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SOCIETY NEWS PUB LISHED FREE Vol. XXXI. Mr. Sandy W. Trice Chairman of the Tra Committee, Imper Mr. Sandy W. Trice Becomes the Chairman of the Transportation Committee, Imperial Council --- Vol. XXXI. HON. JOHN G. DRENNAN AND MR. C. B. MUNYAN SOUND THE PRAISES OF MR. SANDY W. TRICE The following letters speak for themselves. Illinois Central Railroad Company 135 E. 11th Place, Chicago LAW DEPARTMENT J. G. Drennan, General Attorney Chicago, Ill., Sept. 5, 1925. Mr. Sandy W. Trice, Chairman, Transportation Committee, Imperial Council, A.E.A.O.N.M.S. & Daughters of Isis. My dear Sandy: It is with a great deal of pleasure that I have learned of your appointment to position of Chairman of Transportation Committee of your organization. I do not believe that your organization could have made a wiser selection and I know that they will benefit from your counsel and excellent judgment. I say this in all sincerity, because from our many conferences in past, have always admired your attention to details and I know that your or- MR. FRED A. BOSWORTH Assistant Superintendent of Delivery at the main postoffice, Chicago, and there is not the least doubt about him being able to discharge all the responsible duties in connection with that office. MR. FRED A. BOSWORTH We have been requested by a number of the best citizens regardless of party to again acquaint the public of a character that the Englewood district is more than proud. When Fred A. Bosworth was promoted to the position of Assistant Superintendent of Delivery at the Main Office, gossip traveled through the building and here and there you could hear those under him discussing what manner of man he was and what he would do to advance conditions that would better subserve the welfare of the men under him, but broader than that he thought of the men of every department. He thought of the depths from which he had come himself and he reasoned out that I am yet but a man fortunate enough to be placed in the position over his fellow men and that he was not there as boss, but there for the purpose of making the department a human chain and by its united links pulling together, the burden would be lifted and made easier. Thus he went about unassumingly and he stood in line with the clerks and carriers and had his lunch served. He sat in the arm chair like the burden carrier of the government, the man who carries from ten to a hundred and fifty pounds of mail and the clerk who has an eye like an eagle stands for eight hours duration throwing the sealed mes- THE BROAD AX Price Becomes the Transportation Imperial Council organization is going to get the best service from the new Chairman. I wish to extend my hearty congratulations on your appointment and hope you will not hesitate to call upon me for assistance at any time. With kind personal regards, I am, Yours sincerely, (Signed) —C. B. Munyan. Assistant General Passenger Agent, C. C. C. and St. L. R. R., the Big Four. Chicago, Ill., Sept. 7, 1925. Mr. Sandy W. Trice, Chairman, Transportation Committee, Imperial Council, A.E.A.O.N.M.S. & Daughters of Isis. My dear Trice: I note with pleasure your appointment to the position of Chairman of the Transportation Committee of your organization, and take pleasure in congratulating you upon this position of honor and trust. No one is better qualified to fill it than you. Therefore, make the position a success, and fulfill the predictions of your friends. With kindest regards and best wishes, Your friend, (Signed) John G. Drennan, General Atty., Ill. Cent. R. R. sages that carry information of various character to every quarter of the globe. He watched their movements; he gave to them his best advice; he let them understand that while he was the Assistant Superintendent of Delivery and held a position carrying more pay, that he was yet a man and had the interest of them and their families at heart. He told those with whom he talked, that he had come from the ranks, would always remember the struggles that he had had and it would be his dutoy to them and their families, whenever the opportunity presented itself, to explain to the powers that be with force and earnestness in the fullest detail, the reasons for better ventilation as it would prolong the lives and give greater cheer to the struggling clerk and carrier, and in turn all that he asked was that the force of men unite to meet the requirements of law of the department. The loss to the people of Englewood of Mr. Bosworth as Superintendent of their station has been a mighty gain for the department in general and those who were instrumental in his promotion are wearing the smile that they hope tomorrow will permit them to tell the story that is written down deep in the innermost recesses of their souls. PROSPERITY CLOSES POORHOUSES Washington, D. C.-The county poorhouse may soon be a thing of the past. A survey made by the U. S. Department of Labor discloses that there are still more than 2,200 poorhouses in the United States, but that in some of them only one inmate is being provided for. THE TANNS IN CITY Mr. and Mrs. James Tann of Lansing, Mich., motored to the city during the week on business and afterwards spent some time with relatives and friends stopping at 3736 Giles Ave. LEAVES FOR ST. LOUIS Prof. R. H. Cole of The Simmons School, St. Louis, Mo., after spending some time in the city at the close of the doctors' convention, has returned to his duties at the school. While here Prof. Cole was a guest of Atty. and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4751 Champlain Ave., a part of his stay. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 Head of the Red Caps, whose members are all wide awake all the time, and they are well known to all the patrons who frequent the Twelfth Street Station of the Illinois Central Railroad. MARIAN ANDERSON IS GIVEN TREMENDOUS OVATION AS 7000 PACK N. Y. STADIUM New York, N. Y.—Marian Anderson, the youngest Colored singer of Philadelphia, received a tremendous ovation from an audience said to number 7,500, when she appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lewisohn Stadium last Wednesday evening. It was one of the greatest tributes that has ever been paid any singer in the country, and the audience which was the third largest of the season, attested to the drawing powers of Miss Anderson as a singer, and the place that she has already made in the hearts of the American public. Miss Anderson appeared as one of the eight young American artists chosen by the Audition Committee, to appear this season at the Stadium with the N. Y. Philharmonic Orchestra, and was the first colored singer to get this distinction. She was chosen from among 300 applicants, who appeared before some of the most distinguished music critics and judges of the country. Miss Anderson appeared to distinct advantage for what was doubtless the most supreme test of her career. No singer has ever faced a more variegated audience, nor more completely captivated it, than this singer. Her voice, which has been well placed and cultivated, with beautiful tonal qualities, rang out like a bell in the clear sky, as her notes floated out over the big stadium. She could hear one in the remote section of the stadium leading in the applause, which told that her voice had carried to the farthest parts. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Willem Van Hoggstraten, gave Miss Anderson fine and sympathetic support and aided her in every way to meet this exacting test. She sang as her opening number with the orchestra an Aria "O, Mio Fernando" from La Favorita. This number was well suited to her voice, and at its conclusion she was accorded a cordial reception. She responded with several encores. In her second appearance she offered two spirituals entitled Deep River and Heaven from Burleight, and a sentimental ballad a Song of the Heart by Johnson. The spirituals were finely received by the audience, and shows the grip that the Negro spirituals have upon the American public. She was assisted in these numbers by William King. The appearance of Miss Anderson at the Stadium should be a lesson to all struggling young artists seeking a place as concert artists. Less than ten years ago Miss Anderson was barely known in America, but last Wednesday evening she faced an audience of 7,000, which gave her a tribute few singers have received. She has won this place by close application to MR. SANDY TRICE her studies and hard work, and should be an incentive to other students. From that audience at the Stadium, I felt that after all the great American public believes in fair play, and is willing to accord honors when they have been won. It shows further that colored artists don't have to go to Europe to gain recognition and distinction. Marian Anderson should be an object lesson. N. E. R. LEAGUE TO MEET IN BALTIMORE October 7th-9th Announced as Dates for 18th Annual Meeting by Press. Sinclair—National Mass Race Convention Against Segregation. Boston, Mass.