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THE BROAD AX Rev. Father Norman Anthony Duckette, One of the Five Colored Priests In the United States, Sang His First High Mass In Chicago Last Sunday Morning At St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church. Many Thousands of People Were Unable to Enter the Church to Witness the Solemn Services Which Were Wonderful to Behold. SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Rev. Father Nor Colored Priests Mass In Chicago Roman Catholic Unable to Enter Which Were Wo 2 HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER One of the most popular and one of the most honorable Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago; one of the highest Masons in the United States, who can be easily classed as one of the truest and steadfast friends of the Colored people in this country. Starting on Monday morning, March 1st, he will sit in judgment at the 48th Street Court for the next two weeks. (Story on Page 2) MORITT CHEACS The best coroner that Cook County has ever had, who has more than two hundred thousand friends and many supporters in this city and county who will assist to nominate him as the Republican candidate for member of the Board of Review Tuesday, April 13. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 6, 1926 man Ant ln the U Last Su Church. the Chur nderful t SOME OF THE MO WERE PRESENT EVENING, TO BE LOWSHIP TO R MR. JESSE BINGA BANK, ON BEH ITS SISTERS, PR A CHECK FOR THAT "HE HOW WAS ALSO PRE LINED SILVER FRIENDSHIP. HON. GEORGE T. O'DONNELL FU OCCASION. MR. JAMES S. M WELCOMED FA LEFT FOR DE WHERE HE WILL SOME TIME. REV. FATHER HIGHLY EDUCA AND SELF PON ORATED ON HO ORDER TO BECO OLIC CHURCH. Anthony Duckett, the United States, on Sunday Morning. Many Thouh church to Witnessful to Behold. THE MOST PROMINENT CITIZEN PRESENT AT ST. ELIZABETH HALL, TO EXTEND THE RIGHT HALL TO REV. FATHER DUCKETTE. BINGA, PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOP BEHALF OF ST. ELIZABETH HALL, PRESENTED FATHER DUCKETTE FOR $300, AT THE SAME TIME THE HOPED HE WOULD MAKE SO PRESENTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL VER CHALICE AND OTHER CHRISTIAN. GEorge T. Kersey and Hon. P. Bell furnished the Oratorium. James S. Madden Heartily Admired Father Duckette to Charge for Detroit, Mich., Monday the Will be permanently Lost. Father Duckette, WHO IS A EDUCATED, UNASSUMING, MILDLY POSSESSED, INTELLIGENT ON HOW HE STUDIED LONG AFTER BECOME A PRIEST IN THE ROOM CHURCH. SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS IN CHICAGO WERE PRESENT AT ST. ELIZABETH HALL, SUNDAY EVENING, TO EXTEND THE RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP TO REV. FATHER DUCKETTE. MR. JESSE BINGA, PRESIDENT OF THE BINGA STATE BANK, ON BEHALF OF ST. ELIZABETH PARISH AND ITS SISTERS, PRESENTED FATHER DUCKETTE WITH A CHECK FOR $300, AT THE SAME TIME STATING THAT "HE HOPED HE WOULD MAKE GOOD." HE WAS ALSO PRESENTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL GOLD-LINED SILVER CHALICE AND OTHER TOKENS OF FRIENDSHIP. HON. GEORGE T. KERSEY AND HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL FURNISHED THE ORATORY FOR THE OCCASION. MR. JAMES S. MADDEN HEARTILY AND WARMLY WELCOMED FATHER DUCKETTE TO CHICAGO, WHO LEFT FOR DETROIT, MICH., MONDAY EVENING, WHERE HE WILL BE PERMANENTLY LOCATED FOR SOME TIME. REV. FATHER DUCKETTE, WHO IS EXTREMELY HIGHLY EDUCATED, UNASSUMING, MILD MANNERED, AND SELF POSSESSED, INTELLIGENTLY ELABORATED ON HOW HE STUDIED LONG AND HARD IN ORDER TO BECOME A PRIEST IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. One of the most impressive religious ceremonies ever witnessed in this city was the celebration of a solemn High Mass (by Hache), at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, 41st and Wabash Ave., last Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The celebrant of this Mass was the Rev. Father Norman Anthony Duckette, a young colored priest recently ordained by the Rt. Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, D.D., of the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, Detroit, Mich. Father Duckette is one of the five colored priests in the United States and his celebration of this Mass at St. Elizabeth's is of more than ordinary interest and significance because THE BEST OF THE WEEK 01 Reading from left to right: First, Rev. Father Duckette, singing his first High Mass in Chicago at St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church; second, Rev. Father Joseph F. Eckert, deacon; third, Rev. Father James, sub-deacon. of the fact that this Church, one of the oldest and in times past, one of the largest and most influential in this diocese, has recently been given over by Cardinal Mundelein to work among the colored people. The parish holdings consisting of the church, parochial school, convent, hall and clubhouse, valued at nearly a million dollars, has been placed in the charge of the energetic and popular Father Joseph F. Eckert of the old St. Monica Mission Church, and the singing of this Mass by Father Duckette, together with the blessing by him of the 6 or 8 white priests assisting him, and the immense congregation in attendance made it an occasion memora- ble in the history of Catholicity as a religious influence among the colored people of this city. Long before the hour had arrived for the historical services to begin, thousands and thousands of people, white and colored, had surrounded St. Elizabeth's Church and all the streets leading to it, were chuck a block, with Catholics and non-Catholics and it was estimated that between ten and twelve thousand people were extremely anxious to enter the Church and witness Rev. Father Duckette, celebrate or sing his first High Mass in Chicago. Rev. Father Joseph F. Eckert, pastor of St. Elizabeth Church, served as dea- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX One of the Five His First High St. Elizabeth's of People Were Solemn Services HON. P. J. CARR The warm or the best friend of the poor people residing in this city, County Treasurer and the people's candidate for Sheriff of Cook County. HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL One of the best and most eloquent orators in this country, the uncompromising champion of the civil and the political rights of the colored people in the United States, who delivered a short and eloquent oration last Sunday evening at St. Elizabeth Hall, in honor of Rev. Father Duckette. : ee Oe | a8 - a os = : A : : = oe ‘ ote ee ro oe eo ie 5 ‘ Pi eae HON. GEORGE E. BRENNAN The head leader or the high chief of the Democratic Party in this city and state who will make the race for United States Senator from Illinois. HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER | in the scale of justice measures that — come before him. By Charles R. Stewart, Jr. The described character herein is Hon. William R. Fetzer, who will be re-nominated and ‘re-elected Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, comes by birth from a small farm town out in La Salle County back in '73. Eager to equip himse!f he studied arduously by the old dim light of those days, graduated from the high school of Ottawa, Illinois, then into the University of Illinois from which he proudly emerged with great honor. Then a desire to become a lawyer possessed him and he took the usual prescribed course in Northwestern University. The mere fact that a law- yer has a University certificate and is admitted by due course to practice is not evidence of his ability to mete out justice adequately, but in the sketch we present, the course pursued to ac- quaint himself with those that