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Sudden Death of Monsignor, Rev. Father Edward A. Kelly, the Beloved Pastor of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Wentworth Avenue and Garfield Boulevard, Early Last Monday Morning SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Sudden De the Beloved Wentworth day Morning HE WAS ONE OF THE CITIZENS OF CHICA ACTIVE IN HIS SUP UNITED STATES O DURING THE WOR DEMOCRACY. HE SERVED WITH HON LAIN OF THE OLD F ENTH REGIMENT O THE SPANISH-AM IT WAS LARGELY T EFFORTS THAT CO WERE SELECTED A OF COLORED REGI ING IN THE WORL ALSO ASSISTED TO SIBLE FOR THE E MENT TO ENTER T CAMP AT FORT SAI TEXAS, IN OCTOBE FOR TWENTY-SIX YE KELLY WAS A WAR THE EDITOR OF T PER, AND ON SEV SIONS HE SENT CO THE POPE OF ROM HE WAS ONE OF THE FOREMOST CITIZENS OF CHICAGO; HE WAS ACTIVE IN HIS SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DURING THE WORLD WAR FOR DEMOCRACY. HE SERVED WITH HONOR AS CHAPLAIN OF THE OLD FIGHTING SEVENTH REGIMENT OF ILLINOIS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR; IT WAS LARGELY THROUGH HIS EFFORTS THAT COLORED MEN WERE SELECTED AS CHAPLAINS OF COLORED REGIMENTS SERVING IN THE WORLD'S WAR. HE ALSO ASSISTED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE EIGHTH REGIMENT TO ENTER THE TRAINING CAMP AT FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS, IN OCTOBER, 1917. FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS FATHER KELLY WAS A WARM FRIEND OF THE EDITOR OF THIS NEWSPAPER, AND ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS HE SENT COPIES OF IT TO THE POPE OF ROME. --- Monday morning the people residing in all parts of the civilized world were pained and greatly shocked to learn that Rev. Father Edward A. Kelly, the beloved pastor of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Wentworth avenue and Garfield boulevard, had suddenly and peacefully closed his eyes in death at his home. Heart failure was the direct cause of his sudden death. For forty-four years he was one of the most noted and prominent priests throughout the United States. He was always exceedingly active in everything which would be of the slightest benefit to his fellow-men, regardless of their religious belief or lack of it. He was ever ready to extend a charitable or a helping hand to the poor or the needy. His magnificent service in the Spanish-American war and in the World war for democracy will never be forgotten as long as the United States government functions at Washington, D. C. Was Native of Brooklyn, New York Father Kelly, who was one of the most brilliant and forceful orators in this country, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 15, 1853, and though having just passed his seventy-second year he was to all appearances a much younger man and few ever thought of his having passed the three score and ten. Late in the year of 1855 the father of Father Kelly, who was destined to become a noted figure in the Roman Catholic Church and civic life of the nation, brought the family of eleven children to Chiego where they settled at La Salle and Illinois streets. The future distinguished priest attended the Franklin public school and the Jesuit College at 12th and May streets, and ordination in the priesthood came to him at St. Mary's Semi- THE BROAD AX 5 CENTS PER COPY Death of loved Past earth Aven ning AT THE FOREMOST CHICAGO; HE WAS SUPPORT OF THE ES GOVERNMENT WORLD WAR FOR HONOR AS CHAPLD FIGHTING SEVEN OF ILLINOIS IN AMERICAN WAR; BLY THROUGH HIS COLORED MENED AS CHAPLAINS REGIMENTS SERV-WORLD'S WAR. HE HAD TO MAKE IT POSIE EIGHTH REGIER THE TRAINING AT SAM HOUSTON, OBER, 1917. YEARS FATHER WARM FRIEND OF OF THIS NEWSPA- SEVERAL OCCA- COPIES OF IT TO ROME. nary, Baltimore, Md., on December 18, 1881. His first assignment was as assistant at St. Bridget's Church at Archer avenue and Haynes court, where among many others destined to become nationally known figures he became the close friend of Finley Peter Dunne, author of the popular "Dooley" stories. Builds St. Cecilia's Church Going as assistant to All Saint's Church he was shortly after given the task of organizing the parish and building the church of St. Cecilia at 45th and Wells street. On the death of the Rev. P. J. Flanagan in 1907, Father Kelly was given charge of St. Anne's Church at Garfield boulevard and Wentworth avenue, where he served with a brilliant record up to the time of his death. As Chaplain of the Seventh Illinois Infantry, the "Fighting Seventh," Father Kelly served throughout the Spanish-American war and his splendid service which he would have been glad to give through the great World war, was prohibited only on advice of his physician. Always on the firing line to do some good deed for young men and women and those in need, it is estimated that he placed over 4,200 young men and women in positions. For years Father Kelly served as a member of the State Board of Charities of Illinois. Great Throng Attends Funeral Throughout the week, thousands passed the bier where the remains of the beloved priest lay in state at St. Anne's Church and one of the most largely attended funerals in the history of the city was accorded him on Thursday morning with interment at Calvary. The Rev. James F. Callahan, pastor of the Church of St. Malachy, a lifelong friend, officiated at the Solemn High Mass of Requiem THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 29, 1925 THE LAST RIGHT REVEREND MONKHOUSE THE LATE RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR EDWARD A. KELLY. LL. D. and His Lordship, the Right Rev. Peter J. Muldoon, Bishop of the Rockford Diocese, delivered the sermon. Military honors were given the distinguished clergyman and thousands of men and women high in the church, civic and public life of the city and points outside were in attendance. Monsignor Kelly leaves one brother, Charles, and four sisters, Sister M. Gregory, Mrs. M. Reiman, Mrs. D. F. Murphy, Mrs. Allen Moore. Father Kelly and the writer were the warmest of friends for twenty-six years and during all of those years he was a constant supporter of this newspaper and as stated above he was so well pleased with some of the highly interesting articles appearing in it from time to time that on several occasions he sent copies of it to the Pope of Rome. It will be recalled that at the beginning of the World War for democracy that many of the high officials at Washington, D. C., and many people throughout the country were not in favor of permitting colored men to serve as chaplains of the Colored regiments. They wanted those jobs for white men and Father Kelly was among the few men of his calling who honestly believed in all fairness that there should be white chaplains for white regiments and Colored chaplains for Colored regiments. Father Kelly was also in favor of permitting the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, Col. Franklin A. Denison commanding at that time, to train and camp at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. That was near the first part of October, 1917, and the daily newspapers in this city and throughout the country all joined in the attempt to prevent the Colored soldiers from training at that camp. At the time --- while Col. Denison and his noble soldiers were disheartened and downcast and no place where they could have a training camp, our telephone rang near four o'clock one Monday afternoon and Father Kelly was on the other end of the wire and he said: "Mr. Taylor, I am leaving at six o'clock this evening for Washington, D. C., to help out Col. Denison and his soldiers and the Colored chapains and I want you to be here at my home in one hour's time with the names of all the Colored regiments in the United States with Colored Chapains." And a little after five o'clock we pushed up the steps of his he with the information he desired and remained with him until he was ready to start for the depot. Father Kelly had a large amount of courage and he did not hesitate in informing Hon. Newton Baker, Secretary of War, that the Colored soldiers and chaplains were not receiving a square deal and so on. Three days after Father Kelly had called on President Wilson and Secretary Baker, Col. Denison and his soldiers were on their way to Houston, Texas, and an order was issued for Colored chaplains for colored regiments. Shortly after the race riots in this city in 1919, Governor Frank O. Lowden selected an equal number of white and Colored men to attempt to find out what was the real cause of those bloody race riots. Father Kelly, without our request and without consulting us, called on Governor Lowden at the Blackstone hotel and urged him to select the writer as a member of the commission, which simply proves that Father Kelly was true blue in his steadfast friendship for us. May his kindly and lovable soul repose in peace throughout the coming HAMPTON OFFERS NEW COURSE FOR LIBRARIANS Hampton, Va.