—Following close upon its appeal to the race to publicly observe September 22nd in the new spirit of the anniversary of the day the U. S. began Emancipation to save itself, that it might use colored soldiers against white soldiers, an admission of our innate equality though enslaved by which we did save the Republic from the South, the National Equal Rights League, Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, president, today announced that its 18th annual meeting will be held at the Trinity Baptist Church, Druid Hill Ave. and McMechen Streets, Baltimore, Rev. Dr. Luke G. Reynolds, pastor, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Oct. 7-9, 1925. The League urges the race to begin the providing of delegates for Baltimore at the Emancipation-to-save-the-Republic day local meeting held Sept. 22nd, and at meetings the two following weeks. This year's annual meeting of this the oldest of present civil-rights organizations, which has labored steadily for 17 years against race deprivations, is announced as an open National Race Mass Convention for racial and civic equality devoid of segregation, federal life, protection and political freedom. All race-loyal citizens in agreement with these principles and believing in racial initiative, leadership and self-reliance as one form of effort for rights, are invited to attend. All racial bodies are invited to send delegates, with special recommendation that local mass meetings or conventions be arranged by citizens committees or Equal Rights Committees, as well as by present or newly organized branch leagues, to provide delegates. The League's call declares that a getting-together of colored Americans as such in mind and spirit is vitally needed to face the strength of race oppression and lack of relief by the government a year after a presidential campaign where all factions complained of federal segregation and other wrongs. The League plans for positive relief action as the paramount object. Full particulars of the convention will be given by the National Corresponding Secretary, W. Munroe Trotter, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass CITY FEDERATION MEETS The City Federation of Clubs of which Mrs. Carrie Horton is president, held a great meeting at St. Mark M. E. Church on Monday, Sept. 14th, at which time reports from the local clubs, the State Federation of Women Clubs and The Northwestern Federation of Clubs were read and all reports showed that much work and good was being accomplished. Resolutions were authorized to be sent to the Russian Government and to the widow of the late Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson. Among the visitors present and who spoke to the club were a representative from the Chicago Whip, who talked of an insurance proposition which was being sponsored by the Whip; M. T. Bailey, of The Bailey Realty Company, who spoke on Morgan Park, 93rd St., and other subdivisions. Among the new officers elected were Mrs. Nannie Reed, president. Mrs. Reed had served as an efficient corresponding secretary. Mrs. Lula Heath, secretary; Mrs. Helen Brascher, corresponding secretary; Mrs. M. Gainor, treasurer; Mrs. Fannie Baxter, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Mrs. G. Morton, organizer; Mrs. Joanna Snowden Porter, parliamentarian and Mrs. Clara McAdams, chairman of the Executive Board. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, editress. THE PASSING OF PROF. JOHN W. WORK Agora Club Resolution Upon the Passing of Professor John W. Work Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1925. We, the members of the Agora Club, record with bowed heads and saddened hearts the passing to the Eternal Kingdom of God, on September 7th, 1925, of Professor John W. Work, our founder and first president. We recognize in his going the loss to the world of a ripe scholar, an artist musician, an author, an able executive, a true friend, a fearless champion of the right. Our own club, founded by him and dedicated to the help and to the defence of the less fortunate, is a living attestation to his unselfish and altruistic spirit. Placing our hands in the hand of the Father of Lights with whom there is no variation, it is our unfaltering purpose to hold high the example and principles which he has so wisely and nobly left us. Be it resolved that we make known to the world, our large appreciation of what his life has meant by sending a copy of the foregoing to his immediate family and by furnishing copies to the press for publication. Agora Club Committee on Resolution—T. W. Talley, Chairman, R. S. White, T. R. Davis. Mrs. Norene Davis of Kansas City, Kansas, has for the past week been visiting Mrs. Charles Stewart, 4823 Calumet Ave. THIS WEEK By Ernest Rice McKinney (Preston News Service) The address of Mr. Charles Evans Hughes before the American Bar Association was a magnificent statement of the fundamental principles of tolerance. This speech sounded like the old time Hughes before the days when he was Secretary of State. Mr. Hughes did not discuss evolution but he did talk about the recent Scopes trial and the law leading up to it. This is what he said: "To control curricula in our public schools and State universities in the interest of a reasonable arrangement of courses of study in order to aid the acquisition of knowledge is one thing; to attempt to control public instruction in the interest of any religious creed or dogma is quite another." Mr. Hughes is only saying here, that, although the State has a right to control its educational system, it has no right to so perpetuate that system, that it is simply the manifestation of the personal religious opinions of one man or a group of men. The whole question in the matter of law-making—particularly law-making that concerns the schools—is the question as to whether or not the private opinions of any group, creed, or sect should become the official law by which schools are to be administered and instruction imparted. Has there ever been, is there now or shall there ever be any group wise enough to say just how much liberty shall be given a teacher in the matter as to what he shall teach? It is not a question of conservatism or radicalism. To make radicalism official would be just as great an evil as to make conservatism official. To say that Darwinism must be taught to the exclusion of the opinions of the writer of Genesis would be just as wrong as to say that the opinions of the author of Genesis should be taught and Darwinism wholly excluded. MR. EUGENE DEVINE The new Superintendent of the Englewood Station of the Chicago Postoffice, and he is the right man in the right place. MR. EUGENE DEVINE The subject of this sketch was born just after the first Chicago Fire and grew up to know the needs of Chicago's advancement in every character of life. Educated in the public schools of Chicago. He began his service in what is in fact the most important part of the government. He began as a substitute carrier at the old Armour station in 1894, and was a carrier from that station for a period of ten years, after which he was transferred to the main post office as a clerk. For his diligence to service he was promoted to foreman at the Pullman station. So well was he acquainted with the duties of the office that he was transferred to the important station at 51st street, then was promoted as Assistant Superintendent at Stock Yards Station. So well were his duties performed there that when the vacancy occurred at 51st street station his marks of competency outranked his many competitors and he was made Superintendent of said station. Opportunity again presented itself for the promotion of some one to succeed Fred A. Bosworth of the Englewood station who was promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Delivery at the main office. The department at SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX The child's mind is not an empty barrel to be filled with the personal opinions of its teacher, its pastor, its parent or its employer. The child is to be led and guided to the intelligent forming of its own opinions. To produce the right kind of an adult the child must be given wide latitude in this matter of actual independent personal thinking, under the guidance of parents and teachers who are competent to do such leading. No one is competent to lead a child, or anyone else for that matter, who is not tolerant enough to feel that there may be other interpretations of a particular question than that held by the person doing the leading. The typewriter on which I write is the result of the research and experimentation of many men. If the manufacturer would refuse to accept the opinions of other men on ways and means to improve his machine he would be put out of business by other manufacturers, who were not so intolerant and anxious to impose their personal opinions on all users of typewriters. No legislator would ever