The Broad Ax

SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXXI. 5 C M. M. B. HON. HARRY S. NEW Ex-editor of the Journal, Indianapolis, In strongest and the best Republican newssp the Hoosier State and Postmaster Genes States. the Journal, Indianapolis, Ind., and the best Republican newspap er State and Postmaster General Ex-editor of the Journal, Indianapolis, Ind., which is the strongest and the best Republican newspaper published in the Hoosier State and Postmaster General of the United States. SENATOR DENEEN TO ADDRESS N. A. A. C. P. CHICAGO CONFERENCE cause of the graduation of his son from Harvard and will therefore speak on the closing night of the Conference, Arthur B. Spingarn to Attend; Holmes to Present Spingarn Medal Senator Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois, has tentatively accepted an invitation to address the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Chicago this June, it was announced today. Senator Deneen wrote that he would speak if he were in Chicago at the time the Conference met, otherwise he would send a written message. It was also announced that Arthur B. Spingarn, Vice-President of the Association and Chairman of the National Legal Committee, would attend the Chicago Conference and would preside at one of the mass meetings. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, who was to have delivered the keystone address, will be detained in the East be- HON. ANTON J. CERMAK The best and the most popular Presidemissioners that Cook County has ever has occupied many responsible post of the City Council from the old the Legislature of Illinois, where hent leaders of that body and voted legislation; Chief Bailiff of the Mur and as such he employed a faithful as one of his assistants, and whe the most popular President of the that Cook County has ever had. need many responsible positions; no Council from the old 12th Wate nature of Illinois, where he was on of that body and voted against Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Co he employed a faithful and hono his assistants, and when he pa The best and the most popular President of the Board of Commissioners that Cook County has ever had. In the past he has occupied many responsible positions; namely, member of the City Council from the old 12th Ward; member of the Legislature of Illinois, where he was one of the prominent leaders of that body and voted against all "Jim Crow" legislation; Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago, and as such he employed a faithful and honest colored man as one of his assistants, and when he passed away Mr. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing slightly to the right.] Cermak and many of his aids attended his funeral, some of them serving as pallbearers, and Mr. Cermak presented his family with many beautiful flowers and otherwise aided them. As a member of the City Council during and after the "race riots" in this city in July, 1919, Mr. Cermak bravely stood by the colored people and President Cermak is not ashamed to let the world know that at his election as President of the Board of County Commissioners in 1922 he received 28 per cent of the votes of the colored people residing on the South Side and in other sections of this city, and it is safe to say that President Cermak so far has given more positions to colored men and women than any of the former presidents of the Board of County Commissioners. Cermak and many of his aids attended his funeral, some of them serving as pallbearers, and Mr. Cermak presented his family with many beautiful flowers and otherwise aided them. As a member of the City Council during and after the "race riots" in this city in July, 1919, Mr. Cermak bravely stood by the colored people and President Cermak is not ashamed to let the world know that at his election as President of the Board of County Commissioners in 1922 he received 28 per cent of the votes of the colored people residing on the South Side and in other sections of this city, and it is safe to say that President Cermak so far has given more positions to colored men and women than any of the former presidents of the Board of County Commissioners. Vol. XXXI. 5 CENTS PER COPY THE NEW YORK TIMES dianapolis, Ind., which is the publican newspaper published in master General of the United cause of the graduation of his son from Harvard and will therefore speak on the closing night of the Conference, June 29th, presenting the Spingarn Medal. The Committee on Award of the Spingarn Medal meets June 10, to designate the recipient, and only nominations received prior to June 1st will be considered. Twelve states have already appointed delegates to the Chicago Conference with the prospect that very nearly every state in the Union will be represented. Inquiries concerning the next Annual Conference of the N. A. A. C. P. have already been received from the Convention Bureaus of Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Detroit, indicating the growing power of the Association and the importance of its Annual Spring Conference. Miss Emma Lawrence of Chatham, Ontario, is in the city visiting at the home of Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 4536 Calumet avenue. President of the Board of Comy has ever had. In the past he able positions; namely, member the old 12th Ward; member of where he was one of the promised voted against all "Jim Crow" the Municipal Court of Chicago, faithful and honest colored man and when he passed away Mr. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, MAY 22, 1926 The Postoffice Department is One of the Greatest and Most Important Branches of the United States Government-More than Four Hundred Thousand White and Colored Men and Women are Employed by Uncle Sam in That Direction. Hon. Harry S. New, Rings True, as the Present Ideal Postmaster General. The American public, studying many interests of the government, watch in detail the work of the various departments from the time of the formation of the first cabinet under George Washington, the department in the judgment of the writer which was of the deepest interest to the general public was the one that the framers of the Constitution of the country named and gave the title of Post Master General. In those days stage coaches and other conveyances of like character, brought to the cifies and the rural districts the sealed messages. This service was formed after the plans laid down by the kings on battle fields in order that they might have correct messages to their various field officers. It has proven to be the most correct service of the government. The measured time for the distribution of the mails in and out of the offices is carried out by a marked schedule, each developing day by day in a more advantageous way for the facilitation of the business throughout the world. This department is, in fact, the carrier of the sealed messages which control the velocity of business formation. The bankers of the old world await anxiously the delivery of the mail which brings to them the bond transactions that represents the credit system of one nation to the other. These same messages carry the orders to the various departments of the government which keep intact the machinery necessary to make this a constructive government. Largely dependent upon the accuracy of the mail clerk distributing the mail to the right line that it may reach its destination to make the proper connection that the conveyed envelope carries within. Thousands of times the mark upon an envelope has decided important lawsuits, and in many other instances the same mark settled the time of the claim of insurance policies, thereby to the people at large the office of post master general is the most important cabinet office in the gift of the president of the United States. In this position, today, stands out in the fullness of character and ability the man who is equal to any emerg- ency which might arise to advance the service of the government. He comes by birth from the capital of the Hoosier State. He was born at a time when the government was about to begin civil strife within its own border. On the last day of the last month of the year 1858 it was nature's guiding hand which bid a boy to be born in the family of John C. New and when pain and woes of mother were over they sought to find a name which would be a mark of service in the future. They chose the name Harry which Webster describes to be the chief or head of a house. The subject of this sketch has reached every expectation of his given name. He was educated in the institutions of his own county, picked for his adoption in the battles of life the work as marked out by Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett and Whitelaw Reid to become the editor of a medium by which he could better convey the highest thought to the readers of his and other communities. From 1878 to 1903 he was the editor of the Indianapolis Journal and it became a power for good. Having been of Republican antecedents, he picked up the bludgeon in the strongest forceful manner to wield the doubtful state of Indiana to the Republican column. He had men to fight on the other side, like ex-Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks, Wm. English and the battler for Democracy, commonly known as Senator Dan Vorhees, the tall sycamore of the Wabash. But his mind had become imbued with the principles of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana and Ex-President Benjamin Harrison and a man of a like sphere fighting in a common cause