—Dr. James E. Gregg principal of Hampton Institute, announces that the trustees of Hampton have approved the organization of a two-year collegiate course for the training of librarians which will begin on September 24. The demand for trained librarians for schools, colleges, and branch libraries in Northern and Southern cities has opened up a new profession for colored men and women who have had collegiate training. This new librarians' course at Hampton Institute has been instituted at the earnest solicitation of the American Library Association and will give colored men and women a new outlet into a profession which gives opportunity for the widest influence for good. The Hampton Institute course will include, beside the general professional subjects in the conventional library-training course, collegiate subjects of an academic character which may be counted for credit toward the regular degree or bachelor of science, which is given for the satisfactory completion of a four-year course. This course will be open to properly qualified students who have completed a standard four-year high school course and meet the regular Hampton entrance requirements. Dr. George P. Phenix, vice principal of Hampton Institute, will consider the credentials of applicants for this library-training course. PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATION CLOSES SUMMER SCHOOL Hampton, Va.-The Hampton Institute Summer Session for Teachers gave a physical-training demonstration in the school gymnasium, at the close of the first session, which attracted a large representative audience which expressed its appreciation of the excellent work by their close attention and hearty applause. The instructors were Miss Elsa Heilich, Miss SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX d A. Kelly, ic Church, Last Mon- EOLA BROWNING WHO FOUGHT FOR HONOR GLORY OF HIS COUN- HE BATTLEFIELDS OF AND SEVEN OF HIS COM- RE BLOWN INTO ETER- HE TWINKLING OF AN CAMP GRANT AND OTHER MEMBERS OF MENT WERE SEVERELY CAPTAIN OSCEOLA BROWNING WHO BRAVELY FOUGHT FOR HONOR AND THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTRY ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE AND SEVEN OF HIS COMRADES WERE BLOWN INTO ETERNITY IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AT CAMP GRANT AND TWELVE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT WERE SEVERELY WOUNDED. --- The bodies of the heroes belonging to the famous Eighth Regiment of Illinois, who lost their lives in the unheard of explosion on the field of action at Camp Grant last Monday afternoon, have arrived in this city, their home town, accompanied by a military escort. Their bodies were placed in the Eighth Regiment Armory Wednesday evening where they will lay in state until Sunday afternoon at which time a joint military funeral will be held for all of the eight men in the Eighth Regiment Armory. Mrs. Maxine Browning, wife of Capt. Osceola Browning, one of the victims, and Benjamin Browning, his brother, were members of the funeral party. The military detail of three soldiers was in command of Lieut. William I. Doty. Commanding officers of the regiment will be in charge of the services at the end of which each body will be delivered into the hands of the relatives and friends for interment. The men who were killed by the explosion are: Julia Davis, Mrs. Dora Cole Norman, and Charles H. Williams. The program follows; (1) Primary lessons and school-room exercises; (2) nursery rhyme dances—"Hot Cross Buns" and "Two Little Blackbirds," for grade 1; (3) rhythmic plays—"The King of France," "I See You," and "The Sleeping Princess," for grade 2; (4) gymnastic lesson, including floor work and a Hungarian folk dance, "Csehbogor"; (5) supervised play for the recess period; (6) folk dances—"The Tempest" and "Spanish Folk Dance" by Chalif, and "Seven Jumps" by Burchenal; (7) playground games; (8) folk dances—Chalif's "Rondo" (French) and his "Ritka" (Hungarian); (9) Godard's "At Morn," dance interpretations by Mrs. Norman; (10) technique and rhythms, including polka and waltz. Honorable mention for original composition assignments were given to Miss.Beatrice Spellman, Miss Ethel Malloy, Miss Susie Whitely, and Miss Mary E. Fishback. NEGRO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WILL OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Washington—On the 9th and 10th of September, 1925, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History will celebrate its Tenth Anniversary in this city. Coming to the end of the tenth year of this first systematic effort to embody the civilization of the Negro, the management has invited special attention to this occasion. It marks an epoch in the development of the Negro. The race has been gradually taught that no group can make much progress without preserving a record from which its program for the future can be worked out of the wisdom which can come only with an appreciation of the failures and successes of the past. Consequently, the aim of the Association has always been to adhere to the new plan of presenting the Negro himself to the-world as reflected in what he himself has thought and felt and attempted and accomplished. In Capt. Osceola A. Browning, 4119 South Parkway. Corp. Henry Williams, 3501 S. Wabash avenue. Private Herman Durant, 135 E. Thirty-second street. Private Delmas Campbell, 459 E. Fortieth street. Private Benjamin Anderson, 3307 Princeton avenue. Private Charles Wright, 1826 Federal street. Private Elmo Baynes, 21 W. Eighteenth street. Private Todd Moseley, 1820 Wentworth avenue. City officials and military leaders are expected to be present at the public services Sunday. The accident which snuffed suddenly out the lives of eight of the bravest and the boldest fighting soldiers who have ever shouldered a gun and severely injuring twelve other soldiers is too horrible to think or write about and someone should be held responsible for their untimely deaths. this way the Association has secured the support of both races who appreciate the value of saving the records of the Negro that the race may not become a negligible factor in the thought of the world. A program of noted orators, taken from the ranks of education, business, professional and church life, will discuss the past and present phases of Negro world achievements, pointing out just what the race may hope to accomplish in the coming years. TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINE DESCENDANTS SURVIVE MRS. ELIZA HICKS. DEAD AT 100 YEARS (Preston News Service) Hartford, Conn., Aug. 27—Mrs. Eliza Hicks, 100 years old, said to have been born in slavery and freed by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, died Tuesday afternoon at the home of her son, John Hicks, After the war Mrs. Hicks and her husband left the South and settled in New England, where they reared a large family. Of the 14 children born to her seven are still living. She leaves 80 grandchildren, 134 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Hicks was born in Crawford County, Ga., March 15, 1825. THE SECRET WEDDING OF MISS LOUISE BOND TO LIEUT. DUDLEY Mrs. Enos Bond, 6159 Loomis boulevard, announces the marriage of her daughter, Louise Enais, on July 21st, to Henry Flynn Dudley, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flynn Dudley of 3825 Giles avenue, Chicago. The young couple quietly slipped one over on both relatives and friends. They were married a month before the news leaked out. They will be at home at 6159 Loomis boulevard after September 15th. 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. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago Phone: Wentworth 2597 Vol. XXX No. 50 Chicago, August 29, 1925 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. COLORFUL NEWS "MOVIES" By: The Cameraman 1. National Negro Bar. 2. Oh You Tribune! 