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ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MEN IN CHICAGO, AN OLD TIME FRIEND, HAS FORWARDED HIS CHECK FOR $50 TO JULIUS F. TAYLOR TO ENABLE HIM TO ENJOY THE HOLIDAY SEASON IN TIP-TOP SHAPE. SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE THE BROAD AX SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX The Christmas Issue, or the Holiday Edition, of The Broad Ax Will Appear Saturday, December 26. It Will Be Printed on High Grade Aberdeen-American Half-Tone Book Paper. It Will Contain Some Highly Interesting Articles; One From the Eloquent Pen of Hon. William Sulzer of New York City, on "The Late Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois." MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER WON HER GREAT ANNULMENT SUIT AGAINST HER HUSBAND, LEONARD KIP RHINELANDER, SCORING A GREAT VICTORY OVER HIM AND OVER THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OWNED BY HIS FATHER, PHILLIP RHINELANDER. The far-famed Rhinelander divorce and with the dark colored people suit has now passed into history, and who frequented the home of the if any writer would grind out one Jones. Mary MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER The dashing bride of Mr. Leonard Kip Rhinelander put things all over on her big tomboy husband and it will cost him many thousands of dollars to shake her off. The dashing bride of Mr. Leonard Kip Rhinelander put things all over on her big tomboy husband and it will cost him many thousands of dollars to shake her off. The far-famed Rhinelander divorce suit has now passed into history, and if any writer would grind out one thousand feet of copy or a story which would reach from here to New York City and back again, it would not change the result one particle for the first chapter in their book has been closed for ever, and we firmly believe that if old man Philip Rhinelander would have refrained from butting into their personal affairs after they had become honorably united in marriage, that they would be living happy together right now. For without any doubt Mr. Leonard Kip Rhinelander dearly loved his sweetheart and later on his beautiful bride and wife, for he loved her so well that he was perfectly willing to reside in the humble little home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Jones, and some of the members of his family were quite dark, but Mr. Rhinelander paid not the slightest attention to that fact and he freely mingled with the darkest to the lightest members of the family on terms of social equal- 5 CENTS PER COPY Christmas Is Appear S Grade A Contain S uent Pen Late Go ES RHINELANDER, GREAT ANNULMENT HER HUSBAND, TO RHINELANDER, GREAT VICTORY OVER THE MIL- LARS OWNED BY PHILLIP RHINE- ity and with the dark colored people who frequented the home of the Jones. Of course Mr. Rhinelander must be given the everlasting credit for not saying anything against her while testifying on the witness stand except that she deceived him as to her race and color and his tricky lawyers and his millionaire father forced him up to make those foolish statements for as stated before Mr. Rhinelander would be living right with his wife today if they would have let them alone for it seems that he is absolutely free from race prejudice, and if he possessed a stiff backbone, he would tell his father to go plumb to hades that he is able to take care of himself and his wife, Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, and that he will live with her regardless of the like or the dislikes of his father. Supreme Court Justice Marschauser and the jury were both free from narrow minded race prejudice and in summing up the celebrated and far- (Continued on page 2) --- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 12, 1925 THE COUNT OF I. THE PARKING THE TOWN WINDS AND TOWN WINDS KENWOOD 0455 WILLIAMSON INT J.E.BISH GARAGE AEROBLASTING ALE AFTER HATE RIGHT DELIMITED K.D. GRAHAM PHOTO At one o'clock Sunday afternoon, December 6, funeral services were held over the earthly remains of the late Sir Knight James E. Bish, at the Union Masonic Temple, 3956 S. State street and the above picture was taken just as the funeral procession was in the act of departing from the extensive undertaking establishment of Mr. Ernest H. Williamson, 5121 S. State street, where the remains had lain in state for one week. The funeral procession was headed by a fraternal band and followed by various fraternal organizations, proceeded very solemnly northward on State street to Masonic Hall, where the last sad funeral rites were held over his remains, which were witnessed by a vast throng of people which taxed the capacity of the hall throughout the entire afternoon. The head officers of the various orders which the deceased was identified with, all read resolutions lamenting his passing and imparted words of sympathy and condolence to his bereaved widow, Mrs. Mamie Bish. Hon. S. B. Turner and Hon. A. H. Roberts were among the eloquent speakers on that sad occasion. Friends sat patiently listening to one eulogy follow another; hearing one able speaker after another pay tribute to this unassuming man, who had forged his way up from slavery to the highest level of human society; observing with sad but admiring countenance as one fraternal society after another performed the funeral ceremony, noting the high esteem in which he was held by his associates. Many of the undertakers of the city were present, and gave their assistance in the directing of the funeral services. Dr. Redmond, pastor of St. Mark M. E. Church, officiated. Music was furnished by a choir and several solos were rendered, one by Mrs. Rosa Fuche. The floral pieces were most beautiful and many filling the hearse and flower car. After the funeral services, the remians were returned to the funeral es- tablishment of Mr. Williamson. At 9 o'clock Monday morning, Dec. 7, 1925, relatives and friends followed to Lincoln Cemetery all that was mortal of Sir Knight Jas. E. Bish. There he was interred on the family lot. He has served his fellow man, he has worked earnestly, faithfully and long among them. The worker may die, but his work will live after him. Sir Knight Bish had faithfully served as the right hand man of Mr. Williamson, for ten years and in appreciation of his faithful services when he had laid down the burdens of this short and fleeting life, Mr. Williamson would not accept one dollar of his life insurance money from his widow, Mrs. Bish, and every penny incident to his funeral expenses, which amounted to $1,000, was paid by Mr. Williamson and his remains were laid to rest in one of the finest bronze caskets in Chicago. The writer joins in with a great army of friends and lament his long journey to the east at this time. On Sunday, November 29, Col James Ellis Bish, passed on westward at his home, 4820 S. Wabash avenue, where he had been confined to his home with serious illness for about three weeks. Several of his doctor friends, after holding a long consulta- MR. ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON The up-to-date funeral director, 5125 S. State Street, who had charge of the funeral of Sir Knight James E. Bish. tion over him, finally decided that the only way to prolong his life, would be to transport him to Rochester, Minn., and undergo an operation at the Mayo Brothers' Hospital. Mr. Bish had the means to pay the expense of the trip and the operation, but in the end he decided not to adhere to the advice of his doctor friends and others; that he would remain here at home and meet death, the grim monster, face to face without the operation. For more than 40 years he was an honored resident of this city. He was born in St. Francis County, Mo., coming here from Alton, Ill., 38 years ago, he was happily married to Miss Mamie Morton, of Evansville, Ind. In 1893 he was elected to the Legislature of Illinois from the First Senatorial District, where he served two years with a good record behind him. For a long time prior to that time, he was connected with the late F. C. Virlling, who was one of the largest and most successful real estate dealers in the downtown district at that time. He was a peerless leader in both fraternal and military circles. For 34 years he was a member of Prince Hall Lodge, A. F. and A. M., No. 52. He was one of the oldest and most prominent members of the Masters Council, Eminent Commander of the St. George Commandery, King in the Royal Arch Chapter, Past Commander in Chief of the Occidental Consistory, Deputy Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Illinois, Past Patron of the Electra Chapter No. 1 of the Eastern Star, Past Joshua of the Esther Court No. 2 of the House of Jerico, member of the Board of Directors of the Union Masonic Temple Association, and for forty-seven years a member of the United Brothers of Friendship. In religious affairs he was a consistent and faithful member of Quinn Chapel. As a business man he had few equals. He accepted the position of 1890 THE LATE SIR KNIGHT Prominent fraternal leader in West. He was elected to the from the First Senatorial D Smoke Inspector for 17 year his constant and devoted years. bookkeeper and Embalmers' Apprentice No. 194, which position he held for ten years. Under his efficient bookkeeping complete records are available even though the Williamson Undertaking Company where he served as bookkeeper has grown to be one of the largest of its kind in Chicago. THE SIR KNIGHT COL. JAMES E. wafternal leader in many secret society he was elected to the Legislature of I. First Senatorial District. He serves aspector for 17 years and was happiest and devoted wife, Mrs. Mamie THE LATE SIR KNIGHT COL. JAMES ELLIS BISH Prominent fraternal leader in many secret societies passes on West. He was elected to the Legislature of Illinois in 1893 from the First Senatorial District. He served as Assistant Smoke Inspector for 17 years and was happily married to his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Mamie Bish, for 38 years. His activities in military affairs stands out. He was one of the organizers of the Eighth Illinois Regi --- M. COL. LEONARD KIP RHINELANDER After permitting his lawyers to fool him into trying to separate from his lawfully wedded wife, Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, on the ground that she had colored blood in het veins and that she had tricked him into marrying her, came out at the little end of the horn and she beat him all along the line. COL. JAMES ELLIS BISH many secret societies passes on the Legislature of Illinois in 1893 district. He served as Assistant ms and was happily married to wife, Mrs. Mamie Bish, for 38 ment, an Adjutant of the Dept. of Illinois, and a Colonel of the Military Order of Guards. Funeral services will be held over his mortal remains at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Union Masonic Hall, 3956 S. State street, Rev. J. B. Redmon, pastor of St. Mark church, 50th street and S. Wabash avenue, officiating; Mr. Ernest H. Williamson, the up-to-date funeral director in charge. Interment Lincoln cemetery. 2 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th. 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxes, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago. Phone: Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Vol. XXXI No. 13 Chicago, December 12, 1925 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago. Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE FAMOUS RHINELANDER CASE HAS ARRIVED AT THE END OF THE ROAD. (Continued from page 1) reaching case the justice spoke in part, as follows: "When a man marries a woman who is of colored blood," Justice Morschauser continued, "and that fact is unknown to him, but known to her, and such marriage takes place because of her direct misrepresentation, or where a man finds himself fastened by marriage to a woman when such marriage would not have taken place had he known the true condition as to her blood, but she knew it, then such representations as to her color, either by direct statement or concealment through silence, is sufficient to relieve him, if you say a fraud was committed upon him or her. Silence Talks "If the defendant made the representations as to her color with the intent to induce the plaintiff to enter into the marriage without which he would not have married her, that is sufficient to warrant you in finding fraud and this applies to silence or concealment as well as to direct misrepresentation. "Suppression of the truth, when there is a duty to speak, may, under certain circumstances, be classed as fraudulent concealment. "Under such circumstances it must appear that the defendant had reasons to know that the plaintiff was ignorant of the fact as to her color." "You must take into consideration the fact that the plaintiff saw the colored father," Justice Morschauser said. "That he saw the colored brother-in-law, but that he saw and knew the surroundings of the defendant and that he saw the defendant's body. "The plaintiff bears the burden of proof to establish the charges he made against the defendant." Justice Morschauser began his instructions to the jury by outlining the seven questions of fact which the jury will pass upon. They were: 1. At the time of the marriage of the parties was the defendant colored and of colored blood? (Justice Morschauser instructed the jury to answer "yes" to this question, as the fact had been admitted by the defendant at the outset of the trial.) 2. Did the defendant before the marriage by silence conceal from the plaintiff the fact that she was of colored blood? 3. Did the defendant before the marriage represent to the plaintiff that she was not of colored blood? 4. Did the defendant practice said concealment or make said representation with the intent thereby to induce the plaintiff to marry her? 5. Was the plaintiff by said concealment or by said representations or by both induced to marry the defendant? 