might be fortunate or unfortunate enough in the time of its future to be litigants in the mind picture of the hope of having become a judge, thus he became Assistant State's Attorney under the late John W. E. Wayman, where he had the opportunity of the association with the master mind of that office the Hon. Thomas Marshall, whose con- struction of the law stands unchal- lenged. After retiring from the State's At- torney’s office he was elected alderman from the old 7th ward. In the course of service there observation of oppor- tunity and close application to the duties of a judicial position he became a candidate for judge in 1920, was elected and now comes back to his constituency, the common people, standing squarely upon his record as in all branches of his court it has been his effort to build constructively that from the rendition of opinions the higher courts in their survey of the same would sustain the decision that had been given. He has a judicial mind and judicial temperament which are the essential qualities to weigh HON. DANIEL RYAN, JR. the most popular public officials in this county; be On gue of ie oes hisnds ofthe common or the post poole and on Tuesday, April 13, he will be renominated for one of the Commissioners. of Cook. County. in the scale of justice measures that come before him. The described character herein is in the person of Honorable William R. Fetzer, who is a resident of the 6th ward and is a candidate on the Crowe-Barrett ticket for re-nomination as Judge of the Municipal Court at the primary to be held April 13. He is a member of the Chicago Bar As- sociation, the Masonic Fraternity Jackson Park Lodge No, 841, Wood- lawn Commandery No. 76 Knight Templars. He is a high club man and is well thought of by men of that type that contact gives them the op- portunity to survey his fitness. Judge Fetzer is now presiding in the 48th Street Court at Wabash Ave. His record there given by the lawyers, who practice in said court and the fortunate or unfortunate litigant, is that of dealing absolutely fair with each and every one who comes before him. Particularly we are interested from the fact that we have had the opportunity to watch carefully his dealing with the measures of men and women of our group who come before him. He takes the broad view thet a violator of the law, whether he be black or white must be weighed in the same manner to all, therefore it is a distinctive pleas- ure to recommend to the hundreds of thousands of voters in Chicago to lend him their vote in appreciation of the point of service that he may better serve them. It means so much to the unfortunate who is picked up by the police officer who many times out of prejudice or a distorted mind makes untruthful statements as to the char- acter of the prisoner, to have a man like Judge Fetzer sift out the facts that the prisoners of all types may have a fair and impartial hearing, thus we urge the people to keep in mind that he comes back to you thanking you for past favors and asking your aid in his renoinination that he may again become Judge of the Mu- nicipal Court guaranteeing to render to the people the highest Judicial service. _ THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 6, 1926 Rev. Father Duckette Celebrated High Solemn Mass at St. Elizabeth Church Last Sunday Morning (Continaed teem Pane 1) | pomp of power chose rather a life; whose decp spiritual insight and fun- ne Se ee ere eee rer assisted the celebrant. The fire and police departments were called upon to disperse the vast num- ber of people and to make room or ‘clear the way, so that some of the high church dignataries from, the vari- ‘ous parts of the city could enter, but nothing could be accomplished in that direction. It was an inspiring sight, long to be remembered, to behold Father Duckette properly performing the highest functions in the greatest and the oldest Church organization on earth. Rev. Father Duckette’s ordination to the Holy Priesthood, by the Rt. Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, D.D., at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, De- troit, Mich., Sunday, February 7, 1926, celebrating solemn High Mass, at St. Elizabeth the past Sunday. He cele- brated his first solemn High Mass the first Sunday in Lent, at St. Au- gustine’s. Roman Catholic Church, Washington, D. C., where he was born and raised and where his saintly mother resides at the present time. On Sunday evening a reception was tendered him in the Parish Hall, at which time he was presented with a large sum of money and with the other tokens of friendship already re- ferred to as expressive of the high appreciation of the colored Catholics of Chicago. A splendid musical program was rendered to the great delight of those who had come to St. Elizabeth's hall and it brought to a‘close a day that is epochal in the work of the Catholic Church in caring for the spiritual needs of the colored people in this country. Reception The reception was given under the auspices of the St. Monica Ct. No. 279, CO. F, Chief Ranger, R.A. Skinner presiding. On the platform visiting ‘priests from local parishes, representa. tives of women’s societies. The musical numbers were: The Magnificat sang by St. Eliza- beth’s Choral Club, Mrs. Ingram and Miss P. Lorenze, soloists; John Mid- derhoff, director. Violin solo by Prof. Harrison Emanuel, Mrs. Trice at piano. Spanish song by trio, Mrs. Trent, Mr. Amoureaux and Mrs. Marshall. Trees, Solo by Mrs. Saunders. Solo by Mr. Amoureaux, Mrs. Pela- gie Blair at piano. Mrs. Pelagie Blair is organist at St. Elizabeth's. She played the solemn High Mass beautifully, being a master hand at the organ. There were also a harp and three violins assisting in giving the excellent music during the Mass. Hon. George T. Kersey, Attorney E. J. Marshall, Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell, Rev. Father Joseph F. Eckert, furnished the oratory. Mr James S. Madden delivering the ad- dress of welcome to Father Duckette in behalf of the colored citizens of Chicago. Address by Mr. Madden His eloquent and plain matter of fact remarks follow: Nineteen centuries ago the street: of Jerusalem echoed to the tread o} One whose sandalled feet were des tined to mark a path along which through blood and tears, through sor row and suffering, through transgres. sion and repentance, a weary and sir stained world must make its toilsom way if through regeneration it woulc find its spiritual deliverance from sit and death. For 4,000 years before His coming the world had awaited the fulfillmen of a Divine promise, and the Patri archs and the Prophets of a choser people had foreshadowed, and foretol the birth of a great and a mighty rules who would deliver these people ow of the hands of their oppressers anc establish them in a kingdom that woulc surpass in might and magnificence anc hold in awe all the kingdoms of the earth. In the fullness of time the adven' of this deliverer was at hand. A sor of David, a Messiah would be bors at Bethlehem who would restore t them all their ancient splendor an¢ power and bring back to them the great days of Israel. Oe re a ak eee See ees: eee | eee ee he in it in the lowliest and humbliest of guises, overturning their every dream of might and majesty and demonstrat- ing to those who had so long looked for His coming, that only in humility is real power, only in service is true dominion. In the companionship of the weak, the world-worn and the suffering His mission found fruition and fulfillment, and in the selection of men upon whom to build His Kingdom, His choice fell upon those, who hardened by the toil of the day and wearied by the