3. Trade Schools, Have a Care! 4. The Mayor's Mouthful. Under the inspirational leadership of Hon. George H. Woodson, of Des Moines, Iowa, who had previously been invited to file an application for membership in the American Bar Association, a group of eminent Negro counsellors at law recently held a conference and organized themselves into a National Negro Bar Association, with regional directors in various districts of the country. This new legal body will, of course, in the group sense, promote quasi-fraternalism, professional integrity, greater respect for race attorneys, more intensive training, and, above all a solidarity of organization among colored lawyers similar to that exemplified by the American Bar Association from which, for no meritorious reason, Negro attorneys are barred in this day and time, although Hon. William H. Lewis, of Massachusetts, was admitted some time ago. In the law, if no where else, color should be held to be irrelevant; and there is some slight question as to whether a Negro Bar Association quickens or diminishes the consciousness of racial differences. Be that as it may, if both the white and the colored profession will look at the spectacle of the new Bar Body in the proper way, much good can be accomplished by the Woodson creation within the next decade. And if we were able to speak as a unit in behal of the National Negro Bar Association, here is what we would briefly tell the world: "We, the colored lawyers of the United States, duly qualified as citizens under, and advocates of the law, knowing that the justice of law and of equity recognize no legal color distinctions as between citizens of the United States, but realizing selfishness has, by color barriers, frequently exalted itself to the prejudice of the Right, have gathered ourselves together, not because of any feeling of inferiority, either as citizens or as members in good standing of the American Bar, but, rather, because we, in mass formation, believe that we can by compact example illustrate the fallacy of racial differences in this country and help the weak to reason out just how the law has created all men free and equal. "We shall adhere to a policy of training for ourselves and for others, in the larger hope that some day the Law, both moral and written, shall assert itself. The formation of our association is not to be construed as an abandonment of our activities in local and other bar associations, to which we are morally and legally eligible as members. It is merely a racial parent body—a directorate, as it were, of our bill of particulars as inseparable parts of the great American Brotherhood, whose theories we intend to promote and whose practices we are resolved to improve." "It would be better if the Negroes had a prosperous state of their own; but that would take a miracle to bring about," says the Editor of the Chicago Tribune in his explosions of August 11, 1925, upon the luminous subject of Russian sovietism, which. concludes the editor, "if spread variously through the American Negro population" might materialize into an attempt on the part of the Negroes to deprive the whites of their property and their government. What pathetic and terrible nonsense." The Windy City Editor is quite correct in resorting to the word "Nonsense;" only he did not give it wide enough play in his platitudinous editorial. There is nothing in the Good Book which indicates that Negroes crave the "corner" of white man's property or government; or, for that matter, of the white man's Heaven or Hell, the latter of which, we opine, will be available to all qualified applicants upon the basis of share and share alike. We recall another white advocate of a separate state for Negroes who tried to interest us in such a project. He prescribed some cactus and alfalfa land in southwest U. S. A., and when we told him inasmuch as we came from the "wicked" but wealthy State of New York—an area which we might be willing to consider in case the separate idea became a reality, he said, like the Tribune Editor, that it would take a miracle to bring it about—that is the allotment of New York, or Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or Illinois for that matter. Separate State advocates, and each and every one of them, believe just as the Tribune Editor believes, that the government and the country belong to the white man. (Their theory is something like the legal theory of "finding." The "finding" of property takes title against everybody but the "owner") The Indians and others who at one time were monarchs of all they surveyed over here, including the district where the Tribune Editor now abides and dashes off "funny" editorials, have been thrown into the discard; and only one hundred per centers (whatever they are) can swell their breasts and sing "My Country, Tis of Thee." (What pathetic and terrible nonsense!) What a tragedy it would be if all "Americans" were boiled down to the nth degree, their allay knocked off, and their true substance left remaining. If this were done, or, to go a step farther, if the Chicago Tribune were dependable, for make-up and sales, upon one hundred percenters only, we wonder how long it (The Tribune) would last. No, No, Mr. Editor: America is the world experiment of national Godliness where poet and peasant may dwell in peace and harmony and love. The twinship of Americans, despite race or color, is the one thing by which we know that man was made in the image of God; and unless there is a separate state hereafter, we need no separate state here; for even if we miss seeing God here, we don't want to miss seeing Him hereafter. Do you, Mr. Editor? The rumor has come from a number of prominent cities that vocational and trade school faculties are frequently advising Negro students against taking certain courses, as to which, say the advisers, there is no demand for Negro graduates. In not a few cases of this kind, students who did not have the temerity to persist in taking the subjects which they had originally selected, have been diverted to other courses only to suffer the embarrassment later in life of receiving a call for the first chosen work, but being unable to accept the call because of being untrained therefore. Public school trade courses and vocational subjects belong to the taxpayers, and through them, are imputed to the public benefit. In their allotment to students, it is readily admitted the vocational guides and course directors have important duties to perform. Nevertheless, the student has some rights in the matter, one of which is to select, by and with the advice of his parents or guardian the subject or course which he and they desire. Having done so, it is no part of the intention of those who make the public schools available, that the student should be discouraged or persuaded by school "wiseacres" who are not particular about seeing Negroes prepare for certain choice trades or vocations. Rather, the student should be left free to go his own way and accept his own responsibilities for the future. It was Abraham Lincoln who said: "I shall study and prepare myself; some day my opportunity may come." And it is an unconscionable deed in these modern times to quell the initiative of ambitious youths by providing them, through the taxpayers' money, with "something just as good." Trade School, please have a care! "We are all God's children and equal in His sight; and during my administration as mayor of New York THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 29, 1925 INSTEAD OF FORTY-SIX, THEY'RE ONLY TWENTY-SEVEN STRONG. A hush settled upon those witnessing the marching troops as the howitzer company of the 8th regiment came along. The company guildon was draped with crepe for the men who lost their lives in explosion of gun on Monday. City equal and exact justice and the same care and protection in their persons and effects have been accorded every race in the city" said Mayor John F. Hylan in his address to the Independent Order of St. Luke, in convention, to whom New York's Chief Executive has turned over the keys of the City. And Mayor Hylan's most ardent political and other enemies in the Race must admit that he said a mouthful,—a mouthful of fairness which many mayors the country over, regardless of politics, might with deep civic and administrative seek to imitate in their custodianship of the people's government. MRS. DETT GIVES CHOPIN RECITAL Hampton, Va.—Helen Else Dett of Hampton Institute, pianist, wife of Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett, recently gave at one of the regular morning assemblies a matinee recital in Ogden Hall before a large audience of summer-school students. Her illustrated lecture, "A Day With Chopin," was supplemented with the following program: "Etude in C Minor," "Polonaise in A Flat Major," "Mazurka in B Minor," "Funeral March from 'Sonata,'" Op. 35, "Valse in D Flat," No. 6, and "Nocturne in C Minor." Penn School, St. Helena Island, S. C Hampton, Va.