6. If the plaintiff had known that HON. P. J. CARR The best and the most popular Treasure has ever had, who has started out to a monster Christmas Athletic Carnival for worthy poor of Chicago. The affair Coliseum, December 19. The best and the most popular Treasurer that Cook County has ever had, who has started out to engineer a successful monster Christmas Athletic Carnival for the benefit of the worthy poor of Chicago. The affair will be held at the Coliseum, December 19. THE ROLAND HAYES RECITAL AT ORCHESTRA HALL PROMISES TO BE A HUGE SUCCESS The following are among the most prominent ladies who are working very hard to make the Roland Hayes concert or recital a grand success. YOUTH BEATS HIS FATHER TO DEATH WITH LARGE CLUB (Preston News Service) Fordyce, Ark., Dec. 11. — David Vaughn, aged 72 years, was beaten to Mrs. Albert B. George, chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth Euper, Mrs. Mabel Washington, Mrs. Lula E. Lawson, Mrs. H. A. Watkins, Mrs. Jessie Jones, Mrs. George Cleveland Hall, Mrs. O. T. Lowe, Miss Myra Colson, Miss Bella Taylor, Mrs. Ella B. Day, Mrs. Morris Lewis, Mrs. E. H. Carry, Mrs. O. Hudson, and Dr. Mae White. The affair is for the benefit of the Indiana branch of the Y. W. C. A, and it will be held at Orchestra Hall on Monday evening, December 14. TWO WOMEN KILLED IN TOR- NADO; FIFTY HOUSES DE- STROYED; OVER THIRTY PERSONS HURT (Preston News Service) Yazoo City, Miss., Dec. 11.—Two unidentified women were killed and more than thirty persons injured when a tornado dipped into the city from the east early Friday, blowing down about fifty homes and causing a property loss estimated at more than $250,-000. The situation was aggravated by a deluge of rain that flooded the streets and hindered searching the wreckage. It is thought that several other persons lost their lives. AGED JIM RITCHIE GETS 21 YEARS FOR SLAYING SISTER (Preston News Service) Texarkana, Ark., Dec. 11. — Jim Ritchie, aged 65 years, was convicted in the Arkansas side Circuit Court Wednesday of second degree murder and was given a sentence of 21 years. Ritchie killed his sister who was several years his junior last fall. The evidence showed that they were partners in raising a cotton crop, but about the time the cotton began to open the girl left the field and obtained employment as a cook at a timber camp which had been pitched nearby. Upon her refusal to return to the cotton field, Ritchie shot her with a shotgun. REV. SCOTT PLEASED Rev. T. L. Scott, pastor of the A. M. E. Church of Gary, Ind., is greatly pleased with the interest manifested by the members of his new charge. defendant was of colored blood would he have married her? 7. Was the plaintiff intimate with the defendant after he obtained full knowledge that the defendant was of colored blood? The jury decided all of the six questions in favor of Mrs. Rhinelander. The last or the seventh they did not touch. For our part we believe that less than one year that Mr. and Mrs. Rhinelander will be living together again in some part of this broad land. --- YOUTH BEATS HIS FATHER TO DEATH WITH LARGE CLUB (Preston News Service) Fordyce, Ark., Dec. 11. — David Vaughn, aged 72 years, was beaten to death by his son, Diamond Vaughn, aged 20 years, Wednesday, on the road near the Pete Nichol plantation. The elder Vaughn was returning from the jail with his son, who had been held there following an attack of the youth on his sister Monday on a Fordyce street. The aged man was riding a horse when his son, objecting to the return home, suddenly seized a club and beat his father to death. Diamond Vaughn later attacked Norman Shelton and bit his hand badly when Shelton sought to hold him. Vaughn was arrested later and lodged in the Hampton jail on a charge of murder. VETERAN PULLMAN PORTER DEAD Washington.—The recent death in this city of Mr. Spencer Murray, a Pullman porter who was in the service for 38 years, brings to light the very useful and interesting career of that veteran. Mr. Murray was with President McKinley when he was assassinated at Buffalo, and was in charge of special cars carrying Presidents Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft to all parts of the country. He conducted the bridal party of Grove Cleveland and that of Nicolas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt, and also had charge of the car in which Admiral Dewey traveled across the continent on his return from Manila. It was Murray who was sent to get McKinley's death-mask when his wounds resulted fatally, and subsequently he was in charge of the room in Buffalo in which Roosevelt took the oath of office. Mr. Murray entered the Pullman service in 1887, and at the time of his death was 67 years old. Y.W.C.A. Indiana Avenue Branch PRESENTS ROLAND HAYES IN RECITAL Monday Evening, December 14th At 8:15 P.M. Orchestra Hall THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 12, 1925 The Greatest Collection of Sport Celebrities in Chicago's History Will Assemble at the Christmas Fund Show at the Coliseum on December 19th, When P.J. Carr will be the Big Boss at the Monster Carnival to be Staged for the Needy Poor of the City. Advance sale of tickets for County Treasurer P. J. Carr's fifth annual Christmas entertainment call a "sell-out." If the prediction of the wise ones is correct every seat in the Coliseum and Annex on the night of December 19th will be occupied and the poor will benefit in the sum of between $40,000 and $50,000, an unprecedented amount for an affair such as Mr. Carr plans. Assistant County Treasurer Jacob Lindheimer, Edward J. McCabe, secretary of the committee in charge, and Peter Stroth of the La Salle Theater, who have charge of sales unite in expressing the belief that every seat will be sold. "I have had some experience in these matters," said Mr. McCabe, "and never before have I seen such eagerness on the part of the public to co-operate in a matter so closely concerning the happiness of the poor at Christmas time. Everyone seems to be wonderfully imbued with the Yuletide spirit. It augurs splendidly for the success of the undertaking and I am confident that the return will be at least $50,000." Following the plans outlined by Mr. Carr, a number of the world's most famous athletes donated their services THIS WEEK By Ernest Rice McKinney President Coolidge has been asked to make Perry Howard behave himself and attend to his duties in the Department of Justice. I don't believe that the President will interfere. Perhaps he will. I have heard a rumor that Perry went to the Pullman Company and told them that he controlled the Preston News Agency and that he could get The Camerman and the Manager of the Service to run Pullman propaganda in their fight with the porters' projected union. Of course, there was to be a consideration for Perry from the Pullman folks. Not having any documentary evidence in the matter no one can say for sure that this little Negro did such a thing. However, it sounds like him. A man who would do as he has done on various occasions, can be expected to do anything despicable that comes to mind. Negroes like "Pat's Perry" have been doing things like this for fifty years or more. That is the way that they get their graft from white people. They are continually at it, telling some white politician or corporation that they control some Negro newspaper, group or institution. Of course, they don't control any of these things, but the whites don't know it. The first thing Clarence Darrow knows he will be getting a