to aid in making Indiana a Republican state. Service with a mighty stroke of his pen brought him into prominence with his party. He was elected to the United States Senate and served with marked distinction and was defeated for re-election by Senator Albert J. Beverage and Wm. H. Hayes of Sullivan, Indiana, retired as Post Master General in 1923, Hon. Harry S. New was appointed to fill this position of Post Master General. True to form, of the derivation he not only became the head of the house, but he became the guiding master of the greatest army of intellectual workers of the government of the United States. The men who, every minute of their time is marked by schedule as aforesaid that moves the mighty business of a social world from a standpoint of their accuracy. Let the readers pause for a minute and view the figures covering the activity of the government's army with a sack on their back and the clerk in the swing throwing the mail in the various offices throughout the nation to meet the incoming and outgoing train and the dummy star route messenger who conveys it from station to station in large cities. This army constitutes 473,508 employees who lift the burden from the shoulders of the waiting world when they break the seal as handed to them by the carrier. It has been the effort of Mr. New to instill in the minds of the people throughout the country the absolute necessity of correct direction upon letters. The records show that millions of letters have been sent to the dead letter office from the fact that the sender's mind did not follow the pen or pencil as he misdirected the message. Efficiency in this particular department could save a thousand hours for the burdened clerks and carriers and could convey the message as was intended when the writer sealed the message for the person for whom it was intended. Thus I trust you see, the reason it was necessary for President Coolidge to pick out a man who took the department in detail with him when awake and dreamed out, when resting in the virtue of his couch, new plans and schemes that the awaiting world from America and in America would get that adequate service that his mind and the mind of his subordinates could render. There comes another department of this vast army, the housing, which means better health and longer lives for the fellow of the swing and the sack on his back. This army goes out from 51,266 post offices to convey the messages from the sender and to them and from them credit and service (Continued on page 2) A [Image of a man with a bald head and glasses, wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a dark tie. The background is plain and light-colored. There is no text or additional details in the image.]] Member of the City Council from the 16th War of its best and hardest working members. He strive all the time to get all the streets in his shape and thousands of his followers are go to vote for his re-election to the City Council The City Council from the 16th Ward and hardest working members. In the time to get all the streets in his thousands of his followers are given his re-election to the City Council Member of the City Council from the 16th Ward, who is one of its best and hardest working members. He continues to strive all the time to get all the streets in his ward in good shape and thousands of his followers are good and ready to vote for his re-election to the City Council in 1927. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO PASSED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION AT THE LAST REGULAR MEETING OF THAT BODY Whereas, Thadeus Kosciuszko is one of the outstanding national heroes of Poland; and Whereas, He rendered almost invaluable service to the people and government of the United States in their struggle for freedom, having offered his sword to General Washington in the year 1776 and having thereafter taken part in many battles on the side of the colonists, distinguishing himself particularly in the critical battle of Saratoga, for which he received the personal thanks of General Washington; and The West Point Military Academy; and Whereas, June 13, 1926, has been set apart by the Polish-American Organizations of Chicago for rendering homage to their great patriot and leader, and it is fitting that all the people who love the cause of freedom for which Kosciuszko gave so freely of his great ability and his efforts should have the opportunity to pay respect to the memory of this great man; therefore, be it Resolved, That His Honor the Mayor be and he is hereby requested to designate Sunday, June 13, 1926 as Kosciuszko Day and to take suitable steps to have the City of Chicago take part officially in the ceremonies to be held on that occasion. —Stanley Adamkewicz, Whereas, He endeared himself to the hearts of Americans by refusing Congress' tender of a large tract of land with numerous slaves, as a reward for his services in the Revolutionary War, on the ground that he had not come to America to fight for reward but only for freedom, and that the ownership of slaves was not compatible with his ideas of liberty; and, Whereas, Subsequently his genius for organization and his great knowledge of engineering enabled him to again render invaluable service to the United States in the organization of ```markdown ``` M. HON. P. J. CARR Nominated for Sheriff of Cook loyal friends loudly content opposition and land in the ber election. r Sheriff of Cook County, and his dids loudly contend that he will tran and land in the Sheriff's office in n. Nominated for Sheriff of Cook County, and his vast army of loyal friends loudly contend that he will trample down all opposition and land in the Sheriff's office at the November election. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 36 council from the 16th Ward, who is one of the most working members. He continues to get all the streets in his ward in good order of his followers are good and ready to the City Council in 1927. OF THE ASSEED SOLU-ULU-ULAR DODY ko is one hero of the instal- and gov- in their offeredington in hereafter the side himself battle of the washing-If to the rug Con- of land ward for the West Point Military Academy; and Whereas, June 13, 1926, has been set apart by the Polish-American Organizations of Chicago for rendering homage to their great patriot and leader, and it is fitting that all the people who love the cause of freedom for which Kosciuszko gave so freely of his great ability and his efforts should have the opportunity to pay respect to the memory of this great man; therefore, be it Resolved, That His Honor the Mayor be and he is hereby requested to designate Sunday, June 13, 1926 as Kosciuszko Day and to take suitable steps to have the City of Chicago take part officially in the ceremonies to be held on that occasion. —Stanley Adamkewicz, Ald. 31st Ward. Ald. Stanley Adamkewicz, President of the Polish Welfare Council of Illinois Alderman Stanley Adamkewicz is one of the head leaders of the Polish-Americans, and thousands of the liberty loving citizens of Chicago will, on Sunday afternoon, June 13th, assist him to celebrate the birthday of the greatest of all of the war heroes of the brave, little, fighting Poland. Hon. A. H. Roberts will be one of the leading orators on that occasion at Humboldt Park. M. of Cook County, and his vast army of contend that he will trample down all in the Sheriff's office at the Novem- In this city since July 15th. 1899, “ithout’ missing one single issue. Re- gublicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- testants, Single Taxers, Priests, infi- dels or anyone else can have their say es 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 Demo- eratic nor Republican. It is strictly er absolutely independent in politics Local communications will receive ‘attention. Write only on one side of the “paper: Subscriptions must be paid in ad- vance. One Year ...0..ceeceeseese+ $2.00 Six Months ..........----.++$100 Advertising rates made known on epplication, ‘Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S, Elizabeth St, Chicago. ‘Phone: Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR ‘Eéitor and Publisher SSS Vol. XXXI No. 36 Chicago, May 22, 1926 nee Entered as Second-Ciass Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago, UL Under Act of March 8 1879. a eee HON. HARRY S. NEW should receive the commendation of the receiver-for it is from their ac- curacy that he receives the message as sent. This department receipts for the fiscal year 1925 was $599,591,- 47759; expenditures, $639,336,504.88, leaving @ deficit of $39,690,170.40. ‘We mention these figures and the battles of the Post Master General with the committee on post offices and postal roads and then the stone like the department in detail with him committee, the committee on ap- propriations. They sit in the com- mittee room, they figure out the needs as they see them in the far dis tance jus* what each department should have, but oftimes they fail to figure the distafice-that-the carrier has to cover and the wear and tear of per- petual motion on the clerk as he swings the half circle getting the mail ready for the train. When these men have worked in these positions for any length of time they are unfit for any other position in life atid it took a man like Post Master General Harry S. New to awaken these committees to a sense of human feeling for a com- mon serf. His service.to the men and ‘the public in every detail has been un- equalled by any previous Post Master General, Large cities usually get their portions