—So very often these days, you pick up a magazine or a newspaper and you see an article on "Negro Folklore," or perhaps a comment on a Negro singing. Sometimes the article is a plea to the Negroes, asking us to preserve our "spirituals" and folk tales. Then again, perhaps, some man or organization is offering a prize for the best collection of stories and songs. One of the reasons for the renewed interests in the Negro songs is that people have come to realize the beauty and the true meaning of these songs. They know that to sing these "spirituals" and to talk about them will keep their beauty and meaning alive. Negro music is typically American music. It grew out of the lives of enslaved parents. No other race in bondage has been able to express and comfort themselves in songs as have the Negroes. The Indian is fast becoming an extinct, unemotional race, because he had no songs to offer in the time of trouble. The Negro who was brought from a distant shore and was planted in a terrible bondage sang, yes he sang so loudly that the world had to stop and listen! These "spirituals" express the religion of the Negro who believed implicitly in God and who did not question his being. He knew that some day God who sees everything as he expresses himself in this song, "Oh He sees all you do, He hears all you say, My Lord's riding all the time," would make the burdens lighter. I like this little verse that says: "For in our songs we tell our woes Our sorrows, and our fears; They are the expression of our souls To a God who always hears." There is nothing comical about the Negro songs. There is a thought back of each song. The songs are full of real Christian sentiments. You may find a spiritual to fit practically every occasion. How perfectly simple Negroes expressed their sorrow in this "spiritual." "How can I pray, when my heart is burdened down?" Then it is in this same "spiritual" that this beautiful prayer is offered: "Crown me, ob Lord, when my heart is burdened down." In this "spiritual," "Steal away to Jesus," Negroes see God in Nature when they say: "My Lord calls me, He calls me by the thunder, the trumpet sounds within of my soul, I ain't got long to stay here." What is religion, if it is not the seeing of God in the everyday things? Negroes had, too, their songs to celebrate the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. They sang: "Mary had a Baby, sing Allelu." "They crucified my Lord," and "The angel rolled the stone away." During the time of hardship, it is not comforting to know that Negroes could lose themselves completely for a while and commune wholly with God. How much they must have helped each other, when they sang: "Jesus is a comin', don't you get weary, there's a great camp meetin' in the promised land." Who would not have felt renewed spirit when he heard this "spiritual": "Let us cheer the weary traveler along the heavenly way." There is also art in the songs of the Negroes as well as a great deal of heart. It has not ceased to be a wonder that music like this could be made by the Negro who knew nothing about the art of music. George Nicholas Ballanta, a native of Africa, is now engaged in intensive research work recording the music of his people in the primitive form so as to preserve it for the world's music lovers. He spent several years in New York taking ad-advanced course in music in preparation for this work. He spent several weeks on St. Helena Island collecting spirituals. He collected and wrote the music to over a hundred of our Island "spirituals." This book of spirituals has just been published. NEGRO FOREMAN APPOINTED IN BALTIMORE POST OFFICE Baltimore.—Aaron M. Cummings, formerly senior clerk at the Falls Station of the Baltimore post-office, has been promoted by Postmaster Benjamin F. Woelper, Jr., to the position of foreman at the Falls Station, which is the largest U. S. sub-station in the Baltimore district. Mr. Cummings, who has been in the postal service for more than thirty years, won his way to the promotion by efficient service from one post to another in the Baltimore office. He enters upon the duties of his new post with an expert knowledge of the postal machinery and a long acquaintance with the 100 clerks and carriers now assigned under his direction at the Falls Station. The new appointee is a brother of the deceased Harry S. Cummings, the first Negro councilman ever elected by Baltimore voters. New York City is the most striking example in America of the worthlessness of an imaginary supremacy based upon Race, Creed, or Color. To take away from New York City its Angla-Saxan blueblood content, its Jews, its Germans its Italians or its Negroes would be but to eliminate an integral useful sector of the foundation of the greatest city in the world—a city which carries a uniform minimum of racial egotism. It is a wonderful truth that New York's Negro population has enjoyed, as Mayor Hylan says, "equal and exact justice, care and protection," for foreign to their humble lives in other "garden spots" of the U. S. A. Mayor Hylan's sentiments are by no means confined to himself, as there are hundreds of others who, in his shoes, would utter the same words of justice. And if they were not so disposed—well, the great multi-variant millions of people of New York, where bucks, ability, enterprises and thrift count for more than ancestry, would soon bring such a belligerent to his senses—for the masses, not the classes, are the ones who guide the destinies of the world's greatest cosmopolitan city—and these masses are absorbed in the pleasant duty of personifying Americanization of the same kind the U. S. Constitution prescribes as being good for Uncle Sam and his nephews and nieces. SPEND DAY IN DETROIT Mesdames Alberta Keeble, 535 E 42nd Pl. and Nina Keeble, 3156 Went- worth ave., with several relatives visited Detroit, Mich., where they spent an enjoyable day with relatives. KILLED BY BLAST Camp Grant, Ill.—Eight Colored soldiers of the 8th Illinois infantry, Chicago, including Capt. Osceola A. Browning, were instantly killed and 12 others injured last Monday when a Stokes trench mortar exploded on the Camp Grant drill grounds during firing practice. The dead are: Capt. Osceola A. M. CAPT. O. H. BROWNING (Pacific and Atlantic Photo) Browning, commanding howitzer company; Corporal Henry Williams, Private Ben Anderson, Private Delmes Campbell, Private Herbert Durant Private Charlie Wright, Private Todd Mosely and Private Elmo Baynes, all of Chicago. MEETING OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO By Mrs. Louise Bond Dudley The thirtieth annual session of the National Medical Association, composed of physicians, surgeons, dentists and pharmacists, was held here in Chicago Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 25, 26, 27, 28 at the Wendell Phillips High School The city was crowded with the visiting doctors and their families from all parts of the country. On Tuesday, the first day, the doctors were registered and held a joint session at Wendell Phillips in the morning, followed by a sectional session in the afternoon. The evening session was a public meeting held at Bethesda Baptist Church, 53rd street and Michigan avenue. Dr. U. G. Dailey, chairman of the program committee, was master of ceremonies. A splendid program was offered. Never did Bethesda, the beautiful church recently purchased by a group of our people, appear at a better advantage. The beautifully gowned ladies and immaculate gentlemen, including a galaxy of stars from the professional world, lent an added charm and dignity to the occasion. The program was opened with the anthem of the Professions, "The N. M. A. Forever," composed by Dr. W. D. Giles and played by the Allied Professions Orchestra. The Rev. E. T. Martin, Pastor of Bethesda, then offered the Invocation. An address of welcome, on behalf of the Local Professions, was given by Dr. Roscoe C. Giles, M. D., President of the Cook County Physicians Association. Hon. Louis B. Anderson, member of the City Council, gave the address of welcome on behalf of the city, followed by a vocal solo by Dr. E. N. Johnson of Chicago. Hon. Albert B. George, Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, then delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the citizens of Chicago, followed by a selection by the Allied Professions Orchestra. Three minute responses to the address of welcome on behalf of the Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Professions respectively were then made by Drs. John