dream of saying that there should be a law to compel the making of only one kind of typewriter. Money and profits are involved there. But the same lawmaker is ever ready to place even more serious obstructions in the way of the acquirement of knowledge. And the typewriter manufacturer — who wants freedom to run his business as he sees fit—is ever-ready to back up the legislator in the strangling of the schools, in the suppression of the freedom of speech and assembly and in economic intolerance. Mr. Hughes makes one other telling point when he says in effect that the people do not receive as much benefit from governments as they do from the schools. This is true because in large measure governments are restrictive while the schools, at least, are supposed to be the one place where there is the greatest of all freedom, THE FREEDOM OF THE MIND Washington again surveyed the credit marks of the men in the service who were eligible and competent to become the superintendent of the all important Englewood station and again the service marks and felty for service fell to the lot of Eugene Devine. Men of this character warrant the special attention of the Postmaster General and when promotions for higher service are open they should be given a fair and a just opportunity to step a round higher in the ladder of the service in this department. It is said by the business men of Englewood who have had the opportunity to confer with Mr. Devine in matters with relations to the postal service in Englewood that they are unanimous in saying that he will make a worthy successor to Mr. Bosworth and a credit to the department in general He is as fully acquainted with the P. R. & L., and if the opportunity comes we present him as being eligible and capable of a promotion in accordance with his years of service and stick-to-it-ive-ness duty. It will be well for the powers who control promotion to place his name at the head of the calendar and the people in the various station districts that he has served will be grateful for any advancement that might be given. He is known by his friends as "Eugene Devine, man of his word," who at every point has proved absolutely reliable. RED CAPS' CLUB NEWS The regular meeting of the Red Caps' Literary Club will be held on Sunday, Oct. 4th, at 3:30 P. M. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax, will deliver an address on "The Power of the Press." He will be introduced by Mr. George T. Kersey. We invite all of our friends to be present. —Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Mr. Sandy W. Trice, after a two weeks' stay at Idlewild, at his summer home, will return to the city on Saturday, Sept. 19. Mr. Trice is chief usher at the Illinois Central station and a trustee of the Metropolitan Community Center, the People's Church. Mrs. Trice will remain at Idlewild until October. tend since July 15th 1899, : ‘missing ome single issue. Re- sublicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- testants, Single Taxers, Priests, ini- ‘dels or anyone else can have their say ‘ss 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 ite own thind. Tt is neither Demo- eratic nor Republican. It is strictly ‘or absolutely independent in polities Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in ad- vance. One Year .ec.cscceeceeo2+ $200 Six Months ....2+..0..2+.+-5-$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application, ‘Address all communications to 3 THE BROAD AX 6206S. Elizabeth St, Chicago. Phone: Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR , Editor and Publisher ee Vol. XXXI No. 1 Chicago, September 19, 1925 ee Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago. Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. Se COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES” By; The Cameraman (Preston News Service) 4. The Schooi Bell Rings. 2. Negroes and Strikes. * 3. Camp Meetin’s Over. 4. Kweer Kapers. ‘These September morns are wit- nessing the annual event of the open- ing of school. More Negro children, middlers, grown-ups and elderly folks will cross’ some class room door sill ‘during the twenty-four hour day of the 1925-26 school period than ever be- fore. This prophecy applies to en- trants all the way from the little red school house on the hill to the great ‘universities of the world. Just yester- day a Negro physician, whom we in- terviewed, had abandoned his prac- tice in South Carolina and was en- route to the University of Edinburgh where he will study intricate’ surgery for several years. His place in South Carolina will be rapidly filled b¥ some youthful graduate of Howard, Me- harry, or some outstanding northern university. And as John P. Davis, the Bates College orator, returns from his European triumphs as a. debator, dozens of other youth with latent tal- ent will begin the slow course of “preparation for the battle of brains a decade hence, which will doubtless un- fold even a greater proportion of Ne- gro scholars ‘fit for world recognition. What should the interracial transi- tion from ignorance to knowledge ‘mean to the world at large and to the ‘Negro group entity? To. the former it should mean that this dark tenth content will not, cannot permanetly be denied a man's place in Art, Sci- ence, History, Music, and Religion, ‘aswell as in the trades and indus- fries. A President of the United States once said of a down-trodden group: “These people have by force and ability pushed their heads and ‘shoulders through the tough top crust; and I will mot be a party to amy movement to keep them down or make their way more difficult. Let ‘them rise!” @ To the Negro, the past decade’s demonstrations of educational effici- ‘ency mean confidence, self-reliance, independence, and the ultimate eman- ‘eipation from bigotry. They mean ‘@ greater sympathy for the weak- nesses” of the contra-group, and a stronger determination to help that group purge itself of the alloy of race hatred. The school bell is ringing for the ambitious Negro all the way “from the humble trade school to the ‘operating room where a Caesarian section is being performed. And while this harbinger of Knowledge is silent for the Negro at West Point and An- napolis, the other “schools are_grind- “ing out graduates who are swelling ‘the mighty ranks whose numbers are ‘pledged to the pleasurable duty of -throwing off ballast and making “acclaimed as one of the chief corner- Strikes seldom do anyone much good, and where Negroes are involv- ‘ed, that group sually suffers the greatest “hardships of the vexatious turmoil between Capital and Labor. ‘This fatter trath is due to the fact that Negro labor has only its head - ee | d THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday und is co r braised both ‘within, and without, When the west- em Kentucky coal strike was de- clared, more than a year ago, Negro union miners, although in a mixed local, were the first to meet with dif- ficulties and the last to emerge there- from, 3 ‘When colored girls were smilingly ‘employed during the war by Chicago ‘manufacturers, they were harshly dismissed the very instant white girls wete available, Chester, Pa, and East St. Louis, ML, are still fresh in the minds of Negroes who remember the spectacle ©f their labor group at those points during the terrible ‘cohtroversies. be- tween Capital and Labor. Future or- ganization, so far as the Negro is ¢oncerned, cannot as it has been in the ‘past, be half-hearted. Either it must be of the one hundred per cent type or not at all, leaving the Negro free to bargain away his swarthy muscles and active brain nder his ‘own direction. Either the Negro mest be given full protection, in and. out of strike periods, or he must be left alone, free to work when and where he wishes and subject to strike only when he ‘himself so decides. The anthracite coalfields now under strike have been a closed corporation to Negro labor, while the bituminous field has been open to him upon fairly good terms. The South Carbon field of West Virginia was one of the most Prosperous, healthful fields in the country, and the. same can be said as to the Western Kentucky fields, filled with happy Negro miners up until the time they were ordered to strike. As between Capital, and Labor, the Negro has even been a rubber ball, being batted from one group to an- other, as might suit convenience. With potential ‘strength in numbers and proportion, Négro labor could happily deal with either Capital or Labor, or with both, were it to him one hundred percent square deal attitude: Heretofore, however, strikes as di- rected by others have been disastrous to Negro labor, whether an actor therein or a breaker thereof. And past experiences are clear enough, we think, to convince the Negro working group that "until others evince an hon- est-to-goodness interest in his work welfare, it is up to him to grant, ‘bar- gain and sell his productive worth upon a plan which will safeguard his work welfare, both in opportunities for