of their needs but the smaller ones and, the rural districts suffer, but if the committee on appropriation will éxamine carefully each survey made by the man who knows, they will give to Mr. New all of the appropriations he asks for. ‘The marvel of his ad- ministration comes in his foresight to grasp the situation that facilitates the public demands by the air mail route. This service has astonished the world, and credit is due almost solely to the manner in which Post Master General New works out the results by confer- ences with the heads of his depart- ments, They sit at round table gather- ings with pads and pencil and they mark out the lines to be worked out at the reconvening of the conference to hear the subordinates talk of thé kind manner and the fatherly advice which he gives to them that the his- tory of tomorrow may tell the story of their worth and character in the serv- ice of the Union in this great depart- ment, “It.would be a wise stroke if Post Master General New could put on his old slouch hat and pick out from his Indianapolis tailor’s make up, two or three worn suits of clothes and unassumingly make a visit unnoticed ‘and unannounced to the workshops of the man swinging in a half circle and the fellow almost bent in two with a sack on his back and at times carrying Sa ene ts dee: ere toe slacks. Chien welcomes a visit from you, Mr. New, ‘as a personal inspector, It will make ee tod sak siiee tie Daenepee aae 5 AA. af, Some in, the aerwice today, a SME Teed, hire atdec eaters) > “ih 2 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday Up-to-date Postmaster-General it a HON. MICHAEL ZIMMER The popular warden of the Cook County Hospital, who is being urged by his thousands of loyal friends to enter the race for Mayor of Chicago in 1927. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE | MR. AND MRS. TERREVOUS L. WEEK SET DOUGLAS SUCCESSFULLY ——— CONDUCT A UNIQUE ART Officially Set by President as June) STORE AT EVANSTON, ILLI- 28-July 5—Southern Democrats] NOIS Otherwise Head Nation-Wide Ob- we servance Arrangements — Protest] Some six or seven years ago, Mr. Sent to Coolidge by League—Sug-| and Mrs. Terrevous L. Douglas, who gestion Made to Race Speakers on) were both well known in this city up ‘Memorial Day ie RE Sones! ai Neds dag ae Washington—An “American Inde- pendence Week” will be observed throughout the country from June 28 if July 5, to mark the sesqui-centennial his year of the Declaration of Inde- eens and the centennary of the death of Thomas Jefferson. | Decision to that effect was reached today by the commission appointed by ‘the Government to arrange for the ob- servance at a meeting in the White House, presided over by President Coolidge. ‘The commission selected Mr. Cool- idge as honorary chairman. Dr. Ed- win A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, as honorary vice chairman, and as the active chair- man, Stuart G. Gibboney, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The commission plans to prepare a patriotic and educational program for the week with the co-operation of Governors, Mayors and civic organ- izations. / President Coolidge read a telegrant from Felix’ M. Warburg, a member of the commission, suggesting that as a tribute to Thomas Jefferson's stand for religious freedom, a Protestant, a Catholic, and a Jew each contribute $100,000 to the fund for the purpose of Monticello and to the endowment fund. Calling attention to the fact. that both these civilian heads are men of Southern birth and training and dem- ocratic in politics, the National Equal Rights League has protested to Pres- ident Coolidge against a program with a Southern race bias, even negatively for the official sesqui-centennial of the Declaration which can only be con- structively observed by emphasis upon’ the great principles of liberty and the equality of man upon which it based the right of the Colonies“to become an independent ‘nation, the end of the violation of which should be one of the aims of any true observance of America’s basic instrument. In behalf of Colored Americans, the chief victims .of the violation, the ‘League asks that men of liberal North- ern traditions be added to the active| management by the selection of two Northern Republicans. The League urges-colored citizens to petition President Coolidge to make fulfillment of the principles. of the| Declaration for all regardless of race or color a feature of the observance. aapaeren : ae eS a tell the public that the observance is a y unless e¢ roseri soe Jae akg ts Par es eee, te 88 ee Tere the Pronest fo. bolah Dake machine in hase eee eee new ree en gfe MR. AND MRS. TERREVOUS L. DOUGLAS SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCT A UNIQUE ART STORE AT EVANSTON, ILLI- NOIS Some six or seven years ago, Mr, and Mrs. Terrevous L. Douglas, whe were both well known in this city up to that time, moved to Evanston, Il, and established the South Americar Art Novelty Store, at 803 Chicago ave- ‘nue, and Mr. Douglas, being a natural born genius, with the great assistance of his sacrificing wife, Mrs. Douglas has in the past and at the present time met with much success. He designs out of his own hea ‘many South American art noveltie and hand made Brazilian ebonite spe cialties, such as bracelets, finger ring: ‘and all kinds of jewelry, of exquisite ‘beauty and charm for gifts of esteem They employ one or two extra mes and one young colored woman to as sist Mr. Douglas in the manufacture of his mew ebony finger rings, which he sells in 500 to 1000 lots to some of the leading retail jewelry stores in the down town district. At the time that Vice Presiden Charles Gates Dawes was officially notified at his home at Evanston of his nomination for Vice President of the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Presented him with a hand made eb- ony pipe, which he highly prizes unte this day. It is worth any one’s time to visit their wonderful fittle art store and read the letter of appreciation which they received irom Vice President Dawes. BULLETIN No. 58-FOR YOUR SAFETY By Chiet of Police Morgan A. Collin: The week ending May 15, showe¢ that the Police Department received nineteen reports of burglaries through. ‘out the city, a decrease of seven burg. laries for the corresponding period o last year. Upwards of 90 per cent of burglaries reported to this department were made possible through the carelessness of the victim and could have been pre- vented. Here are a few suggestions on how to protect your property: Burglars rarely enter a home where there is a light burning. To leave your home or place of business in total darkness. is an invitation to a sneak thief. Securely fasten every door and win dow before leaving your residence Pulling down the shades advertises the fact that you are away. You are an easy prey for a thie when you leave a note in the letter bos saying you will return at such and such a time. ri Merchants are warned to set and tes their burglar alarms. daily. Be pre pared to repair your burglar alarn system, if unsuccessful notify police man on the post immediately thai same is out of order, Notify your nearest police station o: call Police 1313 if you see a suspiciou: person loitering about your premises Help us to protect you. Co-operate with us. An ounce o orc ‘is worth 2 pound of cure THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 22, 1926 Leena eee S——_—__— eS WON'T PROSECUTE WHITE] it must deal MAN FOR CHOKING COL- | |ems of life ORED WOMAN “Again, let — ing issues nc New York—The National Associa-| of our Nort! tion for the Advancement of Colored| not only the People, 69 Fifth avenue, has received | conditions a report from its Phoenix, Arizona, | his relations! branch, stating that Phoenix author-| bors, If the ities had refused to prosecute a local| nel and socia white man who had attacked a col-| today able ti ored woman, choking her into in-| of the probl sensibility. ing, commu Mrs. L. Ada Walker, Secretary of| tions of Nei the Phoenix N. A. A. C. P., reports} cities and to that a local attorney in the County would imme Attorney's Office had said no white| both the inte man could be found who would con-| Negro and | viet another white man for choking| white neight a “nigger woman.” “Turn in Mrs, Walker writes: “The case was] gt the gres | Seciet natioet ws ot tn ‘example has| these teemin been set that means much to us as] ing into our we are led to believe that they know] centers, T who committed the assault is said to] money than hail from Oklahoma. fine. Thtie & DR. HAYNES EMPHASIZES POSITION OF THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY (Preston News Service) Kansas City, Mo., May 20.