P. Turner, M. D., Phila- delphia, Pa.; E. T. Belsaw, D. D. S., Mobile, Ala., and W. H. Jackson, Phar. D., Washington, D. C. A vocal solo by Mme. Antoinette Garnes of Chicago, added greatly to the pleasure of the evening. After several announcements by Rev. Martin and the master of ceremonies the program was concluded with a Benediction by Rev. James of Philadelphia, Pa. Free clinics were held at Wendell Phillips High School, Provident and Wilson Hospitals from 8 to 10 A.M. followed by joint sessions, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. The Vincennes hotel was the scene of a grand reception for the ladies, Wednesday afternoon. In the evening a public health meeting was held at Wendell Phillips. Thursday afternoon an open Forum, The Problems and Program of the National Medical Association, was held at Wendell Phillips. Friday afternoon saw the installation of officers and adjournment. The National Medical Association met in Chicago in 1915 and great was the admiration of the visitors of 1925 at the miraculous development of Chicago in ten years; the almost unbelievable feats of engineering that have tended toward the health improvement of the city. Particularly did they enjoy Chicago's beautiful parks and drives. Chicago hopes that in ten years more still greater improvements will await those visitors, should she have the pleasure of again entertaining the National Medical Association of the Allied Professions. "CAN'T FIND NOBODY WHO SEEN 'EM LYNCH THAT MITCHELL BOY" IS WHAT THEY SAY IN THE "SHOW ME" STATE (Preston News Service) Liberty, Mo., Aug. 27—The Clay County grand jury investigation last week into the lynching August 7 of Walter Mitchell at Excelsior Springs, has failed so far to reveal the leaders of the 'mob. It appears that they "can't find nobody who seen 'em lynch that Mitchell boy." Some of the witnesses say that in the great excitement of the moment they saw the limb, the rope thrown over it and Mitchell attached to one end, but none were willing to say they could distinguish the mob leaders positively at the other end of the rope. It is said that Mitchell was hanged following his confession that he attempted to assault an "American white girl," after he had been dragged and beaten by members of a frenzied mob. INSANE MAN LEAPS FROM TRAIN AND ESCAPES (Preston News Service) Ravenna, O., August 28.—Search was continued here Thursday for William Norman, who leaped from an Erie passenger train said to have been running at 60 miles an hour, north of here Wednesday. Norman was being taken by guards from a Long Island hospital to a San Francisco sanitarium. No trace of the man had been found up to noon Friday. AMOS MOORE STARTS DIVORCE SUITE; MARRIES AGAIN, HELD FOR BIGAMY (Preston News Service) Austin, Tex., Aug. 27—When Amos Moore paid his attorney $25 to start divorce proceedings against an unwanted wife, he thought he had secured the final papers and married another girl, according to Sheriff Miller who arrested Moore on a charge of bigamy, Monday. Moore maintained that he was divorced from his first wife. He is said to have told the sheriff that he paid $25 for his divorce and that he had a perfect right to marry the other woman. But the sheriff informed him that he was aware of all the law in the case and would have to have a talk with the judge for full information about getting married. Moore posted bond for his appearance in court. GROVES THE POTATO KING IS DEAD Born in Kentucky—Helped Put Over Mollie Groves Scheme Kansas City—J. G. Groves, "Potato King of Kansas," died at Edwardsville, Kan., Monday. Born a slave, he died a rich man. He was born in Green county, Ky., in 1859. Came to Kansas in 1879 where he worked for 40 cents a day. When he died he owned a 523 acre farm and 1,600 acres of wheat land. He earned the title of "Potato King" by producing 72,150 bushels of white potatoes on 295 acres of land. J. G. Groves will be best remembered by Colored Louisville as the prime mover in Mollie Groves Mining Stock scheme. Some years ago he and a white man named Groves blew into Louisville on the wings of the morning. The white man wanted to help the Negro race by making a number of Negro millionaires, arguing that when the Negro gets money all other things like social and political equality would be added to him. By buying stock in the Mollie Groves Copper mines in a few years there would be a couple hundred Negro millionaires he said, then White America would lay down and roll over. He had discovered the mines and wanted to sell stock to Negroes so as to help them to be somebody. J. G. Groves always accompanied the White Groves before Colored audiences, after the white man had unfolded his philanthropic scheme, J. G. Groves, rough and graff, without collar or tie, would rise and denounce the scheme as the plans of a dreamer. He declared he had no philanthropic motives. He was out to make money by gum, and would rather just a few men like himself buy the mines and let the rest of the Negroes go hang. Between the two, Colored Louisville fell for the thing. Well known business men bought stock, poor old washwomen gave up their savings, homes were mortgaged and hundreds of Louisvillians dreamed of being millionaires. For years they were put off with the plea "we have got to buy a smelter," but no money came. Finally local people "smelt" a rat and gave up hope. So the Mollie Groves Mining Company died. The White Groves disappeared. Now J. G. Groves is dead. Perhaps Colored Louisville is sorry to learn that.—The News, Louisville, Ky. August 22. CHIPS Mrs. Washington, mother of Mrs. Charles Stewart, 4823 Calumet avenue, was the first part of this week conveyed to Provident Hospital where she will undergo an operation. Charles Stewart, Jr., 4823 Calumet avenue, has been spending the past week with friends at Monmouth, Ill. Attorney A. L. Williams, 184 Washington street, has been attending the sessions of the Imperial Council at Kansas City, Mo., the past week, and he greatly enjoyed his vacation trip to that city. Mrs. John W. Robinson, who for a long time resided in this city while her husband, Rev. J. W. Robinson, was Pastor of St. Mark M. E. Church, 50th and Wabash avenue, now of New York City, is visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wilkins, 4827 Calumet avenue. Mr. E. M. Cleaves, who is prominently connected with the coroner's office, is spending his vacation in visiting his relatives and friends at Arlington and Memphis, Tenn., and he was highly entertained in his old home town. DISCOVER NEW RACE OF DARK PEOPLE Prof. B. N. Gorodkoff, a Russian explorer, who has traversed Western Siberia, reports the discovery of a hitherto unknown Dark Race on the River Poora. The tribe calls itself "Neshen," which means "Forest Men." Their language is entirely different from that of any of the other nationalities populating Western Siberia. These people have dark hair and dark complexion. They have no intercourse with their neighbors and few of them engage in fishing and hunting beyond the borders of their own little country. If placed end to end, the freight cars required each year to transport fruit and vegetables consumed in the New York district would make a train over 2,000 miles long. The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax Will Ap pear Saturday, September 12, 1925. It Has Been Published in Chicago for Twenty-Six Years, Without Missing One Single Issue | 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. 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 LE- GAL FIRM OF THORNTON AND CHANCELLOR, AND HON. WIL- .LIAM R. FETZER, ONE OF THE MOST HONORABLE AND POPU- LAR 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, SEP- TEMBER 12. 