profitable employment and in the Deaceful participation ‘therein, ¥oid oi fiots, ‘starvation, and other disasters with “which his work history 50 pa- thetically abounds. Bat oe aes ae ee Se wends his way; Leaving‘ the world to darkness and ‘to me.” (From: Gray's Elegy) Now that the Elks, the Eagles, the Masons and the Knights have wended their way homeward, where they may face, at least, a temporary shortage of bread, butter and coal, which were prematurely exchanged for excursion tickets, gasoline, and circular Good- year rubber, the fraternal brethren may well, in these few months which precede the homecoming of Mr. Win- ter and his hearty children, Snow, Ice and Cold, take inventory of their stock and see what's what and why. In the first place, bought brother- hood is somewhat like asbestos, which gets red hot in a minute and cools just a8 quickly. The social hour, when @ brother would swim the English channel for his brother yields over night to the cold undeniable necessity of helping out with the-reat or taking care of the insurance collector. The huzzahs of Camp Meetia’ are sup- planted by not a few “jolts” which are barren of fine fellowship’ $0 previous- ly prevalent, : In other words, we art slightly in- clined to be pessimistic over the ex- pended gusto, pomp, and energy, to Say nothing of the dollars and dimes, all of witich might have been diverted jto a great buman brotherhood, or to Education, Industry, or Science. The humble writer thinks—and he is both a “Nod Fellow” and a “Nelk”—that fraternal gatherings should first prom- ‘ulgate some great constructive project having, its aim racial endeavor and jwelfare, rather than a magnetic so- cial session, following which there are naught but embers of ~what might have been, ‘The Elks announce the establish- ‘ment of a bureau of Education to fos- ter and promote educational facilities ‘of the Race. “This project, if con- summated, will bloom into concrete ‘results of far-reaching worth. Similar ‘efforts. along lines of business, race like, we think, would €o much to fade ce darkness which ensbrouds a strug- sting race. Fraternalism, it seems to us, means more than the lodge room ‘THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 rasp and the mystic symbol of sec-] A VISIT TO GENEVA STATE} cises th ret cohesion. Out in the open world] TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS| 85 per it means furtherance of those things — Tine,” 1 upon which the development of a na-| By Rev. Theodore Stephens | school, tion depends. Nor are its objectives| Member Negro Research Society of | —religi confined to the burial of the dead and New York is not the care of the sick They strike — girl-inm down into every element of Christian| It was the beautiful morning of the | School advancement, supplemented By the| 2st day of August—Friday. Friday] The necessities of & happy life and a con-|;. deemed “unlucky” to the supersti-| Conduct tented populace for those without as} + an cues To Columbus, | iT well as those within. a " S clusion’ ae ‘With Kiansmen as pallbearers, says the white press, the funeral of Samuel Obrey, a West Virginia Negro miner, was recently conducted at Roderfield, near Welch. The report continues by saying that as the coffin was placed in a hearse to be taken to the ceme- tery, a Ku Klux Klan meeting, held in rooms over the undertaking ‘estab- lishment was dismissed, Noting the absence of mourners, several Klans- men boarded the hearse, while others fell in behind and marche to the cemetery, where they lifted the coffin from the hearse and lowered it into the ground, Each Klansman stood in silence while the funeral rites were concluded. Just ‘prior to this epochal event a Klan preacher, during its Washington, D, C. festival, had advocated a Jim Crow car law for the District of Col- umbia, and a few days later, to the writer's personal knowledge, distaste for local Negroes had been manifested in the vicinity of a local Klan. meet- ing. All of which points the fingers of curosity at the multifarious, acts of an organization which is so outspok- en in its ideal. What, pray, is the motive of the Kian when it tenders & purse toa Negro church or desig- nates pallbearers for attendance at a Negro funeral? Is it the attitude of throwing a dog a bone, ot is it to try to Veneer the true aims of this mod- ern knighthood organization? In case of the latter, the announce- ‘ments of the Klan literature too plain- ly bespeak their estimate of a large Proportion of our American constitu- ency; and if it is the former, church purses and sympathies for the dead might more consistently be tendered to those whose idealistic alliances are more in harmony with the Klan thar those of their colored brethren. “Altogether, the queer capers of the Klan indicate that realizing its axis is supporting naught but a lost world it is swimming hither and thither searching for straws by which its crown might be preserved for a few months longer; for it was long ago evident that the modern world has nc Permanent place for such a curious an- omaly, and that the last two-thirds o! its titulat—“Here yesterday, here to. day, here tomorrow” may soon be wiped out, And when the time for those obsequies arrives, we'll gladly furnish some of the pallbearers, leav. ing a similar honor to the Jews, Cath- olics, and aliens. COLUMBIAN BRIEFS Colored lawyers of Virginia have or- ganized a state bar association. Building trade wages are at the high- est peak they. have ever been. In our present stage of development, constructive work—and lots of it—is ‘the crying need. During the past two years 31 cor- Porations have been organized by West Virginia colored business men. Forty years ago there were forty divorces for every one hundred mar- riages in Japan. Now there are only ten. The making of beautiful furniture from mahogany is rapidly becoming one of the crafts of West Africa, Beans are an important staple food and the average yearly crop is worth $50,000,000 to the farmers of the United States. The American public spent $300, (000,000 last year for carbonated bever. ages and some of this income reached colored owners of bottling works. | pias The Liberian Government proposes to establish telephonic communication between Monrovia and Cape Palmas and the intervening coastal towns. IN CITY Mr. and Mrs. William Rice of Des Moines, lay are visiting in the city, stopping with friends at 3624 Cottage Grove Ave, OPENS FALL TERM The Enterprise Institute, 514 Aldine Square, of which Rev. J. W. Me- Daniels is president, has opened its fall term with a splendid enrollment. A VISIT TO GENEVA STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS By Rev. Theodore Stephens Member Negro Research Society of New York Tt was the beautiful morning of the 2ist day of August—Friday. Friday is deemed “unlucky” to the supersti- tious of all clafses. To Columbus, who was fired with the ambition of maritime discoveries, Friday, notwith- Standing the’ ignorance of his time, proved a “lucky” day, Was it not on Friday morning, October 12th, 1492, after a tedious and almost intermi- nable voyage, that the Genoese navi- gator beheld the “New World?” To the committee of the Circle of King’s Daughters and Sons, the day proved rather delightful, and the chronicles of the party, although he sought for “signs” with Argus’ eyes and the tunneléd car of a Dionysius, could register not a single omen. Time was when men wore charms and amulets as preservatives against the “evil eyes,” “evil spirits,” “unlucky days,” inopportune hours,” ete. Knowledge, howevet, has increased, and light has been thrown on the sup- posed “evils,” and except for the comparatively few, the Schamhamphc ras, the Pentagram, and the Clavicles of Solomon, are relics of a barbarous and superstitiéus age. At 10:30 a. m., the bus of the Chris- tian Endeavor Society of the Metro- politan Community Center, with about a dozen persons, members of the Golden Circle of King’ Daughters and Sons, of which Mrs, Webb, 3423 South Parkway, is President, Rev. Schomberger of South Park M. E. Church, Mrs, Schomberger and a few others who were with the Reveand his wife in their car, started on the two- ‘hour motor trip to Geneva (Geneva, Il, not Geneva, Switzerland!), where we arrived after forty-two miles of road, at 12:45. We entered “Hope Cottage,” where we were received with the well-known cordiality of the matron-hostess, Mrs. Cordelia H. Mercer. General Description of the School As is well-known, Geneva is a Training School for Girls, maintained by the State of Illinois. The grounds cover an area of about fifty-five acres, including the buifdings, twenty in num- ber. Seventeen of these buildings are for the girls, the other three include Chhrch, School, Matron Hall, Elec- trig Light and Power Plant, and Gym- nasium. There are 498 girls on the premises; of that number 75 are colored. This per centum basis shows 85 per cent white inmates and 15 per cent colored. The colored girls occupy “Hope