—Speak- ing before the General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City last Friday night, Dr. George E. Haynes, Secretary Commissioner on the Church and Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, said in part: “The Negro group must meet the conditions of the times through organ- ization. What organization has the Negro comparable to the Negro Church? First, in the matter of mum- bers there are more Negroes actually enrolled in Negro church denomina- tions than in alf the other organizations Put together except the secret s0- cieties. = “Look at the matter of the strength of age and survival. The Negro Church is more than one hundred years old and has survived and grown each decade. What is the evidence when we turn to the matter of financial power and support? Today there is probably more money invested in Ne- gro church property than any other one phase of Negro economic life, and probably Negro churches today raise more money for general and specific purposes than all of Negro business organizations, “Turn, if you will, to the personnel. With all the criticism of its ministry, from local preachers to bishops and general officers, presidents and moder- ators, there is probably more brain and character within the ranks of the lead- ership of the church than in any other of our professional groups except prob- ably the teaching profession. But after all, wherein lies the organized power of the church? The church is the most ‘unique of our institutions and agencies. No other could survive on the basis it does. Could the theatres last six months by giving everybody the priv- itegé who came to make a voluntary collection for its support? “The Protestant Negro Churches have grown rapidly the past sixty years. With their bishops, their pres- idents of conventions, moderators, district superintendents, and other gen- eral officers and their local ministers they have made great headway in. or- ganizing and serving the people in many ways, “What is the call, now, that comes as the great challenge of this our day to this giant organized power in the Negro church? There are two types of things that the Negro church must confront if it is to justify its place of power and responsibility. (1) It must realize its opportunity and begin to function in that opportunity as the great agent for dealing with the social and community conditions in the in- ternal life of the Negro people. Let me be concrete. In every one of the great centers of population now num- bering more than 70 cities where Negroes are congregated in great numbers the problem of their place in industry is no longer and can no Jonger be the question of the indi- vidual. The only way this. situation can be met is by organized power. Long ago the white labor unions would have taken a different attitude toward the Negro worker if the organ- ized power in the Negro Church had been a- functioning factor in dealing with the wage and work conditions of the great masses. I know you will say that these are not questions for the church; but, my friends, these are questions of fife and labor, and can the problems of life and labor be-sep- arate from religion? Is not the great function’ 0 1 to solve the prob- tows of? Tf, then, the it must deal with these practical prob- Jems of life and labor. “Again, let us look at the great hous- ing issues now so crucial in every one of our Northern cities. This involves not only the question of the internal éonditions of the Negro. but involve: his relationship with his white neigh- bors, If the Negro church in persor. nel and social service organization was today able to step out in the forefront of the problem of adjusting the hous- ing, community conditions and rela- tions of Negro groups in a hundred cities and towns North and South, we would immediately see a new day in both the internal community lif: of the Negro and his relationships with his white neighbors. “Turn in another direction. Look at the great leisure-time aceds of these teeming millions who are crowd. ing into our industrial and commercial centers. They are having money through increased earnings—more money than they have ever known be- fore. Their hours of work are shorten: ing and their hours of leisure arc lengthening. What is being provided to take care of this leisure? In many communities the churches have abdi cated their right and opportunity tc furnish the outlet for these leisure- time activities.” MISS LOWNDES JOINS PRES. TON NEWS SERVICE STAFF (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa. May 21.—What might be well considered an epoch, in Negro journalism, is the annoucement that Miss Grace Lowndes, of Pitts. burgh, has become a staff member of the Preston News Service. Of southern extraction, trained un- der northern conditions, ambitious and successful in her every venture, Mis: Lowndes is typical of the writer tha women like to read after each week Her life, like many others of her sex. includes the problem of maintaining the family budget at a tender age; proper schooling for herself an¢ youriger brothers and sisters; and witk this much accomplished, migrating to a distant point where better opportu- nities were offered. Tt can readily be seen that from the very beginning, Miss Lowndes is wel qualified to speak of life in a practical way. Although prominent in social circles active in club life and successful in business, her greatest work, undoubt- edly, is in connection with the morals court as social worker. For over eight years she has been a credit to her em- ployers, the people she served—and herself. Problems are always interesting; bur problems with the least bit of danger attached to them require an adven. turous mind for their solution. In. vestigations extending from the mos fashionable home to the filthiest hovel; the most respectable school lassie tc the confirmed prostitute; the scrup. ulously honest man to the amateur or professional thief that not only steal —but murders; the innocent victim o} a circumstance to the immoral plotter —these but give an idea of her range of work as an attache of morals court. She has seen these people, talked with them,—and studied them. Out of this experience has come a definite cause for some deplorable con- ditions, and following in natural se- quence is a remedy—tried and proven. If she advances a new version on so- cial conditions, causes and remedies, she will advance them because new conditions,-etc., have developed. The tone might appear rebellions, but be- hind any statement that she will make, is an 772? CHIPS $ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tidrington, $423 Indiana avenue, have recently re- turned home from Hot Springs, Ark, where they spent more than five weeks in an effort to cure or relieve him of the rheumatism. Mr. Tidrington started south on two crutches and re- turned home without them, owing to the medical skill of Dr. Claude M. Wade, his father-in-law. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Henry Jack- son have removed from 4345 Calumet avenue to 5308 S. Michigan avenue, where they will be greatly pleased to ‘meet. their frienés. Dr. Lawrence Blanchet has removed his offices from 3558 S. State street to 625 E. 47th street, where he is ready to greet many old and new patients. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Johnston are now located in their-new quarters at 5312 Prairie ayenue, and are at home to their friends, - r “NOT GUILTY” IS VERDICT IN SWEET MURDER TRIAL Spectators Warned Against Outbreak; Jury Out Three and Half Hours CPieatow Mans Scien’ of not guilty was returned in Judge Frank Murphy's court at 5:15 p.m, ‘Thursday, in the case of Henry Sweet, charged with complicity in the slaying of Leon E. Breiner, fatally shot last September during a race disturbance in front of 2905 Garland avenue. "Whether the acquittal will mean the ‘dropping of the cases against the 10 ‘other defendants arrested following ‘the shooting is a matter Prosecutor ‘Robert M. Toms, said he had not de- | cided. % The jury spent three hours and 35 ‘minutes in actual deliberation. Tt was locked up at 1:35 p.m. At 3:30 it sent out a note asking whether a crowd in front of the house would necessarily give the defendant the right to shoot. The judge ignored the note’s request for a reply. At 5:10 one of the jury- men rapped at the door and announced that an agreement had been reached. Spectators Cautioned Whites and blacks filled. the courtroom as the jury filed in. Before the report was read by the foreman, Judge Murphy catitioned spectators against making any demonstration, “Do not let passion interfere with your acceptance of this verdict, what- ever it may be,” he warned. “Accept it courageously and with a good will.” A murmur ran through the courtroom as the*verdict was delivered, but there was no further display of emotion. The Judge complimented the vari- ous attorneys for their conduct during the trial, declaring it “reflected honor upon the city.” Clarence Darrow and Thomas F. Chawke, defense attorneys, were con- gratulated by many of the spectators. List of Jurymen The jurors were: Charles ‘Thorne, sailor on the Great Lakes for 50 years; William B. Brunswick, locomotive en- gineer; Edward B. Bernie, pharma- cist; John M. Allan, machinist; James S. Spencer, electrician; Charles Phil- lips, electrician; Charles L. Dann, manager of a chain grocery; Ralph Fuelling, soldier in the World War and peace times and laborer; George C. Small, district manager for the De- troit and Cleveland Navigation Com- pany; Richard Adams, retired; Louis J. Sutton, seminary employe and Wil- liam John Sampson, electrician. Story of Shooting Dr. Ossian Sweet, brother of Henry, had just moved into the Garland ave- nue house at the time of Breiner’s death. In the house were 11 persons and quantities of shot guns, revolvers and ammunition, while outside were a group of white persons, variously de- scribed as a handful of persons and as a mob. Breiner, according to testimony, was sitting on the porch of a dwelling across the street, smoking his pipe and chatting with a neighbor, when slain by shots fired from an upper window of the Sweet house. Other shots from the same source wounded Erick Ho- berg. Police, who had been assigned to guard the home against a possible out- break, arrested the 11 at the time. | Darrow Statement Darrow in a statement following the verdict said that he believed the effect of the Sweet {rial would be