watch- ing of nets by night had yet wrested from sea and soil only the bare ne- cessities of life. Into the hearts and minds of these men He poured the riches of His wisdom and the wealth of His love, to strengthen them for the great bur- den He was soon to call upon them to bear, to inspire them for the war- fare they were soon to wage for His sake. And thus He walked and talked with men and wrought the foundation upon which He was to build the struc- ture of eternal life; upon which He was to erect a temple within whose spa- cious walls the nations of the earth would come to offer sacrifice and de- votion to His Heavenly Father—to a God, newer in conception of power and dominion; richer in attributes of love and mercy, and gentler in His dealings with His wayward but re- pentant creatures He looked out upon the world He had come to redeem and sought for a sign of its conversion; but - His anguished gaze ever rested upon the shadow of a cross upon which, predes- tine from the beginning, He was to offer up His life for the sins of all humanity. He had fed the multitudes and had given them to drink of the waters of salvation; yet, to His lips was ever pressed the chalice from which He was to drink to the very eee the bitter draught of atonement. And as the, last dread hour ap- proached, when the crowning act of His career was to be performed, when the great summing ap of the lessons of divine wisdom, which for three long years He had endeavored to in- still into their hearts and souls, were to be symbolized and crystallized into (one great central mystery, He called onthe His few chosen followers— carnest though they were, yet filled | with fear through want of understand- ing—and into their care and keeping, He entrusted the richest of all the heritages of the human soul; support. ing the gift with the divine assurance of His eternal presence; and safe guarding it with His promise to shield and protect it against every impair. ment of time, and thought and change. How firmly the seed was planted; how securely the trust was reposed, how faithfully the promise was kept the centuries attest. From Christ its founder to His pres ent Vicar on earth in one unbroken jorder of Apostolic succession it has | come down to our very day and time and on its altars and in the hearts o its people, in simple form and blood. less manner, is daily renewed and re enacted the spiritual splendor of the Last Supper and the awful traged; of Calvary. A little flower, springing from th stony soil of Nazareth, has sprea and blossomed until its beauty anc fragrance fills every land and clime; ; little twig, planted amid the hills 0 Palestine, has grown and thrived unti under its wide-spreading branches res in spiritual security all the nations 0 the earth. And to you, my friends, is grante the glorious privilege of dwelling ir the warmth and comfort of its pleas ing shade; to you is given the heritag of a faith that alone can banish ever} Goubt and fear of the soul. You are gathered here tonight t celebrate an epoch in your religiou: history; to manifest your gratitude foi a special mark of Divine favor and t¢ declare your appreciation of the ten der solicitude of Holy Mother Churct for your spiritual and temporal wel fare. Unto you—in the person of the Re SRS db ERR oy PRE Oy whose deep spiritual insight and fun- damental knowledge of the needs of his people should make him an in- strument in the hands of God to lead them into the full light of truth and bring them to an unwavering accept- ance of that faith you now so dearly hold and cherish. He has heard the call of the Master and like the Gallilean fishermen he has put aside the alluring nets of the world and has taken up his staff to follow Him; and the hopes of your hearts and the prayers of your soul should daily ascend to the throne of divine grace, that he may never faint nor falter while his earthly course shall run. You have gathered here tonight to do him honor and to offer him the choicest gift of heart and hand. To him you come bringing the most sacred vessel of the altar. Into it you have poured the sweet waters that flow from the well-springs of the heart; around it you have cast the incense of your prayers that it may ever prove an inexhaustible fountain of grace and consolation, and that out of it may every flow the wine of salvation for all who come under his priestly min- istration. And now, dear Father, I have the cherished privilege of tendering to you this beautiful gift of the Colored Catliolics of the City of Chicago, not so much by reason of its intrinsic value, but because it is expressive of their love and affection and mani- fests their great appreciation of the high ability and holy courage that has epabled you to attain the rare dignity of that priesthood that makes you an intercessor between the Almighty and his erring, repentant children. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Dr. Joseph A. Kelly, Mr. A. F. Carroll, Mr. Eugene J. Marshall, Mr. Jesse Binga, Major R. R. Jackson, Hon. George T. Kersey, Mr. John R. Mc- Cabe, Mrs. Grace Jefferson, Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Dr. Daniel H. Wil- liams, Mr. Oscar De Priest, Mr. Phil Hoffberg, Mr. Thomas V. Conroy, Mrs. Cora Spriggs, Mrs. M. Scott, Mrs. A. Vernon, Mrs, Richard J. Cope, Mrs. A. Franklin, Rev. Father Joseph F. Eckert, Mrs. Hannah Hammond, Mr. John J. Conroy, Mr. Patrick O’Don- nell, Rev. N. A. Duckette were among those who occupied seats on the plat- form. The following are the other Colored Priests and their locations: Father Theobald, St. Paul, Minn. Father John, St. Anthony College, Tenafly, N. J. Father Uncles, Josephite College, Newbury, N. Y. Father Dorsey, Josephite College, Newbury, N. Y. (Invalided.) Father Duckette, Detroit, Mich. YOUR INCOME TAX No.1 If you are single and support in your home one or more persons closely re- lated to you and over whom you ex- ercise family control, you are the head of a family and entitled, under the Rev- enue Act of 1926 to the same personal exemption allowed a married person, $3,500. In addition, a taxpayer is en- titled to a credit of $400 for cach person dependent upon him for chief support, if such, person is either under 18 years of age or incapable of self- support because mentally or physically defective. Such dependent need not be a member of the taxpayer's house- hold. For example, an unmatried son who supports in his home an aged mother is entitled to an exemption of $3,500 plus the $400 credit for a de- pendent, a total of $3,900. If from choice the mother lived in another city, the son, although her chief sup- port, would be entitled only to the $1,500 exemption, plus the $400 credit. The mother not living with him, he is not considered the head of a family. An exemption as the head of a fam- ily can be claimed by only one mem- ber of a household: The $400 credit does not apply to the wife or husband of a taxpayer, though one may be totally dependent upon the other. DR. ANNA BEATRICE SCHULTZ WAS REAPPOINTED EXAMIN- ING PHYSICIAN FOR THE TEACHERS’ PENSION FUND Last. week Dr. Anna Beatrice! Schultz, 3430 Calumet Ave., was to the great delight of her many friends, re-appointed Examining Physician for the Teacher’s Pension Fund. Dr. Schultz will continue to make good in her present position. ke . = ow 4 : . we ca : S ’ A =" q eee : x : Nee a : ie ee 7 Be _ : aa cd o e HON. GEORGE B. HOLMES One of the best and most popular Judges of t! Court of Chicago, who will be renominated a to the Municipal Court bench, for he travels « all the time. One of the best and most popular Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago, who will be renominated