warning from the Kluxers that his time is up. He is getting too frisky in making intercession for Negroes in the courts. Now he has interested himself in the case of a colored boy, in Chicago, accused of killing a white boy. Darrow was successful in having the boy sent to a home for delinquent boys. He goes there to be made into a useful citizen instead of to the penitentiary to be made into a Gerald Chapman. Now the Kluxers would rather that the boy go to Joliet and learn to be a first-class bad man. Then they could have a lynching and a flimsy excuse to talk about Americanism and racial purity. The lone American Negro fighting with the French, in Morocco, has been killed. Although I am not with the French in this African warfare, nevertheless there is something fine and heroic in this Negro dying in the cause of beloved France, where "Liberty," "Equality" and "Fraternity" are more than mere words, more than sounding brass. Perhaps this man Cole felt that he owed a debt to France for permitting him, for the first time, to breathe in a full breath of freedom and brotherhood. I am reminded of the time that a French officer asked me why there was a Negro division in the American army. At first I told him that I did not know. And then I explained that in my country about 50 per cent of the people were uncivilized, ignorant barbarians. About 10 per cent were downright savages. This officer, with to the cause of assisting the poor of the city. Joe Stecher, claimant of the world's heavyweight wrestling championship, announced through Joe Coffey that he would appear and wrestle any opponent selected for him. Ed White, wrestling promoter, who is manager of Johnny Myers, middleweight champion, has offered the services of Myers to meet any opponent. Strangler Lewis will also appear and meet an adversary to be named later. Harmon also offered to provide a couple of bands to "whoop 'er up" during the evening's entertainment, and help to enliven the proceedings. Howard Carr, Mique Malloy, Johnny Coulon and Jim Mullen promised to provide their best amateur boxes and send them into action to settle the matter of supremacy among the simonpures of the city. A number of well-known professional boxes have agreed to appear. Eddie Shea, Ray Miller, Ray Ryschell, Archie Bell, Mickey Kelly, and others well known as top-notchers in the fistic world will be on hand to do their bit. The names of the contestants will be given to the press just as soon as they are signed up. Among the attractions at the Carnival will be the Daily News fifty-piece band. a show of feeling, said that such a thing could never happen in France. And so while Cole's family will mourn his passing they can take solace in the fact that he has died for France. The tight-heads, in England and in this country, are all "het up" over a sermon preached recently by Dean Ingo of St. Paul's Cathedral. The "gloomy dean" said that Heaven and Hell were geological expressions that can find no place in the geology of today. That is, there "ain't no such animal." There is "ain't no geographical Heaven or Hell. The die-hard brethren got hotter when the Dean questioned, in veiled language to be sure, the authenticity of the miracles. But the worst blow of all was the following: "It is even possible to speculate as to whether the religion of Christ might not be a greater power in the world, if it's professional custodians were removed." That broke the camel's back. "How come?" they cried. The Dean may not know it but he is hitting at profits as well as prophets. Many of the preachers are more interested in profits than in the prophets, their utterances to the contrary notwithstanding. But the Dean may yet live to see the masses awaken and end this dictatorship of the preachertariat. A MESSAGE FROM ST. LOUIS The Right Woman in the Right Place, Mrs. George Galian Mrs. Geo. Galian bears the proud distinction of being the committeewoman of the 23rd Ward Republican Organization at the present time and known by her associates as a faithful worker for the best interest of the Organization, and as its committeewoman is entitled to a full measure of the credit for the excellent and growing conditions of the organization. Mrs. Galian has done much toward increasing the membership of the Republican party in St. Louis, Mo. The effect on men and women workers for the Republican party is farreaching in "future" to know facts and to work in shaping them into concrete form in committees. That is real work for the committee woman, who has much love for the Republican party. Always a Republican; always in the party conferences; always at party organizations; because she believes in them as the fundamentals of the Republican form of government. Her name is very prominent in religious and social circles, and was fighting for women's suffrage before the average woman realized that such would be accomplished. Mrs. Galian is a charter member and former instructor of the Y. W. C. A.; also, manager of the colored group in the bond issue campaign, which means much to our greater St. Louis. The above article is from the pen of Mrs. H. L. Patterson, 4421 Indiana Ave. Phone Atlantic 1124, Chicago, Ill. [Name] HON. ALBERT B. GEORGE Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, who will address the citizens of Denver, Colo., on January 1, in honor of the Sixty-second Annual Emancipation Day. His faithful Bailiff Adolph F. Tervalon may accompany His Honor on his western trip. HON. ALBERT B. GEORGE, ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF CHICAGO WILL ADDRESS THE CITIZENS OF DENVER, COLORADO, JANUARY 1, 1926 the Mile High City. Fritz Cansler, formerly connected with the Philadelphia "Y," is secretary of the association. The celebration, featuring Judge George's address, will be held in Denver's magnificent city auditorium, re- On January 1, 1926, Hon. Albert B. George, who was elected to the Municipal Court bench of Chicago the first part of November, 1924, who has made good every inch of the road and who has honestly served as such without one spot or blemish on his judicial record, and who continues to reflect great credit on all the colored citizens of Chicago and throughout the United States, will address the citizens of Denver, Colorado. He has been selected to deliver the emancipation address. The announcement of the coming of Chicago's popular jurist has aroused much interest throughout the western section, and delegations of citizens are expected from many cities of the Rocky Mountain region. The celebration this year is under the auspices of the Glenarm Branch of the Denver Young Men's Christian Association, occupying for the first year a splendid new building and having a membership of upwards of 500 of the representative citizens of DR. WILLIAM FIELDING GARNETT In a packed hall where the Third Ward Republican Organization had gathered for the purpose of making plans for its future progress in the course of its deliberations, Tuesday evening, December 8th, Dr. W. F. Garnett was called upon to make an address. As was his custom, he sought to give that character of advice that would better subserve the common interest of all the people