beneficial. Verdict in Sweet Trial “Both Negroes and whites have to learn the lesson of forbearance,” he stated. “Personally I feel that the sentiment against the Negro is one of prejudice, growing out of the Negroes’ recent rise from slavery. But preju- dices have to be reckoned with as much as facts, “And the whites cannot be held re- sponsible for their prejudice for all of us are’ products of environment. None of us is responsible for our old preju- dices. The Negro must remember that it takes a long time to overcome habits and prejudices. His progress is bound to be slow, but I feel that it will be sure. It will come by mutual understandings and —_ consideration rather than by legislation. I believe that the outcome of this case will be a benefit to the white and the black man alike.” Tat % Excusable Homicide Explained In his charge Judge Murphy. em- phasized the point that excusable homicide arose only from circum- stances that gave the appearance of imminent or actual danger. Accord- ing to Judge Murphy's charge a man had no right to resist. assault with violence if he could safely retreat. On this point, however, he added, “a man is not obliged to retreat if he is as- saulted in his own dwelling.” Prior to. making his charge, Judge Murphy denied a motion of defense Seep Secdare 2 mistrial botany Of ‘statements made by Protceyye Robert Toms in his closing s:gumeng to the jury. The defense claimed tgp Toms had made an indircc: reiereye to the fact that Sweet hat sot tae the stand in his own dciovse. Thy the defense contended wxs srejndggt Judge Murphy based his devia pon the grounds that he oul jind no gy ment in Toms’ remarks 0: cout jy construed as prejudicial 10 the qq fendant. FLORIDA MOB LYNCigs NE. GRO; SECOND Case in THREE DAYs Woman Scared; She Now ‘Tey Authorities Man Did Not Attack Her (Preston News Se Labelle, Fla, May 20— Henry py terson, accused of having acvicked 4 white woman was shot ait illed ne here last night by a band 0: men, The body was paraded throw’ the streets, then hanged to a tree on thc outskite of town. Patterson was arrested shurtly be fore noon. Soon afterar'- he was said to have escaped {10% the of ficers’ automobile in wiiici he yas riding. Latenhe was captured by the mob. ; Woman Not Attacked According to the authorities the ‘woman now says the Negro did not attack her, but that she was scared, A special grand jury at St. Peters burg is expected soon to announce the findings in the case of Parker Watson, who was lynched there Sunday night, after being taken from officers. KILLED HIS SON; GETS PRISON SENTENCE (Preston News Service) Windsor, N. C, May 2!—Julius Ballance, submitted to the charge of manslaughter here Saturday morning in the Bertie county superior court, and was sentenced by Judge E, H. Cranmer, to the State prison for a term of not fess than six years and not more than eight years. The killing for which Ballance was indicted o¢- curred in his home near Cremo on the 7th day of March, this year. Accord- ing to statements made by him at the ‘time, the killing was accidental. Ia ‘an attempt to end an altercation be- tween his son, George and his daugh- ter, Mary, he had brought a pistol into play to scare the boy. Through some ‘means the bullet had lodged into the boy's head, causing almost immediate death. A double tragedy was enacted at the time when the school teacher of the boy, upon viewing the dead body, suffered a fatal heart attack FREEDOM OF HAITI URGED BY SENATOR KING Wiecsides Mewes Service) Washington, D. C, May 20.—De mouncing the policy of. the United States toward the affairs of Haiti, Ser- ator King, Democrat, of Utah, de- livered an address in the Senate Thursday in support of his resolution providing for the withdrawal of Amer- ican troops from the island and the granting of permission to the people of Haiti to set up a government of their own choice. Referring to the recent sclection of President Borno, he asserte| that the State Department “has imposed on the Haitian people by force ant arms a government that they do not want which is supported by the bayonets of the United States.” He said that military and naval of ficers, assigned to government post tions in Haiti, carried into their a ministration “the spirit of the marinet and exercised greater tyranny and ‘greater ruthlessness than they do upon their subordinates in time of wat.” At the request of Senator Kine, his Fesolution was referred to the foreigt relatioris committee for study. RACE MAN SLAIN BY OHIO . ‘TOWN MARSHAL , (Preston News Servi Gallipolis, O.,, May —21.—Charles Bickley, aged 50 years old, was shot © ‘death at Wellston, O., 35 miles north Of here Wednesday by a town marshal ‘Abe Young, who attempted to arrest Bickley who had sold his farm and ne Oe ‘his way to Cleveland to joie his wife and daughter. -- Bickley was sitting in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot when the ‘marshal attempted to arrest him. be Tieving him to be a robber and boot Tegwer. A scuffle ensued, when th ‘Shooting began, Bickley had = lars sum of money on his person. He bad resided at Ironton, ©. He was shot wees et = [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a bow tie. The background is plain and dark, emphasizing the subject.] HON. EDWARD D. GREEN The wide awake Secretary of the Pythian Temple Commission, who strongly intimates that work will soon be under headway on the new Pythian Temple, State street and 37th place. CHILD HYGIENE BUREAU URGES HEALTH INSTRUCTION FOR NEGROES Montgomery, Ala.—Better child hygiene instruction among Negroes as a means of reducing Alabama's infant and maternal mortality rates is urged in a report prepared by Miss Jessie L. Marriner, Director Bureau of Child Hygiene and Public Health Nursing, State Board of Health. The report which is to be published soon is a statistical study of births, maternal and infant deaths in the state covering the five-year period, 1920-24. The report reveals that although the colored birth rate falls below that of the whites for Alabama, it compares favorably with that of the United States birth registration area. It further shows that the birth rates and maternal death rates in urban centers and rural sections are approximately the same; but that the infant death rate is considerably higher in the cities than in rural districts. "Apparently the hazards of motherhood are almost twice as heavy among colored as among white women," the report declared. During the period covered the maternal death rate of whites averages 6.4 per 1,000 births and that of Negroes 11.06. The study suggests that this may be due in part to the fact that a larger number of Negro women are attended by untrained midwives, whereas the whites are more frequently attended by physicians. The lack of medical supervision during pregnancy and the generally acknowledged nonobservance of good health habits as to food and rest are further noted as probable factors in the maternal death rate among Negroes. Although the total Negro death rate is greater than that of the whites, it is noted that in four of the seven causes death listed, the rate among whites is greater than among colored people. Summer diarrhea and enteritis, measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever exact the heavier toll from the whites. However, deaths among Negroes from tuberculosis, typhoid fever and malaria are greatly in excess of those among whites. SUMMER ROUND-UP OF CHIL DREN TO ENTER SCHOOL IN AUTUMN The National Congress of Parents and Teachers is making its second annual drive to have children enter school 100 per cent free from remedial defects. The Delineator offers $500 to be awarded in prizes to the most successful association, the award to be expended for the benefit of the school. The United States Bureau of Education is co-operating. No "neglected child" should enter school from his home. Health examinations should be conducted, treatments given and corrections made before the child is enrolled in school. Christmas seal nurses in Cook County are much interested in this effort. MRS. YOUNG OUT AGAIN Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet avenue, who has been quite ill and confined to her home for several weeks, is able to be out again. Miss Frances A. Cook, director of Child Health Education for the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, is attending the conference on Child Health Education at Atlantic City. This is part of the Great American Health Congress which meets for the first time this year. The congress is an amalgamation of the annual conference of all the important public health organizations, which, by joining their forces on this occasion, are able to avail themselves of many excellent opportunities for mutual understanding, co-operation and the privilege of hearing each other's best speakers. Next week, Miss Jane Hufford, publicity director for the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, will attend the National Council of Social Workers in Cleveland. This conference has a particularly energetic publicity department. By the middle of June health workers in this community will be greatly interested in the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis to be held this year in Chicago with headquarters at the Edgewater Beach hotel. This is primarily concerned with the Christmas seal organizations and all our nurses and health workers will be in attendance. WOMEN CAN HELP STAMP OUT SPITTING "Women can help much to eradicate a serious menace in this country," stated Dr. H. H. Bay, examining physician for