and re-elected to the Municipal Court bench, for he travels on the square all the time. BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST notify the police as soon as possible. MOTOR MORONS Under no circumstances accept auto- —— mobile rides with strangers. By Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins} Help us to protect you. Do not hesi- During the past week Chicago has been menaced by an epidemic of mo- tor morons. The motor moron is Chi- cago’s deadliest criminal. The police have been confronted with many serious crimes by this class of criminals, the majority of victims being young girls. Here are some opportune, sugges- gestions to combat this menace: Young women should never start firtations in the street with slick sheiks riding in smart looking cars. Remember the saying: “Handsome is, as handsome does.” Young women are in great peril the moment they stop and talk to these sheiks; keep right on going. If an auto stops alongside of the curb and a stranger greets you with: “Where are you going, girlie?” pay no attention to the greeting. Do not walk up to the car as you are in danger of being kidnapped. If the moron continues to annoy you, take the license number of his car and Te y a o le } "hp rc Sy j } : cf lll BISHOP W. SAMPSON BROOKS Recently arrived in America from Monrovia, Liberia, and while io ated thee the Foreign Mitionsry Doparttoent of the it it 1e A. M. E. Church was more than $12,000 behind for his educational purposes in Africa and if it did not raise the money for him that he would be liable to be placed in jail fox, daly, wine he has already incurred, on his return to MRS. CLARK IMPROVING Mrs. Aileen Clark, 4149 Prairie ave- nue, is improving nicely at Provident Hospital where she recently underwent a serious operation. Poy ek ae a She died suddenly from an attack of the heart, February 17th. The last rites were held at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, 41st street and Wabash avenue, Monday, Feb. 22nd, at 9:30 a. m. The solemn high mass was impressive. The remains were laid at rest at Calvary Cemetery. Flowers were in abundance in many designs, giving evidence of the esteem in which she was'held. The passing out of Mrs. Williams means the dismantling of the last of the old landmarks west of State street. Thirty years ago it was a matter of distinction to live on Dearborn street, between 27th and 39th streets. Only the pure in heart lived there. About 20 years ago, as more commodious dwellings became available east of State street, the exodus began and Wabash avenue soon became La Rue de Luxe. Michigan avenue and Grand boulevard at that time seemed impossible, but finally fell easy to the invaders. Mrs. Williams put her foot down flat. "No indeed, I will not follow the crowd. Dearborn street is good enough for me." I dare say that 3544 Dearborn street is known by nearly every state in the Union. Men and women of almost every walk in life have found the same hospitable fireside. Eighteen years a widow, she maintained herself by keeping a few choice boarders, who will be remembered as the "Dearborn Dinner Club." Here many a pleasant hour was spent. Mrs. Williams is gone, but not dead. Not a few public leaders now holding office but owe their early political successes to the able work of her husband, Robert "Bob" Williams, and Major J. C. Buckner. Both men have died, leaving behind a name that, when the political history of the second ward is written, will shine forth like two giant stars. Mrs. Williams was loved by a host of friends covering the full length of her life. Her passing into the great region beyond is not to be mourned, but rather let us rejoice, for there could be no doubt whatever as to her abode. In church work, club work, lodge work, civic work, or in any sort of organization work, she fitted ably in any department assigned her. She was unalteringly faithful. She lived a beautiful Christian life. After all, we ask the question: Whether it is better to live the sweet, simple Christ-like life, or the gaudy superficial? Her work is done and her memory goes on. It is worth mentioning that even the slightest wish of the deceased was carefully and painstakingly carried out by Mrs. Terrevous L. Douglas, her niece. Both lodges—the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association and the Women's Catholic Order of Foresters—were in large attendance. Pall-bearers were Messrs. John T. Scott, Dr. J. M. A. Kelly, Robert L. Hall, J. Ernest Oldham, W. H. Eaves, J. A. Middlerhoff. Funeral Directors Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Hill were in charge. Mrs. Charles Augustus Blanford of Louisville, Ky., is in the city, having come to attend the funeral of Mrs. Robert A. Williams, her life-long friend. Mrs. Blandford will leave for home Sunday evening. * * * Mrs. Carter Slaughter of Louisville, Ky., will spend several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Terrevous L. Douglas, 803 Chicago avenue, Evanston, Ill. Mrs. Slaughter came to the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Robert A. Williams. Mrs. Slaughter is in excellent health. THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME The splendid program rendered by the Educational Committee of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28th, was enjoyed by all. Mr. Chas. Reese rendered a vocal solo, accompanied by Mrs. Cleo Dickerson Holloway; Mrs. Geo. Teney, a reading, and Prof. B. Emanuel Johnson, a piano selection. Madam Bertha L. Hensley, president of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Mrs. F. O. Morgan Perkins, a member of the Phyllis Wheatley Association, whose wonderful and inspiring address was met with much enthusiasm. Mrs. Irene B. Moore gracefully responded. There were other interesting remarks from Mrs. Elizabeth L. Davis, founder of Phyllis Wheatley Home; Miss Ethel Ward, teacher in the public schools; Miss Nora Johnson, leading typist at City Hall; Mrs. M. Collins and Miss Beatrice Mitchell. Miss Helen Green is chairman of the committee. KNOWLEDGE SEEKERS' IN FIRST ANNUAL CELEBRATION By Rev. Theodore Stephens (Member of Negro Research Society of New York, Member Oriental Literary and Historical Research Bureau and Authors' Guild.) The Knowledge Seekers' Club, a literary society, was organized February 20, 1925, for the specific purpose of study—study in the general sense, but more especially for the study of that branch of the human race anthropologically classified "Ethiopian." After a year of biographical reviews of such eminent world-figures as Toussaint L'Ouverture, Fred Douglass, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, Abraham Lincoln, Emmanuel Swedenborg (Swedenborg was a Swede who wrote of the African on the spiritual side of his life), as well as other studies in "The Influence and Power of the Press," "The Evolution of Literature," and "World Events," the Knowledge Seekers' Club celebrated its first anniversary. Under the lusual sphere and able chairmanship of its distinguished and widely known secretary, Mrs. Irene M. Gaines, the scenery which had, until then maintained normalcy, changed suddenly, and the Phyllis Wheatley Home became—one would have thought—the beautiful Hall of the Abencerrages in the Alhambra of the Moorish kings of Granada (Spain), when the melodious tones of that Dusseldorf cantatrice, Miss Le Jeune Jones of Evanston, Ill., to the accompaniment of her very fine pianist, Miss Elizabeth Berry (also of Evanston) broke the silence of the evening after the latest strains of Mrs. Irene Gaines' voice had faded, and her brief but intensely interesting resume of the club's work of twelve months had become a part of its present history. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, founder of the P. W. H.; Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie, treasurer of the K. S. C.; Mrs. Fanny Morgan-Perkins, all well known figures in social work, made very interesting remarks. Miss Ruth Grandism, accompanied by her sister, Miss E. Grandism, in the tones of one who moralizes, charmed the audience with the rare sweetness of a voice all her own by divine endowment, but ours by unanimous consent to enjoy and to appreciate. The press was duly represented by Mr. Julius F. Taylor and in his most excellent remarks became one of the fine features of the evening after the president of the club had delivered his welcoming address. The speaker of the evening was the Hon. Warren B. Douglas, well known in the higher walks of life. Mr. Douglas' theme was "Frederick Douglas, the Immortal." Is it to be wondered at that the audience wished that every month, instead of every year, was the anniversary of the K. S. C.? Mr. Douglas gave his hearers food for thought and helped the race to higher concepts of their own destiny. Miss Julia Kennedy, late of the Williams Music Company, now a Gospel singer, accompanied by Miss N. Rose, was the crowning feature of the evening's program. Miss Kennedy, by the cadence of her voice and the sweetness of her tones seemed a replica of Polyhymnia, the muse of sacred poetry. Of Miss Kennedy the gallant Frenchman would say: "La gloire est a son apogee." (Her glory is at its highest pitch.) A poem, entitled "Evening," by Miss Ruby James of New York, was read by the writer. This poem, which is indeed a beautiful literary production, shows the "finesse d'ame" of the author. This poem won the first prize at a high school contest in New York in 1924. Miss Ruby James receives the highest commendation of the K. S. C. for her valuable work of rare merit. The art exhibit was under the patronage of Mrs. Evelyn Casey, secretary of the West African Woman's Club. The exhibitors were: Mrs. Evelyn Casey, Mrs. Robert O. Laws, Madame Theodore Stephens of Port-de-Paix, Haiti. Committee of Hostesses: Miss Ida Odom, superintendent P. W. H., chairman; Mrs. Evelyn Ritchey, Miss Zenobia Laws, Miss Allene Humphrey, Miss Louise Easton, Miss Helen Green, Mrs. Ellen Wilson. Committee on Silver Offering: Miss Frankie King, Miss Beatrice Mitchel, Miss Helen Green. The K. S. C. graciously thanks its guests as well as the talented participants whose contributions made the anniversary celebration a marked success. The club's motto is: "Give the people light and they will find their way."—Dante. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 6, 1926 COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN (Preston News Service) 1. The Watson-Parker Bill. 2. Education's Debit Side. 3. To the Dearborn Independent. 4. "The Mississippi Bubble." 5. The Riffians Are Coming. 1. The Watson-Parker Bill Ere this column reaches the reading public, the Watson-Parker Bill, a measure providing for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, probably will have been passed by Congress. This bill, if passed, automatically abolishes the Railway Labor Board, and sets up a new code of procedure and mediation machinery, presumed to make for the prompt adjustment of wage and other disputes arising between transportation lines and their workers. The bill is based, principally, upon voluntary amelioration and adjustment; but carries a strong clause authorizing the appointment of mediation boards to hold hearings and render decisions upon the disputes presented. The bill, upon its face, anticipates that disputes shall involve groups of allied workers, who shall present their claims in the collective style. When it is recalled that in the United States there are approximately 135,000 Negro rail workers who are directly engaged in handling or safeguarding the transportation of persons or property over the lines of the various steam railway carriers, it is at once clearly obvious that the Watson-Parker bill is of vital concern, and that the benefits it seeks to make available to employer and employee, alike, are open to use by these 135,000 colored workers of rail and tie, if they will but be wakeful of their rights. The philosophy back of the bill is stated with clarity by Congressman Schuyler Merritt, Republican, of Connecticut, who says: "No intelligent employer of labor now fails to recognize that his employees are not mere units, and still less mere machines, but that they are human beings with like feelings and like desires to his own, and with the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' And as to the conditions of labor and wages it is very common to have shop councils and shop committees so that the employers and the employed can meet together as partners in a common enterprise, and as fellow men who can discuss their common interests and relationships as man to man." In the slang vernacular, it's up to the 135,000 railroad brethern to make 'em know it, under the Watson-Parker Bill, if passed. And the first step is to perfect the unit idea, together with shop councils, committees, and other group formations. Then maybe the Negro train porters who are now doing brakeman's work can receive brakemen's pay; and perhaps the race can develop some more telegraph operators, engineers and other craftsmen of notable qualifications, position and pay. 2. Education's Debit Side The United States government, through its Department of Interior, which cares for and nurtures Howard University, "an institution of higher education of the colored youth of the Nation in liberal arts and sciences, medicine, law, and religion," has recently seen fit to remind the American public that Howard University is, indeed, "The Capstone of Negro education," as was once stated by Dr. James H. Dillard, a courageous white educator, who has given the best years of his worthy life to the cause of Negro education. This gentle reminder, however, like everything else worthwhile, has to run the gauntlet of such contrariwise proclamations as that sounded in the minority report of two democratic Congressmen, M. E. Tydings of Maryland, and B. G. Lowery of Mississippi, who vigorously oppose Congressional appropriations for, and the incorporation of, Howard University, in order that it may more nearly approach the "capstone" stage described by the Government and Dr. Dillard. These opponents as a preliminary opposition to the education of Negro youth at Howard, say that the appropriations which Congress has generously and public-spiritedly given to Howard for more than forty years, are illegal. Next, they aver that financial support should come in the way of self-help from the oppressed Race and its friends. Next, they infer discrimination on the part of Congress, prejudicial to such wealthy schools as George Washington University and other colleges of overflowing wealth, from which Negroes are excluded. Lastly, they infer that Howard Univer- sity is a political machine which misuses educational funds for political purposes, forgetting that even if Howard were a political absorbent it could neither sap up, nor yield any marked political influence either in Mississippi or Maryland, where states rights and ballot boxes abound—but only for some, not all of them. There's some solace, though, even in this debit entry which Howard's opponents are trying to make. That solace comes from the fact that even in these very states, Maryland and Mississippi, where educational needs are great, and where the grossest kind of discrimination exists against not only "capstone" but even free school education for Negroes, Howard graduates have gone and are, little by little, teaching the Negro people, healing them, preaching to them, and inspiring them to raise their heads above the gloom that the Race's opponents have cast over them, and their ancestors. This silent testimony, unrecorded in the Halls of Congress, speaks more eloquently than all the minority reports that can be submitted by the opponents of Negro education in the next hundred decades. 