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. Vinemaribes files LES ig OE Cimn Lak A man died in the apple district of New York who had spent nearly all of his ninety-two years in the manufac- ture of vinegar and he had contended for years that the secret of his lon- Sevity was the character of his work and it seems as if there might be Something in his contention, for’ al- host simultaneously there comes a Story from England where the ages of four employees aggregate 335 years. ‘The oldest of this group was nearly hinety and the youngest nearly sev- caty. The proprietor of this establish- ment sald he khew of another vinegar distillery where there were four gen- ‘Cations of one family at work. Came as a Variation A man took home a booklet on Be deranto and during a meal a guest re- suled the party with extracts pro- nounced according to the instructions supped. : At last there came a strange sound- ins word, evidently pronounced with reat difficulty. “Is that really Esperanto?” asked fe host, innocently. wciNa” was the reply; “that's Ssh Why “Z” Comes Last ‘The great ancestor of our letter “Z” wes a drawing representing a duck. Such it was in Egyptian picture writ- ing. The drawing was next modified to provide a symbol suitable for use in a running hand (the “hieratic” form), and later this form became, in the Phoenician and early Greek alpha- bets, crushed down and compacted un- til It became recognizably like its pres ent form With the Phoenicians, Z was the seventh letter of the alpha- bet, and so it remained in the Greek and early Latin alphabets, but it was @ropped from the Latin in the Third century B.C. Later, when the study ‘of Greek became fashionable among the Romans, Z was restored, but it had lost its place in the Roman alpha- bet and had to fall in at the tall of the procession, where it still remains, Standing Causes Strain Standing causes more strain on the arches of the feet than walking be cause there 1g no relief from weight- bearing in standing. Many persons can walk miles without tiring. bat suf- fer considerably if compeited to stand ina. street car or elevated coach for $0 minetes.—Hygela. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 29, 1925 BAILEY IN RICHMOND M. T. Bailey, pres, The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State st,, left the city. Saturday evening as chairman of The Transportation Committee of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, for Rich- mond, Va., to attend the grand lodge session of Elks, Aug 24th to 29th. RE-ELECTED Mrs. Georgia E. Harding, 3710 In- diana ave., was re-elected state grand princess of S.M.T. of Illinois and jur- isdiction at the session held in this city Aug. 18th to 21st, Rev. I, S. Stone was re-elected State Grand Master. The next meeting will be held at Cairo, Tit, August, 1926. EAST AFRICA YIELDS NEW DIAMOND GEMS. A true diamond pipe, the soft ag- glomerate of volcanic origin in which diamonds are found, has been discoy- ered at Mwanza, Tanganyika Terri- tory, by a party of South Africans, according to reports from East Africa. The diamonds are said to be excep- tionally pure, a pareel recently dis patched from Mwanza averaging a value of eight pounds sterling per karat. VIRGINIANS IN CITY Misses Emma Barnett and Anna Blue of Western, W. Va., employees of the Western State Hospital, West. ern, Va., are visitors in the city for two weeks and are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Poindexter, 3727 Elmwood ave. Many social cour- tesies are being given in their honor. ATTENDING GRAND LODGE Mrs, Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calu- met ave, and Mrs, Ella G. Berry, vice-daughter ruler of Elks, were among the hundreds of delegates who left the city last Saturday evening for Richmond, Va., to attend the grand lodge session of Elks. HOME FROM ENCAMPMENT Col. Roscoe C. Keeble, asst. Regi mental Quartermaster of K. of P. re- turned to the city Sunday morning from Louisville, Ky., where he had spent two weeks attending the bien- nial encampment and grand lodge ses- sion. z STOPS ENROUTE Enroute from Greenwood, Miss. Mrs. Mary Moore stopped in the city two hours with her sister-in-law, Mrs Bylphia Spencer, 3727 Elmwood. ave. last Saturday, to Detroit, Mich., where she is to spend sometime with her mother, THE QUESTIONNAIRE By Mrs. Louise Bond Dudley 1, What is the size of the largest ‘Maihdrops? sae 2 When and by whom was ether first used as an anaesthetic? Pe eee = 3. When and by whom was oxyger discovered? eee 4. What is the. process of distilla tion? eae ANSWERS 1, The largest ‘drops are nearly a quarter of an inch in diameter. eee 2 Ether was. first used as ~an anaesthetic in 1842 by Dr. Long -of the United States. wee 3. Oxygen was discovered by Priestly in 1774. sae 4. An operation by which a liquid is converted into vapor by heat, which vapor is condensed by cold:in 2 sep- arate vessel ss PARIS SENDS A HERALD OF AUTUMN COAT STYLE! ee Ss EDR REE 26 Ceee to res Nears and eye of the Parisienne, but, nevertheless, Paris sends word that fall coats are about to follow the lead of late summer gowns, and take on Some fullness. By means of plats, flounces, godets and intricate cut, out- lines have become more flowing and the silhouette has made many depar- tures from the straight line. This change is more marked in formal coats and dresses than in utility models, but it is apparent everywhere. In fact, It looks as if a revolution in styles is well started on its way, but Paris sends a modest herald, in the coat shown above, to break the news gently to us, In this particular model fullness is only intimated by « short panel of plaits set in across the front of the coat, but the side fastening Is de- ceiving and the garment wider than It looks, There are two noteworthy style points to be considered in this coat. besides the adroitly introduced full ness at the fromt—they are the in. genious way In which plaits have been MRS. REID IN CITY Mrs, Thomas H. Reid, wife of Atty. Reid of Portsmouth, Va., and their baby son, Thomas H. Jr., are in the city the guest of Mrs. Reid's father, R. W. Wells, 3710 Indiana ave., and friends. COLUMBIA BRIEFS A new beauty recipe is more soap and tess paint. “Fearthought” is defined as the self. suggestion of inferiority. We have 1,132 junk dealers, 22 of whom are females. Women will be interested in the news from France that curves are coming back. America’s fire loss in 1924 was ap- proximately $548,000,000,|or. $1,044 a minute. A thriving industry will be menaced when they begin towuse corn in the manufacture of % 7. There are 1,439 less colored farmers in Orangeburg County, S.~C., than there were five years ago. About 28 per of endowed colleges etsities is derived from railroad ‘stocks and bonds. p ‘The average daily wage of the 150,- used to muke a scroli-like trimming and the management of fur In collar and cuffs. Paris is putting fur on coats In devious ways—very often in patches, Here part of the collar and a portion of the cuffs are of fur and the remainder of the material used for the coat—which in this instance is a dark brown, heavy, crepe-satin. Wool velours and velours de laine are fea- tured prominently in autumn coats, duvetyn and similar cloths are popu- lar, while the heavy crepe weaves in silk seem to be almost unrivaled. In colors, navy blue, olive green, brown shades and black are in the lead, but gray has considerable representation and other colors are promising. Short- haired furs, ayed to match, are among the new style points under discussion and short fur scarfs, attached to the conts, in Hew of a collar, are likely to become ¢mportant in the new modes. Rox plaits and fur godets for the pur- pose of introducing a flare in skirts, can hardly miss scoring a success tn coats of the dressy txpe. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, (@. 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) 000 employes in the Ford plants in the United States was $6.24 in 1924, The largest institution of learning in the world owned and ‘controlled by Negroes is said to be Morris Brown University, located in Atlanta, Ga, ‘The Mosaic Templars recently pur- chased from the heirs of J. E. Bush the founder of the order, the copy- right of the ritual for $150.000. Contrary to the general belief in Harlem, it was neither Robert S. Ab- bott, Edward H. Wright, nor Oscar De Priest, but an eminent Harvard scientist who recently expressed the opinion that in thirty years no one but the very rich and the very poor will be able to live in New York City. View of Friendship T have never given much encourage- ment to friendship; I have-done little for my friends, «and they have done little for me. One of the ideas which [ have so often to cope with is that friendship, as it Is generally under: stood, is ap injustice and a blunder, which only allows you to distinguish the good qualities of a single person and blinds you to thoxe of others who aire periaps more deserving of your <sunyathy.