the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, recently in a statement warning against the dangers of the spitting habit. "When they do, they will give as much attention to the eradication of spitting among the men of their families as they do now to the quality of the milk that their children drink." According to Dr. Bay, a considerable proportion of children are infected with tuberculosis before they are nine years of age, through germs that are carried into the mouth by toys, food and dirty fingers, and through indirect contact with careless spitters, sneezers and coughers. Influenza, pneumonia, grippe and other infectious diseases are also transmitted in this way. Dr. Bay also says that spitting is an unnecessary habit, often indulged in to express a subconscious contempt for others. If offenders were ostracized as violators of the code of good taste as well as of good health, the nuisance would soon practically disappear he thinks. The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute has just issued some new posters on this subject with a delightful illustration. They are available in quantity if they can be placed to advantage. Ask the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, 360 North Michigan boulevard, Chicago. Christmas seals provide this service. RETURNS FROM VISIT Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois and jurisdiction of A. U. K. & D. of A. has just returned from a trip through her jurisdiction and also a visit to headquarters at St. Louis, Mo. COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN (Preston News Service) 1. Detroit "Rights" Itself. 2. Miss Porter's Psychology Study. 3. Consistency, Thou Art a Jewel. 4. Capital Wrestles with Bathing Beach. 5. The Literary Era. Detroit "Rights" Itself That ancient doctrine of Law which declares that "a man's home is his castle," has been upheld by a Detroit jury, and Henry Sweet, brother of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, who, with eleven Negroes in all, has just been tried for murder, was acquitted, the prosecutor announcing that he had not decided whether or not the remaining defendants will be brought to trial. The principal facts in the case are simple. A race physician, having established his home in a community over the objections of white "supremists," was beseigned by a mob, bent upon "cleaning" the neighborhood of Race residents. In due course, after countless outrages, persecutions, and malignant offenses, the good doctor, in defense of his "castle," took ordinary and reasonable precautions to protect himself and his family from mob violence; and, somehow or other, in the climax of a race disturbance, a white man was killed by some one. Whether the deceased was a member of the mob or an innocent bystander was not clearly shown; but he was the victim of the indirect results of mob rule; and, of course, some one had to be indicted for being the contributing cause of his demise. Without regard to the sordid details of the Sweet case, it is consoling to know that in the good state of Michigan, twelve good men and true, could be found who resolved to uphold the theory that a man's home is his castle; that the defense of same is merely self defense; and that the charge for life snuffed out during the upholding of such legal traditions cannot be placed against the defenders. The Sweet case is notable on account of those particulars, and because of the fact that colored America, itself hanging in the balance, regarded the Sweet case as their case, gave of their mite in the defense, and can not justly gloat over the outcome, which should be a lesson to prospective mobbists the country over. As to the defendant principals, just people everywhere, white and black, will rejoice in their victory; for the same menace could beset any man in the protection of home and loved ones. The fortitude which the physician displayed; the fealty of his relatives and friends; and the cool judgment by them displayed under soul-trying conditions are examples for every man in America; for the mob must be curbed; peaceful, law-abiding citizens must be assured of a real liberty and that their lives and their families' lives will ever be protected. Anything less than this gives the lie to the cry of democracy, so prevalent in this Nation. Miss Porter's Psychology Study America might well read the "Study in Psychology of the American Negro" by Miss Nora M. Porter, a noted white writer, whose enlightening contribution is appearing exclusively in the California Voice, Oakland, Cal, Says Miss Porter: "Held back so long by unfavorable climate, the white man was the last to develop culture. But as soon as he began to be cultured, being enterprising and ambitious, he built upon the foundation laid by the dark races, and has moved forward so rapidly that he feels justified in calling himself a superior race; and we do him justice to say that in most cases he really does not know that he is mistaken." Miss Porter continues by saying that "blood transfusion can be practiced from one to the other, and in transplanting skin, the white skin will grow white on a black man and black skin will preserve its color when grafted on to a white man." In all, Miss Porter bravely advises her Race that it is wrong, all wrong in putting such a heavy price upon man's exterior, as done by Nature. When Moses married the daughter of Jethro, who was a black woman, and when Simon the Cyrenian helped the Savior carry the cross on the way to Calvary, no one thought that, years hence, after civilization died and then was born again, such internal strife, based upon skin complex, would push its hydra head into the New World; but as Miss Porter says: "The white man's hostility as well as his ignor- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 22, 1926 ance has kept the Negro in subjection and doubt." Notwithstanding the unwritten law, however, and despite the other modifications, man has made in the law, which Moses set up, with the help of Jethro and his daughter, though whites are realizing that the falsities of their past racial advocacies are crumbling before the Truth; and that a civilization based upon the precepts of the lowly Nazarene is in the dawn, when motes and beams shall have passed away and the world will face the Christian truths of God. Consistency. Thou Art a Jewel Consistently, Thou Art a Jewel According to Pascal, "Man is the glory and the scandal of the Universe," and it must have been that with this mental background a U. S. Senator a week or two ago asked the simple question: "Can the Senator conceive of anything more demoralizing and undermining to the good citizenship of the people than to have a solemn pledge in the Constitution and to have great Senators stand upon the floor of the Senate and say the people are going to have what they want regardless of whether it is constitutional or not?" To which the reply was made: "I can conceive of nothing more deplorable, nothing more tragic; nothing more scandalous." The respondent Senator, however, just-a few days prior, had said: "Did not the South after the Civil War determine for itself, without regard to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution whether it would or would not have ignorant Negro suffrage riveted upon its neck? Did not every southern man of every station in life exercise every power that lay in him to stay the consequences of that frightful curse? Outraged human nature claimed its rights, and there is nothing which I regard with more satisfaction than the fact that when I was a boy, living in a remote countryside, all the white citizens of that community were banded together like brothers for the purpose of nullifying these amendments to the Federal Constitution and defeating the will of Congress when it endeavored to enforce them; and, thank God, they defeated it." Truth, if crushed to earth, will rise again; but Consistency, thou art a jewel. . * * * Capital Wrestles with Bathing Beach With sweltering summer just around the corner, Washingtonians, unlike Jacob wrestling with the Angel, are wrestling with what they have termed the devil, in the form of the proposed bathing beach for Negroes in Section C of Anacostia Park. If Section C ran alphabetically, as to location in beautiful Washington, all would be well; but it so happens that the dark, muddy sector of the placid Anacostia River, designated by Congress for the ablutions of the brethren, is far, far away from Seventh and You Streets. It is even a long way from Seventh and "S," Mount Pleasant, and Bloomingdale. It appears that the only colored residents of D. C., who are strategically located so as to be able to cool and cleanse themselves, long after Congress has adjourned and the burning Washington sun increasing the sales of bathtubs and shower sprays, are a group living in the rural districts of the Southeast, whose bathers have been wont to defy both law and man by bathing in September Eve style in numerous bayous and inlets of the cool Potomac. Consequently, consternation has beset the minds of not a few colored residents, who are making a long and loud protest, not that they do not accept the bathing benefice of Congress, but that its location is most displeasing. They say it would be almost as easy to travel to Atlantic City or Sheepshead Bay as to traverse in a one-man trolley car to the South Pole of the District. They point out that white bathers, under the protection of Congress, are to have easy access to pool near the city's center of population; and that to assign them to the