Cot- tage” and “Willow ‘Cottage,” the for- mer with 38 girls and 2 matrons. (Mrs. Bishop, managing matron of “Willow Cottage.”) The School Curriculum Schoo! year is an all-the-year-round affair at Geneva. Vacation days at this school are of short duration, be- ing only thirty in number. - The class hours are from 9 a. m. to 4p. m, All intermediate grades are taught, includ- ing domestic science, commercial and industrial training. Domestic Science, is, however, especially featured, and a deal of attention is given to the art of fruit canning, in which the girls show marked interest. Each matron has to report the preparation by her girls of so many jars of preserved fruit, ‘There is a special domestic training room for’ this special branch of the school’s activities Bs He Cost of Maintenance tothe State ‘The cost to the State for the main- tenance of one girl, per annum, is, maximum ‘cost, $850; minimum cost, $650. . . ‘The school owns and operates its own farm, frem which is recolted a variety of fruit, vegetables and fodder for 150 Holstein. and which give 98 gallons of rich milk daily. The Menu The food is carefully supervised, and @ week in advance the succeeding week's bill-of-fare is prepared by a food specialist, and handed over to the ‘The religious service of the school is held in the edifice consecrated. to the worship of God every Sunday at 3 p.m. The services are interdenomi- national. During the religious. exer- cises the 15 per cent colored and the 85 per cent white know no “color Tine,” nor is this Tine drawn in the day school, but beyond these two features —religious and educational—the writer is not cognizant of the fact that the girl-inmates of the Geneva Training School have any social intercourse, ‘The religious service at Geneva is conducted, generally, by a white clergyman, not, however, to the ex- clusion of ministers of our race, From infomation secured by the writer, none of the ministers of our group, seemingly, ever think of visiting the girls of that school Such would, doubtless, involve some sacrifice and inconyeitience on Sunday (not every Sunday), but our girls would, some- times, like to hear the gospel preached by one of our own. In this way all concerned. would doubtless realize the truth proclaimed nearly 2500 years ago by Malachi, ‘the prophet: “Have we not all one Father, has not one God created us?” The writer has promised to preach for the Geneva girls some time in the near future. Colored preachers, says Mrs. Mercer, would be welcome, Oy ee The recreation program varies with ‘the alternating seasons. A ball game was the out-of-door sport on the aft- ernoon of the 2ist ultimo. ‘The Mission of the King’s Daughters Especially to cheer the sometimes lonely life of the colored girl, even though the State provides the com- forts and conveniences necessary to their moral, intellectual and physical welfare, the King’s Daughters and Sons undertook the voyage to Geneva. The members of the Committee in their sympathetic and winning manner Encouraged the girls to obedience to their matrons whom they call by the affectionate. and endearing name “Mother.” They were given to feel that they are not miscreants who were being punished, but young girls in training to become the women and wives of tomorrow; these girls were told that the opportunity to fashion themselves into noble characters, so that on leaving their training school they would be better equipped, mor- ally, intellectually and physically, to cope with life's difficult problems, is now theirs, that the Lord in His Di- vine Providence has thus ordered things for their welfare. They were also exhorted to a life of prayer and faith in God. Positive proof was given them to the effect that they are thought of and appreciated, despite the intervening distance between Chicago and Geneva, as was evidenced by the periodical tracts and other fiterature brought thenr by their visitors, as well as by the prayers offered on their be- half by one of the visiting ministers. Luncheon and Departure ‘Time with us was rather precious; we therefore devoted this precious time to visiting “Hope” and “Willow” Cottages, and at both of these resi- dences were given a hearty reception by both “Mother” matrons and girls. We, however, luncheoned in style at “Hope”, Cottage, and the most refresh- ing menu that any city hostess could serve without notice was placed be- fore us, or we were placed before the nienu. Despite the attitude, and longitude, and meridianal and equa- torial distances, and minus the least coercion—the long ride having done its work of preparing an appetite— we were tabled, and after the Rey. Schomberger had “rendu grace” (said grace) with travelers’ zest we par- took most unstintingly of the appetiz- ing “viandes,” while converse with the matrons, in the form of queries and rejoinders enriched the happy hour through which ran a kappy sense of wit and humor, and which made the time to be so delightfully profit- able, charitably and missionarily spent and enjoyed by visited and vis- itors. . Ri ee After the informal exercises, we took leave of our hostesses. The girls manifested marked signs of emotion, and the breasts of many heaved heavy sighs, while their tear dimmed eyes told the story most eloquently of the deep impression made upon them by the visit of the Golden Circle of King’s Daughters and Sons. But The Greatest of These is America Greece with her intellectual culture, her ethnic religion, and her love of the beautiful did not produce a Solon who was sufficiently interested in the individual citizen to vote a law pur- Porting to protect the widow, care for the orphan, reform the wayward, educate the masses and erect eleemosy- nary societies for those whom’ the hand of misfortune had thrown upon ‘the bounty of society. The Institutes of Justinian contain- ed no “proviso” for the moral and social ‘welfare of the individual, and the ignorant slave, the morally in- (Formerly the literary department of Walden University) An Approved School in an Educational Center Modern in methods and thorough in scholarship. Throws Christian influence around the student. Places emphasis upon development of the initiative on part of the student. EXPENSES SURPRISINGLY MODERATE Session Begins September 21 For further information, address T. R. DAVIS, PRESIDENT Nashville Tennessee ‘sane, fhe infirm, the decrepid, all were privileged to take care of themselves ‘as best they could, The State had nc interest in their welfare; the indivi dual existed for the benefit of the State and the State for the benefit o the few. But with Christianity came a new ‘social order, and orphanages, asylums ‘hospitals, homes, reformatories, etc. trace their origin to the Christian re- Nigion, Chelataaty 4. sponte, ee ‘the new social order. She has revers ‘ed “State Decrees,” and “Statutory En- ‘actments,” and the individual as today ‘an integral part of the State. Yesterday a Borgia received the tiara and a Savonarola was martyred, a Paul decapitated and a Nero perched om the Seven Hills of Rome; the Christ. was crucified, and an Augustus won the empire; a Jeanne D’Arc was cremated and.a Charles became King of France. Today the State exists, not because it is greater than the people, but in order to serve the people the State has its “raison d’ etre,” and this serv- ice to the individual “est la base sine qua non” of the State's, yea, of the Nation’s existence, America has in many respects caught the vision of what a sovereign State ought to be. Athens was great in the days of Pericles; Rome was mighty in the time of the Caesars, but America with her charities, Amer- ica with her vast educational, indus- trial and reformatory systems of in- dividual and social welfare, is by far the greater than either the Greece of King Philipp, or the city of which it_was said, “Augustus found it brick, and he left it marble.” Illinois Queen of States In making our estimate of the 48 States in the Union, we are cognizant of the fact that the other 47 are measuring up the standard of useful- ness, industry, moral reform, ete. Special mention should, however, be made of Illinois as the Queen of States, and the great work which this State Queen is prosecuting with un- relenting fervor. Her eleemosynary institutions, her reformatories, and her other bkanches of human endeavor gannot be too highly commended. The Geneva State Training School for Girls is but one of the State's many activities for the welfare of the social order. “By thy rivers gently flowing, Illi- nois, Illinois, O’er thy prairies verdant growing, Illinois, Illinois, Comés an echo on the breeze, Rustling through the leafy threes, And it's mellow tones are these, Ilinois, Illinois.” GIRL SLASHED, STABBED AND SHOT, ADMIRER ARRESTED (Preston News Service) Richmond, Va. Sept. 14. —Miss Alma Hayes, 22, was stabbed and slashed on the shoulders and arms as well as cut on the throat by her beau, Eugene Cheatham, according to. the police, last Thursday night. Cheatham, it