—Ernest. Renan. Power of Vibration _ Theoretically it might be possible to play a violin until a certain note would make a vibration that would cause a structure to collapse. Actually, such an experiment has never been made. Some authorities, however, are of the opinion that the walls of Jericho col- lapsed as a result of vibration caused by the constant blowing of the horns. Blind People’s Sense - of Touch Gets Tired Touch the second sense the blind turn to (after hearing), has beem per- haps most in the spotlight, but at the same time easily the most overrated of all the senses they utilize. First of all, it has a fatigue factor second only to smell, as tactile reading, its most conspicuous application, demonstrates. Apparently, it should be as easy to read lines of embossed characters with the finger tip as it is lines of printed characters with the eye, once the al phabet is mastered, But it is not. Touch simply tires out. In my own case (and I have been reading by touch 18 years), says Charles MaGee Adams in the Atlanti Monthly, two hours Is the extreme Minit for continuous reading and long ‘before that the end organs are so irri ‘tated and there is such a general rest- -lessness that it Is most difficult to pro- c3ced. The general usefulness of touch fs also Limited by the fact that it is a ‘motor sense; by which I mean that ‘the fingers must be moved over the “surface of an object, instead of mere- ly brought in contact with it, if an im pression is to result. Many of the Seeing show they are not aware of this when they simply place the hand of a ‘blind person on an object. Reach, too, sets sharply defined bounds to touch’s perspective, often re ‘sulting in a warped or fragmentars “concept of an object, as Kipling’s story of the six blind men and the elephant “aptly illustrates. It 1s quite Inprac ‘teable to touch many objects such as moving machinery, hot metal or live “wires, at all—which restriets the use fulness of the sense still further. Temporary Guests Had Got Busy With Labels Young Mrs. X is a very fine house- keeper. Everything in her little apart: ment is immaculate, It was with some misgivings, therefore, that on going away for a couple of weeks with her ‘husband she turned over the apartment to her rollicking young brother and a ‘bachelor friend. She was particularly ‘proud of her bathroom, which had re- ‘cently been done over, and as a hint ‘to the boys she hung a plece of Turk- Ish toweling on the door with a tag ‘attached which read: “This cloth ts ‘to be used for washing out the tub after you bathe.” Directly on returning home she made & tour of inspection, and here is what she found: Hanging on the bed in ‘the guest chamber a card reading: “Life is what we make It. So is a bed. Please make this one.” “Above the washbowl in the bath- room: “This fowl is not for drinking purposes. You wash in it.” In glaring print over the tub: “This is a tub—to be used with water.” Pinned on the bath gloves: “These are not for street wear.” On a tag tied to the nallbrush: “Be- ware! This is not a toothbrush.” On @ dish towel in the kitchen: “This is not a bath towel. Make no mistake in its use.” ‘Over the washtubs: “This is not a patent bed. Don’t try to sleep here.” —Boston Transcript. | | Danger as Years Pass As the years go by we are all more or less subject to two dangers, the danger of petrification and the danger of putrefaction; either that we shall become hard and callous, crusted over with customs and convention till no new ray of light or of joy can reach us, or that we shall become lax and disorganized, losing our grip upon the real and vital sources of happiness and power, writes John Burroughs. Now there is no preservative and an- tiseptic, nothing keeps one’s heart young, like love, like sympathy, lke giving one’s self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause. Who Knows? It was in a restaurant. The anxious walter was hovering round the opu- lent-looking and benevolent diner. “Do you believe that history re- eats itself, sir?” he asked anxiously. “I certainly do.” replied the cus- tomer as he rose from the table and put down the napkin he had been using. ‘The waiter’s face lost something of that anxious look, “Well,” he sald, “a gentleman who was here yesterday gave me $1 for a “Oh, well,” replied the patron, Lut- toning up his coat to leave, “perhaps he will’be in again today."—London ‘Anewers. Many Famous Alumni Christ Church college, Oxford, In it 400 years has contributed tts share’ of Mustrious names to hfstory, American a8 well as English. William Penn was © student of the house until he was sent down for his religion, as was George Grenvilie, whose stump act led to the Revolution and the toss of the American colonies. Tin Can Has Helped ‘Mahe Ameren Canal ‘The epic of the tin can! Our skill ip producing tin plate has developed out ef our ability to supply the world with American tin cans. Cans for kerosene, tinned beef, salmon, California fruits, ‘Hawaitan pineapple, Maryland toma- toes. We lead the world in the production of canned foods; first, because we have the raw fruits; second, because we are proof against old-world prejudices to tinned foods; third, because time grows more valuable as we travel from east to west, is the assertion of a writer in The Nation's Business. Time means nothing to the oriental, and the typleal German hausfrau spends a good part of the day in the kitchen over her pots and pans. The ability to {mpro- vise a meal out of tinned foods ap- swers to the demand for short cuts in our swift-moving, complex western fe. ‘The era of abbreviation! “Slow,” as our forefathers knew the term, Is not only ont of fashion, but we shorten the word itself by 25 per cent. As to the tin can, be it known that tin plate is nothing more than paper-thin sheet iron which our steel companies turn out by the thousands of square feet. ‘These sheets are given a bath in molt- en tin and are thus presented to the _world under the bright and shining as- [pect of tin plate, In casting about for a container for preserved and con- ‘centrated foods the world was smart enough to discover that tin does not tarnish in the air and is proof against (meat, fruit and vegetable acids. Pearls in Abundance in Scottish Streams It is not commonly known that the Scotch River Tay and its tributaries provide a rich harvest of pearls which are sold up to high as $50 each. Any- one can go pearlfishing in the Tay, and all have equal chances. The pro- fessional peari-fisher has a box-shaped boat in which he floats downwards with the stream, and armed with his simple lens—a piece of glass substi- tuted for the original bottom of a tin ‘can—which when immersed, enables ‘him to see clearly through the surface agitations to the pebbly bottom, and a long stick with a V-shaped notch at the end, grabs all the shells he sees as he lazily drifts past, and at the end of a day his spoil is by no means small. But the amateur dispenses with all encumbrances except the notched stick. With it he simply wades into the shallows and gathers in all the shells he sees within reach. The shells are of various sizes from an inch up to six inches in length, and only one in perhaps ten contains a pearl of value, although many may carry freak pearls, black or deformed ones, which may be quite saleable. A ready mar- ket for the pearis obtained is at the nearest jeweler’s shop, but the profes- sional pearler prefers to deal private- ly and directly with the tourists who frequent this district, and who prob- ably thus become possessors of a pearl at a fraction of its real commercial value. Birds’ Sense of Duty Helped Out Sportsman A fresh variant of an old yarn which may be famillar to sportsmen crops up In an Irish correspondent’s letter to the London Field in the following form: “One of our party amuses us with 4 tall story, classical In the distriet, viz, how he was coming up to shoot on ‘the moor one morning in winter, all by himself, and saw sitting on the wall a grouse, Now, as has been ob- served, he'was all alone, no witnesses, shooting for the pot and game was scarce. Therefore, contrary to all rules of sportsmanship, he fired at the sitting bird, but when the smoke of his black-powder cartridge had cleared away, there the grouse still was, sit- ting on the wall, So he fired at it again, same result; he expended 12 cartridges, still the bird remained on the wall. ‘Well’ be says, turning to us, ‘I thought the bird was bewitched; 80 I walked up to It, and it flew away, and I went on quite bewildered and, would you believe it, on the further side of the wall I picked up 12 dead grouse. You see, there were 13 in the covey sheltering under the wall, and the one I first fired on was the sentry on the lookout for danger, and when he fell the next took Ms’ place, and 60 on." ee eS Aristotle once observed that tt sa mark of an instructed mind to test satisfied with that degree of precision which the nature of the subjert ad: mits, and not to seek for exactness where only an approximation of the truth fs possible. 