a penny today." Her mother patted her on the head and sald: "That's fine, Betty. How did you do that?" The little girl looked up and smiled. "It wasn't easy," she replied, "but this is the way I did it. I didn't ask daddy for a penny!" Too Designing "Should we have female architects?" is being discussed in a daily paper. A male cynic unpardonably protests that there are quite enough designing women about already—London Passing Show. Early Pessimism A chemical method of determining the kinds of beans used in vanilla extract, independently of tasting and smelling tests by experts, has recently been devised—Science Service. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERnest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121-23-25 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charlest. Jawson Beautiful Girl Reveals Secret Once my hair was anything but long and silky soft as it is now, and my complexion was sallow, and there were often unsightly pimples on my face. One day I heard of Exelento Quinein Pomade for the hair and purchased a jar. Almost immediately it stopped all dandruff, made my hair grow long, soft and fine, and gave it a delightful sheen. Because of the perfectly wonderful results I obtained from Exelento Quinein Pomade, I purchased a jar of Exelento Skin Beautifier. It changed my sallow complexion to a clear, lovely skin, flowing with hair. For pimples and other skin blemishes, it has no equal. If I am as beautiful as people say, it is all due to Exelento preparations. Exelento Quinein Pomade and Exelento Skin Beautifier may be obtained for only 25% at most drug stores, or will be sent postpaid upon receipt of price by the EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write For Particulars "Bidding Praver" A prayer which bids or directs what is to be prayed for is frequently known as a bidding prayer. This form of exhortation, always concluding with the Lord's Prayer, was enjoined by the fifty-fifth canon of the Anglican church in 1003, to be used before all sermons and homilies. It was, and in its abridged form still is, very impressive, allowing individuals to supply from their own knowledge special cases of necessity under the different heads. Whimsical Whistler "Many things Whistler did," Str Edward Gosse told Walter Tittle, the portraitist, "the did for effect only, laughing in his sleeve if he succeeded in hoodwinking his auditors. One day in his studio he laughedly approached his easel, drew a single line on a canvas, with a movement of exquisite grace, put down the brush and said: "That is enough work for one day." The Williamson Funeral is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars Fine Mahogany Trees A recently discovered species of mahogany of gigantic size exists on the western coast of Panama at the San Lorenzo river, and the American museum museum bird-hunting expedition of Ludlow Griscom and three assistants found it to be one of the commonest trees of the primeval forest of that little-known region, according to the Baltimore Sun. One super specimen proved to be 7 feet in diameter, 6 feet from the ground and to measure 152 feet from the base to the first limb. The perfectly symmetrical trunk, which is illustrated in natural history, had all the grandeur of a cathedral column. Though less shaped, other trees were even larger and one had a diameter of 13 feet at 6 feet from the ground. The forest abounded in wild life, at least 200 species of birds occurring in the vicinity. Whistling Marmots Pets Cowboy guides make pets of the whistling marmots in Glacier National park. They tame these marvelous whistlers in some instances so that the little animals sit up for them like a dog and freely give their musical entertainment as a begging prelude to being fed daimies. It is estimated there are a million marmots in this queer animal colony that inhabits the recesses of the Rocky mountain country. Sailors' Superstitions Sailors in the good old days had many curious ideas about the wind, but they seem to have varied a good deal as regards attitude and in the different oceans and routes. Thunder also, according to its nature and the quarter from which it came, meant evil in one form or another. But the modern seafaring man does not bother his head about most of these things. Flattery's Power An Englishwoman declares that she has never yet met a man she couldn't get round by judicious flattery. "It doesn't matter." she says, "how hard and obdurate a man is, he can't resist the voice of flattery. Sooner or later he begins to purr and is ready to feed out of your hand! Instead of 'feeding the brute,' I would advise women to flatter him." Heroic Colonial Girl Heroic Colonial Girl Elizabeth Zane was one of the most famous young heroes of the Revolutionary period. She dashed from an enclosure where the American colonists were fighting, to a log hut, where she secured gunpowder and returned with the ammunition under fire from the Indians. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 1925 Spot Rich in History During the Revolutionary war every prominent hill in the vicinity of Tarrytown, N. Y., was the scene of an encounter or a fortification, says the Detroit News. Maj. John Andre, the English spy, was captured in Tarrytown. There is a monument commemorating this event. A little stream nearby is called Andre brook and a large whitewood, which formerly stood near the monument, was called Andre's tree. In 1777 Vaughan's troops landed here, and here occurred the capture of the British by Major Hunt and a force of volunteers. The town is famous also as the birthplace and home of Washington Irving. On the north is Sleepy Hollow, where he was buried, and on the south of the village is Sunnyside, where his home still stands. Tarrytown is one of the oldest settlements in New York. Charter Seizure Foiled Just as Sir Edmund Andros, in 1087 was about to seize the charter of the Connecticut colony in the assembly hall, Hartford, the lights were put out and when they were relighted the document was gone. They Love to Be Crazy It was like a college professor to advise young people to fall in love intelligently. Love that doesn't make them crazy would be about as palatable as a cold boiled potato—Toledo Blade. The Versatility of Politicians Another thing an experienced politician can do while holding with the hares and running with the bounds and carrying water on both shoulders is drifting with the tide—Ohio State Journal. Shell the Big 'Uns "Small Bore Shooting," announces a newspaper headline. It seems a pity to waste cartridges on the small ones when there are so many big ones about. "The Humorist (London). Chemistry Test for Beans A little English boy three years old, when told that the new baby has six teeth said: "She will have six toothaches." A pessimist at the age of three. How About the Neighbors? From the orchard district word comes that if old automobile tires are burned among the trees most of the fruit pests will leave.—Seattle Times. 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It implies a meal of several courses which is served at a fixed price. Important Southern City Pensacola is the home of a large fishing industry. Its fleets go as far off as the coast of Yucatan. Pensacola is also a large exporter of lumber. The United States aviation station for the Gulf is located here. A few miles west is the Perdido river, the boundary between Florida and Alabama. Double Miracle A doctor in New York told a man he had paralysis. The patient called in his friends. They prayed. He recovered and declared it a miracle. Then the doctor admitted he had been mistaken. That makes it two miracles.—Leonard W. Smith, in McNaught's Monthly. Great Church Now Ruin The church of Benedictine abbey of Cluny, France, was once one of the greatest in Europe, and was surpassed only by old St. Peter's, Rome. It was wrecked during the revolution, and only one transcept remains. 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