is alleged, cut her throat, stabbed her right shoulder, shot her through the same shoulder and then shot her in the mouth, according to notations made at St. Philip’s Hospital, where Miss Hayes was taken at 9:50 o'clock last Thursday night. The attempted massacre and scalping expedition took place, according to reports, near Cheatham’s home, the wielder of the knife and pistol having been arrested shortly afterwards by Third Station officers. : Love is the only motive assigned for the violence with which the Lothario expressed his regard for the girl. The poor girl may die. WHITE CITIZENS OF LYNCH- BURG, VA.. UNDERWRITE NE- GRO GIRLS SEMINARY TO BE LOCATED IN THAT CITY (Preston News Service) Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 17—At a con- ference in this city of the officials and leaders for Lynchburg and its Cham- ber ‘of Commerce, Secretary I. Gar- land Penn, Cincinnati, Ohio, outlined the plans of the Woman's Home Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the establish- ment of a Seminary for Negro women at some point in the South, prefer- ably Lynchburg. ‘ As an-inducement to locate the Seminary here, the City Council and Chamber of Commerce agreed to guarantees valued at $25,000. Five years ago the Society at its National Council in Detroit, Mich., agreed upon Lynchburg. As the city and business interests are’ now ready to make good its guarantees, it is expected that the National Council at its meeting in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Pasadena, Calif., in October, will reaffirm the action taken in Detroit. The Seminary is to be a select col- lege for Negro girls offering degrees and open to students from any sec- tion of the United States. Its main ‘support will come from the Woman's Home Missionary Society which is the organization of leading white and colored women from the Methodist Episcopal Church. This organization had an income last year of over two million dollars. Concerning the guarantees made by the business interests of Lynchburg, Secretary Penn, said on leaving the city for Cincinnati, that it was an- other evidence of the growing in- terest of white leaders in the South in the higher education of the Negro and another step in promoting more cordial and friendly inter-race rela- tionships, The Seminary is to be known as the Carrié Barge Seminary after Miss Carrie Barge, a noted and Consecrated white woman and official of the Woman's Home Missionary So- ciety, living in Delaware, Ohio. One hundred thousand dollars will be expended on the first unit and the institution is expected to, open for the scholastic year 1926-27. Already stu- dents have applied for entrance and are on the waiting list, as far away as Arizona, RETURNS HOME Hon. Luther H. Foster, treasurer and busitess manager of The Virginia Normal State College, Petersburg, Va, has,returned to the school fol- lowing several weeks of study at the University of Chicago where he took up several special subjects, TO HAVE MEETNG Hon. Wm. Herbert Fields, national grand master of A. U. K. & D. of A, in company with Dr. Geo, M. Cathrell, national grand secretary treasurer, both of St. Loxis, Mo., will be in the city Sunday, Sept. 20th, for the pur- pose of organizing a committes at Bailey's Hall, 3638 S. State St, which committee is to put over the 19th an- nual session and national encampment to be held in Chicago in August, 1926, “American for Flat” In speaking of the moving of an actress a London newspaper says that she had “deserted hotel fife for an ‘apoltment.'—American for flat—in Chelsea.” AUTUMN'S BECOMING HATS ARE BRILLIANT AND SUBTLE 5 APPROVED BY FASHIONABLES "THE TWO-PIECE MODE" GROWS THE FASHION WEEKLY SUMMER hums along, bushy weaving nature's gorgeous autumn background. It is "a magic web with colors gay"—more brilliant and rich than she hangs before our enraptured eyes in the springtime. But nature has no monopoly in this matter of busy preparations for autumn—so are costumers and furriers and milliners busy, preparing raiment that shall reflect the glory of the season when it clothes the figures of the fairest things in mortal eyes. In plain garden-grown English, the new fall hats are arriving and fashion reporters grow poetical. There is a reason—seen at the top of the accompanying picture, followed by three others equally good, for the enthusiasm of the reporter of styles. Here are four hats, none of them startling, all of them graceful and flattering to their wearers. We don't have to learn to like them because we have already learned to love their APPROVED BY FAS "THE TWO-P CERTAIN women, gifted with a fine sense of style and possessed of sufficient money to carry out their ideas, become known for their good taste. Their clothes are so convincing that others follow their lead and soon a vogue is established. "The twopiece mode" has been approved by fashionables everywhere - witness the triumph of jumper suits and blouse-and-skirt ensembles. Here is pictured a late summer blouse and skirt ensemble which shows which way the wind of fashion blows. This model, with one or two minor changes, is presented for fall. It is made of buff-colored crepe barred with embroidered stripes in brown and white, to be worn with brown, white or buff skirt. The tie is brown crepe with white monogram. Note that the crepe is a plain color, that its adornment is an all-over pattern, its lines straight, that it is hip length and you will have in mind a few high lights in fall blouse styles. Long sleeves with Expression of Derision "Bold as brass" means shameless, unblushing, impudent. It is a very old phrase, and is used also in French and perhaps other languages. How it originated is unknown. Probably the alliteration of the phrase did more than anything else to keep it alive after it once got started.—Pathfinder Magazine. predecessors, which they resemble in shape. They resemble but are not like them, their lines are a little different, more subtle and even more becoming. Their colors are rich, they have dignity and in their trimming details there are novelties we have not seen before. A pretty, soft velvet turban at the top, has its crown encircled with points of folded ribbon and there is pleasure in imagining it in violet, pencil blue, fuchsia or burgundy—or in black. It is close-fitting and all in one color. At the left is a blue velvet hat in one of the high shades, with trimming to match of burnt ostrich. At the right a black velvet and coral felt hat is trimmed with crystalline flowers in a very rich model that will become many faces. Stencled velvet makes the handsome and dignified hat that finishes the group, with double bow of velvet and pearl ornament at the right side. IULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) FASHIONABLES ECE MODE" GROWS narrow cuffs, sash hip bands that tie at the front are other omens of the fall modes and there is talk of high collars; already scarf collars that may be tied about the neck have made their appearance. But neck lines are considerably varied and include the "V" shaped front opening, high at the back, on blouses with surplice front and on long tunic blouses with side fastening, also neck lines. Navy blue or black satin skirts, plain except for inverted plains, make the background for many blouses. They are sometimes in contrasting color, bordered with bands of satin like the skirt, and revealing odd embroideries in which the same color is introduced with others. Small figures, cut from colored cloth, are used in conservative "modernist" designs, applied to the blouse. Much attention is given to sleeves which are cut in varied ways below the elbow. The long tunic blouse or coat tunic is another story. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@ 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) Indian Corn In many parts of eastern Canada there is a brown bread that owes nothing to wheat, for it is made of corn meal, and, therefore, often called corn bread, and by corn, of course, is meant Indian corn or maize, the cereal that is a native of this continent, and which the Indians were growing when the white man came. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 Statement of Condition At the Close of Business on April 6, 1925 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $2,002,602.57 Bonds and Securities ... 925,886.34 Bank Building and Annex ... 152,646.08 Furniture and Fittures ... 18,685.62 Cash on Hand and Due from Banks ... 550,558.71 Other Resources ... 77,015.27 Total ... $3,727,394.49 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ... $ 400,000.00 Surplus ... 50,000.00 Undivided Profits ... 18,586.13 Reserved for Taxes and Interest ... 6,203.58 Other Liabilities ... 44,483.85 Deposits ... 