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They can be obtained at all drugstores, only 25¢ each, or will be sent, postpaid, upon receipt of price. Send your name today and get our valuable book of beauty helps, and liberal advice. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Writes For Particulars Odd Christmas Custom On Christmas eve in South Slavonia barren fruit trees have a bad time, for a peasant threateningly swings an ax against them, and only on the thrice-repeated entreaty of a neighbor standing by does he at last consent to spare the tree. The Test A writer declared recently that a musician should understand botany, geology and astronomy. It would be hard on some musicians, however, if audiences understood something about music—Louisville Courier-Journal. Costly Doll's House The late ex-Empress Engenie of France once gave her godchild, the present queen of Spain, an exact model of the famous Tulleries, in Paris, for a doll's house. It cost $7,500 to build it. WILLIE UNL A. E. JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J. E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.G.M. Bookkeeper Embalmers Apprentice No.194 Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN "TheWilliamsonFuneral" is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars Nanking Once Populous Nanking, the "southern capital" of China, was founded by the first emperor of the Ming dynasty, who came to the throne in 1368. It was built on the site of a city known to be two thousand years old. At one time Nanking was said to have a population of 4,000,000. The Tai Ping rebels stormed the city in 1853 and swept away its magnificent buildings, including the famous porcelain pagoda. No Infidel Hands Infidel hands had little to do with the building of the Mohammedan mosque in Paris, for workmen were brought there from Mohammedan countries, but the Moorish wood carvers sent from Morocco to finish the woodwork used electric tools in their work. Cleaning Aluminum Discoloration on aluminum may be rubbed off with whiting or fine steel wool (grade 00). It may also be dissolved by the acid of vinegar or by dilute oxalic acid. These acids should be thoroughly washed off the aluminum after being used. Home Collection During a recent rainy Sunday a devout member of the Motor club, who was attending church over his radio, inadvertently leaned forward and dropped a coin in his hat when the minister broadcast "Let Your Light So Shine." The Road. Fig Blooms A fig bush and a fig tree do bloom, but the blossoms cannot be seen without cutting into the fig. It is probably for this reason that some people have the impression that they do not bloom. Gibraltar of Scotland The celebrated castle of the busy seaport of Dumbarton, about thirteen miles northwest of Glasgow, is called the Gibraltar of Scotland. It is a fortified medieval structure which overhangs and commands the River Clyde. Primitive Food Hunters Human races that still have to hunt their food are the Bushmen of Africa, the Pygmies of the Congo region, the Eskimos in the Far North, and tribes in the Malayan forests. Beef Eaters Englishmen continue to earn the name of "beef eaters" for Great Britain is the largest consumer of the surplus meat production of the world. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 29, 1925 These Sadder Days On the whole, these are much sadder ages than the early ones; not sadder in a noble way—the way of ennul, and jaded intellect, and uncomfortableness of soul and body. Not that we are without festivity, but festivity more or less forced, mistaken, embittered, incomplete, not of the heart. And the profoundest reason of this darkness of heart is, I believe, our want of faith.—Ruskin. Ancient Money "Ring money" was used by the Egyptians. The rings of precious metals were circular, but a slight gap was left, that the rings could be formed into a chain. This substitute for money found its way to western Europe and the British isles. Michelangelo of France Martin Fremetin, court painter during the reign of Henry IV, of France is known as "the French Michelangelo." Fremetin painted the decorations in the royal palace of the palace of Fontainebleau. He died in 1619. Pioneer for Arbor Day Nebraska was the pioneer state in the Arbor day movement. New York took up the idea on April 30, 1888, and set apart the Friday following the first day of May for the planting of trees. Pumps Air Into Humans A new British invention, intended as a means of resting the diseased lung of a tuberculosis patient, is a machine which pumps air into the thoracic cavity by way of a hollow needle Inserted between the patient's ribs. Frost Penetration Frost penetrates to different depths below grade, depending upon the climate of a place. The lowest point reached in a severe winter is considered the "frost level." Salt Is Appreciated In Chittagong, India, where salt is a monopoly of the state, two beggar women recently were convicted and sentenced to one day's imprisonment for preparing a handful of salt from sea water for domestic use. Country's Forest Area The present area of forest land in the United States is approximately 469,500,000 acres, consisting of 138,100,000 acres of virgin forest and 331,400,000 acres of outdoor and burned-over forest. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government Supervision 31st and South State Streets Telephone Victor One Editor's View Somehow or other we can't understand why it has been the desire of most of the scientific men for the past 1900 years to discover that old North pole. As we get if we imagine it would not be a very swell place to live in and unless a fellow was "bugs" to go somewhere we imagine that he would have just as much fun at the equator anyway.—Osborn Enterprise. Derivation of "Mary" Authorities have found that the name "Mary," so frequently used in the Bible, does not carry with it the connotation of bitterness, as had been supposed for so long. It comes from moria, the sage or salvia of Palestine, a flower of pleasant fragrance. Mount Morlain was named for it—and later it was contracted into Mary. The Rock of Ages The lowest rock in the earth's crust is granite—called, for this reason, the mother-rock. It is also the least-revealing, since it shows no evidence of animal or vegetable life. In thickness it is from two to ten times that of all the other rocks combined. A hard "mother"-but, like all motherhood, enduring! Open Mental Windows Mental Windows When the queen of Sheba asked Solomon to determine the natural and artificial flowers she gave him, he opened the windows to let in the light. would be less ignorance, superstition, and prejudice in this world if people would open their mental windows.—Grit. Reasonable Jud Tunkins says foolishness gets the quickest results. Any idiot can throw orange skins on the sidewalk, but it takes an ambulance driver and a doctor and a trained nurse to fix up a sprained ankle.—Washington Star. Losing Standing "Sedentary work," said the college lecturer, "tends to lessen the endurance." "In other words," butted in the smart student, "the more one sits the less one can stand." "Exactly," retorted the lecturer; "and if one lies a great deal, one's standing is lost completely."—Christian Guardian. Cause of Heat Lightning Cause of Heat Lightning Heat lightning is more or less vivid and extensive flashes of electric light, without thunder, seen near the horizon, especially at the close of a hot day. It is ascribed to far-off lightning flashes reflected from the higher strata of clouds. Peruvian Irrigation A project in Peru will have 120,000 acres irrigated by waters of several rivers, some passing through a nine-mile tunnel constructed for the purpose. The Mercenary One Cupid is satisfied with love; it is cupidity that tries to get allmony.—Boston Transcript. Rain Benefits Linen Belfast, Ireland, has a climate which is ideally fitted for the growth of flax and its manufacture. As a consequence it has become the world's center of the linen trade. Out of the year there are about 230 rainy days in that section. Phones: Office Main 4153; Residences, 4751 Champain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Phone Main 2017 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 3655 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 9133 W.G.Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. Office Phones: Dearborn 7094-7098 Rea. 3354 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6045 Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. 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