3. To the Dearborn Independent The Dearborn Independent (white) is indeed in the throes of an era of alarm over Attorney Clarence Darrow's address to the jury in the case of Dr. Sweet, whom the Chicago lawyer so ably defended in the Michigan courts. The cause of the alarm is found in the verbal picture which Darrow painted of Nordicism as exemplified by those of the cult upon account of whose nefarious activities Dr. Sweet and his co-defendants were brought before the bar of justice. Darrow, it seems, talked rather plainly as to the mental attitude of venom which the executors of the Detroit physician must have passed through prior to their march on the home of the colored doctor. "We believe," says the Independent, that the more intelligent American Negroes are beginning to realize the falsity of such friendship—(Darrow's)." Friendship, be it false, true, or hybrid, being an individual matter, has no material place in a discussion of merit as to the prejudice of racial groups, for or against each other. Neither, groupally speaking, is it relevant to a murder trial as to whether "Nordicism" as described by the Nordics or by Darrow, is a hundred per cent blend of Americanism, pure or impure, respectively. When a noted white man, however, Nordic, or otherwise, in medicine, law, or religion, comes to the rescue, in America, of the underdog, when that being is a black man, if it isn't friendship which causes the motivation, then it's something just as good. For years the black man has heard the siren and ironical song of "best friendships," "Mammy," and "Uncle Joe" while tears streamed down the "best friends" faces; and if some legal crusader like Darrow or Moorfield Storey has now come along with a new type of friendship, even though it's "false" as the Dearborn Independent says—well, you can bet your sealskin hat against a tam o' shanter that the average Negro of today won't even hesitate about absorbing it. No one, not excepting Darrow, should promote inter-racial hatreds; and the Negro has been like asbestos so far as withstanding the withering fire of prejudice without becoming red hot himself is concerned. But, if American civilization is to keep on soaring upward, as a type exemplary to the world, not even the mighty Dearborn Independent can expect the Negro to be a dormant partner in the journey—with this civilization in times of war, and without it in times of peace. What kind of friendship is that? Please tell us, Mister Editor? 4. The Mississippi Bubble An aged colored man, with a querulous expression upon his face, patiently stood on an intersection of the principal thoroughfare of Jackson, Miss., waiting for a long line of automobiles to pass by. "There now," he mused to himself, as the last car buzked by: "Mebbee I kin make it across." "Hey, Sonny," he called out to a little colored newsboy. "Where might all them cars be going? "Going," responded the boy, with a look of half disgust. "Don't you know that them cars is coming from the Capitol? The Senate passed the anti-monkey law this afternoon," he added, with vim. "An what might that be, sonny?" the veteran questioned. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 512-742-791 E.H. WILLIAMSON Charlest E. Dawson the youth replied, thrusting a copy in the old man's trembling hand. "Ain't got my specs, sonny; tell me about it, please," said the veteran, who, after handing the youngster a bag of choice gum drops, settled on his cane, close to the bank building. "Well, it's just like this," began the youth. "You must remember that Tennessee fight when Mister Colonel Bryan an' that Chicago lawyer, who don't believe that the whale swallowed Jonah, argued agin each other, all because the law in Tennessee says you can't teach nothin' that's agin the Bible. 'Nother words, all this bosh 'out monkeys an men bein' related, on account of Darwin, Dr. Drock and all them scientists, has got to be stopped. The Mississippi Senate just said, today, by a vote of 29 to 16, that man aint got nothin' to do with monkeys, an' anybody what disputes that will be put in jail or fined in this State, from now on," concluded the boy, half excitedly. "I can't understand—I can't understand," the aged one murmured to himself, as the boy began to operate on the eighth tender gum-drop. "Tain't nothin' hard 'bout it," pleaded the boy. "There ain't goin' to be nothin' again the Bible in this State any more," he continued, jubilantly. The old man's face brightened perceptibly. "I see now," he said, as he turned down the street. "They've done passed a law to stop burnin' an' hangin' colored people—Glory Hallelujah," he shouted, as new life seemed to grasp both his feet and his cane. "No, not that," cried the boy, as the veteran hurried on his way. "It's only that men ain't monkeys in Mississippi—an." But the joyful veteran had passed beyond the sound of the youngster's voice. 5. The Riffians Are Coming Latest information from Morocco indicates that Abd-el-Krim and his troublesome Riffians are about to make a spring drive on the wide front opposite the Spanish army. Spanish troops on leave have been ordered to join their regiments and Spain is on the qui vive, awaiting the moves of the new tribal formations which Abd-el-Krim is said to have perfected dur- WILLI UNI JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J.E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.M. Bookkeeper Embalmers Apprentice No.194. Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN 5121-23-25 ing the winter months. We presume that the Communists are leaping with joy, and that the fomenters of the spirit of revolution in America will spread on a new supply of printers' ink presaging the arising of the black peoples of the world. It's too bad that the psychology of racial supremacy is still so much alive. As good Dr. Brown, of Morgan College, Maryland, says: "Supremacy means nothing, innately." Nothing, of course, other than bloodshed, will be accomplished by the Riffian rising or the Spanish defense. Neither will anything be accomplished by the white races continuing to try to pound into world knowledge the fancy that they are superior to the darker races. And in America, the most democratic of all nations, peace and prosperity will continue, despite the waywardness of certain of its territorial groups, who, some day, will also be born again. WAR VETERANS UNITE TO FIGHT GRAFTERS! Don't be too free with your money. Don't subscribe for any "war veteran magazine." Don't buy any pencils or other trash peddled from door to door by "war veterans." Don't subscribe for any monument funds, or war veteran relief funds. Dont be fooled into giving money for many of these so-called patriotic affairs; this is the advice given by Col. John J. Riley, Commander of the William McKinley Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, who was recently elected Chairman of the Chicago War Veterans' Council, which hereafter will represent every war veteran society in the city. "The citizens of Chicago are annually blackmailed out of over three millions of dollars each year by baker's posing as agents for war veterans relief, war veterans welfare or some so-called patriotic gyp," said Colonel Riley, "and we war