3,208,220.98 Total ... $3,727,394.49 This Bank invites you to avail yourself of its complete facilities. First Mortgage Gold Bonds—approved safe investments—yield 7% interest. Boxes in our completely equipped Safety Deposit Vaults rent for $4.00 per year and upwards. Interest at the rate of 8% is allowed on all savings accounts. Savings Department open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays. GEORGE F. LEIBRANDT, President CHARLES A. WHITE, Vice-President GEORGE S. CAMPBELLE, Cashier L. A. DELAURIER, Asst. Cashier MAURICE H. WOLPE, Asst. Cashier C. E. GILLELAND, Mgr. Savings Dept. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO Under State Government Supervision Fifth and South State Streets Milphee Victor CONVICT SLAIN IN STATE PRISON ROW Fatally Stabbed in Battle Over Glass of Water Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 15.—John Spears, 27, convict in the Missouri State Penitentiary was fatally stabbed shortly after the noon meal Wednesday by Ed. Wilson, a "fourth termer." The killing took place in the prison broom factory, and resulted, other convicts said, from a table argument over the passing of a glass of water. Following heated words, Wilson attacked Spears with a large knife, inflicting several wounds on the latter's body. A thrust through the heart caused Spears' death in the prison hospital two minutes after he had been carried into the building. According to prison officials, both participants bore bad reputations. Spears was sentenced to twenty years from Jackson County in 1922 for robbery. Since his confinement he had often been penalized for fighting and recently was severely cut by another prisoner during a fight. He gave his home address as Norwood, La. Ed. Wilson, alias John Ross and John Page, was serving a fourth term for robbery. On each occasion he was sent from St. Louis, his first term beginning in 1907. On the first three trips he bore a clear prison record, but since his last sentence in 1923, he had been disciplined several times. Dead Chinese Shipped to Celestial Kingdom Twice a year all New York Chinatown turns out to be present at the shipping of the dead, Pierre Van Paasen writes in the Atlanta Constitution. When a Chinaman dies he is not buried, but his coffined body is kept in a storage place along with echels until the coffin ship can take a load back to the Celestial kingdom. The ceremony of conveying the coffins to the ship offers an animated scene. Violins shriek, bells tinkle, rattles are used and pictures of the deceased are carried in the procession, all to keep the evil spirits at a distance. Some of the officiating priests in their ancient robes, with shaved heads and their arms folded, are pictures of impenetrable oriental stoicism. The procession is a colorful one and a noisy one, but the priests do maintain their dignity. During the hours of the ceremony rival tongs cease all hostility under the terms of a previously agreed upon armistice. It's the only hour the police may be certain there will be no killings and still the bluecoats and plain-clothes men are as thick as flies around a Chinese funeral procession. Historic Scottish Castle The ancient and picturesque castle of Dumbarton is situated on a rocky eminence above the river Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland. Although of no military value now, it is one of the four Scottish fortresses that must be maintained by the terms of the treaty of Union. Sir William Wallace, the Scottish patriot, was confined there in 1305, and in one of the apartments of the castle is shown the huge, two-handed sword wielded by the hero, Mary Queen of Scots lived there in her childhood, in 1548. Dumbarton rock has been famous since its capture by the Picts and Northumbrians in 756 A. D.-Exchange. Piano Long in Favor With Lovers of Music The first upright piano made in the United States was manufactured in the year 1800 by John Isaac Hawkins of Philadelphia, an Englishman by birth. The earliest piano made in the United States was that made by Joseph Hisky of Baltimore. His instruments quickly found favor and his establishment in Baltimore was the meca of all lovers of good musical instruments. Johannes Francis Kahl, who was born in Germany, is credited with making the first piano made in Washington. Jonas Chickering designed the first distinctly American planoforte. His father was a blacksmith. The English owed their first piano to a Scotsman. John Broadwood. The English harpsichord, known to the Germans as the fugel because its shape somewhat resembled the wing of a bird, to the French as the clavecin and to the Italians as the clavicmbalo, was the immediate predecessor of the planoforte. Brick Buildings Enqure Since the earliest dawn of civilization brick has served the world well. Time has proved it to be the one imperishable building material, supreme through all the ages. Europe has been a land of brick houses for hundreds of years, and America is now emerging from the "wood age" and leadership in tremendous fire losses. Throughout Europe are magnificent brick buildings hundreds of years old, but still as substantial and even more beautiful than when they were built. Brick is preserving the landmarks of our own history. The Old South church in Boston, Faneuil hall in the same city, Independence hall in Philadelphia, the Betsy Ross house, and a host of other historic buildings, all built of brick, are standing as firmly as on the day they were finished. Of Its Own Volition Two girls were quarrelling and one centered her attack on the shape of the other's nose, which was distinctly of the pug variety. Her remarks proved so telling as to reduce the snub-nosed one to the verge of hysterics. "It's cruel of you to make fun of my nose," she wailed. "I didn't choose it." "Of course you didn't," was the unfeeling retort. "It turned up unasked." His Downfall Coming Harold, aged six, appeared one day at the next-door neighbor's dressed in the fashionable long trousers for small boys. "My mother," he announced, "says I act just like a man." The older noddled approvingly, but Betty, aged five, critically looked over the caller and then observed, "You may act like a man now, but just wait till you grow up and put on those short golf trousers!" Not Knocking. of Course "What kind of a place is your rival hamlet of Tywopwilly?" inquired a recent arrival in Peeweecuddyhump. "Kind of a place?" repeated the proprietor of the Bee Hive store. "Come here! See them buzzards sailing around, 'way out onder at the edge of the sky?' Well, they're over Tywopwilly. That's the kind of a place it is—plumb dad!"—Kansas City Star. Of Supreme Importance Caller—"I would like to see the judge." Secretary—"Sorry, sir, but he is at dinner." Caller—"But, my man, my errand is of vital importance." Secretary—"It can't be helped, sir, his honor is at steak."—Columbia Record CIGARETTES SODAS Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERnest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121-23-25 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charlest. Dawson A. B. Get It Up Immediately This is a picture of any Summer evening, in any neighborhood, any night of the week. Folks are all out on the streets, strolling around, looking in display windows, dropping into stores. About all the merchant has to do is to remind them that he's there—that he has something for sale. Choose your own wording for the sign; we'll hang it, wire it free and keep it filled with new Mazda lamps. You pay a moderate monthly rental—no extras for upkeep. For free estimate call Randolph 1280—Local 182 Commonwealth Edison Company Sign Division—72 West Adams Street The Williamson Funeral is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars Netary Public Phones: cept Main 4153} Residence, (4751 Champlain _. Walter M. 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A great sac- rifice 1s not required to assure him of their steadfastness, Much is written of the heroic hardships undergone by one friend for another. Such glow- Ing accounts are all very well, but they do not touch the essence. of frlendship, which is an unanalyzed adherence that) knows not the mean- img of reward or danger. Good Guess, Anyway ‘The wives of two traveling salesmen were introduced.. They settled down for 2 comfortable talk. Servants, the weather and children were discussed, and then one wife inquired: “And what is your husband's line?” The other wife considered before she re- plied: “I'm not entirely sure, but he 4s always talking about dotted line, so T suppose that's it. don't you?" Gelatin Ingredients Gelatin ts a purified dried inodorous Product of the hydrolysis, by treatment with boiling water, of certain tissue, as skin, ligaments and bones, from sound animals, and contains not more than 2 per cent of ash and not less than 15 per cent of nitrogen. Phone Main 2017 a 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 (@fbes Phones: Dearborn 7084-7095 ‘Rex 3286 Vernon Avene ‘Phene Dougias 6045 Residence, 1262 Macalister Place ‘Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. ‘CHICAGO ‘Telephone Central 1239 Telephone: State 3278 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. On the Stroke of Twelve By JACK