lower Anacostia River site would be like having Admiral Dewey in Alaska, with instructions to capture Manila the following day. So the civic associations have met in open protest with disconsolate appeals for a better spot; and it is said that Congressman Martin B. Madden, who, as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, holds the purse strings of the public funds, is to be importuned to make certain reservations before he pulls the cord. In the meantime, the cool weather has aided an early sale of straw hats and silk shirts, and it may be that, if the scientists are right, the newly discovered moon spots may bring a low temperature this summer, so that the bathing calamity may not be as appalling as it is now pictured. The Literary Era With such notable philosophers as Dr. Henry Neuman, of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, openly recognizing the poetic work of Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, and other Race poets and essayists; and with Contee Cullen, Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Bennett, Claude McKay, Anna Bontemps, Frank Horn, Clifford L. Miller, Ann Spencer, and Angelina Grimke, as well as Arthur Huff Fauset, Marietta Bonner, Effie Lee Newsome, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, May Miller, Eric Walrond, and John P. Davis, contributing their poems and essays to the ethical side of Negro life, the atmosphere created by Pushkin, Dumbar, Dumas and Braithwaite has helpfully come down into our midst to rejoice and embellish the life of the fields, the mills, and other variated spheres into which our groupal life has traversed. This so-called younger school of writers is outstanding in the ethereal veneer so essential to a race of industry-builders. It is almost paradoxical that amid the tremendous pressure of Negro life, there has developed such a host of singing souls to allay the ills of a struggling people. Were this group to have the opportunities and scope of their racial contemporaries, who can say that they would not have already risen to the heights of Lowell, Bryant, Poe and Emerson. In soul, if not in deeds, this group has indeed equalled all who have gone before them. . . Without doubt the next decade will witness their triumph, for from their midst will rise a soul, a voice, a pen, which will inspire the Race as never before; and with the inspiration will come the knowledge that they have so done their work in the world that thereby others may do their work better. HEALTH BY RADIO Have you formed a habit of listening in on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to the health talks over WGN? With the co-operation of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute is broadcasting a series of talks on tuberculosis and kindred subjects by prominent Chicago physicians. These have been going on for some time and Dr. William A. Evans, Dr. Ethan Allen Gray, Dr. H. C. Sweany, Dr. Esmond R. Long and a number of others have spoken. The series will continue and you still have a change to hear many authorities on these important topics. Don't forget, Wednesday, 10 A. M., WGN. This is Christmas seal service. GREB MAY MEET FLOWERS IN JULY (Preston News Service) New York, May 21.—Harry Greb, who has been awaiting a return chance at the middleweight title which he lost to Tiger Flowers, may have his chance the latter part of July. That announcement was made Friday by Walt Meller, manager for the champion, after a meeting with Jess McMahon, match maker at the new Madison Square Garden. It was expected the fight would take place May 28 but Flowers complained of sore arm and the boxing rulers granted a postponement. RED CAPS' CLUB NEWS The meeting of the Red Caps' Literary Club on Sunday, May 16, was indeed interesting. Mr. Walter Anderson upheld the affirmative of the question, Resolved that the prejudicial attitude of the white man toward the black man is because of his color and not his position, while Lovett Fort-Whitman rigorously upheld the negative. Both men brought out strong points and all present regretted that time did not permit more argument. Hon. J. Gray Lucas was the presiding officer and Mr. W. B. Gray was the soloist of the afternoon. Our next meeting will be Ladies' Day on June 6th. Mrs. Fannie Perkins has charge of the program. —Sandy W. Trice, Pres. LEAVES FOR CLEVELAND Mrs. Jeanette Johns left the city Saturday morning for Cleveland, Ohio, her home, after spending three weeks in this city on account of the illness of relatives. Mrs. Johns is the grand-daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Clark, 512 E. 45th street. COL. JOHN R. JENKINS CONTINUES TO BECOME ONE OF THE LEADING POLITICIANS ON THE SOUTH SIDE Col. John R. Jenkins, president of the Crispus Attucks League, 605' East 43rd street, has the courage and the nerve to rub up against the leading politicians on the south side, and his Crispus Attucks League is fast becoming a power in politics in its neck of the woods. HON. AND MRS. ROBERT J. ROULSTON ARE HOME AGAIN AFTER A PLEASANT VISIT TO HONOLULU Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Roulston 436 W. 61st Place, have arrived home from an extensive and pleasant trip through Honolulu, where they greatly enjoyed the beautiful landscape scenery and the other natural arts which bounds all parts of that beautiful land. SALE OF HIS AUTO IS PRICE OF FORGER'S FREEDOM (Preston News Service) Columbia, Mo., May 20.-Matthew Palmer must sell his car "because it is too expensive a luxury," under the first provision of a parole granted him by David H. Harris, Judge of the Boone County Circuit Court. Palmer had told him that the upkeep of the automobile was about $20 per month. Palmer was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary for forging a warrant for $72.50 on the University of Missouri, but was paroled on condition he find regular employment. ERNEST WEST CONVICTED OF BIGAMY CHARGE Memphis, Tenn., May 20.—Ernest West was found guilty of bigamy in criminal court Wednesday and the jury sentenced him to the penitentiary for a term of not more than two years. West asked for a new trial and was granted a hearing at a later date by the court. THE APPOMATTOX CLUB 3632 SOUTH PARKWAY The Appomattox Club invites its members and lady guests to attend the May Party, Thursday evening, May 27, 1926, at 9:00 o'clock P. M. Dancing, informal. A card party Monday evening, May 31st at 8:30 o'clock P. M., progressive whist, members and ladies, prizes. Hostesses: Mrs. David B. Hawley, Mrs. Oscar Randall and Mrs. Ralph Davenport. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY PROGRAM The Educational Committee of the Phyllis Wheatley Home will render a splendid program Sunday, May 23, at 5 P. M. The speaker will be Mrs. O. W. Bush Banks, a very brilliant woman, and one of the leading dramatic teachers of Chicago. She will be supported by a wonderful musical program. A pleasant afternoon is assured all. All are welcome to attend. Helen Green Usher, Chairman. BAILEY OPENING NEW AVENUES M. T. Bailey, president the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State street, is making many new openings for members of the race in new suburban towns and through this medium 20,000 members of the race during the past four or five years have deserted the congested city and taken up their residence in suburban districts. TO HAVE PICNIC A committee composed of M. T. Bailey as chairman, M. B. Rogers, J. C. Martin, Wm. Boyd, F. W. Henry, L. A. Newby, has been appointed a publicity committee to make the coming picnic event on July 3, 4 and 5 at Golden Gate Park, Robins, Ill., the greatest event given under the auspices of Ft. Dearborn 1926 Marching Club. MOVES Mrs. Parthenia J. Brown, well-known member of Community Center Church and a member of the choir for a number of years, has moved from 4744 Langley avenue to 4114 Calumet avenue, to home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young. ATTEND FUNERAL OF SISTER Mrs. Alberta Keeble, 535 E. 42nd place, and her sister, Mrs. Josie Galloway, 541 E. 46th place, have gone to Nashville, Tenn., where they will attend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Christine Lyda-Jones, on May 18th. Extra Touches to Enhance New Suit Hosiery, Sleeve Floundings Add to Attractiveness of Chic Duds. New models in hosiery are coming along swiftly, some bizarre in the extreme, some sensational. The light shades in sheer stockings, nude and delicately tinted flesh are still worn with all sorts of frocks, but there are many later styles. There are several shades of gray, from gun metal to pearl, sauterie, rose-beige, chartreuse and parchment. It is considered smart to wear stockings to match the gown, and lovely tints in some of the latest styles are being worn at the southern resorts, and we should see them with light frocks at the summer watering places. The most extravagant modes in stockings for elaborate toilets are affected by women who go in for that type of thing. Stockings that are almost entirely of lace, stockings with embroidery that almost covers the front from toe to garter and hand-painted stockings, sheer as cobwebs, are now quite usual. The very latest thing is the beaded or pallelted stocking, as ornate and colorful as the evening gown which it is designed to match. These appear from time to time but it is unlikely that the fashion will become general. A clever idea which will be welcome is illustrated in the sleeve-flownings shown among the dress trimnings for spring. They are widths of thin white material left loose at one