veterans have organized to give the citizens of this community some protection against this species of cowardly graft." "Our Civil War comrades have shown us one of the most outrageous grafts in existence. It started in 1866 when the men who saved the Union returned to Chicago. Two families started to collect funds to help out the boys who were quartered in the barracks located on the site of the present Public Library. They have been collecting ever since, but never have loosened up with a nickle for to help our comrades in the G. A. R., although they have more property in the loop in their names than any other Chicago corporation. They pay no taxes." "From the World War we have numerous gyps left over. They are masquerading under veteran relief funds, veteran trust funds, all kinds of clubs and associations. No war veteran was ever known to get any assistance from them. These grafters are now using the money collected for war veteran relief to finance "quack" medical institutes, real estate speculations, water meter companies and everything and anything but war veteran relief." "There is only one day each year when we war veterans will come before the public and ask assistance. This day is Poppy and Carnation Day, May 29 of each year, when we will have our women's auxiliaries out on the streets selling artificial flowers made by disabled war veterans. This is the only time in the year to give, and it is the only time that the bonafide organizations ask for public assistance." Hereafter, through the Chicago War Veterans' Council, all the Chicago war veteran societies will combine their relief and welfare work in one office, located at room 936, County Building, and veterans of all wars in need of assistance will be cared for by a community chest, whose funds will be collected by all war veterans and the dispensing of which will be supervised by a committee from all bonafide war veteran societies. MEETING ENJOYED The regular monthly meeting of Marshall Council No. 1, A. U. K. and D. of A, held at Bailey's hall last Saturday evening, was very interesting and was largely attended. OFFICERS BUSY The officers and members of the Joint Building Association of U. B. F. and S. M. T. are busily engaged in the interests of their future home. 4 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th. 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broed 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. 25 Chicago, March 6, 1926 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago. III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. LOVE VERSUS HATRED, AC CORDING TO THE SCRIPT TURES Copyright, 1926, by W. M. B. Wadley Read 11th Chapter Deuteronomy, 1st verse: Therefore Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgment and his commandments always. St. Matthew, 24th Chapter 12th verse: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 1st Peter 2nd chapter 17th verse: Honour all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king. The Catholics should show brotherly love to the Ethiopian (alias) Negroes, by letting them in the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Switchmen, and all brotherhoods, for the betterment of all parties concerned. 132nd Psalms 16th verse: I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. The Acts 6th chapter 7th verse: Priests were obedient to the faith. Now it is up to the priests to place colored men in these brotherhood positions, for example, take a Negro to any place where the Catholics predominate, and he won't be molested; then the saints (Catholic Sisters) shall shout aloud for joy, that you are protecting them by aiding who was once head of the Catholic church. 13th chapter Revelation 7th verse: And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Now the priests see that Fundamentalist, and the Modernist, stir up hatred everywhere, they go; take Mexico, "Catholic country," and they cause the government to turn against them; the salvation that the priests clothe with, to keep down hatred, when the Ku Klux Klan declared themselves against the foreigner, Jews, Negroes, and Catholics, that was enough to show that he was after the "priests and saints." The latter have no protection whatever, by being dressed to represent her sainthood. Russia killed 3,000, but no saints. Revelation says that the "Great Beast," overcame the saints. Job 10th chapter 10th verse: Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house. Now if the Catholic, just take the Negroes in, and make him one of the brotherhood family, as he is no stranger, by running the same church once, will head off the Calamity. By building a hedge around the Negroes, around the Catholics also, the devil will make a quick retreat. Fear God, and honour the King. King James of Great Britain, must have had hatred in his heart for Ireland when he translated the Holy Bible, by causing confusion by using figures for a word, ought, in mathematics, science of quantity or of magnitude of numbers. Mathematicians will tell you that an Ought is always a figure. King James has used it about nineteen times as a word. Great many more changes, that causes man to not seem to understand. 1st Chronicles 21st chapter 2nd verse: And David said to Joab, and to the Rulers of the people, go number Israel, to take the Negroes back in the fold of the Catholic church, he has never been taught brotherly love. By that, the love for the Jehovah God, is likened, Fundamentalist, and Modernist, know within himself that he is teaching the Negroes wrong, that same religion that held him slave won't set him free, robs the Negroes in the south, even on the railroad train, jim- crowed, charge first class fare, run their church as a money proposition, charge members a fee; if they don't pay, exclude them; charge a salary, congregation can't pay him; quit preaching, come from the south, where his "brother, sister" are mistreated, in a free land north and never seek to find out why, all the man wants is his salary; don't know that the Catholic predominate is the cause. If that be the case, why not seek the Catholic aid? Children of Israel had trouble once when they were numbered; the Negroes have had trouble in the United States, every since slavery, when his enemy numbered him; nobody tried to know how many. Also, fool the Negroes about who the devil is. Devil in man is the only one you will see while you live on earth. 1st Samuel 28th chapter: And Saul had the witch to call Samuel from the dead when evil spirits overcome him. Why the Negroes are ignorant of the facts, that the devil is nobody else but man that wants to change pulpins with the colored folks. Of course, he hasn't got enough love for his brother, to know the devil when he sees him, Judas Iscirot. Christ took him right along with him, and talk about the devil. He tried to get closer to him all the time and sop in the dish with him, and still the Negro preacher has not woke up. The Tulane football team came to Chicago in 1925, to play the Northwestern University, who had a colored player. They let the colored man go, and got beat. Evil spirits change to the Northwestern University students. Riot; tried to set the town on fire. They could have told the Tulane students that the Negro was all right. If he can't play, then we won't. Then they would carry the devil back to New Orleans with them. Now the police want to put the students on the force. Fundamentalist and Modernist went to France during the World's War, and left their devils over there and she has been fighting, having trouble every since, and was always a "Catholic country." The same that used the shotgun on the Negroes to shoot