WOODFORD Seved Caring ay lifetime, and yeh because I am almost certain who It ls from, I have a feeling that— Prentice, the young manager of a metropolitan detective agency, leaned forward and addressed the wealthy man in a tone almost of pleading. “Won't you tell me whom you think it Is from, so that in case, in ease—" “So that in case,” put in Hall calm ly, “the man succeeds, you will know whom to look for. Well,” he mused, “1 don’t think I will. Years ago I did & thing to this man that would justify his murderous design now, and I am going to be sport enough to refrain from naming him. If he succeeds in doing away with me, as he says he Willa, 12 o'clock tomorrow night, well and good. I shall even give him an opportunity to eseape by not nam- ing him now, but I'm leaving It up to you, and the town police, to prevent it.” Hall stopped talking and drummed nervously upon the table. “The man is‘probably insane,” put in the detective impatiently, “brooding over his fancied wrongs ail of these years and—" Prentice rose. “If you do as you have planned, stay right here in your room tomorrow eve- ning, until after 12 o'clock, and, be- tween my operative and the town po- Uce every foot of your grounds and the territory around and near the place is watched, there is no way on earth..." Hall smiled wanly. At sundown the following night the operatives began to arrive silently. Not a shadow about the immense, gloomy old mansion but which had its human guardian, Across the street, in the village square, the town police had turned out to a man and were pacing up and down, eyeing everyone who passed. Eleven o'clock came and nothing untoward happened. Prentice knocked upon Hall's door. “Come in!” called out the Croesus rather irritably. Prentice -passed in- to the luxuriantly furnished room and stood opposite his employer, his hands resting upon the mahogany table as he leaned forward to speak. “Well, sir, I'l guarantee that even a wraith couldn't get in or out of this house tonight without our seeting it; however, I do wish that you'd give me the name of the man who wrote that letter, just in case . . .” “No,” mused Hall, taking the letter from the drawer and tossing it across to the detective. “I won't,” Prentice took it up and read it through aloud. Henry Hall: ‘You remember what I told you several days ago. Tomorrow night at precisely 12 o'clock 1 shall Kill you; may God have mercy on your soul. | ‘There was no signature. “Wanted to give me plenty of time to pray, I suppose,” sald Hall with a short laugh. “Don't know but what ‘I would if I knew any prayers. In- stead, I'm reading ‘Treasure Island.’ Between every lie I recall how I felt when I was a boy and read it for the ‘first tlme; and I wish to recall my “childhood tonight; it, at least, was clean.” The detective shrugged and took up the large revolver which lay upon the table to examine it minutely. -Hestook out the cartridges and shook them, whirled the magazine, and snapped the hammer once or twice. Satisfied, he sald good night and left the room, At five minutes to 12 the town was as quiet as death itself. Eleven fifty- nine came, and nothing happened. As the clock in the city hall tower began to whirr, preparatory to striking 12 o'clock, several of the officers lolling about upon the green arose and stretched themselves. ‘The clock in the tower began to strike: “One,” It tolled out, and not an untoward thing happened; “two, three, four, five, six,” still everything was quiet as though perpetual sleep had visited the scene; “seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven...” But no one ever heard the stroke of 12 - ‘There was 2 terrific explosion, and 8 flash os of a bolt of lightning. Sud- denly the light across the street went out. The frightful “Boom!” echoed and reechoed between the hills sur- rounding the town. The officers ran around in circles, shouting excitedly; lights began to flash on in houses all over town. : It took them 20 minutes to discover that the old cannon upon the court- house lawn had been thrown back 20 feet from its usual position. It was Prentice who found It. . “Last thing on earth T'd have sus- pected,” he sald ruefully to the town chief of the police. “The fellow, whoever he was, evi- dently discovered that this old Span- Ish-American war weapon pointed di- rectly at Hall's room, and so he sent that note, figuring that under the eir- cumstances Hall would want to spend the last hours in his own roem. Then, I suppose, he threw in a half dozen sacks of powder, and a clock mechan- ism to set it off, and finished up with shrapnel—poor Hall!" ‘Men Scarce There a ea eae Many thousand English giris want to marry but can't because of the scarcity of young men in England, Dr. A. T. Schofield, noted nerve specialist, says Wasted Energy Few men suspect how much mere talk fritters away spiritual energy— that which should be spent in action spends itself in words—F. W. Robert- soo. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 ———————— in. the JAS. B. McCAHEY, President PHILIP J. DUNN, Secretary : Jp FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President H. X. COMERFORD, Treasurer ee ESTABLISHED 1877 . JRIN- | JOHN J. DUNN ! saaoas | me because the COAL CO. ! bottle of ketch: | ewan Telephone Oakland 1550 . “ean without | 5100 Federal Street CHICAGO | Chas. Krutckoff, Pres. Hugh Norris, Treas. J. E. Ward, Vice-Pres. Kirby Ward, Secy. Telephone Calumet 805 ; Norris-Ward Coal Co. ae 26th St. and South Park, I. C. R. R. 18th and Canal Sts., C.B. & Q.R.R. Root St, C. R. I. & P.R.R. Roscoe and Pacific Aves., C. M. & St. P. R. R. “ 2556 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE CHICAGO Who Loses in the Hold-Up By OLE BURIN (@. 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) eS ee ee eee up for supper. “Now, Bet,” I railed, “You know very well T can’t eat beans without ketchup. So forgetful, so negligent, so—” “Very well then, dear, t's only two blocks to the chain grocery,” she sug- gested. sweetly. ‘And that’s how, a few minutes later, I happened to find myself staring Into the muzzle of-a six-shooter. “Shove over next to the boss!" snapped the masked _artilleryman. “Think I want to get cross-eyed trying to cover you both at once?” “The company’s out Just $945.48," sald the grocer, looking ruefully at his empty cash drawer. “Yep,” I sympathized. “That bottle of ketchup cost me just forty-two dol- lars.” What a nulsance it Is te be a good citizen! Every evening for the next week or so I was called to various police stations to identify, If possible, among the recently arrested, our par ticular cannon-juggler. “Dear,” said my wife, when I had returned from my latest nightly fatlure, “r've a big surprise for you,” and handed me my stolen wallet with not one of the forty-two dollars missing. “Someone rang the bell; thrust It Into my hand and disappeared before Thad a chance to see who it was,” she | smiled, | “Plain as day,” I said. “This hold-up artist is a wise little boy. He's afraid of being caught and identified by me, and so he thought he ought to buy me off. But that reminds me—T've | never paid for that ketehup.” | 1 was surprised, on entering the | grocery store, to see my old Ieutenant, | Wolfert, in earnest conversation with the managers. After mutual greetings and inquiries, during which I learned | that the ex-lieutenant was now a sales- man for the Excelsior Burglary Insur- ance company, I told them of the re- turn of my wallet. “That's great stuff!” exclaimed Wol- fert. “And I was just telling Mr. Schulz that he needn't worry about the loss of that money, because I've suc ceeded in convincing his corporation to take a blanket Insurance policy on all their stores throughout the coun- try. As part of the transaction we have agreed to make good thelr recent loss, It'll mean lots of publicity for us; plenty of advertising.” It was only after I had returned home and we had finished supper that I recalled having neglected to give the Ueutenant my address. At this mo- ment our doorbell rang. and before we had a chance to move we heard the door opened and banged shut, and a masked figure dashed into our room. “Lieutenant!” I gasped. And in my excitement the only thing I could say was. “How did you find out my ad- dress?” “Quick !" he snapped. “Get olt your ‘checkers. Lively now! Set ‘em up.” Just as if he was ordering “squads right!” ‘And I obeyed without question. ‘The doorbell rang. Somebody knocked. | “Don’t forget,” sald Wolfert, as I “went to open the door, “I've been here a couple of hours.” When I opened that door and saw those two burly, determinediooking policemen before me, I almost lost all my nerve, and the lieutenant took com- ‘mand of the situation. “Right this way, officers,” he called. “If, as I imagine, you're chasing some- one.” “Sure!” replied one of the policemen. “A gun-man!” “What was the yell in here? asked the other. “The woman heard a nolse at the kitchen window. 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