regardless of factional conditions. He had in mind the hope of closing up the ranks and making a united organization, ceasing strife, which would enable them to become a strong component part of the party throughout the county. At the conclusion of these words of advice he sat down amid a burst of applause. No one realized that this was his last speech. But the Master with His scythe suddenly rolled down the curtain and closed out the life of a man who was a pioneer in the activities of the life of Chicago for two score of years. Those of the old timers knew him better as "Bud" Garnett the dentist. He was the oldest colored dentist in Chicago. When he first placed his sign on State St., it was a marvel to the passer by. He was a man of the highest type of citizen, who always sought to be a part in leading the way to advise the man who was striving to climb the ladder. He told his own story as the best lesson, how he graduated from the Northwestern University, later he moved to Evanston, where he has practiced dentistry for more than twenty years, and has been a substantial part of the better interests of the community. His funeral service was held Friday in Evanston at the Ebenezer A.M.E. the Mile High City. Fritz Cansler, formerly connected with the Philadelphia "Y," is secretary of the association. The celebration, featuring Judge George's address, will be held in Denver's magnificent city auditorium, regarded by many as one of the finest types of construction in the entire country. Seating capacity to be used, about 5,000. A citizen's committee has been placed in charge of the arrangements and the entire colored population will co-operate in making the occasion a fitting commemoration of the sixty-second anniversary of the abolition of slavery in America. Within the past year, Judge George has addressed the colored people residing in Washington, D.C., his old home town, Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wis., Gary, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Bloomington, Illinois, and other points. At a great meeting held in Bloomington, this state, recently about half of those present were white people and Hon. Frank H. Funk, who is one of the most prominent citizens of Illinois, felt it was a high honor to preside over the meeting and he paid Judge George a high and glowing tribute as to his great legal ability and as to his worth as a citizen of the great state of Illinois. church, the sermon preached by his personal friend, Rev. I. N. Daniels. The funeral was in charge of Evanston Knights of Pythias Lodge of which he was a charter member. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Garnett, a daughter, Miss Theodios Garnett, one son, William Fielding, Jr., a sister, Dr. Isabella Garnett Butler, Evanston, one brother, Dexter Garnett and a host of friends. J. THE LATE DR. W. F. GARNETT Funeral services were held over his remains yesterday afternoon at the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Evanston, Ill., which were largely attended. PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE'S MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES REVIEWED BY CHARLES STEWART, JR., AND OTHER COMMENTS BY HIM ON LIVE QUESTIONS. Monday, December 8th, marked the opening of the first session of the 69th Congress. This Congress will be compelled to handle the most momentous questions that have been before any Congress for ages. The silent man from Massachusetts, after due deliberation transmitted in his message a form that would bring about the best possible laws which would better subserve the interest of the people of our nation. Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, presiding officer of the Senate, has returned to his post after having traveled thousands of miles throughout the nation in an endeavor to awaken the people to the necessity of the Senate changing the filibustering rules to sane and constructive business like sessions. It remains to be seen whether "Hell and Maria" have been able to convince the Senate that they are wasting the people's money by such obstructions. Running true to form, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, and Senator Moses of New Hampshire, are reported to have said that it would be a wise thing for some generous jeweler in Washington to buy the Vice President an alarm clock with a gong attached to it. It is further reported that a certain Senator from the West seeks to add a new section to the rules that pipes of all character be barred from the Senate Chamber or any adjacent rooms. The President's message was read on Tuesday which gives the objectives an opportunity to sharpen their axes. It is reported that out of the hundreds of appointments made by the President that the nonconcerns in the wisdom of the message of the President in relation to certain provisions under the leadership of Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Borah, of Idaho and Hiram Johnson, of California with Senator Bob LaFollette and certain democrats are of the same opinion as to the World's Court and that they owe certain allegiance to the sleeping memory of former Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, and others, that they will be compelled to use every effort of strategy through the judiciary committee to block enough of said appointees to force the President to a compromise of some character that will be acceptable to the World's Court as they see it. Otherwise, the sessions of the Senate will be stormy from beginning to end. Illinois and the twenty-six states have a little block of their own known as the waterway from the lakes to the gulf and as Congress proceeds they will have an opportunity to become acquainted with the character of the new Senator from Illinois, Hon. Charles S. Deneen, who is fully acquainted with the needs of the development of the waterway to make the mighty west the commercial outlet that nature has intended. It will be advisable for Senator McKinley to do just a little more than introduce the Dyer Bill for there are two hundred and seventy-five thousand Negro votes in Illinois watching every move. Wireless telegraphy cannot be changed. Whatever he says before the Committee of the Senate he must stand pat in every place where he even breathes and thinks, because these folks have their ears to the ground and like the Indian, the first settler in Illinois, they can tell the sound by just the move of the lip and read the expression upon the face of the Senator in their nightly dreams until they have been absolutely convinced that he is the real leader of the sons of Cain. They are watching and listening by spirit and the living men and women are taking a lesson from a paragraph of the address delivered to the Japanese army by their greatest general, Nogi, when he said, "I am not talking to the living but to the spirits of the dead." This same applications applies here that the millions of soldiers who died on every battlefield from Valley Forge to the fields of France whose blood enriched their soil. This great sleeping body is mingling with the two hundred and seventy-five thousand Negro voters in Illinois, telling them to "Watch and Pray." Next comes the man with silvery hair from the First Illinois Congressional District, whose antecedents date back to the old word, where the nation of which they were a part fought for 740 years contending against the tyranny of Great Britain. Emmett, Dillon, Parnell and O'Connor sacrificed their very existence in order that the sons of the green flag might have common justice on their own territory. He comes from a district where ninety-eight per cent of his constituents are Negro men and women. They have had abiding faith in his efforts for their best interests and it is believed that by some line of sagacity that he will force due recognition of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. It will be a crowning effort of his life if he can conceive the plan as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations to force such recognition. At any rate his constituents are satisfied that he will use the watchful care that will be necessary at the opportune time to press a surprise bargain that will force them to agree that these amendments are a part of the Constitution; must and shall be obeyed. At any rate we leave it in the hands of Illinois' most powerful Congressman, the Honorable Martin B. Madden. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S MES SAGE AND THE NEGRO President Coolidge tells the story of the Negro for sixty years and describes his part in all of the arts of civilization and of his loyalty to the country. He speaks of the need of sympathy and kindness; he further states that they should be protected from all violence, and should enjoy the fruits of his labor "Those who do violence to them should be punished for the crime, no other course of action is worthy of the American people." He states further that the Negro represents one tenth of the population of the nation and it is the intent of the law as prescribed in each and every paragraph in spirit and in letter that the law is intended to be enforced. The beautiful words in reasoning out the intent and purpose of the law have been used so often that they read almost like the perfect book of Biblical history—the book of Job, but what the one-tenth of the nation described in the message want to know, Mr. President, is why the moss-covered amendments, 13th 14th and 15th, have not been given the same financial sustenance as has been given to the 18th amendment, when they spend millions of dollars trying to discover whether some fellow has a half pint of liquor in his house or some hypocritical quasiprohibition reports that his next door neighbor is making a little home stimulant to take on a cold night or enjoy a birthday as has been the custom since the beginning of time. If the members of the appropriation committee will take the president at his word, they will make a sufficient appropriation to give to the most valuable American, the Negro, financial backing for his protection. The words of these messages go into history and are soon forgotten, but an appropriation will make them better understand that an enforcement of the law is intended. PROFESSOR HARRY KEELER, PRINCIPAL LINDBLOM HIGH SCHOOL, H I G H L Y COMMENDS CHARLES STEWART, JR., AS A WRITER FOR THE BROAD AX The following letter speaks for itself: I thank you for the interesting clippings which you sent me from your paper. I assure you that the editions of your paper which I have seen, show improvement each time and reflect great credit upon your ability and efficiency as a news writer. May I trust that in the future you will continue to give me the privilege of seeing what you are doing. Very truly yours, —HARRY KEELER, Principal Lindblom High School. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 12, 1925 The regular monthly meeting of the Red Caps' Literary Club will be held on Sunday afternoon, December 20th, at 3:30. Attorney J. Gray Lucas will be the principal speaker. Sandy W. Trice, Pres. SUNDAY EVENING CLUB For Sunday evening, December 13th, at 7:30, the Metropolitan Community Center Sunday Evening Club has secured for the principal speaker, Judge R. V. Fletcher, general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad. He is a very fluent and able speaker, and this marks his first appearance before our group in Chicago. His subject will be "Citizenship," and he will be introduced by Senator Adelbert H. Roberts. Judge John G. Drennan will preside at this meeting, and in addition, Prof. J. Wesley Jones has prepared a rare musical program. On Sunday, December 20, at our Sunday evening meeting, Phillip Randolph of the Messenger, will be principal speaker. Sandy W. Trice, Chairman. THE PROGRESSIVE CIRCLE The Progressive Circle of King's Daughters served an excellent chicken dinner for fifty cents on Friday, December 11th, at the Red Caps' Clubhouse, 3441 Wabash Ave. from 4:30 to 8 p.m. The entire receipts went for the Christmas Charity Work. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Mrs. Grace Jefferson, Sec'y. RED CAPS' CLUB NEWS At the meeting of the Red Caps' Club on Monday night, December 7th, at the Clubhouse, the following officers were elected: President, Sandy W. Trice; first vice-president, B. F. Shepard; second vice-president, S. H. Harris; third vice-president, W. T. Hall; treasurer, Otho Robinson; secretary, James Waldron; corresponding secretary, C. L. Smith; directors, Eugene Shepard, Eugene Langston, M. G. Haynes. Another Item of News For the N. A. A. C. P. defense fund, the Red Caps' Club of Chicago, Ill., made up of Red Caps of the Northwestern, Dearborn and Illinois Central stations, on December 7th sent in their check for one hundred and five dollars ($105.00) to Morris Lewis, director of the Chicago branch of the N. A. A. C. P. For such worthy purposes we should and must give feelingly. Sandy W. Trice, President. OKLAHOMA WARDEN REMEM BERS AT LAST TO HANG PRISONER (Preston News Service) McAlester, Okla., Dec. 10.—John Washington, whom a warden forgot to execute last June, has at last been electructed for killing a watchman. When the warden discovered his oversight there was a further delay by legal proceedings. LINCOLN ST OF CH Under State Govem 31st and South Capital and Surv South State Street First Mortgage Approved Safe Inv interest. $100 B payment See our Mr. Avery of LOANS MADE O Approved Safe Investments yield 7% interest. $100 Bonds sold on easy payment plan See our Mr. Avery of the Bond Department LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTATE Savings Department open from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. Saturdays SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES for less than on a day. Protect your Valuable Papers, Jewels SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES for less than one cent a day. Protect your Valuable Papers, Jewelry, etc. Spartansburg, S. C., Dec. 10.—Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was designed to encourage Negroes to attack southern homes and thus force confederate soldiers to leave the army and return home to protect their loved ones, Mrs. St. John A. Lawton, of Charleston, president general of the United Daughters of Confederacy, said in an address here last Thursday night before the state organization of the order. "I dislike to hear Lincoln spoken of as the great emancipator and humanitarian. Lincoln had no thought of kindness when he signed that famous document. The object of that paper was to have the Negroes rise up and attack southern homes, so that the soldiers in the confederate armies would be compelled to return and protect them. Is there anything humanitarian in that?" "Be it said to the everlasting credit of the black race that history records not one act of violence following Lincoln's proclamation. "There is a certain type of northern individual to be seen in Pullman cars and restaurants who expresses loud and long, amazement over the fact that we have not forgotten. He insists upon showing how he and his friends of the North have absolutely forgotten everything pertaining to the war. "The truth is, he has not forgotten at all. He has never known. The intelligencia of the North has not forgotten; the presidents of northern colleges have not forgotten; those who occupy chairs of history in northern institutions of learning have not forgotten; writers for current magazines have not forgotten. So why should it be essential that we forget as soon as we come across the Mason and Dixon line." Following close upon the declaration of Mrs. Lawton that Lincoln's act in freeing slaves was not dictated by kindness, James F. Brynes, former representative in Congress from South Carolina, asserted that the war between the States was brought on by Lincoln's disregard of the Constitution. "Had' the confederate government succeeded in arms," Byrnes declared, "Lincoln would have been known to posterity as a man who regarded the Constitution as a scrap of paper and who, in utter contempt of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, violated the guaranteed rights of the sovereign States and brought on a war exceeding in severity all that had preceded it." PASSES AWAY IN INDIAN- APOLIS The Chicago Division of A. U. K. & D. of A. has draped the charters of all Juveniles throughout the city and state in honor of the late Dr. Mary Charleston, national grand mother queen of Juveniles throughout the jurisdiction of A. U. K. & D. of A. Mrs. Charleston was buried in Indianapolis, Ind., on December 8th, with national grand honors. STATE BANK MICAGO Government Supervision in State Streets plus $460,000.00 It's Largest Bank The Gold Bonds Investments yield 7% bonds sold on easy plan in the Bond Department IN REAL ESTATE ES for less than one cent able Papers, Jewelry, etc. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERnest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121-2322 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charlest E. Dawson NORTHERN M. E. BISHOP SAYS METHODISM TO BE UNITED EVENTUALLY (Preston News Service) Chicago, Ill., Dec. 11.—Though the Episcopal Church, South, failed to vote its required majority of three-fourths for union with the northern branch of the church, Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of the Chicago era, regards the vote as a great victory. "The vote indicates the desire of the northern church to meet any future preparations in a general and welcoming spirit," he said. Bishop Hughes is a member of the joint commission. "Voting in the conferences of the two branches of the churches is practically complete. Unification carried completely in the Methodist Episcopal church, the favoring vote being almost 95 per cent. In the southern branch the required constitutional majority is three-fourths. The vote falls far short of this, but it is evident that the final returns show a numerical majority of between 300 and 400." SWEET BROTHERS ARE A D MITTED TO BAIL (Preston News Service) Detroit, Mich., Dec. 11.-Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, his brother Henry, and Leonard Morris, three of the eleven defendants charged with the murder of Leon C. Breinor, shot and killed in the course of a racial disturbance at Garland and Charlevoix avenues last September, were released from the county jail Thursday, when each provided the $10,000 bond fixed by Judge Frank Murphy, Wednesday. The bondsmen were respectively: Harry Sheppard, J. W. Johnson and wife, and Robert Ruitowitz. Seven of the eleven are now out on bail. Other bonds were fixed at $5,000. The retrial is expected to commence early in January. TO VISIT ON BUSINESS Hon. Wm. H. Fields of St. Louis, Mo., national grand master of A. U. K, & D. of A., is expected in the city in a few days on business. WILLIE UNI JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J.E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.M. Bookkeeper Empamers Appertice No.194. Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN 5121-23-25 WALDEN COLLEGE "TheWilliamsonFuneral" is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars MRS. McHENRY RETURNS Mrs. Jessie E. McHenry, 3943 Prairie Ave., president of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Educational Circle and active in fraternal circles as well as club work, has returned to the city after an absence of two months, spent visiting friends in Denver, Colo., Texas, Topeka and Kansas City, Kans. Mrs. McHenry reports a most delightful trip. HOLDS ELECTION Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, located in their new home, 3920 South Park Way, has held the election of officers for the ensuing year. J. C. Martin was re-elected grand exalted ruler. Dr. I. H. Holloway was elected as a new member of the Medical Examiners Board. M. T. Bailey, S. J. Foun- tain, P. A. Glanton and J. H. Williams are among the past exalted rulers. The lodge is driving for a membership of 3,000 by February, 1926. RETURNS FROM NEW ORLEANS Mrs. David L. Jackson, 11253 S. Racine Ave., has returned to her home from a visit of several weeks with relatives and friends in New Orleans, La. TO GIVE PROGRAM The officers and members of the Joint Building Association of U. B. B. F. & S. M. T. of which J. B. Street is president and Mrs. Lettie McClain is secretary, will render a fine musical and literary program on Sunday afternoon, December 13th, at Bailey's Hall. 3638 S. State St. THE FASHION WEEK This picture is reproduced through the kindness of Mr. Majors, City Editor of the Chicago Evening American. THE ABOVE FAMILY PICTURE REPRESENTS MR. AND MRS. GEORGE JONES, FATHER AND MOTHER OF MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER, AND HER TWO SISTERS, MRS. GRACE BROOKS AND MRS. EMMA MILLER, AND WHEN THE PICTURE WAS SNAPPED THEY WERE WAITING FOR THE VERDICT TO BE RETURNED WHICH WAS IN FAVOR OF MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER, WHO IS SITTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PICTURE. (Preston News Service) 1. Mississippi and the Mob. 2. Envy. A pamphlet entitled "Mississippi and the Mob" has been distributed throughout the United States and especially in Mississippi by state officials, members of the Bar Association and various citizens. It contains strong arguments urging law officers to use armed force and to risk their own lives, if need be, to suppress lynching and mob violence, which has brought the state into