him away from the polls; the the man that predominate the Government in making laws, crime himself, and trying to make laws to stop it. St. Mark, 5th chapter, 8th and 9th verses: "For he said unto him: Come out of the man thou uncle spirit. And he asked him: What is thy name, and he answered, saying: My name is Legion, for we are many." Legion in one man, when a few get together, or the seventy millions of Fundamentalists and Modernists get together, in Decillions or Deo-Decillions, no wonder he can drop the Niagara Falls, sink New York City, N. Y., with an earthquake, cover Denver, Colo., with the Rocky Mountains. They—the good people of the United States, would pay billions of dollars to stop it. Then he wouldn't know who to pay. "God is love." Hatred is the devil. Any man that has any care or love for his brother, or fellowman, wouldn't like to see the devil drop the Niagara Falls, drain nearly all the water out of the "Great Chain" of Lakes. All the cities that depends on the lakes for water, sorrow will come to everybody. When the Fundamentalist, Modernist (better known as the Ku Klux Klan) burned five of the Catholic churches in Canada, the Lord let the devil send through earthquake cities, killed numbers of people. God warned them about Niagara Falls. Let the devil take all the water away out of the Welling Canal, then he let him send a phenomenon through the skies from New York toward Buffalo, N. Y., take all water out from the boats in Lake Ontario, set them down on the bottom, froze the falls, so only a little water went, that to give the devil other followers scientific, hypothetical, a chance to say that the ice broke it. Tennessee and Mississippi, states went to put the theoretical man out of business if either one of the states had more theory, I don't think there would be so much "lynching and Jim Crowing." Now we will take the Scriptural writing about science. Daniel, 1st chapter, 4th verse: "Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored and skillful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge, and understand science." Timothy, 6th chapter, 20th verse: "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babbling, and opposition of science falsely so called." Babbling means idle talker. Why make a law to stop the theoretical when he don't try to stop the "lynchers," and the Negroes have never taken interest enough in the welfare, his ownself, to see why that it is not stopped. The devil doing it. Robber not going to stop robbing you by asking him when Abraham Lincoln called all those Protestant preachers, asked them how they stood on the "Slavery Questions" and they all upheld it. "The man wept." Then came the War of Rebellion, set the Negroes free. Presi- --- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 6, 1926 dent U. S. Grant put the south under military rule. President R. B. Hayes removed the soldiers. That left the Negroes as like in the lions' den with the muzzle off. The Almighty God would have wiped the slave holder up, but the Negroes didn't have brotherly love. By leaving the Catholic Church and going with the Church of England, the Irishmen held to the Catholic religion, and fought England six hundred years. Daniel, 7th chapter, 4th verse: "The first was like a lion, and had eagle wings. I beheld till the wings thereof was plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. The Catholic know that the Negroes in America have never stood on his feet, and have never a man's heart. Now it is up to the Catholics to stand him on his feet, and give him a man's heart. Number all the Negroes throughout the United States, give him all kinds jobs. Let the priests put them on, or let Catholic sisters take the Negro woman, where it is practical, the Catholies don't have to take one that don't belong to the church have plenty members that was run out of the south. The Almighty God has sent him to you to see if you will shut the doors in his face of opportunity, as he has to work for a living, the "Devils will give him the jobs" but take all his rights, no stranger within your gates, three Negro Popes as high office as man can fill, the companies that own the utilities would be glad for the Negroes to do all the work, if he had the least comprehension that the Niagara Falls dropping out of existence. So the politician and the Negro preacher would say no, he couldn't fool his peoples no more, he has to go to work like should be no firing on the 20th Century Limited, Pioneer, or the Overland. He knows he can't change pulpits with the Catholics or the Jews, and we are all going to save heaven, and the man he changes with won't let him ride on the same train, and the same sleeping car. Suppose God's chariot comes along. Negro preacher take the Jim Crow, Negro politician tell you to vote for the Klu Klux Klans. Now, my dear Catholic brother, I want to see some Negro motormen and conductors on the street car service throughout the United States, also in all brotherhoods of railroads, then you will see the crime wave disappear. Negroes will have to call on some faction to stop the lynching, and Jim Crowing. The "Red" is eager for to help him, but they will bring Telephone: State 3278 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Stn. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 Phone Main 2017 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 3655 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 9133 W.G.Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. 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The leaflet is published to inform the race of the part it actually took in the whole movement and war which established the independence of the U. S. A. and made it secure. Six cents in stamps, just enough to cover cost of postage and printing, is all that is required to secure this document in handy form to inform ourselves, our children and our neighbors of the wonderful facts in the case. Mail stamps to W. M. Trotter, Secretary, National Equal Rights League, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. MAKES EXTENSIVE TRIP Rev. J. W. McDaniel, president the Enterprise Institute, 514 Aldine square, has been on an extensive trip through Wisconsin, Minnesota and southern Illinois in the financial interests of the work at the school. CLUB NOTES The American Rose Art and Charity Club met at the residence of Mrs. Alice Bowen, 3814 Calumet avenue. An interesting program was rendered by Mrs. Irene Gaines. President—Mrs. Jennie Bowers. Reporter—Mrs. Fannie McDonald. 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Among the speakers at this time were ex-Mayor William Hale Thompson, known the country over as the friend of the people and whose motto is "All men up and no man down"; Hon. Edward H. Wright, utility commissioner; Chas. A. Griffin, state representative; Senator Adolph Marks, Atty. R. E. Westbrooks, Hon. Joseph P. Savage, James M. Brooks, president of the club; James C. Martin, exalted ruler of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, Elks; and E. A. Fearns, president of the Okeh Record Company, who remained over with several other officials to witness this affair and occupied box seats. Mr. Fearns presided and introduced the record artists, while Prince A. Glanton, secretary of Ft. Dearborn Marching Club, presided while the citizens spoke. Ex-Mayor Thompson was introduced by Hon. E. H. Wright. Following the speakers' program, the evening was turned over to the dance-loving crowd which had gathered there for that purpose and the music for the occasion was furnished by Cooke's Dreamland Orchestra. 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