selveidge and at the other gathered into a band of lace or embroidery. The plain edge is to be sewed into the under side of sleeves of a gown, the band forming a cuff or wristband, a greatly simplified manner of making the undersleeves that are now necessary with the late models having the wide, straight sleeve. Apropos the new lingerie, the latest styles in bouddh shoes are fascinating. The mule, which every smart woman wears, is made in innumerable models, some of them extravagantly ornate. Some from Paris are of gilt and silver kid decorated with a hand-painted all-over design of Dresden flowers. Some are made of satin elaborately embroidered, others of bits of rich broaches and of the bright metal stuffs. Ornaments of jade, both white and green, antique buckles in gold or silver, jewels, real or synthetic, and many intriguing devices done with flowers, bows and feathers. Fur Adorns Collars in New Spring Coats THE The "spiendor dear to women" finds expression this spring on amart new coats, where summer furs often provide the collars, or are used in narrow bands as edgings. Nothing is more becoming than this touch of fur, hence its popularity all the year round. French Women Are Using Two Powders in Make-Up One of the modes that promises to be soon the furor of America is the new use of powder, for one secret comes in advance—the French are using two powders. Skillfully blended, of course, and applied with consumate art. French women keep their beauty methods strictly entre nous and nowhere in Paris does one see the promiscuous using of make-up that we see at home. The chic Parisienne never leaves her bourdour without a final glance into the mirror; a final pointing up of brows and lashes with a tiny brush so that clinging particles of powder may be removed. Never do you see the smart French woman making up in public! Gray in Favor Gray may sound sad, but it is decidedly "good" just now for the early spring costumes. A particularly handsome gown was fashioned of an orchid gray, profusely trimmed with crystals. It was a straightline model terminating with a box-plaited flounce, and each plait was adorned with beads. Another attractive gray gown was of satin velled with pearl gray georgette. Bouffant Frocks Bouffant frocks in varied combinations of pastel colors are extremely smart and admirably adapted to the needs of the younger girl. A particularly pretty model is of pale pink combined with violet taffeta and trimmed with wheels of silver embroidery. Once in a White Occasionally gratitude is found elsewhere than in the dictionary.—Canton Dally News. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERnest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121-23-25 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charlest. Jawson THE REV. H. H. PROCTOR OF FICIATES AT CONGRESSIONAL SESSION FIRST TIME (Preston News Service) New York, May 20.—For the first time in the history of the New York Association of Congregational Churches, which met Thursday in St. Mark's Congregational Church, a Negro, the Rev. Henry H. Proctor, officiated as Moderator. CLUB HAS MAY DANCE The Crystal Radio Social Club entertained a large number of friends at their second annual May dance on May 12th at Warwick Hall. Mrs. L. F. Emery was chairman of arrangements. Lizards Hate Dogs The only sound the horned lizard makes is a hissing sound similar to an old setting hen. This noise is made only when he is greatly disturbed. says Nature Magazine. His foes are principally the snake and such animals as the skunk. There is one that horny detests more than any other and that is the dog. The dog likes only to play, but horny gets real mad Plant Samsons So great is the power possessed by certain low forms of animal and plant life that if a man could, in proportion to his size, jump as the grasshopper, he would be able to cover the distance between London and Birmingham in a few leaps.—London Mall. Should Use Discretion Jud Tunkins says children should obey their parents and in some cases not try to imitate 'em.—Washington Star. W.G.Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. Office Phones: Dearborn 7094-7098 Res. 3354 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6045 JOHN B. JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS. MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J.E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.M. Bookkeeper Embalmer Awards No.194. Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN 5121-23-25 The Williamson Funeral is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars South State Street Modern Woman as a My husband says that no institution can be successfully run without rules, and he wishes I would be more observant of the golden rule in the institution we call home. But I really do not care for rules, and I think they must be especially annoying to the inmates of prisons. Just fancy never going to a matinee or recital without an attendant! But my husband says the prisoners do not care for the same sort of amusements that I do, and that he, himself, personally, can imagine no greater punishment for a man than to be obliged to attend the average recital. They have a sad rule in our library which prohibits a barefoot boy from getting a book, and the boys are so disappointed and embarrassed. I just adore barefoot boys, and my husband says that Whittier did, too. We once met a dear old bishop with freckles like little ginger snaps who told us that when he was a kid his greatest joy was to feel the warm mud of spring time oozing up between his toes. And he said he got his first impression of higher ideals from a book—Kansas City Star. Stranger Found He Didn't Have Monopoly Dawkins and a friend were so absorbed in earnest conversation that they did not notice another man ahead of them. "What do you mean, by talking about my wife?" exclaimed the stranger, flashing round. "Here, steady there," said Dawkins. "You've no right to listen to our conversation. I merely said that a lady of my acquaintance was the most ill-tempered person I ever met." "But you were speaking of my wife I tell you." "Nothing of the sort," snapped Dawkins. "I don't know your wife." This somewhat mollified the bad-tempered man. He stepped back, bowed, and fairly beamed on Dawkins. "I apologize," he said. "I thought there was only one like her in the world. I was mistaken. You have my sympathy!" -London Tit-Bits. Hard to Believe Doctor Price, an Eighteenth-century statistician, computed that if the equivalent of one cent had been invested at compound interest at the time of Christ's birth it would in 1768 have amounted to 75,000,000 globes of solid gold, each the size of the earth. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 22, 1926 Artful Dodger "Excuse me, sir," said the elegantly-turned-out gentleman, "but is this Mr. Robinson's office?" "No, it is not." came the angry reply from an individual seated behind a rolltop desk. "Much obliged," muttered the intruder and departed, leaving the door wide open, and a gale blew in on the frate man. "Hi, you!" he bawled. "Come back and shut my door!" Smilingly the other re-entered the office. From his bag he produced a mechanical appliance. "Here, sir," he said, "is the very latest type of door-closer on the market. Closes your door without a bang, and is guaranteed for ten years."—Answers. That Final "Division" He had just come back from Mexico and was standing on a certain San Francisco plier, much disturbed about the case of forbidden fruit he had secreted in one of his trunks. "Have you anything to declare?" asked the customs officer. He was about to deny his possession when his courage failed him, so he desperately sought refuge in strategy. Pointing to the trunk he murmured, "Three for you and nine for me." "You're warm, but you ain't right," said the officer. "Six for you and six for me," whispered the trembling citizen, hopefully. "Naw!" roared the inexorable officer, "but you're warmer—twelve for me!" Forest Fires The forest service says that the amount of damage caused by a fire to forests depends entirely on the type of fire. There are three classes of fire—superficial fire, which burns leaves of the trees and is not necessarily dangerous; crown fire, which burns through the branches and kills them and is very dangerous and disastrous; deep ground fire, which burns off the roots deep under the trees and destroys the trees and makes a very dangerous fire. In burning land the fire consumes all the rotted leaves and destroys the soil, leaving the mineral element. Old Copper Pipe At Giza, Egypt, a piece of copper pipe has been found near an ancient tomb which it is believed was used for plumbing purposes at least 5,000 years ago. Popular Mechanics Magazine points out that this is only another bit of evidence that copper is practically indestructible. Under the lava and debris thrown out by Mt. Veasuvius in 76 A. D., was found a bronze bathhtub which is still in such good condition that it will hold water. Early Toothbrush A book on the care of the teeth, published in Paris about 1818 by Joseph de Marle, contains the oldest known illustration of a toothbrush. This pioneer brush had bristles on both ends of the handle. Women and Billiards Billard tables are a feature of many of the prominent women's clubs in London, where the sport has grown very popular among women during the last few years. 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 Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 P.J. J. CAR B. H. 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