public scorn frequently. In the foreword, J. N. Flowers, former assistant attorney general and now president of the Mississippi Bar Association, declares a sheriff should prevent lynching and mob violence or forfeit his office. The fact that a mob of unmasked men in Mississippi recently staged one of the most barbarous lynchings ever heard of, and the additional disgusting fact that no one of the lynchers has ever been arrested or put to the slightest inconvenience because of his participation in that diabolical and ghastly festival has awakened the finer feelings of the better thinking citizens of Mississippi who have caused the issuance, of the pamphlet for the purpose of awakening a public conscience with this strong appeal to common sense. The pamphlet should arouse the people of the State to a point where they will give some thought to this inhuman, uncivilized and barbarous "past-time" so frequently engaged in by a gang of unthinking, unreasoning and uncivilized ignoramuses that brings the State in disrepute as well as blackens the fain name of the whole United States. This disgraceful business of lynching has become a matter of economics as well as morals. Those states that fail to suppress mobs naturally suffer from the consequences — retarded economic, educational, civil, moral and religious development. At the present time the general trend of business and industrial development is toward the South. Persons who keep their eyes singled on the general pulse of economic waves are fully aware that the industrial development of the South will grow by leaps and bounds within the next few years. But in States where lynchers and law-breakers go unpunished and general outlawry is winked at or connived with, the development will be slow, if at all. These states will not share in the fruits of the general progress. Progressional development is made by serious minded, industrious and law-abiding citizens, and not by mobists, lynchers and ignoramuses. No country, state or community can hope to keep the good citizens it has, and least of all attract desirable ones to come in and settle there if diabolical orgies of mob violence are frequently engaged in and the participants go scot free and unpunished. The pamphlet cannot help but prove of great value toward the educational development of the people of Mississippi as well as those of the entire country. It is a hopeful sign. It bespeaks a bright era in the affairs of the country and especially in Mississippi. The effects of it are bound to prove a great blessing. The pamphlet shows that the better thinking whites of Mississippi are determined and have set their minds and souls to the tasks of ridding the State of one of its greatest menaces. Mississippi are now on the right track toward civil, social, economic and religious development. They are urged to keep up the good work until the State is entirely rid of lynching and mob violence. Recent increased activity among various groups and clubs composed of American whites to foster, nurture and spread the seed of RACE HATRED—resulting frequently in race clashes—is doubtless based on the spirit of innate ENVY. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 12, 1925 When one observes the economic and educational progress Negroes in this country have made since emancipation it is easy to see why certain groups of ignorant and shiftless whites, whose opportunities (based on color) are practically unlimited in comparison with those of Negroes, would become envious when they see Negroes—circumscribed as they are—outstrip most of these whites along educational and economic lines. It is then that these whites are impelled to advocate Nordic "supremacy," "racial purity," pass miscogenation laws, grand-father clauses, deny the Negro the right of suffrage and resort to all sorts of subterfuges to further intimidate the American Negro and hold him in subjection. In the face of all these obstacles the Negro is making progress. Thus the renewed efforts to repel the onward march in progressional development could grow out of nothing else save wild-eyed ENVY. Vaunted white "supremacy" manifests itself frequently in the form of mob violence in various communities whenever an ambitious Negro endeavors to better his living conditions and home-life surroundings. Whenever a Negro possesses sufficient manhood and courage and moves into better developed—so-called white neighborhoods—of any city to avoid rearing his children in sections where he is compelled to live along side vice dens, and where untoward influences abound, where the denizens of the underworld are his neighbors, he is looked upon by the whites of the new neighborhood as an "uppish nigger" who wants to be white and get away from his people. Immediately efforts are made to restrain him from moving into the so-called white neighborhood. When he is brave enough to move in, then the gang of whites form mobs, attack his home, destroy his property and often take his life in their effort to force him to move back among the denizens of the underworld. These acts of violence against ambitious Negroes are unquestionably based upon the innate spirit of ENVY, so manifestly prevalent in the large class of ignorant and shiftless whites. Their ignorance, bigotry and intolerance constantly gnaw at their very heart strings. It is this class of envious whites that constantly endeavors to place obstacles in the path of the American Negro. The black man's salvation lies in a renewed determination to make of himself the ideal American citizen. Own and maintain the best home he can possibly afford; give his children the best education he can; let no man be more thrifty than he; more courageous, more religious, better qualified, more industrious, more patriotic or more law abiding than he. As A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW JAS. B. McCAHEY, President FRANK J. DUNN, Vice-President ESTABLIS JOHN COA ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN COAL CO. Telephone Oakland 1550 od 6309 OLN GARAGE L. 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Wilkey, pastor of the Hyde Park Baptist Church of Chicago, spoke on "Jesus Christ in the Orient," and lauded the work of Ghandi, the non-cooperationist leader in India, saying: "No one is more like Jesus than Ghandi." "The two main things today that influence India's opinion of the United States are the American Race Problem, as it impresses the Indian student in America after he returns home and the serious blow American prestige has suffered in India because of the immigration laws." RHINELANDER LOSES HIS CASE White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 10. After staying out 12 hours the Rhinelander jury returned a verdict in favor of Mrs. Rhinelander. Just what decision the presiding judge will hand down in the annulment case is not known at this time. It is expected that he will find in favor of the defendant. The City Federation of Women Clubs of which Mrs. Nannie Reid is president, held its regular quarterly meeting last Monday at the Herman Baptist Church, of which Rev. A. L. Harris is pastor. 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